He won the Champions League twice with Cercle Brugge. Oh sorry, that was on my FM game...

Cheers. They're the U21s now. The club needs to catch up, clearly.

The official website hasn't even updated how the U21s got on against Lancaster City on the 8th July!! No news there about the Blackpool game today for the U18s either, unsurprisingly.

https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/20287786.freedom---jon-dahl-tomasson-explains-sam-gallagher-position-switch/ Sounds like 'Gally on the wing' isn't going away.

It is, and you didn't demonstrate any.

Ahh you mean like when you replied to K-Hod with just 'That is nonsense' and no supporting argument.

Which on its own demonstrates the system is nonsense.

If you did, fair enough and I retract the comment. Just how it came across, that you didn't think the basic explanation was basic.

Yes, very Lidl at all.

I'd honestly rather play one of the even younger, entirely untested youngsters than play Magloire again. At least there's a possibility they won't suck.

As people did in fact predict...

What's most bizarre is, we know Chaddy, we know he didn't ask anything controversial or anything that would have been answered with sensitive information. It's borderline unimaginable that anything from the discussion needs keeping on the down-low. Personally, I think he isn't answering questions because he knows he can't handle them, not from any sense of secrecy.

I don't see how it matters. Babies are expensive by normal people's standards but not once you're on a few k a week. Does the baby need Gucci bibs or something?

Lmao! As if Nyambe and Ayala's injury records are comparable. You've scored an own goal there, RoverRB.

You don't reckon he can afford to raise a baby on just a few grand a week?

Because our offer wasn't good enough.

Worryingly high. If he does, it means getting nothing next summer, or best case scenario, roughly our initial transfer fee back in January. The odds he stays because he signs a new deal are virtually non-existent.

If you didn't understand that, then yeh I'd just swerve any new technology if I were you.

Wh...what?!? Surely...surely it isn't your place to say! 🤣 N.B- I'm highly amused that he didn't want to ask the CEO of the football club any questions about signing players, but will pester every two-bit journalist on Twitter about it who more often than not doesn't have a scooby, or even a scrappy, doo.

Well that's an odd perspective, since we loaned them all out because they weren't as good as the players in their positions last season. They were assets the club didn't need at the time and in most cases still don't, not stars that we loaned out for large loan fees to bigger clubs. Magloire and Butterworth clearly have no future here. We can argue Carter was a squad player and may have improved a bit with his loan, but he's still not better than JPVH or Lenihan based on current evidence. Vale may have improved and be worthy of a squad place (or more if he takes his opportunities). Everyone else loaned out was either too irrelevant to mention, or too irrelevant for me to remember. So at best it's 2 players who need to have improved in order to be good enough.

It won't be much of a chance if they don't have the right support around them on the pitch with at least a modicum of experience.

I wish people would stop saying this. I don't give a fuck how much bigger clubs are interested, I and anyone with eyes and common sense wants him to stay here because we have seen him with our own eyes. If he is struggling to get a good pay, I'd say it's at least a bit to do with his agent being dogshit. I dunno how he accepted the wanky terms we offered him previously, players who graduated at similar times and had similar roles in the squad seem to have been on far more. To me, that says his agent is crap at his job.

If that's true it's absolutely fucking appalling.

I for one hope no such thing happened.

He (his agent) is probably playing interested parties off against each other to get the best deal. Stories in the press have said Boro and 2 French clubs interested. Where have you heard he reopened negotiations? The last I heard on that was probably about 2 months ago. If we are still engaged with him, that only adds to how hard his decision would be to make and why there is a delay. He will get fixed up, no doubt.