Can you blame him?

Lyndon Dykes and Asmir Begovic? Deary me. No way will we be able to buy Dykes but hes crap anyway. Begovic, another player far too old who QPR fans were happy to get shut of. Hopefully Nixon is making this up again.

He copies and pastes stuff that journalists posts. He knows nothing and just wants attention. I know why the sale was needed. Point being that it put the club in a really weak negotiating position which naturally leads to a lower fee.

More not quite certain rumours from dubious football "connections."

The team as a whole is clearly absolutely nowhere near Championship standard and highlights how weak our squad is. The first 11 is Championship bottom half standard I would say, beyond that we are threadbare. Obviously we will sign players but based on budgetary issues the question is whether we will sign enough quantity or quantity and I suspect the answer to both will be no because we have no money. Whether these players will or wont be part of the first team squad doesnt mean they should or are ready to do so. Being an Iceland international is hardly a sign of Champipnship quality, its a country with a tiny population and from what I saw last year, not a fan of Sigurdsson. Buckley has never kicked on since a purple patch under Mowbray and spent half of last season unable to get into Sheffield Wednesdays side and half unable to get into ours. Garrett, Markanday and Vale are all not up to standard. O'Riordan was not deemed ready last season, might have potential, is he ready? Gamble, Duru and Hilton dont have senior experience. Gent has a bit in Scotland but again a big step up. You know we need plenty of reinforcements so by proxy must know that our second 11 isnt up to it. Some of our first 11 should be subs and we need strengthening to offset continious underfunding.

Nathan Jones is the epitome of someone desperate to appear ITK in the absence of any actual knowledge. Sad act. Very vague. Either way. They wont sell, I wouldnt torture yourself. Any approach will be ignored. We naturally got less than we would in normal circumstances where the sale wasnt an absolute necessity.

In terms of Championship standard, that side would not be competitive. He wont. He and Telalovic always filled their boots last year in kickabouts v lower league sides. Absolute shite when it came to the Championship. He has played in the second half of both games presumably against the second string of Stanley and Tranmere in early pre season. Nothing can be taken from it.

Alledgedly? Where from? Dont get yourself excited. Do you think we would have failed to get any more had we not been such distressed srllers?

That second team is woeful and yet probably wont be getting stronger any time soon.

Sigurdsson is really not a ready made replacement.

It will be down to Venkys. Some still struggling to fully realise the source of all of our problems.

At least that means Ipswich arent interested if Mercer "understands" that theyve bid already.

Cooper would be much more preferable to McFadzean, a promising youngster in comparison. We do need some experience but I think the idea of getting an old fashioned aging centre back doesn't have the same impact as it did 15-20 years ago. If we sign and play Cooper then again we will have to sit 5 yards further back to compensate. He also has injury concerns.

You have implied numerous times that he is wasting this set of players though and have definitely not come across as someone who is merely just enjoying England, you get as stressed as anyone.

But you slag off Southgate as much as anyone.

It would only push prices up if he came out and said we have loads of money which is clearly not true. Feels like a pointless appointment amidst a flurry of rejigs behind the scene.

Seems a bit rich considering the amount of times youve written Southgate off, blamed him for wasting our players and suggested that he is the reason we will underachieve. You as much as anyone understandably arent happy with Rovers but if someone was to say if you dont want to be happy and support them jog on, you would rightly tell them where to go.

Who is buying Hyam for a big fee, with one year to go off the back of a season in which he struggled? Carter also had a poor season interrupted by a bad injury so I cant see much interest in him at the moment, certainly for a decent fee, and talk of Premier League clubs being in for him seems unlikely. Like with basically all positions, we dont have enough centre backs. We need one in at the minimum without exits.

Nixon cant make his mind up, throwing darts all over the board hoping to hit something good. Trying to sign Krul, trying to buy Paik, cant afford Paik or anyone, stopped talking to Krul, trying to buy a cheap Hull sub.

That was never a foul, it was just poor from Rice. We were favoured by some terrible one sided officiating and I am all for it.

One thing I would say. When a squad is named, amidst the tournament anticipation, lots is made of decisions deemed controversial which tend to be of players that will likely feature little if at all anyway. There was a lot of criticism that Branthwaite didnt go which was fair because he is better than Dunk and Gomez but neither has featured anyway. There was lots around Grealish and Rashford but neither deserved to go. I still think Mitchell should have gone as we have lacked a fit left wing back/left back for most of the tournament and Trippier has struggled. But the decision to take Toney and Watkins seemed a bit pointless, it was assumed that either would only feature if Kane got injured. Kane has struggled with fitness and form and both Toney and Watkins have proved to be very worthy of a spot in the squad for diffrrent reasons so that decision has certainly been vindicated.

Of course. He has been fortunate that the tests he has faced have been favourable in terms of what they could have been, thats tournament football where you dont play the same games as everyone else, but we have passed them all.

They weren't. They could have been, I presume all teams could but based on results totally out of control all of the best teams fell on the other side. It is the real test. The chance to actually win a tournament which ends any talk about lucky draws etc and makes Southgate an undoubted legend of English football and presumably would see him knighted. I gave him kudos tonight, we played very well in the first half allowing for the luck we got from the referee which you need at times and his subs won us the game.

Absolutely brilliant feeling to reach the final like we did. It still doesnt change the validity of what people have said regarding the luck of the draws that Southgate has had. Any team would love the group that we had and then a path to the final of Slovakia, Switzerland and Holland with Portugal, Spain, France and Germany all on the other side of the draw. But Holland are a step up from who we have faced up until now, and until they made an enforced sub we were so much better bar the poor play from Rice who has been poor on the ball all tournament. Foden was incredible and Mainoo was also very good, Bellingham was very quiet often towards the left and Kane still isnt right. Southgate struggled to adapt and Holland had the better of most of a scrappy second half but his 2 subs made the difference. Spain are the acid test now, can Southgate get us over the line. If we win, you can throw all the arguments about draws and tactics into the bin, no one will ever remember.

No way has Suhail gone over and told the owners not to spend. Regularly during their time when they have withheld funding, theories have been around that others have told them not to as if they were otherwise willing. Rubbish.