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Pre-season friendly at The Amex 2025?

I don't want him to leave, but it's pretty obvious he's going to - I just wish they'd get it over and done with so we could get on with the new season and enjoying the rest of this window (same goes for WBG and Undav).

Practically a done deal, I understand. They're also after Marc Leonard. Are Birmingham becoming the new Chelsea? (blue is the colour, after all!)

Seemingly less in favour with new(ish) boss Philippe Clement and now looks likely to be on his way out - El Ettifaq and Birmingham City apparently interested.

So would also have had a very good career then?

Oh FFS! Hasn't he gone yet? (Just want to get it over with really, if he has to go)

You can go - we'll keep Wieffer!

Is that four seasons in a row now that our POTS will have left the club? :(

I wouldn't be surprised if the whole team's whoscored ratings dropped a level towards the end of last season as the wheels came off the de Zerbi bus!

I doubt it. I think RDZ and the club would both like Gross to stay, but if he wants to go, there's not much the club can do. They can offer him a better contract, but if he doesn't want it................ Fall out about incoming would be my guess.

Towards the end of last season, along with the rumours that he wanted to return home to Germany, I like many others thought, 'Fair enough, he's done a good job for us, but with his speed (or lack of it) probably best for both parties if he moves on'. I'd have been quite happy if he'd moved on...

Yes, I know - but I still struggle to find someone else to leave out for him!

Bit surprised, with all the suggestions and rumours that he wanted to return home after five years in a 'foreign' country. Bit surprised too, with the team constantly developing - the addition of new blood inevitably leads to someone else being displaced. I must admit that whenever I'm doing one...

So was I. He's been great for the club - we probably woudn't have stayed in the PL without him - but with his lack of speed and all the younger players coming through I'd have expected him to be released with our thanks this summer. Maybe the extended absence of Moder might be a factor - we...

Not gleeful at all. He is now being replaced more and more by younger (and faster) players. He has been a brilliant signing for us - so much so that I doubt we'd have survived the first couple of seasons without him and Propper - but I think it's time for a change now. The future is Moder, Mac...

Time is up. Every player - like every manager - has a shelf life. Gross has reached his - been brilliant (and essential) for us in the past, but time to move aside for younger faster players now.

.... and therein lies the rub. Our lack of speed - especially in midfield - is often a problem, and let's face it, Gross ain't going to get any quicker. As others have said, we are developing and the squad is evolving. Maybe a further one year extension for Gross, but not a three year contract -...

On that basis - bringing in new players in this window to replace any that leave - you'd be in danger of losing the likes of Moder, Caicedo, Alzate and MacAllister who have already been brought in as part of the succession planning (and have cost us around £20M) - they wont hang around if we're...

Which is why I said in my post, that we "employ a top recruitment team - and a very expensive one". The squad (and the team) need to evolve and improve, otherwise it quickly deteriorates. Bringing in new blood (which we already have) means there isn't room for everyone - so some players have to...

Not if the replacement is already here. And that is what employ a top recruitment team - and a very expensive one - to have done. Four full internationals already on the books, itching to get game time, and ready to be off at any time if they don't - looks like the recruitment team are doing a...