Shortlist keeps getting longer. Surely this 6 months preparation for PL involved knowing likely fees, whether available, would the player come, will a club sell & what package does he expect. 2 months after promotion we still have a short list with no talks? Doesn’t make sense

Any good?

That doesn’t really make sense. Book value around £4.8m, annual charge probably circa £2.5m. So a transfer fee of even £3m would be an improvement for 2025/26 PSR. £1.8m loss v £2.5m charge. Unless we are getting a 7 figure loan fee, which is highly unlikely then it doesn’t add up

Why? We need 4 CB’s minimum. We can’t keep moving Ampadu, and Wober will surely go. Hardly overkill have 4 players players for 2 spots. Bound to get injuries and probably more suspensions

David Harle

Exactly. Highly likely *if promoted* that we spend £120m+ backing a manager we are likely to then sack by November. Great point you make that we don’t think twice when we say x,y,z will need replacing ON the pitch but yet off the pitch…..

Very big if, but if we got promoted someone needs to be very ruthless I’d say

How he can claim inexperience with Meslier, Rodon, Ampadu, Wober, Byram, Bogle, James, Rothwell, Piroe, Solomon is ridiculous. How much experience does he want?

4 games from Boxing Day last season, 6 points. This season 8. Todays result in particular is awful. They have the worst home record, scoring the fewest home goals. We’ve let 3 in. Awful

We’ve thrown 4 away. 8 points after 6 from the first 2 isn’t great, especially when one was at a team with the worst home record, and we were 2 up. You can’t go up with a keeper like Meslier I’m afraid

3 wins. He was at fault v Portsmouth as well

We’re 3-1 up costing till our keeper decides not to do the basics. Very basics

Turning a good Christmas/New Year into a poor one very quickly. The Leeds United way

And they’ve had a 2 point deduction…..

Miles onside in the end

At the Boulby mine they're burrowing through another ancient, buried sea - the Zechstein sea.
Actually it's even wilder than that. Since most of the tunnels stretch under the coast, they're mining an ancient sea hundreds of metres UNDER the seabed of an actual sea (The North Sea).
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