He said that he turned down strikers, but that they were kids on loan from the Premier League. Makes no sense that he turned down money to spend yet also wanted to sell Rothwell to get money to spend, therefore I would suggest that the rumour is false.

We haven't played with an out and out striker in the last 2 league games nor in the 6 game winning streak last season. Seems an illogical rumour that we had a similar amount of money to the amount we would have raised had the owners not prevented the sale of Rothwell, and that he chose not to spend the £5m but wanted to reinvest the £3-4m of a potential sale. One thing I suppose Venkys can be summed up as is illogical. Lets hope they don't try and interfere under Tomasson especially as he may well not stand for such nonsense. He may be, but it is one hell of an unsubstantiated suggestion at this stage, to use that price tag.

They appoint those managers (and also now a director of football) because they are far more qualified to make decisions about players than themselves. They shouldn't be making decisions that potentially undermine the manager/go against the plan that the manager is trying to adopt because they "like" a player. How can you possibly already have come up with that potential figure? He has played 2 senior games, 1 v Hartlepool.

Why would you take a point? We have won 3 out of 3, Reading have lost 2, have a poor side, are expected to struggle and have the leagues worst keeper and the leagues worst manager. Surely any dropped points would be frustrating if of course not catastrophic.

Again I can't fathom talk of a "free hit" at Sheffield United regardless of the score at Reading. We could be top of the league having won 4, why are we writing off games?! It comes back off talk of yesterday where many would have taken a point at home and even a narrow defeat was mentioned. In a bang average league, we are a team who have so far won every game and are supposedly targeting promotion, at least the play offs. There are NO games we should consider to be free hits.

How do you know this? It makes no sense that Mowbray declined to spend £5m yet tried to sell Rothwell to raise a similar amount to spend on the team, if he could have had those players anyway. The biggest worry is that the owners are removing the autonomy of the manager (or now the manager AND director of football) to make footballing decisions. It shouldn't be a case of the owners insist that x is paid or y isn't sold. If say the fee in mind is £20m, and someone offers £17m and Tomasson thinks, I'd rather take the money and spend £10m on someone else rather than lose him for free, he should certainly not be overruled.

It wasn't an opinion, it was one of numerous examples of things that affect the matchday experience that by your logic shouldn't be discussed because we only go to watch a football match. Dismissing people because you consider their opinion to be negative or critical is IMO not conducive to allowing debate to flow on a messageboard. My personal preference would be to remove Sweet Caroline, ideally with no music to be played at full time, allowing a more natural crowd driven noise if we win.

I go to watch the team, but if you are totally disinterested in the topic, why have you contributed with an opinion so heavily? We go to watch the team, why does it matter if the food is crap/overpriced/brilliant, the programmes are or aren't sold, they play music too loud, the bogs are a mess or pristinely maintained, the stewards are fair/inadequate, whether we install a standing section, whether the ground is more than half empty/totally full? Lets not discuss anything but the game?

Lucky to not have many injuries up until now, yes. Had we had more injuries, it may have been a different situation with such a thin squad. We have a core group of 13-15 players that I have confidence in to give anyone a game at this level. Beyond that, there isn't much. Tomasson has started perfectly, but ultimately I am not interested in platitudes about how "hard" the club are working, I judge on who has signed. If we drop any points due to being particularly weak in a specific area, then Tomasson will have the right to say, I am doing what I can but I need more help here and I feel let down. I would welcome Styles but I don't think there has ever been strong interest this summer and judging by the quotes following the Morton deal, I fear that we won't sign another midfielder in general which would leave us very, very short in there.

Yep, definitely not Black Eyed Peas, agreed there! Im not sure there even needs to be music at all personally. Totally against goal music, at the end is not as bad but still I think there is perhaps no need to blast music over the crowd.

I started quite a lot of debate about peoples views on part of the matchday experience. As per usual, your response is along the lines of stop being negative/stop complaining.

A long, long way to go before he needs to worry about what national team to play for!

I suppose the problem with direct comparisons is that we are not playing the same formation. The key with Brereton is making sure that we have targets very much lined up, hopefully of a decent fee and good calibre to instantly be signed. I am not convinced that will happen though.

They have signed Freuler from Atalanta and Mangala who they had only just signed prior to that game and Yates who is carrying an injury also missed that game, plus they are rumoured to want another midfielder. Add in Lewis O'Brien who they have signed and he might struggle (same with Cafu) to even get a place in the 25 man squad.

I wouldn't even say it would be a luxury, could be a potential way of adding a number of goals.

He reads the game quite well anyway but as soon as he plays someone with an aeriel threat, he would likely struggle. Moving him from left back also creates a weakness there. 3 changes? I definitely would not take Pickering out, Edun was horrendous yesterday whereas Pickering was one of our best players. Dack is the one potential change that I would perhaps go with out of that.

I wonder if it is worth looking at Nottingham Forest's squad with them signing so many players, perhaps a few Championship ready players will become surplus to requirements. We need experience and we need a midfielder, he is not a world beater but how about someone like Jack Colback who can also cover left back as a much more steady option than Edun if Pickering gets injured? Or even Ryan Yates.

Tomasson has started the season as well as mathematically possible, winning every game. We have been lucky that our threadbare squad going into the season had only really Carter missing but now even a slight hint of a few injuries and we are looking short, we need players in ASAP and if we drop any points with a small squad in the meantime, then Tomasson can look to Broughton and indeed Venkys and feel let down. And no, I am not asking for rubbish players to be signed to make up the numbers.

And the team is much stronger with a regular goalscorer in it, I think was the point being made. You speak as if the choice of music impacts upon whether we win or not.

New foreign coaches with exciting new and groundbreaking ideas, or so I have heard.

Expected goals. In all 3 games we have protected leads so meaningless twaddle.

He should not be on par with our highest earner.

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Theyd be stupid to not accept such a sum for a player who hasnt come close to meriting such a big fee.

40m for Gordon who tries but is nothing special would be a great deal for Everton.