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The life of a third choice keeper is an odd one. Presumably paid much less than first and second choice keepers, but enough of a bump above lower league first choice keepers to make it worth their while to stick around and sacrifice their ambitions to play week in week out. With McGill it's...

Agree, makes no sense to sell Mitoma (or Estupinan for that matter, in a similar situation) after an injury riddled inconsistent season. Sell when their value is highest. That isn't now

If we reckon that Lamptey, Webster, Milner, Dahoud, Fati and Lallana are out the door then these are bodies in the squad that need replacing. Then there's the depth question for RW. Osman in for Fati covers one of these. We also have thousands of attacking midfielders so perhaps don't need...

There comes a point though where either we bring Rushworth into the first team fold or sell him, and I think after a successful season in the Championship we're at that point. Remember that Beadle is also waiting in the wings and a couple of years younger. Is he ready to compete with Verbruggen...

There seem to be some on here that believe that since he delivered the clubs best ever finish and some truly remarkable achievements last year in the PL and this year in Europa, we must therefore ignore every other aspect of his behaviour. Didn't we learn from Poyet? I'm not RDZ out by any...

Do we not reckon there are title add ons in White's or Trossard's contracts? My main wish is for it not to be City yet again. Arsenal ahead of Liverpool only because one of my close mates is a big Arsenal fan. Would be happy with either in reality.

The top 3 seem to all be doing their best to balls it up. Could Southampton sneak in? As an aside, has anyone else noticed that points totals for promoted sides seem to be increasing in the last couple of seasons? We missed out on promotion to Boro on 89 points which was considered unusually...

Not least because Chelsea love to sell their academy players to fund splurges on overpriced prima donnas.

Honestly? The most likely is Rushworth, but having said that I could just as easily see him sold to a top Champ/low PL side. Beadle seems to be the keeper we are betting more on and I would think he'll have one more season on loan. Moran, Sarmiento and Ayari have had their chance to prove...

Has he played any first team minutes yet and I've missed it? He's been on the bench a lot but doesn't seem to get the same few minutes that BBB and Peupion have.

It has to be Gross this year for me. Ever reliable, still produces the goods and plays near every game.

In our game earlier in the season they completely dominated us better than any other team has done this season. It should have been a much wider margin of victory. Sure they might bottle the title but I don't expect us to get anything here with half our players out, unable to score and out of...

The "or someone else", I would love to see Rushworth finally get his chance and take it. But we have so many talented young keepers on our books, and with Steele still contracted, I do wonder what the approach will be. Beadle is young and will get another loan at Champ level in all...

A question for the accountancy and tax folk here. How is it that the club have managed to pay as little as £10m tax on £133m pre tax profit (7.5%)? Yes the same loopholes exist for every club and we can praise the club for clever accounting, but it all feels a little warped.

8m for a Championship substitute? He could reach that price after playing regularly for a season but right now we wouldn't get half that.

Given our run in, 3 points today would really be big in the chase for a European spot. Come on lads!

When you put it like that it makes much more sense! I'll never be an accountant, I don't think in the right logic for it!

So sales are included as the full sale price upfront but purchases are spread across the length of the contract? That seems really odd.

Given that the figure includes the Mac Allister income, presumably the dates would imply that it also includes our record outlay on João Pedro as well.

More in profit in one season than it cost to build the Amex - £100m or so wasn't it?