Coming on a free and potentially not a huge wage as his options are clearly limited. That front line currently has very little experience in it so it wouldn’t be a shock to bring in someone the manager has worked with before.

Called Hogan months ago as a last gasp desperate signing.

Exactly. The young players bought in on loan must be better than what we have in our academy. For me that’s why the loans of the likes of Elliot have been key. Loaning a squad filler to sit on the bench and have little influence on the game is pointless. I’d rather take one Elliot or JPVH than several squad fillers.

Cardiff seem to have bought very well. Willock and El Ghazi for the wide areas and Chambers at the back seem like good signings. The striker on loan they have bought in could also be a good shout. Would expect them to improve on last season. Also being linked to Cantwell who could possibly do well in this league but he’s more of a gamble.

Even after the season ended he was still spouting on about us spending £7m this summer.

You’re about to feel the full force of the Chadster!!!

Just have to hope that there’s some scouts who watched the game against Newcastle at Ewood BUT NO OTHERS!! May be able to get a few quid for Pears based on that.

But it’s the same if we buy a player. It’s no different, we don’t pay the fee all in one go so it’s exactly the same. We could buy a £5m player with the £5m Raya sell on as we wouldn’t pay for that player all in one go.

Only just noticed that they had Dwight Gayle as a trialist, decent player previously but guess his age is catching up a bit as he was a pacey forward.

Nervy keepers make for nervy back lines.

How many goals walked out the door when BBD and Dack left? We replaced those goals. I’m sure we’ll replace Sammie‘s goals although it will be between a couple of players rather than all falling to one.

We had this very conversation at the start of last season though, where would the goals come from. Sammie wasn’t expected to score the number of goals he scored, before that BBD was 1000/1 to score 20. The goals will come from somewhere I’m sure.

Assuming this is in relation to the possible change to base it on house value. Think I read that it was proposed to be 0.5% of the property value.

It’s clear that we need a keeper so hoping this one gets done.

It’s a strange one. Finally a youth player has a great loan at a decent level and then we let them go. Just seems odd. I wonder if he wouldn’t sign a new deal or we were low balling him with a crap offer.

Weimann could be a key player for us. I know he’s getting towards the end of his career but last season he was on loan at a play-off team and then went to the euros as part of a decent Austria squad. The least risky signing out of the ones we’ve made this summer. The two forwards could be amazing or awful, we just don’t know enough about them.

It’s a strange league, season before BBD hit 20 goals he couldn’t hit a barn door, 22-23 season Sammy looked bang average, who’s to know if we may have a player step up this season. We just don’t know.

I reckon Weimann will be our best signing this summer. Went to the euros with Austria and even got a few minutes of match time. Ended the season at a play off team after getting a couple of goals for them. Think he could be a really good signing for us

I’d argue that we haven’t even touched the Gallagher money. We sold Telelovic and Whalstadt for fees already, there’s probably the best part of a million quid there.

At the moment we’ve not really strengthened from the end of last season. The squad is still light but I’m guessing we’ll sort some loans out towards the end of the window when the scraps drop from the premier league table 😞

I’d take Fadz or Batth but not both. I think it needs to be one or the other. The potential areas for strengthening in the FF minutes is interesting. Based on outgoings you’d have to read that as us wanting another 5 or so players. At present we’ve replaced two outgoings in Gally and Telelovic with the two new guys. I’d say that still leaves us needing 5 based on the FF minutes. Keeper is the key one for me now. Not bloody Ruddy either. Looked awful here last year.

Yep, it’s the rising sun reference

My main concern is that it’s late on to add an unknown quantity into the mix. Would have been ideal for him to play a part in pre season. It’s going to be very much a case of sink or swim.

No apology needed at all 🙂 Im just very happy we’ve made a signing, I say happy, I’m not Chaddy happy but I’m happy 😄

To be fair I’d paused it and screen shotted it to try to see what was on the laptop screen before spotting the flag underneath. Wasn’t sure who’s flag it was hence why I asked.