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You've got to remember that, for a buy back fee to be activated, a player doesn't just have to do well, he has to do so well that Chelsea/Liverpool/whoever want him IN THEIR 1st TEAM. Or that they can still make a significant profit (over and above the buy back amount) by taking him back and...

We must be pretty confident he'll sign a new contract (or had already signed one) if we're rejecting any offers - or are the rules different for U23s? I thought the situation was that they could still walk away, but with a tribunal setting a fee for whoever they subsequently sign with.

Don't think Lallana will be risked, think it'll be Molumby and Propper in the middle, with Sanders coming on for whoever is going to play against Man Utd

Think it's 3 games for violent conduct unfortunately

The 'weird take' was in reference to your comment that I would think it's ok to slate AJ etc and not Solly. Obviously I don't think that.

Weird take. It's not about it being 'ok' or not, you can think and say whatever you want. It's my view that these scapegoat campaigns are both counterproductive and unnecessary, and I can see that they'd be pretty upsetting to a player who becomes aware of them. For the record its just as...

We all know Solly is a confidence player, and we all know the players read social media, so threads like this are unlikely to spur him on to his best form with us. Some of the comments on here and elsewhere are pretty shameful from so-called 'supporters' imho

Oh good, another thread bashing our own players.

Especially as we are currently losing to Leyton Orient in the same competition

Well, if we then fall £270k short of the asking price for a top top striker then we'll really be kicking ourselves

It's not just Andy and Brian. Apart from on here and a (surprisingly small) number of tweets, this doesn't seem to be being reported anywhere. Very odd...

Most clubs already run at a loss. It'll only change if the owners are unwilling to make up the difference, but even then there is usually someone willing to buy the club and carry on spending (or alternatively go into administration, wipe the debt and start again!). You'd imagine it's not...

It would be interesting, in so far as providing some measure of how useful this sort of analysis is, to see the same thing for previous seasons' signings. Would the statistics have predicted that the likes of Joelinton, Wesley and Locadia would flop in the premier league? Or did they look like...

These things go in cycles, and at the minute it looks like the fashion is moving to a more direct, energetic style of play, but let's not pretend that Pep's Barcelona (and others) didn't have incredible success with possession based football. There's not one style of play that's 'better' than...

Bielsa to Barca?

:facepalm:

So based on that, any player who can't speak English cannot get a work permit (unless they have a PhD!)??

It does seem incredible to me also that there isn't some sort of notification from hawkeye if it can't see the ball. All it would have needed was a little red light in the VAR room to let them know that all the hawkeye camera angles were "occluded", so they'd need to have a look themselves

If this season has proved anything, it's that the Premier League don't have a plan for if things go wrong! I would not be at all surprised if they hadn't anticipated this scenario - I suspect they heard the high accuracy stats and took that to mean infallible. If the accuracy is 99.9% (suspect...

Isn't he Dick Knight's nephew?