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He has set a target. 2 or 3 new academy players every season is a huge and probably unrealistic. Some years the well will be dry.

Mccoist is ok but Ferdinand has always been a dreadful commentator/pundit. Lets be honest, any commentator was bound to "fawn" over that PSG team. To win a Champions League final 5 nil and play such incredible football, if ever there was a performance worthy of so much praise then that was it. The likes of Doue, Dembele, Kvaratskelia etc are unbelievable. But I just find Ferdinand and some of the weird shit he comes out with to be intolerable. As you say, thank god he is leaving.

As still a young player, "I dont think I can ever play at the top level and I have settled for a career of mediocrity" would neither make a good soundbite, strengthen his negotiating position nor make him very attractive to anyone. If he goes to another Championship player he will definitely get a competitive Championship wage there so it suggests that if that is what he has asked for, its a reasonable request.

Again, I know he said that! I have never once said that he didnt or even that we havent offered him a new contract. Im sure we have. And no, nobody knows the exact wage that was offered, so stop being pedantic. But it was clearly not sufficient enough for him to agree to sign it. Merely offering a player a new deal doesnt make the club automatically blameless. It clearly wasnt a good enough offer.

No one has ever said that we shouldnt. People have suggested that we shouldnt be over reliant on it, setting arbitary targets for minutes played or be bringing/relying on players who arent ready, or too many at once. For some reason still, you cant grasp the difference. My point was that these stupid targets become even harder to meet without seriously jeopardising results if our better youngsters are at high risk of being picked off.

If our best youngsters will just be picked off, it probably makes these targets that Gestede is pushing to give graduates a certain number of minutes even more ridiculous.

I think weve seen enough from how we have been run under Venkys to be able to make a reasonable assumption. Broughton was proactive in terms of getting players to sign new deals, but the players he was able to get signed up tended to be ones that were seemingly pretty easy to do. If you genuinely think that we likely offered Dolan a competitive Championship wage then again I suspect quite a bit of naivety.

I dont think anyone has questioned their running of the football club in isolation. You clearly havent grasped the idea of sportswashing.

Coupled with a total lack of empathy towards others who are affected by constant kick off time changes.

Yeah, probably because the wage offered was rubbish. Offering him 10p a week is "trying to get him to sign a new contract."

He is if the clubs in question have any ambition and are offering him a reasonable wage. We I am pretty sure could have got him signed long ago had we offered him a decent wage.

Also see Newcastle. A trophy and no Mike Ashley makes it easy to overlook it.

The Alan Nixon propaganda machine gets started up for the summer. No thought as to perhaps that sometimes Nixon may well get things totally wrong. For what its worth, sky sports think that Plymouth CEO is staying.

Was a fantastic performance by PSG and it was one step too far for Inter who had provided such entertainment in the semi final.

Makes no difference who the CEO is at this club. Will be sidelined by Suhail and just need to focus on cutting costs. Also, as if a potential end to this legal case is going to prompt a desire to invest. They hadnt been even prior to the case.

All gone expectedly quiet on that defender we are supposedly in "advanced talks" with. Yea right.

In this instance it made sense. He was doing well in League 2 but you obviously arent going to get anything other than a nominal fee for a player doing quite well in League 2. A step up to League 1 made sense but unfortunately he wasnt quite good enough. Makes sense to let him go and try and forge a career.

Ultimately we shouldnt be using Gallagher as the benchmark anyway. But like I said, we won over twice as many games in the half season worth of games that he didnt start and combined with only 6 goals, I dont think he had a good season individually nor one that was above the majority of Gallagher's seasons here. I dont think he fits into the style of the rest of the squad either and I wasnt impressed by his body language towards the end of the season when he came on in games. When Ohashi doesnt play, Gueye certainly doesnt slot in seemlessly as the results prove. I also dont see the contribution of missing an open net but it hitting his heel leading to someone else scoring, or him winning a header 30 yards out as on par with a goal personally.

His body is clearly failing him now, its been another season where he has constantly been injured. He was never a natural goalscorer and was always average (and overpriced) but he was nowhere near as bad as you made out. But back to Gueye. His performances and goal return last season do not compare favourably to most of Gallagher's seasons here and as I said before, he started exactly half of our games. We won 6 he started and 13 that he didnt. That tells you quite a lot.

He wasnt putting in much of a shift when he was coming on towards the end of the season. Half arsed and constantly waving his arms around. Gallagher was below average but so was Gueye last season, problem is that people like yourself and RevidgeBlue lost all balance in judging Gallagher. Gueye got only 6 goals and we won significantly less when he started compared to when he didnt.

I didnt rate Gallagher. I thought in general he was a below average Championship striker. However he seems to have done something to you personally as you probably have criticised him more than you have Venkys and you lost all semblance of balance when discussing him. A typical Gallagher season here saw him score 8 or 9 goals, which we all thought needed an improvement upon. His last season saw him constantly getting injured so it wasnt an average season for him. Equally, he doesnt deserve being put in a lineup with dross that never scored a single goal here nor some of the rubbish youve put in the past about him being the worst striker weve ever had. Ohashi and Gueye IMO cant be put in the same category in terms of value. Ohashi was a small 6 figure fee and scored a reasonable and respectable goals tally (similar to a standard Gallagher season ironically) and did miss a couple of months. He isnt a standout Championship striker but hes a very useful one especially for such a low price and our results have been far better with him in the side as opposed to Gueye. When Gueye scored at Sheff Wednesday away and then got those 2 at West Brom it felt like his confidence had gone up and he could kick on, especially as Ohashi was unavailable meaning he could have a run of games. Unfortunately those contributions proved to be the exception to the rule and he didnt kick on which led to him being dropped again.

Gueye. Both of our good runs coincided with him not starting games.

He is a likeable character but we fare far better without him starting, he doesnt offer much goal threat which as a striker isnt ideal and even when he came off the bench, his body language and standard of performance left a lot to be desired.

We won 6 of the 23 games he started and 13 of the 23 he didnt.

Very limited times. Was absolutely horrific for half a season, then had maybe a month where he was good and got most of his very limited goal return, then dropped back off and looked poor again. Yes I would say a decent Championship player. Good value signing, nothing special. Gueye is a big lump who we have to totally change our style to get anything out of. And when he was coming on as a sub which would make him a plan B towards the end of the season, his body language was really poor and he may aswell have not come on. If 6 is a decent return for a striker then my standards must be too high.