If Szmodics stays (big if) Mak and him could be a great combination. Szmodics could even score more than last year. As someone has already said, he does look like Samba when he was called upon to play upfront. He will certainly give defenders something to worry about, which will give other players more space and time on the ball to do some damage.

How does it work exactly?

Yes, IF you have to sell, but we don’t have to sell, therefore they have to pay a price we are prepared to sell for. It is a sellers market NOT a buyers market. Big difference.

The problem we have with Ipswich has been brought on by ourselves. Everyone knows our situation i.e. venkies court case etc. and football is a cut throat sport. They suspect we need the money and that at the last minute we will sell for what they want to pay. They don’t care what the consequences of their negotiating tactics are. If Venkies send over a sum of £5m or more, Ipswich will then see that we don’t need to sell. We don’t have to sell because of his contract situation, so we are potentially putting the club at risk of relegation just to keep Szmodics happy. If we could only get a decent keeper and keep him I would sacrifice the other positions. Besides loans would be able to fill the gaps.

We have a ridiculously thin squad with no depth and are supposedly relying on our young academy players, but we are then loaning out the better young players and making the squad even thinner!! I am not against the players going out on loan to make them better, it worked for Scott Wharton and Carter, but they need to be replaced with good buys or loans. We have a half decent first 11 but after that we are very weak. Injuries are inevitable and we will be in real trouble when that happens, like we were last season. When will SW realise that running a club on a shoe string will only lead to one outcome, one which we only just avoided by the skin of our teeth last season. We are being run by self serving morons who don’t care about the club as long as they are being paid and padding out their pension pots.

Hopefully it is because if we sign JDL Pears will want to leave. 🤞

It can’t be a coincidence that when Kaminski was in goal, Hyam was very good and when Pears was our #1 and after a number of howlers e.g. Ipswich away, Hyam was average. If a player doesn’t trust their GK then it limits their options when in possession and puts pressure on them, which occasionally will lead to mistakes being made. Confidence then goes and performances suffer and silly goals are conceded.

All just to save paying salaries for two months!! How short sighted can you get. What an idiot Swag is.

He was brilliant in his first year and rightly won player of the year. I think that as we were desperately short of defenders last year he was forced back from a bad injury before he was ready, consequently he was playing whilst not fully fit and knackered after a long hard season. He was therefore slow and not as sharp as before. He is a good player and we shouldn’t be wanting to get rid just because of a poor ( but understandable) last half of last season.

Sell Siggy and buy the Finnish lad.

No send Batty instead. We need Gent to provide crosses for Big Mac.

But neither of them are left footed, surely we need at least one left footed CB!

We’ve been crying out for a Rudy type player for years now imho. Luton had one and they promoted. We all hoped that finally playing Gallagher as a CF would do it, but he’s just to soft and timid. If Ohashi can be his foil ala Rhodes then we really will be looking up rather than down. As you said a Conway type winger is going to be essential though to provide the ammunition. A good start though, here’s hoping. 🤞

Would love Liam Millar to attack opposition defences and cross for new huge striker.

If we go into the season with calamity Pears as our number 1 we will definitely get relegated! If we are not likely to score many goals we have to be capable of keeping lots of clean sheets which is not possible with Pears in goal. How many points were dropped last season as a result of his poor decision making and cockups? A really good goal keeper should be the first priority even before strikers imho.

That’s where he scored lots of goals for Spurs. He could be Szmodics replacement, more likely him or Sigurdson.

Is that a statement regarding transfers or the manager?

It would spell relegation.

Totally agree, very boring and gave no real insight into what positions are going to be covered by the new signings. Am I the only one who thinks macfaz and the crocked ex Sheffield utd player will be part of the 5-6 players?

In his highlights on YouTube makes him look a bit like Macquire. He is physical and fairly quick but has a good shot on him, so maybe a better bet than Gallagher.

Thank you. Is he any good and how likely is he to come?

Sorry have I missed something, what German lad?

They used to say that they would cover costs but we would have to generate transfer funds from sales. Well we have done that (almost £30M) but they have changed the goal posts again and are shafting us. I have never wanted rid of them more than I do at the moment. I used to be grateful for the funding they provided to keep us going, but now they are taking the p**s.

It’s such a golden opportunity to play hardball and insist on valid answers rather than being fobbed off. We have to show them that the fans are not going to take the usual bill***t. For anybody attending please be brave, resilient and ask repeated questions to get the answers we need. How can Venkies possibly carry on when they can’t fund us and we will be cast iron favourites for relegation.

I think that Sigurdson could do very well playing in the number 10 role if/when we sell Sam Szmodics. He would have to sign an extension to his current contract otherwise we would not benefit if he turned out a brilliant success there as he only has one year left on his contract.