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I’ve been wanting to the say the same but am aware it comes across as ungrateful and as if we know better than TB. As it stands, last Summer and January feel like big wasted opportunities. We did insanely well to reach the heights we did in 22-23 but then failed to build from an unprecedented...

Not forgetting: Igor, who - realistically - gets nowhere near the first XI of a top 10 Premier League defence. Fati, the marquee signing who was meant to be a game-changer in the way that Mitoma is, but has been a flop. Baleba, who has great potential but is not ready to be a consistent...

Surely both of them will be back in pre-season and be given the look over. I’d be amazed if we sold both of them in the summer - don’t they both have 3/4 years left on their contracts? I’d guess that Rushworth will be given a decent chance in pre-season while Beadle will be earmarked for a...

Well it’s been a decent week for Rushworth and Beadle’s prospects next season!

It’s roughly a 4-way split between: Injuries/medical department issues Poor recruitment Poor tactical decisions Poor individual performances

Haven’t seen a replay so am happy to be proven wrong here, but it looked like he could’ve possibly done better for the third?

Definitely. Annoying that Huddersfield v Birmingham isn’t on - huge game.

Has anyone at these press conferences actually dared ask RDZ why he thinks we’ve suffered so many injuries?

Makes you wonder what one frame difference might make to an offside decision. Thinking of that Coventry goal. Or one that went our way at the end of last season against Southampton.

Honestly, if we sell Mitoma then next year will look bleak.

I get where you’re coming from. The trouble is if you never put Baleba/Barco in these positions then how will they ever learn? You would hope that this is all part of their next day analysis. I would genuinely love to hear how RDZ envisioned that passage of play panning out. Shame journalists...

We might like one but I don’t think we will. If Welbeck is staying and Ferguson is expected to be fit and firing, we’ll have those two + Pedro. It’ll be lower down the priority list than at least 3 other positions I’d say.

A vital 3 points picked up at Loftus Road in a promotion race isn’t for everyone I guess.

Yep. You can see from that still that Baleba has already decided to pass to Barco, which isn’t necessarily an awful move but it’s very clearly channelled - the City players know exactly what’s coming. If he instead feigns that pass and lets the ball roll, he buys himself time and opens up other...

Or a scanning issue. The elite players in that role are constantly scanning where the space is, where opponents are and where teammates are. Baleba’s physicality should have either enabled him to let the ball roll across him whilst guarding Foden off, or take a touch to move it away from him...

I think this is close to correct. I don’t think we’ll sign a striker, and I’m leaning more towards the idea of Gross staying. If he moves to Germany, he’ll be taking a big pay cut as I would imagine his most recently signed deal with us would have been a lucrative one. He will want to see that...

Do we know who his replacement is yet?

Have we even got a new recruitment lead yet?

The craziest thing about the Pedro decision is that it gave him a great opportunity to show he wasn’t completely biased. At 4-0, it was never going to affect the result and was one of those fouls that gets given 80/90% of the time. It should have been easy for him to give it, and he would have...

Since he’s been at the club, our goals to game ratio with him in the side compared to without him must be grim reading.