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Couldn't agree more. Can't understand how he's carved out a career in professional football at all. The point I was making was that he buzzes about and looks lively at times which must impress managers but it all goes wrong when he gets the ball.

Hedges doesn't look too bad UNTIL the ball arrives at his feet.

I don't like players who swing the lead for season after season, therefore I'd have a similarly dim view of Corry Evans. Gallagher was half decent during his initial loan spell under Coyle (although never worth spending anywhere near £5m on) but following his return on a permanent basis he turned being invisible and avoiding getting into scoring positions into an art form. Opinions vary on how much effort Gallagher put in but for me he was only ever going through the motions for that reason. Incidentally, he only scored 3 League goals for Stoke this season as well so that looks like it's a "standard Gallagher season" now. Bet Stoke are delighted they're paying him £15k - £20k p.w.

Closest player we've ever had to Gueye that I can recall is Shefki Kuqi. Big, Clumsy, bit of a handful, not incredibly prolific but scores a few. Infectious enthusiasm and extremely likeable.

Scored twice as many League goals in his first season over here as Gallagher did in his last though. Who you liked. Think the reality is neither Ohashi or Gueye are really good enough in isolation but both proved relatively good value at around £250k and £1m respectively. Decent strikers cost decent money which we wont pay. We might get a reasonable combined return out of the two of them again if used judiciously. I do fear for Gueye, he looks like a confidence type of player who needs an arm round the shoulder but it wouldn't appear that Ismael rates him. Both have however performed far more creditably thus far than the assorted dross we've had over recent years like Gallagher, Hirst, Telalovic and Ennis.

Eddie's view is fair enough. I was replying to Bank End Rover. FWIW I don't see us spending anywhere near E3m on a CB. We seem to be loath to spend half of that on a striker

I've no real view on signing this particular player either way other than it is a fairy speculative link and if it came to fruition one very much on the riskier end of the scale. It's using that very tenuous link to justify not re-signing Batth (who is proven at this level) that I don't agree with. It's not part of a grand masterplan to bring the age of the squad down either. We've offered Batth terms but so far he's rejected them.

I'm guessing you've never seen this lad play, I certainly haven't, one of those who could be great or could be absolutely terrible I'd assume. Edit: That's assuming we're even genuinely interested in him which we won't be if there's much of a fee involved I don't suppose.

That's because realistically, the chances of us bringing in a younger player who's better than Batth on a longer contract are slim to none and Slim left town some time ago

Didn't his side finish rock bottom of their League?

Come off it, bottom line is seemingly we can't or won't even compete with Derby for two thirty somethings in Batth and Weimann. Weimann would be no great loss imo but failing to secure Batth would be a major blow no matter what some are saying about his age. If we were trying to scrimp about on these two to save money to bring in more expensive signings as well then that would be fine but I think we can pretty much guarantee that won't be the case.

Extremely late to the party, but better late than never I suppose.

We'll have to agree to disagree on this point as always. I've no idea why you have always dismissed Waggott's contribution as completely irrelevant. If that's the case when we might as well not bother having a CEO.

From the story I heard on the radio I'm not sure Chelsea sought the investment as such, some Celebrity or other expressed an interest in buying a stake in their women's side and a rather arbitrary valuation of £200m was placed on the womens side of the Club by Chelsea. Even for a team that has dominated the WSL that sounds a fairly optimistic figure to me. And much lower down the food chain I'm not sure it's possible to assign much of a monetary value to Rovers women's side at all. Still entirely the wrong decision to downgrade in the prevailing climate though. The communication aspect whilst displaying our customary lack of class is entirely secondary and of course the decision begs the question of what will be the next thing we've previously taken for granted to face the axe.

For me they don't come into the same category as the Red Scum along the M62 but how many times are they actually going to celebrate winning the title?. Sky made us sit through a couple of hours of cringeworthy celebration, including Slot singing, after the match where they clinched the title (Was it Spurs?) so I assumed that was it. Then, seemingly, same again after yesterday's game. THEN an open air parade today. Talk about overkill.

His thousands of subscribers must lap it up though.

"Short bursts of doing ok" describes Hyam to a tee. Ironically alongside Wharton and later Batth.

Hmm.... definitely wouldn't call him lazy. Hopefully irrelevant now but by no means a given that the Club will ever recover from the position he left us in, stripped to the bone at a point where the owners have lost interest.

Aye, he's so thick, he allegedly conned money out of Andy Cole and somehow commandeered salaries of several hundreds of thousands of pounds for running his respective Clubs into the ground everywhere he went.

Best defender we have when he's fit and playing well. If someone had to go would be far better off shipping out the massively over-rated Hyam.

Jackson needs to avoid becoming the PR man for the Regime again. Why would merely re- signing one of our players up on a new deal represent a major statement of intent? We can't even get 34 year old Batth over the line for another season. As others have said - just announce signings after they're made. Otherwise it's a complete non story.

Be careful not to be used as the PR mouthpiece for Waggott. His camp have obviously leaked the alleged story about him previously being receptive to the idea of external investment in the women's team as if true it tends to paint him in a positive light. However I'd say it's doubtful at this stage whether the women's side has any real intrinsic value as an investment vehicle and unfortunately for him (probably fortunately for us) he was not at liberty to be selling off chunks of equity in any part of the Club ( or the training ground). He's not the owner. I'd tend to take the massive hike in his own personal remuneration as a more reliable guide to his character.

Yes, he's the undertaker all right.

Complaining about Tuchel's squads now is a bit like complaining about who Ismael selects in the pre season friendlies. All that matters is what happens at the World Cup. I still have a lot more confidence of Tuchel bringing success than I ever would have under wet lettuce Southgate.