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If we’re as skint as Frank is making out then surely there are higher priorities than this. With Mitchell back again got more goalies than centre backs at the club!

We spent £2.5m on Malone and probably a lot more on wages. There’s no guarantee we’d get any better with the money so I’d keep him and let him push his price up for at least another year.

I’ve found it a bit frustrating how Lampard has come out saying we can’t compete with other teams and we’ll struggle to stay in the top 6 with other teams spending. As much as this might be true I hardly think it puts the players in the mindset that they can go to Leeds and beat them away from home. Anybody else feel like it’s killed the mood slightly when he didn’t need to do it?

Most natural finisher we’ve had in the last 20 years

Is it just me that thinks Scott Malone is rubbish?! However much the undisclosed fee was it was probably too much.

I think lampards 4-3-3 is quite different to Macs in terms of what the front 3 are expected to do. Mainly that we’re playing a pressing game and Martin just isn’t effective at doing that. Only reason Martin would be useful is as a plan B if we move away from the pressing game and want to play in a similar way to Mac. I’d imagine martins wages are too high for us to want to keep him as a plan B.

Waghorn is probably similar in his hold up play but he has pace which Martin has none of which is why he won’t fit into the way Lampard wants to play.

Lawrence has always had a tendency to run at players in a way that he’s either past the man or lost the ball, Wilson seems the same and both lost the ball a lot in the first half. Dangerous when the full backs are pushing so high up the pitch. Josefzoon will start the next game he’s much smarter on the ball.

Just because frank was willing to sell Vydra for £11m, doesn’t mean he doesn’t rate him as a player. People seem to think it’s black and white and he either wants him to be the main man or wants rid completely. I’d imagine frank thought it was a chance to cash in and get a player that fits the system better, but if he isn’t going I’m sure he’ll utilise him.

Doesn’t seem to have been confirmed anywhere but rumours are that it’s us. The tweet that looked like it was John Percy saying it was forest was a fake Twitter account that some sad forest fan must have created!

Maybe a swap deal for Bradley Johnson counts as an £8m fee 👀🙏🏼

Given that we’ve apparently had 3 bids turned down which we obviously made with vydra still here, I’m not sure why people think we can’t bid for him again.