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Might as well loan us Bobby too, they can house share and split the bills, we know how hard up footballers are these days would be helping them out really.

Any Rumours ? 

I think having a player like Dembele in our team is more welcome than it is not.
You need a good balance between having big, strong, athletic types and players that rely more on their technique, vision and speed of movement and thought.
OK, in a physical battle, he might be overwhelmed and perhaps there will be games where he goes missing. But by the same token, there will be games where he runs teams ragged and is a constant danger.
With this kind of player, you take the rough with the smooth because these kinds of players can and will change games, especially by attracting defenders and drawing fouls, they can create time, space and opportunity for other players.

Perhaps the new goalie we've signed is Alphonse Areola.

I think he played well last season from mammary.

Can we nip these puns in the bud please?

Making a tit of himself 

You're just milking for a pun fest.

Taking a player off the Brest, can’t get much younger than that. 

This would be a very exciting signing if we can pull it off. We need to take the burden away from Mendez Laing. He can’t be our only outlet. It also takes pressure off CBT and Barkhuizen to an extent.
Dembele had a really impressive season at Blackpool and looked a real handful in the game at PP.
OK, he’s unproven at a higher level, but look at how someone like Whittaker adapted to a higher level, so it could be a similar trajectory.
Dembele definitely has the skills that make him able to scale up and be just as dangerous at a higher level.
We need a player who can play centrally as well as on both flanks, so this looks a great fit!
A very promising link!

He’d be perfect and he’s very good. 

Perfect player to target on paper. Far too good for League One as he showed last year, great age to improve, 1 year left on his contract, position we definitely need.

I hate the reaction Mr Brightside gets. Everyone thinks it's such an epic song but it isn't. They're all wrong.
I like to try and ruin the vibe. Try and make eye contact with people singing along and having a good time so I can psychologically destroy their enthusiasm, hoping one day that the song loses it's status as a floor filler. 
Pished up people singing the chorus and miming the other verses. 

I kind of love it
 

Football Manager has done this to us. 
Any one over 28 and I bin them off for a wonderkid on my shortlist.

At least it’s a rumour 🤷🏻‍♂️
 

I know nothing about this lad, but I’m so starved of juicy transfer news, I’m convincing myself that this guy is going to be the next big thing to come out of our academy and that Celtic fans will be berating themselves for letting another one ‘slip through their net’ when we sell him to Real Madrid in 3 years time for €75 million - After being Championship player of the season and guiding us to the Premier league 💪😎
So get this guy signed!!!

This is mental this.
From October onwards we accumulated more points than anyone else in the league and were it not for Portsmouth's unbelievable start (where I think hey won their first 10) we would have won the league. The start can be forgiven giving it was a squad that had a lot of new players in finding their feet at a new club.
But as soon as we got going, we earnt more points than anyone else.
Also we conceded 3 goals in the last ten games. THREE. And two of them were in one game.
The last 11 games we won 8 drew 2 and lost 1. If that is inconsistent then you gave give me inconsistency any day of the week.
Paul Warne was appointed here because he knows how to get out of this league, you need to be solid. Playing good football is fine, but not really a pre-requisite of getting out of League One. Bolton probably played the best football on the eye last season and they are still down there.
Warne will not play the same way in the Championship, he's not stupid. He wants athleticism and a high press to suffocate teams.
I will openly admit after Stevenage and Shrewsbury I wanted Warne out but I can hold my hands up and admit I was very wrong. 
I can't believe a man who seems to be a genuinely nice human who has got us promoted with the highest points total we have ever had, the most away wins we have have had still gets criticism.
He gets beaten with a stick every time we get linked with a player who has played for Rotherham. (I think we only have Vickers and Washington) Its pretty common for managers going to other clubs, 1. To get linked with nearly every player who has ever played for him and 2. To actually like players they have had before, trust them and wants them at his current club. Eddie Howe signing Lloyd Kelly today for as an example.
 
 

and help them out of their PSR black hole? no thanks! *
 
 
*tongue firmly in cheek

One bit of transfer news - not raising a thread for an academy player...
AJ Doyle, Irish defender
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5289548/2024/06/11/scotland-england-young-players-brexit/
 

“Backpacking.” Than puts his bag on his front. Amateur hour!

Thompson was named man of the match on his first two full games for us a couple of seasons back, and what I noticed is he no longer gets knocked off the ball so easily, is happy with both feet, can beat a man and has the confidence to do that. He rarely drifts out of a game despite being played all over the field. Right now, he is our midfield along with Fornah. And ignoring Joe Ward as a midfielder would be a mistake, his last game and two goals against Portsmouth gave us a glimpse of a different dimension to his game, how he found space in the middle rather than as an overlapping wing-back.

I knew this would be a comment.
Although I think Brown is a great prospect, one has had Prem experience. Been learning from a great Prem striker in Antonio. 
Played in Europe and scored. Been in the England set ups up to under 20’s. 
 
He’s definitely more Championship ready. And what’s to say they couldn’t play together anyway? Although I personally think Brown could benefit from a league 1 loan