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Look at the season before last and the points we got pre Ulloa and after he signed. I don't think we played that differently in the second half of the season but we had a striker who could finish off the chances. We were about 10th at Christmas and topped the league in the second half of the...

Totally agree. Norwich have the money to gamble £3 million on Grabban as they have parachute payments, we don't. He was also only that price because of a release clause. For what it's worth, given what's happened with CMS and Ulloa, I think we'll look abroad to replace Ulloa if he leaves. I...

Or how about scored more than double any other player in our squad despite missing a third of the season through injury and hardly getting any service in many games. But lets just get rid of our top scorer because NSC says he is rubbish.

Except I'm pretty sure there's ways round that. If you sell a player in January, there's no way FFP says that you lose that money effectively on 1st July.

Not sure they do. We're not going to do a Forest and throw money at new signings but I think there is definitely money available for new players. All we've heard so far is suggestions about us not matching Ward/Wolves demands but that may just be because we don't think he's worth that much. The...

I definitely think we will if we sell Ulloa. However, I'm positive we'll spend a fair amount anyway. The squad has been quite reduced in size over the summer with a number of higher earners leaving. We should have the Bridcutt money to spend still too. I'm confident there is significant money...

Absolutely. It's the key position for all teams and there's a lot of competition. I realise they have to let him go if he wants to leave but we need to be realistic about getting a new striker.

So why didn't we when we signed CMS? Grabban only went for £3 million because he had a clause in his contract. If Ulloa wants to leave and we get an acceptable offer, we should let him go but don't underestimate how hard it will be to sign a replacement.

I didn't hear the interview but that would be an odd move. Surely we need one more whether it is an assistant or coach. Would be odd having made Jones coach to change their mind.

Completely agree. All this fuss about Financial Fair Play is completely irrelevant when teams come down from the Premier League with such a huge advantage (and it's got even bigger now). It will never happen though.

Ridiculous, isn't it? Although, Jordan Rhodes cost £8 million and had hardly played at Championship level. Shows how well we did to get Ulloa so cheap and is probably the reason we'll go abroad again if Ulloa does go.

I'm still hoping it will be the easiest one to fill as Ward will return but that seems to be questionable.

I don't think we'll go for a central midfielder like Ince, Crofts etc but I hope we go for a creative midfielder. We missed Orlandi's creativity last season so a fit equivalent of him would be hopeful. Also, you're missing a left back. Other than that, I agree. Think the second centre half will...

Thanks. Wasn't sure from what other people had said whether he'd said we'd have people in this week or not put a time frame on it.

As someone else said on this thread, we actually have a reasonable squad for this stage of pre season. Most teams are still looking for a few more players at the moment yet some fans constantly moan. If you look at the signings of the two teams in the Championship who've signed a lot of players...

Except you know what people will think so if you're not saying he is, why do it? Unless you're attention seeking. If you've heard he is and this is a cryptic message, then say so.

Is this something you've heard or a wind up?

Did he say anything interesting about new signings? I haven't got Seagulls World.

Laugh all you want but until we confirm signings, writing off our season seems a bit pointless. If we'd signed Odubajo, there'd be people on here moaning about hindering the development of March and the fact we were spending significant money on a player who's never played at this level. As...

On what basis. You may say we haven't signed anyone yet but then why be so negative? We might sign nobody or we might sign 6 brilliant Championship players. We don't know yet so to write off our chances already seems odd. I seem to remember you have form for this though. Every pre season I...