bluebruce

Thanks for proving my point. I was only trying to save you some time ranting about them for the 1000th time, but I suspect you actually enjoy it so fair enough 🙂

Tbf that's probably cos the bulk, if not all, of our incoming transfer business is done. Which itself deserves some credit as I can't remember the last time that happened, even if the window hasn't gone how we'd have liked in various regards.

You're wasting your time getting Rev to admit Broughton had any successes. Especially by mentioning Tronstad, who he also refuses to admit is a good player. It's bizarre and nobody else agrees, but his opinion is both are shit with few redeeming qualities.

Montgomery fair enough to a degree, still young and barely seen him in the position though. But Tavares looks better than Forshaw to me.

What do you think? The part you said was scary.

What, swinging his dick around?

It's scarily inaccurate.

Oh well if he's as good as two players I've never heard of he must be a 50 million quid player like they say. Glad he's doing well there, hopefully he's finally ready to kick on with us in January or the summer. We've been waiting long enough, and had what, 3 managers in his time who didn't fancy him? We paid 500k for him for a reason, has to be a player in there.

Oh, apologies, I thought he was still out at Crewe I must have gotten muddled up. Fair enough, his last spell in League One was a fail though so no surprise for me he hasn't broken in here. If he does well for the rest of his loan he will surely get a chance here. If he doesn't, he shouldn't.

My edit button isn't working, but to add to my above post, and as you say, we won't pay the wages, so again the 3 year contract isn't the big gamble part.

As I say, even if we signed him for 500k, if he isn't deemed worthy of at least 3 years, there's no fucking point.

Well he couldn't break in as a regular for a League One side and his rave reviews are only in League Two, so I don't find it bizarre at all.

Interesting they think it's a masterclass, given that it's 0.9 million less than they paid for him a year ago...

I think paying about 2 million for him is a much clearer sign they think he's the real deal. Quite frankly, if we sign anyone at that age on shorter terms than 3 years with an option, we shouldn't even bother signing them.

Pretty good.

(The following is just 'on paper', never seen him play, obviously giving him a chance) If we see Gudjohnsen as basically a Leonard replacement, I don't mind that, it's probably an upgrade there. But since he allegedly costs double what we are getting for Leonard (if we even complete the Leonard sale), I don't think that's the case. And furthermore, I'd much rather be replacing our third choice striker with a clear first choice striker, as we aren't getting enough out of the other two (I'm happy with Ohashi as second choice and competition for first choice, but I haven't seen enough to think he will bag 15+ goals to push us on). Maybe this lad is actually the bee's knees, and the stats are more encouraging than one or two of the strikers we've been linked with. But as somebody pointed out, in the Belgian top flight last season he scored just under half as many as Gueye did in his last season there, and Gueye isn't exactly banging them in for fun. We will see, and hope.

Subbing for who though? If only we hadn't just sold one of the better CMs in the league and replaced him with a guy who is injured...

Clearly motivated then after his last run out...which makes it more frustrating he can't play well with any consistency.

Can't watch, at work, but looking at the stats we are getting buggered without conceding. 7 shots for Norwich, 1 for us, simply isn't good enough. Seems we are back to being unable to create anything. Need Ryoyo to have the ability to change that or could be a long season.

Well I can't argue with the lineup, it's the exact one I'd have fielded. Obviously I wouldn't normally put Hedges in, but after his last showing he absolutely deserves another start this week.

This is my favourite one of these I've seen you do. Well done

He didn't even name the player in question, I think you're probably thinking we were talking about someone else. I was just going off what he was saying about an unnamed player we are not linked with.

Think you're being a bit harsh on his record for Iceland and in Denmark. It's true I can't say they're 'brilliant' as such, but your choice of words seems to imply they're a bit naff. Perhaps it's not meant to come across that way. But his record in Denmark is almost a goal every 2 games. Which suggests a 20+ goal return over a 46 game season, which is very good. His record for Iceland would translate to about 12 goals a season, which is still fairly solid and what, 3 goals better than any of our players did last season?

I'm not sure I'd agree the Championship is a step lower than the Belgian league. It has some clubs that are better than Championship level, but a few clubs that would likely be more like League One standard.

That name change to Derby Rovers is pending.