You can do that if you want. Others want answers as to how we let this happen.

A few saying it is, and a google search with the exact quote yielded no match. It's certainly not in the LT article, or another I read.

Where is this quote from? I can't find it.

Not really mate, no, and it's a strange thing to ask tbh. We'll discuss what we want to discuss, and losing Nyambe on a 1 year deal to Wigan is a bitter pill to swallow. We can't just ignore it until more information arrives, which may or may not happen. If you mean you're going to tell us what you've heard, great, but whatever you have to share isn't the extent of what we can discuss about it.

I do wonder if there's something in the timing here. Nyambe signing for Wigan on the same day it transpires we are close to signing Brittain. It could be coincidence but it could also mean something like there having been a possibility Nyambe stayed until we lined up Brittain. A breakdown of negotiations could have prompted that perhaps, or ourselves feeling Brittain was the better option and Nyambe not being willing to play understudy. I dunno. I believe in coincidences, I just don't trust them. At least we're replacing him if the stories are true, and not from the bargain bin.

Why must it?

(Edit - looks like this quote isn't real) Jeeeeesus...has he lost his mind or is he trolling us? Wigan aren't half the club we are, even with our batshit owners. I get the feeling something went seriously wrong for Nyambe at the club. Perhaps the thing about Venus bullying him was true...yes Venus is gone now (and Mowbray who often underused him) but the damage may have already been done and others could have been complicit, or at least pissed Nyambe off by not defending him. Or perhaps it's something else. But it's pretty mind-boggling that not only is he going to Wigan, but on a one-year deal. He isn't being paid more there than we could and should afford, and I'm sure we'd have given more than a year too. We've either continued to very foolishly low-ball Ryan or he was never going to sign here unless he was desperate. I mean, even more desperate than he must be to take a pezzy 1-year deal from Wigan. I suppose he might fancy he can go somewhere better after if he has a good season, but still, risky move for him with no security. Brittain may turn out to be a good replacement, of course (if we get it over the line), but we're now going to be 1.5 million down, assuming the wages are the same as we offered Ryan. Gutted and fuming that we've lost a good academy product to Wigan on such a scrawny deal. This sort of shit needs to stop.

Squad would definitely be big enough though.

By the same token, comparing assists doesn't tell the whole tale. It's a bit easier setting them up for an on-fire BBD than it is for whatever shite striker/s they got relegated with. They had a good one the season before I think, then lost him? We had Armstrong that season though, 2nd top scorer in the league. FWIW though. I think the past 2 seasons are the fairest way to compare their assists, since they're the same age and both played in the same league those seasons, plus Barnsley did better than us at the end of the prior season. 2021/22 - Nyambe 0 in 31 games, Brittain 3 in 36 2020/22 - Nyambe 4 in 38, Brittain 5 in 42 So we're talking over 2 seasons, 3 additional assists in 9 extra games (Nyambe used to be TM's fave sub move too, so minutes might paint a different picture, but I dunno how Brittain was used in that regard). Tbh, I'd want a bit more than that when the main selling point is he's a better attacker. He needs to be at least close to as good a defender as Ryan for it to be a clear upgrade, as I reckon RN is good for preventing more than 1.5 goals extra per season compared with most RBs in this league. Of course, the usual caveat of stats being unable to tell the entire story, including for reasons already mentioned.

That doesn't mean the opposition had it in advanced areas a lot. Anyway it was 4th lowest, and Barnsley had 5th lowest, according to this: https://www.fotmob.com/leagues/48/stats/season/16391/teams/possession_percentage_team

Barnsley got relegated, they'll have been under attack a lot more, giving more opportunity for tackles, clearances etc. Things like a tackles won percentage would be fairer to compare.

Or Wigan. Basically any Championship club.

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?