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18 months would be a strange limit because then you get into the habit of selling players mid season. 12 months should be the baseline, but if it is clear even 2 years before, or a player is really attracting serious interest at high prices, then you sell and reinvest.

I can't fathom how it would be anything but totally beneficial to go up. We would be up against it to stay up, but it would be a huge boost to get promotion both on and off the pitch. It could potentially increase our match going fan base, it would massively improve our finances and would give us an opportunity to sign some players that even if we did come back down, they would be huge improvements on what we currently have. It would break this psychological feeling that we will never return to the Premier League, or even get close. And of course, it wouldn't be impossible to stay up, there are some poor teams at the bottom of the Premier League. Big if, but manage the summer right and maybe we can have a right good go at staying in the league. If not, we should have a top Championship squad ready to bounce back. We go from Championship also rans to a team expecting to get back into the Premier League. The idea of kicking on next season doesn't really tally up IMO. Our only goalscorer will be leaving for free and we will be scrounging around for freebies and loanees, this slow build idea doesn't really work.

Making losses doesn't automatically mean that the squad has been adequately funded. Losses are to be expected at this level because Championship wages are not in line with income across the board. This is made worse for us because we are run negligently, not maximising our income fully and with our owners preventing us from being able to sell players to be able to reinvest. Our squad is probably over reliant on our academy. It is a good job that a lot are talented enough but some perhaps arent ready, and it also means that we lack experience.

I wouldnt want Gallagher to sign one. The other 2 I think have 2 years with their option but they shouldn't be allowed to enter their final year.

Not every player will be willing to sign a new deal though.

Bizarre judgement. He was rubbish.

The new DOF makes no difference, it is the owners that turn down bids allowing them to run their deals down. Something you have strongly supported.

Kaminski Rankin Costello Carter Hyam Pickering Travis A Wharton Thomas Szmodics Hedges Brereton Subs: Pears, Brittain, Wharton, Morton, Dolan, Leonard, Dack

Shocking display and Tomasson got plenty wrong. Wrong team selection, Gallagher on the wing and Dolan up front again didnt work and why Wharton was dropped I do not know. Subs made too late and we wouldn't have scored if we were still playing now. Brereton was crap but Gallagher and Dolan were just as bad, although they dont have moves lined up.

Tomasson said the other day that its loans and frees.

He barely plays for us anyway but again, who are we to say what he should be doing. He might get a considerable payrise.

They wont v us but theyve made loads of changes today. Even changed their keeper to presumably get him a medal.

Would be harsh to drop Szmodics I think. Also in a front 3 with a midfield with minimal goal threat, I feel like Thomas doesn't offer much goal threat himself. More suited to getting up and down in a 4231 with someone playing off the front man.

Kaminski is a better keeper and ultimately it is not about sending messages but sending out our best team. If he goes in the summer then it is a huge loss of even more of the remaining limited experience and no money forthcoming from the owners who are "better than 90% in the EFL" to replace him. Goalkeeper is not the same as any other position. Our academy hopefuls suddenly becoming a bundle of nerves due to potential lack of opportunity based on if Kaminski comes back in when considering the general age of the team would be bizarre.

You have been spending lots of time with Waggott.

Needs goals, so we need to play Brereton. Also shouldn't move Rankin Costello.

That is very true, I totally get the manager trying to reduce pressure on us but this idea that even finishing outside is a good season considering where we are doesnt really wash.

Unforgivable is over the top, but we didn't last season yet think how we reacted then.

I actually think the opposite, Kaminski was our best player for half a season but fresher in our memory were the few games he had wobbles in when carrying an injury.

Think Tomasson said today that he should start training next week. With Dack training tomorrow and hopefully available for Coventry.

What does that even mean? We needed a new pitch and surely with a bit of pride, we want the stadium not to be falling apart. If they genuinely spent as much as they possibly could, FFP allowing, then both of the above (not even included the attempted downgrading at Brockhall) would be sorted.

For much of the season we really struggled to create chances, albeit that has improved in the last couple of months. We definitely need an experienced midfielder and a couple along the front including a proper goalscorer. I don't think a Graham type would be right for us though,

Definitely a disappointment, I certainly would take no consolation in it being "year 1 of a project" if we mess it up having been in the top 6 for so long. Next season the team won't significantly change, aside from losing our main (and often only) goalscorer for free. We spent £4m ish net last summer, that was a generous window for Venkys so we aren't going to suddenly be a level up next season.

They should realise that it "hasn't been a 3pm Saturday game for 30 years." What a bizarre reply to a post that couldn't have been any clearer in not being "negative" against the club.

We obviously have a chance, we are 6th! With an admittedly difficult game in hand. I still can't fathom why @J*B thinks we wont win ANY of the last 5 games. We may not win enough, I get doubting that, but we are in with a chance. We need a minimum of 4 points from these upcoming 2 games, or obviously ideally 6. We have played 3 of the other teams in the top 6 this season and have won 2 of those, our home record is the second best in the league. Burnley is the obvious tough one but they should be champions on 100 points by then, not that we will get any favours. Hopefully Luton win enough between now and the penultimate game to have a play off berth sorted by then.