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Believe me, we don't disagree! Don't mistake me saying 'I can see how that potentially makes sense in this scenario' for me thinking its a great idea. I didn't want Keane to sign a new deal, I can just understand that having got ourselves into a position where we only had about 12 senior...

The problem though is that because of European football and the fact that the better teams now dominate the cups, there are plenty of minutes to go round for the top clubs. If you look at someone like Dewsbury-Hall at Chelsea as an example, your perception would be that he's hardly played, but...

It's all relative isn't it? Nobody really wants Brownhill and Keane here, it's just a discussion about whether in the real world they can do a job for us. I mean to be honest you'd think most people would have come round to the idea of re-signing Keane by now purely on the basis that we're...

As I said, it just seems a bit unfair as you could do the same for any player. 'I just think he's a decent player' is a perfectly valid response for me, particularly for someone like Brownhill who isn't massively eyecatching.

To be fair i'm genuinely not sure that's true. Just picking someone we've been linked with to use as an example, I doubt many people could tell you exactly what it is about Douglas Luiz that they would like to see here. They see him as a good player, but I reckon most posters on here couldn't...

Well not really. I'm not saying it's what i'd do, i'm just saying if the vastly experienced manager we have in place hasn't been impressed by what he's seen in the 8 months he's been working with him every day it wouldn't be a massive surprise to see him moved on. That's how football works.

It obviously depends how Moyes sees it and what he's like in training etc but it wouldn't exactly be a massive surprise. 22 isn't that young, he's been around senior football a long time now and not made the breakthrough at the top level. You'd have to say there's a reasonable chance he's not up...

Maybe slightly off topic but I totally agree with this. I've got through the last couple of years with gritted teeth thinking it's a means to an end; stay up, get through to the new ownership and new ground, then reset and start making the game enjoyable again. It's one of the reasons I wasn't...

The reason we've had a good defensive record in the last couple of years is mainly because we've set up in a very defensive way and played percentage football to minimise errors. The defenders are decent but the constant repetition (not by you) of 'we have a top class defence it's just the...

It really is one of the weirdest arguments imaginable.

To be fair it's not just the wages. These lads have got absolutely massive egos, they want to play in the Champions League because it comes with more prestige and all that. It makes perfect sense really, we'd think it was weird if a player turned down playing in the PL to play in League One...

Nah it's exactly the opposite. Obviously he wouldn't be our first choice, he's likely to remain available all summer, and he would need minimal integration time because he's spent the last 2 years here. If he was to come it would be late in the window and always would have been.

Convenient missing out of the 90 in the last game there to make it sound like a good point. As I said, 14 starts and 3 sub appearances out of 19 games. Suggesting Moyes didn't pick him or limited his time on the pitch is just demonstrably untrue. It doesn't mean he loves him or we'll resign him...

This just isn't true, i don't know where it's come from, he started 14 of the 19 league games under Moyes and came on in another 3. That isn't limited minutes in anyones book.

Waiting round for answers isn't even really the issue, the issue is not being able to convince them to come. Players will obviously want the best outcome for themselves and setting arbitrary cut off points just isn't really realistic in these type of negotiations, but you would hope that at...

In fairness he's a kind of nondescript but not awful player, so it is quite difficult to say specifically what he's good at. He's quite similar to someone like Garner in that sense, he's just a sort of decent footballer who isn't out of his depth at this level. I would certainly want better than...

Narrative isn’t a synonym for lie. The point is I can’t see how it helps our bargaining position (or just attractiveness in general) to have all this playing out in public. I’m also not a big fan of him immediately using it as a shield to deflect blame away from himself. We all know what he’s...

This public bickering between him and the board/recruitment team really isn’t a good look and just helps to build a narrative of us being in crisis. I get that he’s frustrated but I’m not sure this is the right way to handle it..

No I know what you mean. I do this type of thing for a living and everybody knows it’s not real but believe me you do not want to hear them talking without being prepped by a comms team, it would not be pretty!

They’re just PR soundbites. You’d absolutely lose your minds if he just said ‘I’m here for the money mate’ so they get him to say things that sound nice. That’s how the world works.