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?

I know what definitely doesn't give a proper reflection of his game time, and that's using the total appearances he has made when the vast, vast majority were off the bench. The minutes he has played is, very literally, his game time. It is the amount of time he has been playing games. It's the most accurate measure to use, especially when a player barely starts. The issue with pointing to his ratio isn't the methodology used, it's the fact that when you tot it up, it's a very small sample of time. It's a bit like saying Nuttall was lethal early days when he kept scoring off the bench. Was a valid argument at the time for his inclusion, but it also wasn't proof he was going to do the business. As it stood, he probably didn't get enough game time for us to know what would really have happened if he was played whilst on a roll, but on the whole he turned out to be a bit of a turkey, at least so far. Some of them turn out that way, some don't. But in both cases we only had the numbers we had and have at the time to go off (albeit in Nuttall's case we also saw his limited overall game first hand). And Obafemi's numbers, done accurately, are promising so far. It's not his numbers, but his injury issues, experience for what we would pay, potential wage and desire that are potential concerns. Overall I will be fairly happy if we do sign him at a fair price, though it doesn't look too likely.

Think we will struggle to find a striker for a million on reasonable wages who isn't a huge long shot. And I don't mean their shooting style. If that's the whole budget I'd probably rather loan one and make do with the other options we already own, and spend that money in areas it can go further. But based on the Obafemi thing I would guess we have about 3 million for fees if needed.

And the other 2 have been relentlessly played as wingers despite not being such. So they make take a little time to readjust even if Tony has any intention whatsoever of consistently putting either of them back in there.