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What's funny is some of their fans trying to save face on twitter by saying its the best thing that could happen to the club. Talk about drivel. They are already listing all the players that they should sign as they will have huge transfer funds and of course their big stadium. I predict very low crowds, lots of players coming in and out of the club who they will grow to despise when they aren't 10 points clear by Christmas, their better young players picked off by average teams in the division above. Take your medicine, do your time and pray you get out first time because I have a feeling if they don't it will be very hard and their planned 60,000 stadium will have less than 10,000 in there.

Why would it be put out multiple times in the public domain if there isn't any truth in it? For years, even before administration, the club has been crying out to be run sustainably and fornus to cut our cloth accordingly. The catastrophic events leading to administration forced that upon us. The days of big money signings, stupid wages, bloated squads and contracts weighing us down are long gone. Maybe I am on my own in this but I do not miss this element for one minute and hope we will create a club to be proud of in the knowledge thst players arent here for a paycheck.

Full kit, shin pads and a battered old pair of puma Kings spotted looking at patio furniture or an estate agents window in town with a room booked at Moorley Hayes.

Even if we only spen 25% of that money it would really help a rebuild. Moxon and branagan for around 1.5mill combined would be a fee range I think is not silly or undervalued. Coupled with a young asset of our own like Robinson or tomo getting more minutes and a chance to impress.

I think the problem we have with our young players and "stars" is that we hold on to them for too long and sell them on their downward price value. Some say it shows ambition to hold on to your best players. It does, however, and hindsight is a wonderful thing, selling players and reinvesting in a quality replacement and s young up and coming player has to be our business policy. Thinking back to Hulse, Martin and thinking about Bird, Cashin, Sibley we will never receive a value our fans think is acceptable for them to leave. Sometimes you do have to sell assets at a good value, suck it up and move forward. Sibley will never be sold for anywhere near the rumour of what wolves were prepared to pay before and during his breakthrough. Fans see a lack of ambition in selling young players, however if we got anything around 3mill for Bird, we could potentially go and get moxon and branagan and bring through Robinson. For me, this would not be lacking ambition, it is rebuilding a midfield by "sacrificing" a good player to aid this process. I don't want cashin or Bird to leave and rate them both highly but if we got between 5 and 7 mill for them combined I would sell them both and rebuild. These are the times the club is living in. We have to embrace this as a fan base. When the club is stable and sustainable, then we demand top dollar for the next generation. Young players impressing in the first team is where the value is. It is risky as they can sink or swim, but if Brown was up top for us and having the season Collins is and on a long term contract we would be talking 10mill for him.

This thread and forum in general is literally unreadable at the moment.

Clearly false. Of course he can.

They don't ask how, they ask how many. Time we put some respect on his name.

This really interests me. Maybe we need a data driven, ai, modern scouting thread created on here where we can suggest players based on having never seen them play, bizarre I know, but I was once told that "eyes can lie" by a well respected chief scout. Identify players based on data, stats, hell even football manager data is at an unprecedented level of accuracy and research, then go and watch them or trial them. Maybe im just thinking out loud a load of rubbish.

I so hope its gonna click and we send a message to the division. If and it's a big if we hit the ground running and take chances when they arrive we could lay down a marker. Fingers crossed we turn up.

Haaland is 8-1 header v everton. Same game Calvert Lewin is 10-1

Quite telling? nketia is 10-1 and Gabriel jesus is 14-1 to score a header against west ham.

I know some fans still don't rate Warne but I'm sure he can count to 11.....

It was a choice between about 4 clubs who were in for him at the time. He chose another and was very very successful for them and got a very decent move again a couple of years later. It wasn't the only factor and it wasn't derby who I'm talking about

I've been in and around the game and know a few players. I can 100% tell you direct from a player that their true opinions of fans are never spoken in public. They know where the aggressive moaners sit near the front of the stand and round the dugout, they know which twitter users not to look at, they know which ones will hammer them no matter what and try their best to ignore them at every opportunity. They also remember the fans, young and old, who wait outside for autographs, photos and chats every home and away game and try their best to remember those fans, their names and their families. Players are human. I also know of at least one player who turned down a transfer to a club based on a friend they had (player) at that club and how the fans had treated him. He was basically told, the fans are idiots, don't sign for us and he didnt

Sometimes this option is not available to the club and ticket prices have to be agreed with the competition organisers (think its used to be like this for the fa cup)

Mentioned him a few pages back. Good shout and a player with potential to step up. Looks raw, but his physical attributes are very good. Someone will take a punt on him in January I think and hope it's us.

I would be asking palace if ebiowei fancies a return on loan. Also ejaria (spelling) who's massively out of favour at reading. 2 players who can play anywhere across the front 3. Pace, skill to unlock defences.

Manning is a strange one. Pompey had a look at him as their potential manager about a year or so ago I think and basically said "he wouldn't stay long enough for us to appoint him" ie. He would jump ship for a higher job the second it was offered. Gets teams playing decent football, although his mk dons side were comical trying to play from the back, gave away a goal easily every single game and were very very soft centered. He strikes me as someone who has ambitions to get "to the top quickly" almost a pound land Graham Potter and realised early on that a style of play was very very important to this and getting the media in particular to parrot this information is important to building a profile. He has certainly left Oxford in a much much better place, with a stronger squad and infrastructure in place so he must have been doing something right. If he does well at Bristol fully expect him to jump to a lower prem team/ fallen giant in the championship in about 12 to 15 months.