davulsukur

We haven't even managed to tie down a below average, injury prone Ryan Hedges to a new deal. You would imagine he'd sign on basically the same terms, or without a significant uplift at the very least, relatively quickly. I'm not suggesting that we should be keeping him but the manager has stated that he wants to and you'd imagine this should have been a fairly straightforward deal to be done.

I have no doubts that they leave contract negotiations as late as possible for 2 reasons: 1. So they can go longer paying less wages. 2. Players start having half an eye on an exit, and with less than 12 months on their contracts, they are likely to garner a reasonable amount of interest. The club can sell, gain a bit of money, shift wages off the books and avoid paying players more money. Any replacement is either an academy graduate on peanuts or a new signing earning a lot less. It's all a total circus and there is no desire to improve, just cut costs/keep them to a minimum.

Pretty sure he also said any money generated from player sales wouldn't be reinvested into the squad. So, why would we sell anyone?

If they sell Travis to Wrexham, I'll be absolutely fucking fuming.

Absolutely boggles the mind why you want to continue owning a football club but then leave the running of it to someone who'll only ever make decisions which are detrimental to the club. They clearly aren't here for the love of BRFCS, so why the fuck are they still here?

As always, I think the 3 stooges (now 2 stooges) have just been lying to us consistently. Clearly the court case in India is having a serious impact on the club and despite a few leaked stories about players signing new contracts or being in advanced talks with potential signings, we're more likely to see players like Travis, Tronstad, Hyam and Brittain sold to cover the costs for the owners. The club will spin any number of various lines to cover their backs, from blaming the players for being greedy or not blocking pathways for academy players. Its all bullshit and I'm fucking fed up with it all.

Yep, saw that they signed their 3rd player of the summer yesterday. No idea on the quality of any of them but at least they've had their targets and landed them early doors. Christ knows what our lot are up to.

Subbed off at 70mins, game still 0-0. No idea how he played though.

I've never bought into the saving face line either. I've said on here previously that I've worked with teams in India for years now and generally there is very little pride in their work. When the going gets tough, or their work starts getting questioned, they just cut all comms for as long as possible and bury their heads in the sand. They can hide easier, as they are on the other side of the world. I've never seen anything, in 10 years+, that suggests there is a huge worry about what others think of them or their work. Quite the opposite, in fact.

We got minutes into an academy player!

Managers like Cooper and O'Neil were out of our reach, according to the 3 stooges. Let's see if Boro have any genuine ambition with their next appointment

Has gone literally as people predicted it would: 1. Offer made 2. Progress on a new contract 3. Club confident he will sign 4. All goes quiet 5. Club leaks to the LET that he wants more than we are offering 6. Sold for 1/4 of his value 7. Club blames player for being greedy We've just hit stage 5 by the sounds of it.

........yes....?

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That's how sports washing works, mate.

Tyjon off to Arsenal according to Nixon.

Posted in another thread but I’ll post here as well

Anyone else heard about this?

No one, because anyone with any reasonable value only has 12 months left on their deal. Hyam, Brittain, Trav and Tronstad collectively might bring in the required though.

Another summer of cutbacks No investment into the squad More sales of key players I cannot put into words how much I detest these owners.

You'd like to think that both Gueye and Ohashi will be better coming into this season, after their first one in the Championship and a full pre-season but I wouldn't expect either to be hitting more than 10 goals. Assuming VI sticks with 4-2-3-1, having better attackers in the 3 positions behind them might add more goals to their games. I assume we are looking to sign another striker though?

It's going to be minimal

I've not seen him much but i've not been overly impressed with him when I have. He must be better than what i've seen, he did get Young player of the season at Sunderland but if his surname wasn't Bellingham, would there be as much hype around him? Agreed though, if he has a chance now to join Dortmund, he should probably take it.

You could probably understand Dortmund, big club, same path his brother walked to become a huge name in the game. The other 2 though? He’ll get Champions League football at Frankfurt I suppose but you’d think, overall, he’d be better getting a season in Prem instead? Be a relegation battle but still.

Bellingham on his way to Germany, either Eintract Frankfurt, Dortmund or RB Leipzig, who are all interested. Figured he would have had a crack at the Premier league with Sunderland before moving??