There definitely isn't zero chance. It entirely depends on how good he proves to be. There is absolutely precedent for this at his age. Elliott for instance. If he forces his way into our first team, look how much Bellingham moved for at 17. Not saying he will move for that kind of dough, but moving for a fraction of that would still see him on the 10-15k region of wages. Entirely dependent on how well he does and how highly he is rated.

Zero chance we are offering him that sort of money by next year. Even if we did, they could gazump it easily, it's peanuts to Prem sides now, even the midtable ones, if they rate him enough. Especially when they get the loaning clubs to foot the bill. As I said he wouldn't need to worry about being first choice at one of those Prem clubs cos they could just loan him out.

If a Prem club comes in and offers him 10-15k a week for 4 years, setting him up for life, with the plan of loaning him out to develop with first team football, that would be hard to turn down.

I was pretty clear that I don't consider injury-prone attacker JRC, nor inexperienced primarily CB Carter, to really cut the mustard as backup to occasionally injury-prone actual RB Nyambe. I didn't mention Pike but again he's very young, inexperienced, and an unknown entity at this level.

Striker is still the priority by far, but we are weak in cover for RB. Nyambe gets the odd injury, but JRC is utterly prone. There is every chance that when Nyambe is out JRC also will be. JRC also isn't that great defensively. And Nyambe is very likely a goner next season, so planning long term for that wouldn't be unwise. After those two we have basically nobody. Carter has a little experience playing there, but has been mixed there in the first team so far. Anybody else is a square peg for a round hole (and JRC arguably is too). And I'd rather rim a goat than see Gallagher get wedged in there again, or Buckley for that matter.

Tbf he has only played 17 games in the Championship, when he was 18/19. He lit up League One, but not French Ligue 1. Surprised to see he was loaned to Fulham in the Prem back end of last season. Scored 3 in 15.

Aye, depends on whether Maja saw himself as a winger in future.

I don't think Deadpool is a billionaire. And I don't think Wrexham are Blackburn Rovers. So I don't see how that should matter.

It says something about us though, if Wrexham have more money after we just sold our best asset.

No but it's a bit of a weird take. If you don't like someone's joke, move on.

I prefer coaches for the role of someone at the training ground for the youngsters to learn off. Considerably cheaper, should be more experienced, and specialised to the role. Not that the likes of Ben Benson fulfil the second criteria there.

So your prediction is that in 12 months, our 8th choice CB will be our first/second choice? I think he will struggle to move that far up the pecking order playing at least half of this season in the u23s again.

8th. He is behind Magloire and Van Hecke too.

It sounds like they could have, they said there was tons of interest. They just...didn't.

Very.

We all know the Armstrong money won't be available come January or next summer. Maybe like a million of it if we are very lucky. I think we are now in the position of entirely relying on our academy to produce. Loaning 5 last season already wasn't ideal, as the manager admitted. Ideally we'd have been recruiting permanent players to replace the loans, but instead we have gone backwards on players we actually own. What have we lost, 7 this summer? With 1 incoming. With no real money to spend, we are going to be incredibly reliant on producing our own players, even assuming we manage to tie down next summer's expirees. Assuming no more big money sales of course.

Ooh, tough question everyone... If you could only get rid of TM or SW, which one would it be? (Yes yes we all wish it was both)

Well that's been a shite window. A ton of players gone. One brought in permanently, four loans. 28-goal striker not replaced at all. £15 million brought in, 500k spent. The only one of our youngsters sent out on loan isn't really that young anymore, is out of contract again in the summer, was pointlessly renewed even though we have no intention to use him, and is going back to the level he basically completed in the second half of last season. I'm not sure which one of these bothers me the most.

Didn't even loan anyone out after bringing Elliott though did we?

I'm interested in this too, I'd like us to get some decent loans for some of our prospects.

If he wants a perm he should just go to the barber like everyone else.

When your manager has outstayed his welcome by a measure of years, perhaps yes. If some fans feel the need to vent their frustrations with some 'naughty' words, so be it.

Tbf though...that's a really weird opinion to have right now. That a backup LB is more important than trying to replace the 28 goal void. Each to their own obviously, but...wow.

Hmm, maybe. After all, we just lost a 28 goal striker. The most any Bournemouth player scored last season was 15, in Solanke and Danjuma. Danjuma is gone now, and Lowe scored 14 last season, maybe they're thinking it's a cheap way to replace those goals. Our goal void is considerably larger so perhaps we are expecting more - arguably we need more, just to tread water.

Has he? All I've seen is one fan on this board suggested him when someone said Sharpe, I think it was, said the player we are targeting isn't an out and out striker (and they literally said just one word, 'Barkhuizen?'). Are there actual links?