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VK seems to be ruthlessly and at speed rebuilding a second team / squad to compete in the premier league to replace the one he built to compete in the championship. Only Roberts in the team last night that wasn’t signed by VK. Of the old guard three on the bench two left out altogether. Even players...

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Also interestingly only one not signed by VK and therefore also all joined the club in the last 12 months

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Vitinho could have done a lot better with their first two goals. Strange he gets in ahead of Taylor, who I know is not the answer long term, but he can defend I agree , it was a shame that that weakness in the team was so costly exposed. Never a regular at full back last season and won’t be this se...

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CoolClaret wrote: ↑
Fri Aug 11, 2023 12:38 pm
Aren’t they the same version of events?

Poor no matter how you frame it

I disagree, VK said everything was transparent and that the offer was dependent on two other changing factors, which made the offer eventually void, as explained at the outset by VK in his answer.

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Casper2 wrote: ↑
Fri Aug 11, 2023 12:31 pm
So you would be ok if somebody went back on a verbal agreement with you ?
It’s very poor from the club .

So you are believing Townsends version of what precisely happened to VKs then , I would prefer to believe our manager.

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arise_sir_charge wrote: ↑
Fri Aug 11, 2023 10:36 am
I think Berge fits what we need more.

I’ve said that I don’t think Cullen is in anyway light weight but he is small. Had we signed Hamer that would have been a midfield that Ken Dodd would have been proud of.

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northeastclaret wrote: ↑
Fri Aug 11, 2023 10:32 am
So have Bastian,Churlinov etc etc. Means nothing at this stage on whether a player is staying or going , you don’t exclude them from a number if you might sell them.

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Goalposts wrote: ↑
Fri Aug 11, 2023 10:12 am
Maatsen has been named in the Chelsea 25 squad no 29 shirt, he is staying at Chelsea now

So have Bastian,Churlinov etc etc

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I might be proved wrong but would expect Muric will start the season as our number one. There has been some hysteria about Trafford coming in as number one because of his fee. I think that is largely irrelevant. VK’s style is not to recruit a keeper with the potential to be not quite as good or the ...

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VK got asked on that today: “We initially made sure we had terms agreed with Andros, so we did offer him a deal. “But it was pending on a couple of things, mainly where the recruitment was going for us and the recovery of some of the players we had injured through pre-season. It was quite transpare...

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I'm glad I'm not the only one! I've watched football all my life, but I find myself coming across terms like double-pivot and counter press and think I know absolutely nothing about the game! But really, a lot of it is just new names for old ideas. Me too , still don’t understand what a low block d...

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Must admit I find this one slightly confusing at 12 million. It's a lot for us Zero complaints obviously, but I would've thought a 12mil replacement for Barnes/Weghorst was more of a priority in terms of player profile. We're hardly struggling for pacy wide men! Anyway, I will concede that kompany ...

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Flying Without Ings wrote: ↑
Wed Aug 09, 2023 9:23 pm
Ramsey done, medical being sorted - David Orstein

Who is he?

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They’ve both done the media stuff today, Ramsey likely announced tomorrow and available Friday, Lokonga not available Friday so they may space them out. Absolutely amazing if true. Can understand the delay until now with Lokonga , why pay his wages for a month if he isn’t fit. Hopefully fit and rea...

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Who do we believe is next? , several mentioned this week as being very close?, but all gone quiet so could well disappear like others have, but hopefully more good news very shortly?

Who was it that said exciting times ?

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This sounds like an awful lot like the ‘Tella is done, he’s coming home, medical booked in’ folk the other week. It’s just not possible a transfer would be done for 3 months without anyone knowing, let alone why it wouldn’t have been announced before now. Hasn’t he been injured that last few months...

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matttheclaret wrote: ↑
Wed Aug 09, 2023 1:36 pm
It would be strong. Don't think it "guarantees" anything though. Leicester had Tielemans, Ndidi and Maddison in their midfield last season and went down!

Yes but they didn’t have Vincent Kompany managing them.

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Rapidly getting to a point where we will have seriously good players not only not in the eleven but not even on the bench despite being fit. All 25 would arguably be good enough to start. That will be one of the biggest tests Vinny will face, but he knows all about it, having spent a lot of time at...

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Vegas Claret wrote: ↑
Mon Aug 07, 2023 9:47 pm
Mike Mcgrath with a new link, i'd take him all day long

More links in a day than a chavs gold chain.

But the Fantasy , phantom links hook the gullible in

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Guller Bull wrote: ↑
Mon Aug 07, 2023 4:01 pm
Sali Ucan - Besiktas link

https://turkish-football.com/watford-bu ... alih-ucan/

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Looking silly an hour after the post. The biggest journalist in football now confirmed it. What has he confirmed, has he just completed the reveal video? I hope I am looking silly but he has confirmed this stage for many others for us this transfer window which haven’t been completed. Could all be ...

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For example Nixon continually links us with Clarke , but Mowbray says we are only testing the market. As was said in the recent transfer podcast on us , I think it was Romano said that we feed agents with none stories to detract from our real targets. So much is fantasy , distraction and decoy, none...

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Nixon must have linked us with well over 20 players this window, how many of those signed

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colne-claret wrote: ↑
Mon Aug 07, 2023 12:28 pm
Nixon says we are after Sander Berge - 12 million.

This really is fantasy football league , no way would they sell to us. We are so gullible, every name mentioned we take seriously, even Nixon is now taking the p!ss out of us for a laugh.

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Ah but Daramby might not be one of our priority targets , but just a decoy , who knows if we are even the slightest bit interested in him ? For example Tony Mowbray said recently we weren’t interested in signing Clarke ,we were just testing the market. It gets to the point that we really don’t know...

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Jambounchained wrote: ↑
Mon Aug 07, 2023 12:03 pm
Reims want to hijack our move for Daramby.

Ah but Daramby might not be one of our priority targets , but just a decoy , who knows if we are even the slightest bit interested in him ?

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A lot of our players thrived last season because of the team, system and coaching team they played in. Despite their talent they might not have looked half as good playing in another team. Best not labelling our new signings as 'not as good' as last season's players for me. We have no idea how well...

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Koleosho and Odobert (both 18) being the long term replacements for Benson and Zaroury allowing sales next summer for large money (hopefully, as that will mean they've done the business in this league) allowing further squad regeneration is exactly the type of thing we should be doing if we can aff...

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Disappointing re. Lokonga but had wondered why it was taking so long. Souza looks more in the Palhinha mould, physical defensive midfielder. I do remember in the early weeks of speculation regarding Lokonga , it was said he wanted to go to Spain. But with the past relationship with VK you would hav...

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Pickles wrote: ↑
Sat Aug 05, 2023 7:24 pm
Wow. Imagine he'll have lots of clubs after him.

Probably , but not us , another football fantasy league suggestion to add to the other 40 odd links we have had this window.

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What a d!ck the Rovers fan is to come on here without watching the match just to have a go at Foster, what a sad and desperate need for attention.

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Robbie_painter wrote: ↑
Sat Aug 05, 2023 5:20 pm
Thought it looked a bit dodgy

And the offside given against Koleosho not long before their goal, when he was in our half when the ball was played to him.

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Yeah I don’t think as like a creative 8 or whatever but good at pressing from the front and in transition with his athleticism. He’s never a sitting midfielder though, we always look worse when he’s playing a more disciplined role So he is not a sitting midfielder nor a creative midfielder, but goo...

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It’s very disappointing that for several reasons that it looks like we will be starting next season with a weaker team than we finished last season.

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It’s very disappointing that for several reasons we will be starting next season with a weaker team than we finished last season.

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arise_sir_charge wrote: ↑
Sat Aug 05, 2023 11:07 am
Northeast is proper struggling with our new approach

I would if there was anything in the majority of the links but it’s like fantasy football league. I must admit though most people do seem to enjoy the multiple fantasies, which they are obviously perfectly entitled to

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RVclaret wrote: ↑
Sat Aug 05, 2023 10:45 am
Greek journo reporting we’ve had a 17m euros offer rejected for Levi Garcia from AEK Athens

Might as well be Levi Stubbs for the amount of truth in the link

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Carwin261 wrote: ↑
Sat Aug 05, 2023 9:32 am

Like so many advanced links to similar players in the last few weeks I would mark this one down as well to a decoy/fantasy/smokescreen. I can’t believe we would spend so much on Ramsey with other potentially better players allegedly available on similar or just a bit more money

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Perhaps Nathan isn’t ambitious and is happy to play at a level where he knows he can be successful, so he isn’t putting any pressure on to move ?

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How many of these links are true , it’s becoming a joke. I think we are mugs with the way we respond as if most links are true. It’s becoming farcical.

It’s all become pointless now speculating until we have the signing announcements from the club and CT.

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Potentially a smokescreen for someone else. I have difficulty understanding our transfer tactics regarding so called smoke screens. I can understand we have say several acceptable priorities for each position and therefore can have several negotiations going on at the same time , but why waste time...

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Over the last 7 days we have been linked to five or six players any of which would be fabulous signings for us.

Hopefully news on a couple of them soon.

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Jakubs Tash wrote: ↑
Thu Aug 03, 2023 4:47 pm
Not if we offer them a deal that is acceptable.....

Media suggests they haven't put an overly ridiculous fee on his head.

Just been spotted north of Birmingham on his long walk to freedom from Southampton, current ETA next Tuesday

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Contrived pantomime cricket , with no natural allegiance for fans with players from different counties.

Nothing wrong with T20, why introduce this form when detrimental to all other forms of cricket , no interest in it whatsoever.

Sorry for sitting on the fence

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boatshed bill wrote: ↑
Mon Jul 31, 2023 6:50 pm
Saints fans are properly cheesed off with all this.

Ah so they also have some sensitive humourless fans as well.

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DCWat wrote: ↑
Mon Jul 31, 2023 5:05 pm
Bizarre and for it to seemingly be endorsed by the Chairman.

Lokonga not being seen as priority is intriguing. For me, central midfield is the glaring priority.

I think he is not a priority because he is currently injured

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ClaretAndJew wrote: ↑
Wed Jul 26, 2023 1:00 pm
Benson just posted on Instagram saying

"Blessed for what's coming"

Is he off??!

What utter nonsense speculation. It’s obviously because of how well we played last night, or he is on a promise tonight

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To have a like for like for Zaroury would be brilliant if we signed Clarke. Just when one of them is tiring and but then replaced by the other would be the last thing a full back would want to see. One of our successes last season were the times when we were able to made attacking substitutions and ...

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Is ko 6.30pm uk or Euro time ?

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Unfortunately I agree with Tella and Maatsen looking unlikely. Lokonga or Vrancx Hamer or Flemming LB Get three of those over the line and it will have been an excellent window. Totally agree, we lack guile and physicality in centre midfield and to sign two of those would complete an excellent wind...

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