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Lati is miles off it for me. Good pedigree but makes lots of mistakes and physically isn’t up to it.

Bidwell? Haha I get what you’re saying but we’re playing a different strategy. Ultimately if this current squad doesn’t improve dramatically this season we have to cash our chips in on 2 or 3 of them. You then have to reinvest and go again. What is disappointing is how many poor signings we...

Surely it’s all just dependent on price. If we can get £8-10m, then we’ll surely sell. Good player, but we need to start recouping some of our outlay. Wright and Sheaf could well go in the summer too, and we’re facing a rebuild again. No bad thing, but have to get it right this time.

Don’t blame Lampard for wanting to bring his coaches with him. Fairly common practice and if he wants to give himself the best chance of success he’ll want people around him he knows and trusts.

He’ll manage again. Could get a pretty lucrative deal, given his rep.

Football generally is quite depressing right now. Bad start for us, although I’m hopeful we’ll be absolutely fine. It’s a big come down from post Everton friendly though England, despite having on paper the best side in Europe, played like they barely knew each other (yes I know we made the...

Allen not up to standard, as I think we all know. Torp has to do a lot more.

Allen been dreadful

Personally I’d keep Palmer if he’s happy with a squad role. He’s a bit of a flat track bully IMO. However against 8-9 of the teams in this division that could be very useful. Huddersfield away last season a great example. He was absolutely superb.

Could be a good option in January, depending on where we are in the league.

He puts a good argument for Sunderland but it’s all conjecture and a lot of confirmation bias. Even the most optimistic Sunderland fan would think it was a stretch.

Is it a controversial take? Good player, and should be lauded for coming through the academy, but if we want promotion then I’m not sure we’ll do it with Eccles starting every week.

When he’s been subbed, when he didn’t play this season and the season before. Put it this way, there’s 4 or 5 players that I’d be really concerned about not having, and he isn’t one of them. I really like him, but feel as though talk of PL interest is OTT.

Eccles moving into the category of so under rated he’s becoming over rated. Good player and deserves a lot of credit for how he’s grown over the past two year, but I don’t think we miss him when he doesn’t play. I hope he can improve and step on again.

Generous of you to give them a chance

I don’t know if CM is that vital? I’d like another one if we’re playing a 3, but we seem fairly well stocked. Striker 100% and I’d like an attacking left back as an alternative style to Bidwell.

Yeah Leeds have only lost Kamara and Gray who played last season and the same can be said for the other teams. Hull are going to spend, they’ve brought in some huge fees, they’ll be competitive.

We are stronger so you’d hope we can make top 6. That said bookies have us joint 6th favs, and the teams in and around us are similar. Realistically I could see anywhere from 3rd-9th.

If we can keep him then surely we would do? Still one of the best in the division for me.

It was quality of the depth as well rather than depth alone. I.e. Godden, Kelly, Tavares (despite some commendable appearances) weren’t good enough to make the desired impact. It takes time to get to this. We weren’t good enough to go up last season, but slowly we are building a bigger, better...