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Danny Cashman to Worthing. Might have been posted elsewhere. One of those punts that didn’t work out. At the end of the day, it’s better to try and not succeed than just not bother.

They played on the playoff final alongside Hamer who was far above the level. So did Dabo. He wasn’t a top level championship standard player. So did Vik, who was a level above. Ok. IMO they (below) are not going to get into many top 6 sides. Kelly is aging, Eccles still developing and...

Thompson I always thought was 3m in, but I.5m out (madness) and entered originally as 3. Just checked “Transfermarkt”, they have as E4.5m in. Lord knows what the exchange rate was back then or if the data is reliable. CCFPA have him at £3.2m. I’ll adjust to that because….. just because...

https://footballleagueworld.co.uk/coventry-citys-top-10-most-expensive-signings-ever-but-what-are-they-up-to-now/ Probably should have googled first. This may be true above as at last year but makes no reference to McCallister who I always thought was £3m. I’ve edited original post.

We’ve spent £10m or as near as makes no difference on wing backs and defenders. Over £10m on strikers to develop. £0 on central midfielders. We have a teenage loanee who we might develop but never own. There is little doubt that MR wanted to bring in midfielders, so anyone saying we are ok...

Drinkell was £800k Kyle £600k Both flopped.

Obviously. Morelos anyone? Absolute headache but the type of player Mark and Ady might be able to get to grips with. Axel Tunzenabe? Might do a job but we’ve just spent a load of money on that area. A coupe of weeks back, MR said he wanted / needed 4 players in. We’ve got 2. 3 injury...

Peter Etebo? Valon Berisha? Anyone know if these players are suitable? Etebo cost Stoke about £6m and is 27 and had the season before last in the EPL. Greek Superleague last season. Out of contract. Robins wanted more players in. Our only option seems to be free agents now.

And another list. https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/statistik/vertragslosespieler

The thread is called transfer targets, so now we are down to free agents: Can’t see any in this list, unless Lingard would rather take a huge pay cut and olat regularly rather than bench warm at West Ham. Doubtful at best...

Not a freak season, a season where we had 2 Prem Level superstars all season and a boost of points when Cal played. Other than them, our team was average at best (sorry, true). Jamie Allen and Tavares coming back isn’t going to improve our team to top level.

5 subs and 9 bench means certain players should be tasked to give 150% for 60 mins with the strategy for game-changers to go full gun 35-40. Changing times.

How about Lati for DM?

It looks to me that we have to change formation to accommodate the players we have. Early last season, I got verbal surgery from the know-it-alls on here when I said we needed to shift Hamer further forward to AM / Box-To-Box. “Change where our best CDM plays? Clueless” was the common...

Yes, if a top Prem level club has let someone go then I think there is certainly room in our development squad. I refer to the BBC iPlayer documentary “Boot Dreams” (worth a watch).

Just checked, Wiki has us with 23 on the firsts, including Moore who is probably surplus. 10 in the u21’s. Personally think we are a bit light in the development squad but I’m sure that’ll change as players develop.

Squad of 33 works, 2 for each position and a capable kid / u21 shadowing / being able to play in an emergency.

Given that MR sometimes changes formation depending on opposition and how the game is going, I wonder if JDS can play a little more forward in the role JWE played a couple of times if the formation requires. I have doubts that we have enough AM options with the injury history of Allen, Palmer...

What is notable is that the list hadn’t changed for about 20 years until about 6 weeks ago.