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How can he be "clearly better" than he showed last season? He's probably exactly as good as he showed last season. I.e. not very.

He's left so it's no biggie now of course.

When Tronstad gets his move to a top flight Club I'll hold my hands up, yes. 🙂

I wouldn't either if I'd been proved completely wrong.

Why would he agree to that?

Lol, yeah, gone to a mid table La Liga side. Terrible move. You know that expression "When you're in a hole stop digging?"

Absolute codswallop. If Rovers are offering him 8 k p.w. and he can get a minimum of £15 k or £16 k anywhere else he's not going to sign a new deal here. Neither are any of the other players in a similar boat.

But but.......no-one's interested in him, he's shit. Good luck to him if true. Chalk up yet another massive own goal to our management.

Not wanting to shoot the messenger but he's a lot better than that surely.

Less whatever we paid him for 12 months not to play on his improved deal. Dress it up how you like, getting c£2m for a player who was being touted as an eventual £25m or £30m star wasn't a good deal. Wonder if we bothered to negotiate a sell on clause? That won't be much cop either if he goes to a Championship Club.

That's the one thing VI has said that's impressed me the most since he's been here. That he doesn't like loans. Whether or not he gets his way and secures further permanent additions I very much doubt.

Thanks. We love a player with a stress fracture don't we?

We didn't gain much from it though did we? One moment we're all crowing about what a masterstroke it was to tie Phillips down to a new deal, 12 months later we learn that actually it had a clause in allowing him to leave for relative peanuts. I found it quite odd. Like we were just keeping him warm for Spurs for 12 months. I presume we would have been entitled to some form of compensation for him anyway?

Apologies if it's been mentioned before but someone on FLW has us "eyeing a move" for Issiah Jones. Any legs in this or complete nonsense? I've always really rated him.

If Spurs manage to sell Phillips on for the same or more than they've paid for him, then the move can't be considered a failure from their point of view, they've taken a look at him and decided he's not what they want at their level, nothing lost, move on. From Phillips point of view the move is a success, financially he'll probably be set up very nicely. The only ones to lose out are Rovers due to Broughton not being able to persuade Phillips his future lay here for a few years and us therefore being forced to sell him after 12 months for a fraction of the fee we would have realised had he spent a few years here, excelled and had he not had a contract with a ridiculously low release clause.

Who's Adrian Harvie?

Don't be silly.

Seems to be accepted that he tried to get some assurances on the likes of Brittain, Travis and Tronstad though. It probably never even entered his head we wouldn't be able to come to terms on a short term deal with Batth.

Sounds about right. What is the standard in Ligue 2 like? Very decent stats for last season on the face of it - 17 goals from 31 games.

I knew I should have added the words "as a comfort blanket".

Just a box ticking exercise from the Club's point of view. The longer the release of the minutes is delayed the greater the chance that anything vaguely unpopular and controversial will either have been partly forgotten about and yesterday's chip shop paper or superceded by events and fairly irrelevant.

Interesting take. Weaker at LB then imo. Tyjon COULD be sensational. But do you think he'll feature enough to be considered a Dolan replacement? If he does, might be an inspired move.

I dont know but they probably take their plastic snake to bed with them every night.

I shouldn't really be dignifying that attempt at being clever with a response but go on I'll bite. As the original discussion was whether we'll be stronger this season than last - that's sort of the point.

Fair enough. The question then until we sign a replacement will be "Will we be weaker with Dolan or Hedges on the right?" I think most of us know the answer to that. Cue Mr. Mani. Edit: Whoops. And Rigger.