To be fair, Nixon would make a great con man. This mystery winger was mentioned on here over a week ago. This is a man who is a proper gossip merchant yet this hasnt even developed into a story yet and people are still seemingly asking about it.

Im sure all of the other players that weve failed to renew were also looking for excessive wages too. Its an assumption, an opinion, and in my opinion a very reasonable one. Unlike, again in my opinion, the suggestion that Dolan has a terrible agent and has an arrogant perception of his ability above his station.

Our attempts to sign wingers. We clearly do not find it easy. Dolan is a decent Championship winger.

Cozier Duberry. Kargbo. Dennis. Khadra. Giles. Sigurdsson. Point being, we havent find it easy to recruit in that position and it wont be so easy as he suggests to sign a winger at Dolan's level. Not impossible either

Why havent any of the wingers we have signed in a number of years done that? Speculation about what he has on his agents desk aside, hes a decent Championship winger, as a starter. If he ends up on a 1 year deal in League 1 then these assumptions and comparisons to Nyambe will be true. He left here because like with many others, he clearly wasnt offered a fair deal reflective of his level.

Apologies, it initially didnt appear. Think because I wasnt logged in. Strange they havent advertised it from what I have seen.

Where did you see the offer?

That Darren Witcoop is a terrible source, we have been linked with Armstrong before but you would imagine he will go back to Derby if let out.

Ah yes, the usual. Take my words totally out of context and resort to calling me negative in the absence of anything constructive. You repeatedly conclude based on your own warped reading of what I am saying that we should never play him, bin him off and never bring through graduates. Firstly, sort out his contract situation. Not interested in conversations or spiel about pathways and projects. Is he willing to sign a proper contract or not? If he is, then we can accelerate his progression into the first team. If not, then strongly consider a sale because its no good us giving him game time just to inflate any tribunal fee. Assuming he does sign. We dont know especially physically if he is ready to potentially play regular Championship football. As it stands, one injury to Cantwell and he would have to. He regularly struggled to stay fit for the under 21s. It would be putting him under unfair pressure and we dont know if he could cope with it. So sign another player. Still there would be plenty of scope for game time. If we are playing high pressing football, and with modern day sub rules, we will be getting minutes into 7 or 8 attacking players per game. He would be one of potentially 10, very rare they would all be fit. It would also allow us to play him when we feel appropriate rather than out of necessity. He could play cup games, he could be integrated slowly initially but if he really looks the part at senior level, and we dont know, then he can play lots more. So sort his contract, then drip feed him in without undue pressure whenever we feel best, keeping him around the first team all season. Can you please tell me what is so negative about that plan?

That is just an overused cliche. He is very young and has had injuries (perhaps part of growing) even playing for the Under 21s. All I propose is adding a player to compete with Cantwell. As it stands, if he is unavailable, we would have to flog Tyjon and dismissing the outdated notion that "hes a young lad, he should be able to play every day", we dont know if he could physically sustain that sort of workload at senior level. He struggled in academy football. Bringing someone in would prevent that and we can use Tyjon when we want to. Theres still scope for plenty of football for him, and he can still earn a place. We ultimately also dont know if he is up to it quality wise yet at Championship level. Well, all the above depends on his future. If he wont commit then it makes little sense to put so much work into developing him.

So not a contract. Conversations wont stand for anything when his contract expires.

Clearly not true.

Did someone mention Waggott? Notifications on. Makes no difference, the reason for our issues off the pitch remains.

Agreed. If we are developing him before a likely move next summer, then its essentially a loan. And would we want to loan a player like Tyjon at this stage of his development? No we wouldnt. So it would only be worth it if we knew we had him longer term. Again, contract uncertainty causes massive issues. We need some clarity now on this. The club are probably thinking its a way of driving up any fee at tribunal though. I suspect thats why they gave Finneran minutes too.

He hasnt travelled on their tour, I think due to fitness concerns. Ismael apparently said at the kit launch that he doesnt like loans.

And what happens when Cantwell is unavailable if Tyjon is NOT ready? Then we are just left with a big hole in our team. We dont know if he is ready full stop, but especially physically. This is a young lad who has had injury problems at under 21 level, can he sustain consecutive games at senior level? Also, has he got one year left on his deal? Is he actually likely to be our player beyond next summer? Especially with agent Nixon on the case. Wharton was an exceptional talent, but even then, he was in and out at first. We cant expect everyone to be like Wharton, most are not.

But the issue is, we cant possibly know if he is good enough yet at this level but moreso, is his body capable of playing regular, consecutive games in senior football as it likely will have to.

Agreed. Also with Tyjon, if Cantwell misses a few games, even if they think Tyjon is ready ability wise, we have no idea if his body could sustain playing consecutive games at this level. I think I am right in saying hes had injury problems at under 21 level.

That is still a weak looking second team, thats for sure. I wonder if Tavares will be able to play in either.

Yep, a mixture of Elliott Jackson's journalism and Ismael's English make it ambigious. We need more than 2 or 3. If it is 2 or 3 then we shouldnt sign another central midfielder.

One thing that I didn't realise, and obviously its not why you buy a defender. McLoughlin didnt score a single goal for Hull in 6 years. He scored more for us in a Hull shirt than for Hull. Quite a surprise considering his height.

Im guessing we will have a very quiet week this week with everyone (presumably) away in Spain. We dont seem to have been linked to very many attacking players and those we have have seemingly been bogus. Hopefully we can get some in before the season starts. Hard to not see Hedges starting the season and probably lingering indefinitely. Based on the selections for the first 2 friendlies, it feels like many of the places are locked down in terms of building for West Brom. De Neve, Ribeiro and Ohashi over Kargbo, Pickering and Gueye. Only question mark is perhaps between Wharton and McLoughlin. The latter has had some pre season minutes too.

It felt like we scored a few similar to that last season. We didnt score anywhere near enough goals in general last season but quite a few especially under Eustace (2 at Cardiff stand out) were really well constructed team goals. Brittain often played a huge part, if and when he goes he will be such a huge miss. Moving forward he manages to compose himself to make good decisions and has the technical ability to put in excellent crosses. This new lad seems to be far more athletic but we wont be able to match the quality that Brittain has. Cantwell also can play a big part. His dummy was really good yesterday, he did have involvements (eg at Boro away) in the build up showing intelligence that none of our other players have.

If you genuinely thought that he was satisfied by the club filling the void of a striker he was desperate for with Semir Telalovic then you are more gullible than I thought.

It sums up chaddys inability to take things beyond face value. Even if we believe that he and he alone chose him over a 31 year old mystery La Liga striker alone. Its not as straightforward as that meaning that he wanted him. After those budget cuts ("the project changed" is a miserable summary of the spiel in modern day football) the more likely scenario is having called for a striker for ages, the 2 who he was offered the choice of were both crap, and Telalovic was in his opinion the least bad option. Doesnt mean that he wanted him.