Fun story - I once worked for a huge sports broadcaster. One day in the office I watched the football team draw names out of a hat on who do a feature on. Within 3 hours there was a 5 minute feature explaining why Kovacic was Chelsea’s best player. It was broadcast worldwide. He isn’t their best player.

His data is based on playing at League 1 level though, right? Therefore it cannot be accurately compared against the entirety of the EFL, only League 1?

Let’s try this a different way. You’ve recommended we sign Kirk from Crewe. What has Kirk done for Crewe which Chapman hasn’t done for Shrewsbury/Rovers?

Trust me, he’s not!

You sound like Tony - don’t go and play for your mother’s country Ben, don’t play alongside Sanchez against Messi in South America’s biggest tournament, stay at Brockhall and do pre season with the Rovers.

Per the forum guidelines which all members have accepted, we do not discuss the specifics of why someone is banned, other than confirm whether or not they’re banned. Just another way that we have to remain impartial!

Because he kept breaking the rules

He’s been learning for the past few months and will speak Spanish in local media interviews whilst out there. Vamos Breo!

Will you be getting a season ticket next season after not getting one this year?

I can’t really say exactly who, but the person that told me that is a current player.

As in don’t think anyone will buy him this summer and he will sign a new deal.

The club reckon Armstrong is going to stay.

Congrats to Breo - now an international player, set to start vs. Argentina.

All I know is if Harry Chapman was a Shrewsbury player and available on a free, after the season he’s just had we would be crawling over broken glass to sign him.

Forest have released Yuri Ribeiro on a free. Which is insane to me, because he’s one of the best left backs in the league. I’d be jumping on that.

I don’t believe this for a second. They won’t share.

We have, just not successfully. FFP is a total nonsense where teams keep costs down for 2 years to allow them to spend in year 3. This season was our year 3, we won’t spend the money we have this season for another 2 seasons.

He’s been offered a contract but has better offers elsewhere. Rovers won’t match it. We’re on the FFP slide now, this year was our chance financially, we’re now cutting costs to leave a financial gap to go for it again in ~2 years.

Too many half interested at this club - years of being rubbish, then 2 months playing well when his contract wasn’t renewed to put himself in the shop window. Get rid, hopefully Pickering can play, develop a youth player. Crewe fans seem to love him, although worth remembering Bell was L1 Team of the Year when we signed him and he’s not up to it.

I reckon we’ll start next season as we’ve finished this one management wise.

Sounds pretty cut and dry to me - they got less than 15m for him.

There goes your lads credibility. They sold him 6 months ago.

Currently our biggest rivals are the senior management and the owners.

Calm down folks...

A shame, a good footballer if you ask me. Much rather see him starting than Evans, Trybull, Johnson, Buckley etc. Hopefully it’s because he wants to move back to Germany to be with his family, which you can understand.