He'll know, that there's a major rebuild of the squad coming over the next 24 months and that he won't have a major say on the ins and outs of the players, but will get scrutinized by a vocal section of the fanbase after every dip in form; despite being (maybe) less responsible. So maybe there isn'...

we only get something out of this one if Paqueta shines. I'm assuming we'll see no Bowen, Mav and Aguard. Areola Zouma Oggie Cress Coufal Soucek Alvarez Emerson JWP Kudus Paqueta I can't see Antonio playing twice in 4 days. Zouma and Oggie will also be creaking so I can see us going to three at the ...

JWP doubling down on what he said after last week: "We as a team and as players have got to give them something to get off their seats about. The way we pressed in the first half, we were aggressive and looked like a team on the front foot who wanted to win the game, and I think that style of ...

That is uber negative after seeing how well we played tonight. It’s very unlikely we finish lower than 11th, certainly not lucky. As things stand we look likely to finish 9th. I've just done the https://www.worldfootball.net/table_calculator/eng-premier-league/ predictor thing again and we still fi...

bristolhammerfc wrote: ↑Fri Apr 19, 2024 1:01 pm Last night was a glimpse of what this team can produce, when we are positive and looking to take the game to opponents. Credit to the manager for that. It was ballsy and I am glad he did.

And i so wish he'd done it more in his time here. Thanks Dave and good luck.

Yeah I guess I more meant the sales effectively not netting off the expenditure. This isn't profit and loss its about enforcing affordable spending and should you have a winfall sale (a young DM for example) you can't really spend it? yes i can see that being a frustration. It does feel that you sh...

So sell a player with a book value of £10m for £60m. At the same time buy a player for £50m on a 5 year contract. FFP impact is. Year 1: +£40m Year 2 - 5: -£10m a season. How can you operate like that? Surely it's just gonna get harder 4 years on when you have multiple transfer window commitments e...

Is it worth taking a gamble for one season? Go big in the market with a £200M net spend and take the opportunity to revolutionise the squad. Take the 6/10 pt penalty deduction, aim for a mid table finish then kick on with what should be a much healthier squad. It seems to me that a few clubs are go...

any news on the Gold shares being sold? All seems a little quiet.

Fabianski Coufal Zouma Mavropanos Cresswell Soucek Alvarez Ward-Prowse Ings Kudus Antonio I'd like to go similar with Fabianski Coufal Zouma Mavropanos Cresswell Soucek Alvarez Kudus JWP Antonio Ings Antonio would need to go a hell of a lot of work protecting Cress though. (would also need Kudus an...

Bubbles Fortuna wrote: ↑Mon Apr 15, 2024 4:49 pm
We're only actually 8 points behind the tally that got us 7th, wouldn't be that surprising if we end up on more points.

Genuinely surprised if we get more than 4!

Updated after today - Fixtures and suggested points based on results that league position might expect. Obviously it won’t pan out exactly like that but it gives an idea of how current points plus difficulty of fixtures combine. Suggests that 8th is best we can expect and that is likely to require ...

Wolves have the top 3 to play I'd be surprised if you get more than 7-8 points. Brighton have a tough set so I don't see them getting more than 7 but likely less. I think we need to win 2 games to secure 9th. If betting I would say 10th. Beat Chelsea, maybe just 8th. Quite possible we don’t win ano...

He should be gone in the summer now. He either made the decision to weaken the squad in January in which case he deserves the sack. Or the board undermined him terribly and he should walk.

I think I’ve been saying 12th for some time and don’t think that will change.

Fulham are the only one of the top 13 I think we’ll finish above

Denzil wrote: ↑Thu Apr 11, 2024 1:17 pm This is probably one of the more obvious summer moves I think. My hope is we get the £85m buy-out fee for him and sign Grealish for £50m.

No chance. Grealish is still first choice in all the big City games.

The issue will be in two years time when he's on wages he's not worth with 3+ years left on his contract that no one can or will match. I do agree with that. Nots sure its that big a problem though. Lets say he's not worthy of a squad space in 2 years time, we sell him for £5m and subsidise his wag...

That's 3.25 mil a year. Over a 4 year contract, 13 mil + whatever signing bonus he's after, say 2 mil. 15 mil total. I'm sorry but that's far too much. I like Ben & would like him to stay but I can't see us paying anywhere close to that. Transfermkt value him at around £7m. If we were to replac...

I find it hard to believe that he isn't worth a spot in the squad at the moment. We have major surgery required on the squad, allowing a HG player (for both Europe and PL) to leave when we have such a think squad seems stupid to me. Is he worth 65k pw? Probably not. Is he worth it to us, given our c...