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Would definitely renew Boly, Wood (on sensible wages!) and Aina. The rest can leave.
If is such a big word for only 2 letters!I think we will naturally reduce the squad unless we start handing out contract extensions willy nilly.
Hennessey, Boly, Felipe, Wood, Aina, Kouyate (Aurier if he stays) all out of contract, Montiel and Tavares we can do better than surely, Origi gone even if he lasts the season.
That's ten players right there, before we even get into selling anyone.
If we can find a way to stay up this year I'm cautiously optimisitic about the make up of the squad next season. I am sad Mangala won't be part of it, but financially the deal for him was evidently too good to turn down.
so now we face tbe prosect of 4 months of you repeating this across the forum?As I said in another post, I have given up hope and feel much better for doing so
I PROMISE not to mention it again.so now we face tbe prosect of 4 months of you repeating this across the forum?
I'm glad you feel much better
Seems to me you do have hope, of a sortBack in the Championship attendeces will possibly fall back from capacity crowds at every home game, to maybe 20,00, so parking will be easier, the queues for the chipshop will be shorter, and getting away post match will take less time.
The future is bright!
Paradoxical isn't it?Seems to me you do have hope, of a sort
Yes he did. But was it alive or not?At least Schrodinger only had a cat!
Or did he?
Yep, nothing like some Bolywood.Would definitely renew Boly, Wood (on sensible wages!) and Aina. The rest can leave.
Exactly it’s so lazy. We made a 20 mill profit last night.Stupidly put a bit of Sky Sports News on late last night after the deadline, and there were a couple of absolute Divocks giving it all the "How come Forest are still buying loads of players, what with FFP trouble etc etc". One of them started waffling on about three year financial cycles and 'rolling the dice' and all the rest of it. No-one mentioned that we'd actually sold two players at a profit this window and let another three or four who's contracts were running down go.
We literally bought a goalkeeper for about £5m and brought in a couple of loans, and that's it. Suppose we brought this reputation on ourselves, but jeez. Clueless.
YesA pretty lame window. Did we even reduce the squad size?
Think the fitness of our forward players (and include MGW in that) hinges on whether we do well enough to stay up. That and a potential points penalty obviously.Glad we didn't go mad & commit £15m or so to signing a striker with a patchy record. If Ribeiro can contribute then we might be alright, otherwise I think we're perhaps a forward short. Hopefully Elanga/Awoniyi can stay fit.
In midfield, we undoubtedly got great money for Mangala but Sangare needs to step up now. I'd also like to see Dominguez given more minutes in central midfield.
At we CB, we look okay but could do with Felipe/Boly staying fit for the run in. Hopefully Aina comes back from AFCON unscathed as I think he's comfortably the best of an average group of FB's.
Not convinced on Sels but he's just needs to be competent & not do anything stupid, hopefully he's experienced enough to do just that.
I do worry about us up top - I'd have liked to have seen us bring another forward in, preferably one who can play across the line. Brereton would have done for me.
(Edit: should add that's because I haven't thought of as the Portuguese kid as being fir the first team - is he does anyone know?)
Evan Ferguson at Brighton?He's 18 years old. How many 18 year olds make a regular contribution to PL sides? There probably hasn't been a player like that for twenty years since Rooney burst into the scene.
He'll be 3rd choice behind Wood and he'll probably get less than 30 minutes of first team action by season end unless we have a major injury crisis.
More likely.He'll be 3rd choice behind Wood and he'll probably get less than 30 minutes of first team action by season endunlessuntil the inevitablewe have amajor injury crisis.
He's had a bit of a tough time with injuriesMay have been covered elsewhere ( apologies if so ) but I find James Claridge’s move to Watford a curious one - especially as he’s been given just an 18 month contract.
I’m guessing that the Academy coaches just don’t believe he has the necessary skills to progress much further?