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Hyam's departure always felt on the cards considering contract "talks" broke down and they seem desperate to gut the place of anyone on reasonable wages with any experience. A stopped clock is right twice a day.

Comments on twitter suggest that the common consensus on Gardner Hickman is a hard worker, versatile, technically poor and a League 1 standard player.

We came into today thinking we might frustratingly not bring in anyone of note without factoring in major sales. To sell our best centre back and to loan a cheap utility man aswell as not addressing pre existing issues would be a catastrophe.

Replacing a centre back with a jack of all trades on loan?

Leaning into relegation.

To be fair, I thought youd be buzzing that we might sell Hyam!

Ismael was insistent that Hyam wouldnt be sold. A real test for the alignment.

That isnt well stocked. Losing by far our best centre back with that mixture of injury prone, a full back and a young lad out on loan.

If we sell Hyam at this point in the window then we may aswell start planning for league 1 away days.

Ideally we would get rid of that waste of space and buy a replacement. Neither will happen.

They only care about "player development" now.

Wheres that from?

Wheres that from?

Hes on to you. Changed it.

We would get ripped apart.

Cantwell can not play in a midfield 2, its not his game and he has never done that before. He is better playing where he has been.

Just waiting on that confirmation that Elliott Jackson has had it confirmed from the club that we are 100% done. Then we can enjoy the push of ignoring the gaps in the squad. Phrases like happy with the numbers, dont want to upset senior players and creating pathways can come out.

Its bizarre. He played (his request) for the under 21s a couple of weeks ago. If Toth gets injured and a young lad comes in and makes a mistake. Thats on Ismael.

He wont be going anywhere regardless. He has 3 years left. They arent paying that off.

So, at most 1, heres a bit ot a glimmer to also cover my own back but almost certainly wont happen. Central midfield is a real concern. Im glad we shipped off the old model that is proven midfielder Travis for our new premium athletes. (One is currently having a tyre change)

Agreed. Today is probably the day where loans make most sense. A couple coming in to add some extra quality and depth. Especially people like Browne who arent in the plans of the club that they are at but they would bring experience and an upgrade on what we have. The attitude we have towards them is counterproductive. We seemingly would rather go into the season short. And im sure the "project" will change next summer as it always does and we will bring in 5.

First interaction of deadline day. I never said that Pears will be number 2. I dont think he will. I think he SHOULD. Opinions dont have to match what actually happens. We dont just have to parrot what the manager says and does.

Less. Less. More.

No way are we buying 2 players in the next 10 hours. Id love to be wrong. Also, to rip up Pears' contract would just be pouring money down the drain. Have him as number 2.

When we did get £15m to spend on the 3 strikers, the squad we had before was one that had dropped into League 1, having been totally wiped out in the summer leading to relegation. So even that money wasnt enough to build that to a squad to get us promoted. But had Tomasson been given reasonable money on top of that, and had Venkys not repeatedly denied us the chance of selling and reinvesting, then the platform was there. But Venkys didnt seem arsed about pushing on, quite the opposite.