This is the shit Burnley are up against. Their two opening games are as easy as it’ll get for them this year.

Leeds should get their act together looking at the squad. But you never know. This is the season PNE return to League 1 anyway. We might then get the lad Whiteman for Merce 😄

He is pathetic.

Pears is still shit Travis is still a clown Big Mak looks twice the player of Gallagher Set piece delivery has been poor, when we’ve actually delivered rather than time waste

Hedges is a very good Championship play, just a question of fitness. Keeping his left peg fit for a season would be massive. Chip as well, the demons of PNE away!

Barry Ferguson? EDIT: Christ I completely forgot about who you obviously meant!!! 😂

Tronstad for me. Carter is probably worth the most though. A good, injury free season for him and he’ll be the next (and final) asset to leave

https://www.skysports.com/football/video/16619/13196697/stockport-1-6-blackburn-carabao-cup-highlights

Agree, getting relegated with Luton (1st season in the top flight) and Sheffield United (with a 2 point deduction and transfer ban) means Burnley should really clean up in the top 2, alongside Leeds. Especially given what they've spent and looking at their bench. Hopefully someone pips them to it, but can't see them falling out the top 6 regardless.

Whilst I believe this is an over-pay (it will be a record transfer fee for Celtic and he's hardly the second coming of Henrik Larsson)...He is only 23 and scored 8 in 15 last season in the league for them (which to me just highlights how awful that league is). I'd be amazed if they make a profit on him regardless of age, but he might win them a few tin pot trophies that nobody bar Glaswegians and weird angry religious people care about.

Pink kit seems to be a popular choice (either that or it just stands out more in the crowd than previous away kits)

I agree completely re Pears but we still need to get more out of Hyam in particular. He’s so weak in this area. See the first goal below. He has good positioning to attack the ball away, gets a jump and looks favourite for the ball then turns his head for some reason. Not physically strong enough maybe. edit: on the next replay it looks like he misjudged the flight as it goes over him to the derby player behind. Also not good considering he can view that attacking it from inside his 6 yard box

Surely we’re not giving out a bottle of Vodka as the MOTM price 😂

Whatever about Pears and the fact we’re conceding continuously to balls in the box. Questions have to be asked about Hyam and Carter in how they dominate our 18 yard box. We need at least one of them to step up in that area (it won’t be Hyam).

There’s a difference between Szmodics being happy a day after winning golden boot and the season finishing versus 6 weeks later with a Prem team (and a hefty salary hike), having bids rejected. Can’t see him kicking up a stink, but you’re in denial if you think he’s happy with that.

Of course it’s not true. We’re certainly not “cooking”. The place is an absolute shambles.

Who do you dislike more, Jerry Jones or Venkys? 😂

It's not the lads fault that the powers that be have set up the rules this way that youngsters can be taken so easily, and that we're a complete basket case of a club currently (although that would probably play in his favour if he stayed). Nevertheless, I wish him nothing but the worst in his future footballing career, ditto Ashley Phillips. Bellingham & Wharton showed how to do it properly.

O'Brien, Brierly and the best of the lot, Maguire will give you a clue. Or more to the point, our useless overlords.

Assuming Gallagher and Szmodics are going, Telalovic is gone and Leonard has been crocked forever, it does look like we only have Jack Vale as a recognised Striker in the first team. What a club.

Fuck sake, now you've reappeared saying that we've almost certainly got another 10+ years with this lot.

From and including the Armstrong transfer we have a net income of £39m and that doesn't include the Raya add-ons nor Szmodics / Gallagher. So we could be looking at £55m in NET income from transfers over ~4 years. Yet still we're pissing money left right and centre somewhere. For what it's worth, the number is around +£90m net from transfers since Venkys took over, might just off-set the agent fees allegedly.

Thread here about off-season changes at Birmingham. Yes they got relegated but it’s 1 year with new owners and they’re actually sticking to their word (what happened to ‘never refuse a cheque’ with our lot whilst Ewood rots) If you can’t click through; 2 new big screens, new sound system, box to box bar (one long bar across the whole stand with 12 till points and bierkeller style seating), shuttle buses, new WiFi system and more.

Andros Townsend surprised me on comms too - thought he was really good, far more knowledgeable than the usual dross we get (Keown, Dixon etc.)

F*ck me, apparently even a footy kit can be 'woke' these days.