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So? Villa were 2 up at that point, defending and getting nervy. You can't take that time and extrapolate it as a given that it would have been like that from minute 1.

Nope. By far the better team and squad. A half fit Jack Marriott wasn’t changing a damn thing. We didn’t leave the second coming of Pele on the bench, his career has showed everyone that.

July 1st

Max Lowe is injured more than the players we already have.

Not quite the right age as he will be 30 as the season starts, but would be great to cover so many positions. He is a Derby fan I believe despite his past so maybe he could fancy it.

Think he would have gone a couple of years ago if he was going to. He’s now 27. Not the age you want to make a gamble on.

And to be fair to you, that suggestion is as bad as this one.

It's classic click farming stuff from the DerbyshireLive. I don't blame them for it, but this is how rumours start where there isn't any. Suddenly he will sign somewhere else and you'll have some fans claiming we missed out on a target and alike.

Did he actually say that? i watched the interview but can't remember verbatim so he may well have done, but I just remember him saying about speaking to them when they've returned from Vegas and didn't commit to last week? We as fans knew when they returned, so put 2 and 2 together.

Have you read it? It says he was linked last summer, this is just telling you he's been released. There's no link to us this summer, as I said.

Feels like it should be locked. There is no link this summer to us.

Ross Barkley was 29 when he signed for Luton. Lallana is 36.

You’d let him go on a free to anyone who wants him (like I would a few others) or hope he knows it’s time and retires.

No, look at retained lists of every other club. Those players would just be filed as Contract Offered.

He was only like 21 at the time. Don't think it's indicative of much.

Joined Oxford when our recruitment man would've been there too, didn't he?

It's horrible, shame really because that article from Leigh Curtis is good.

Do they? I know Twitter isn't the voice of reason, but the whole thing calls for conspiracy theory on every minute thing. If your idea of accepting it is just whataboutism with regards to every other rule breaker, than maybe. Fundamentally, Forest vastly underperformed. They were, understandably, expecting midtable this season with the teams being promoted being so poor - and that's before it became obvious Burnley would be horrendous, because that was slightly more surprising than the other two. The owner removed his shield in sacking Cooper to get his yes man, things have barely improved if at all. Think you'd have achieved survival just the same with Cooper. Then between all the controversy, season ticket debacle and now stadium nonsense, the trust has been eroded back to where it was before he captured lightning in a bottle with the Cooper hiring. Everyone wants to be in the top league, of course they do, but the Forest fans I know aren't under any illusion that the reality of knowing full well how much you're going to lose and when you finally get good players, you know they'll be gone quickly, isn't actually that much fun.

That transfer hasn't happened yet.

It's bizarre because he's not exactly been incredible for Hamburg. Didn't get them out of the 2nd Division which isn't great for a club that size. He's 48, too, so not like a brand new manager to the game.

There's more conspiracy theories out there. Tom Cartledge, the now CEO at Forest, owns a company that was in charge of the planning/development at the shitty ground prior to being made CEO. There's a thinly veiled link at the sheer amount of money that he/his company would make at buying cheap HS2 land in Toton for a stadium, and the benefit that would give the Tories too.

Don't know how I forgot about him, but yes, if he's on the pitch he's more than capable.

Doesn't include miles covered, I guess. Ebou would be right up there in that. Hard to put into stats the overall affect on the rest of the team as well.

An actual suggestion... bound in realism based on cost, age, need and stats. What is this thread turning into? 2 things, he's quite short at 5ft 8 and he's currently team mates with Raul Albentosa.

Sibley did a pretty good job from corners.