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I can’t believe any of you have the nerve to complain about ads to me based on this.

Can we get some MOTM votes for those that attended please? https://www.brfcs.com/magazine/football/match/933628/bradford-blackburn Vote under ‘ratings’

Really confused as to why Dack comes off.

Fulham, concentrating on the league.

Side note, Dack is ten times the player Smordics is.

After completely writing Vale off after his performance against Reading, to the point where I would have sent him work on the milk round, I’m currently willing to give him a second choice.

How are you watching it?

Mowbray Ball

We’ll lose tonight with that team.

Looking forward to it.

As discussed on the main forum, this is a thread for @Mercer to discuss his high end wine tastes with the rest of us peasants. I for one look forward to hearing about every single drip. Special occasion coming up? Tag @Mercer and he will recommend a fizz Sunday Roast in the oven? Tag @Mercer and he will recommend a red Fishmonger got some nice Seabass in? Tag @Mercer and he will recommend a white. It's that easy.

Agreed

Anyone got a link?

We have a countdown on BRFCS.com for those who want to get really worked up about it - 10 days, 2 hours, 14 minutes until the window closes at time of writing.

Where has this 10M budget come from? Any budget discussion is pure speculation. Im not sure what your last paragraph means unfortunately.

I know why Farke did. He’s heard I put £30 on him at 9/1 after Glen was told he was coming and he did it just to spite me.

Out of interest is this opinion or what you’ve been told?

I’d take 10M for him now if we could spend the proceeds. Better than nothing this time next year and nothing to replace him with. Your approach has Dolan replacing him this time next year and Sparks having a rage induced heart attack, is that what you want?! I couldn’t give a toss what the owners want, I’d walk the second they interfered.

It depends who’s interested. There’s no way Ben is going to turn down all of Everton/Southampton/West Ham/Brighton/Leeds/Nice/Sevilla/Villarreal. Get on the phone Gregg, offer him around…

You can pick the new one - quote this with what you’d like!

I appreciate Poveda, Chapman, Magloire and Brown did nothing - but Zeefuik and Davenport did have a role to play within the squad and Poveda was intended to have a role. If our squad had Brittain, Zeefuik and JRC I'd say we're covered at right back. With just Brittain and JRC I'm terrified Brittain gets injured. Dack played for us towards the end of last year, I expect he will have a like for like contribution this year. Markanday is a direct replacement for one of Poveda or Chapman. From the list I think the below need genuine replacements: JP Van Hecke - replaced with Carter Ryan Nyambe - replaced with Brittain Darragh Lenihan - not yet replaced Ryan Giles - not yet replaced Zeefuik - not yet replaced Jacob Davenport - replaced with Garrett? Brad Johnson - replaced with Wharton - although I don't think this is a good like for like replacement, Johnson offered us physicality to cover Travis/Davenport Joe Rothwell - replaced with Morton Reda Khadra - was going to say replaced with Sammie, but they're two very different players Ian Poveda - didn't contribute last year... but that was because of injury, the intention was for him to be in the squad and we must not lose sight of this. Replaced with Markanday. Harry Chapman - didn't contribute last year Tyler Magloire - didn't contribute last year James Brown - didn't contribute last year Based on the above, I think if it was like for like (which it isn't) the squad is missing... CB (Lenihan replacement) Left Back / Left Wing Back / Left Winger (Giles replacement) Right Back (Zeefuik replacement) Central Midfielder (Johnson replacement) Winger (Khadra replacement) We've signed competition in number 10, which we didn't use hardly at all last year and Markanday has replaced Poveda. If any of this doesn't make sense its because I've just been told United fans are blocking the coaches from coming to Old Trafford and I work next door, so I need to beat the traffic...

Of course you're right. But we could quite easily put some pressure on him to leave. It would strain the relationship - but we know what happens when a player knows they are going, despite all of the "he will give 100% effort!" we see a Joe Rothwell 2.0. As I've championed repeatedly for years now, much like our 'wage structure' policy I would have a 'contract negotiations start 2 years before the end of your contract - if you haven't signed with 18 months left we will actively try to sell you' policy. Regardless of the player.

Oh Christ it’s like having Nicko back.

There’s plenty they can do - they can either offer him the contract earlier or sell him before we’re in a position where he can sign for a foreign club for free in circa 4 months.

Sparks have you watched our last two games? We're not getting promoted! The squad is desperately in need of investment. If GB lets him leave for free i'll lose all respect for him.