Exiled_Rover

I said what I said.

I wonder if it's one of his legendary calf injuries.

Rudy Gestede will be Head of my Heart if he ships Pears out.

He said he wants 3 or 4 more. 1 has to be a GK, 1 has to be a LB and you'd suspect 1 has to be a winger...

I'm in the complete opposite camp. I think he won the YPOTS award by default last year. He barely featured, but we didn't break many Academy prospects in last season. A. Wharton would have won it at a canter if he'd have stayed. Garrett needs a consistent run of first team football - I hope he gets it at Bristol Rovers. Currently his development has stagnated.

If Gestede shifts Markanday, signs a GK over Pears and brings in some pace I'll revise my opinion of him.

Sigurdsson is a strange one. He's obviously very talented and the incredibly composed finishes he pulled out at the start of last year made me think we'd signed an absolute gem. That said his attitude, lack of athleticism and injury proneness means that we're probably better getting rid.

He will be sold - this is all posturing and we've clearly planned for life without him.

Yes as Gallagher was neither a handful or clinical.

Playing Dolan at #10 hides his lack of pace. He's always looked most effective playing as a False 9 (when we were shit out of strikers) where his initial burst, strength, low centre of gravity has helped him hold the ball up.

I think he's a player that's gone backwards.

I'll be honest, I don't think Szmodics has a season anything like the one just gone ever again.

JDT was too demanding for this group. Which is why I had a chuckle at Gallagher's comments about wanting to be at a club with ambition.

As long as we're not on the hook for his wages if he gets another long-term injury like the Poveda nonsense. bring him in.

Smacks of someone on the inside having their head screwed on and trying to give us a fighting chance of surviving relegation. Obviously the big gamble is whether Batth, McFadz, Weimann et al can still do it at this level - but that's why they're frees. They have bags of experience, which is what JDT was always screaming out for. You're right - we still lack pace and another striker and a bloody GK, but I suspect they'll all be loans.

Don't tease me with the thought that they're looking for a buyer. I think it's more Waggott and co being unwilling to offer long-term contracts out because there is no guarantee of any more funds ever coming from India - so we literally can't promise to pay players after this season.

Absolutely no chance Szmodics will play for us again.

He was mostly an unused sub. He needs consistent first team football or his development is going to stagnate.

I'd love to be in the JDT / Broughton group chat. The bloke they wanted last year, and were told no because he's too old, is now in. Genuinely an absolute joke.

Do you need a left footed CM too?

He's already proven himself to not be good enough. We'll be adrift at the bottom by Christmas if he's the nailed on starter and Szmodics / A.N. Other isn't banging in goals at a ridiculous rate.

Ah the modern day myth - the need for a left footed CB. Pep has a lot to answer for.

He's got until January to do what? A blind man on a galloping horse can see that he's shite.

Anything more than survival is a miracle with these owners.

Well Wahlsted's wages are off the books too. So are Gallagher's. That will have freed up a lot of wiggle room.