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Not with his wages. Unless we organise a deal where Bournemouth subsidise his wages in exchange for money off the Scott deal.

Where has this news come out of? - I havent seen anything on socials... If true -

...Eh? Always considered the Packet to be decent - if they start up-pricing on match-days they'd be shut by now. Its one of the few selling points, beer-garden aside.

Usually optimistic. However. Midfield nonexistent for me. Not impressed with any of Williams, Knight, or James today, all seemed lost without Scott in front. Could count second balls or 50-50s won second half on one hand. Tanner and Pring, by their own standards, poor. Plusses - Dickie and Zak looked decently solid, former especially in an unfamiliar position. Bell scoring - good for his confidence. Wells worked hard. Ticketing system not working with android after the players-fans day is a farce. Need to buckle up for Millwall off that performance.

Ah, sorry Phants, missed that one. However I'd caveat that by saying in that case its just absolutely piss-poor by the club. I'd argue they've lost more money moving over to O'Neills - in a shortsighted move at an attempt of temporary cash-cow - than they otherwise would have done sticking with and awaiting change of Hummel's UK distributor (As others have mooted in thread). Due to the associated cost of reduced longer term commercial gain from a better value and higher quality suite of products they would have had sticking with the latter. Alternaitvely as the market is likely mostly children, for all that I'm assuming, it may be parents wont care as long as the kids dont care and just want the latest shirt. Can guarentee those that do buy shirts are buying out more 'classic' options to avoid the quality issues - thereby costing the club money. I've seen a couple who are more vocal critics on the socials side doing exactly that including a friend. More surprised the club dont just bundle the shirts in with promotional season ticket deals on renewals to be able to get an idea of the scope demand for the kit earlier on - would save more of the stock issues from happening to a marginal extent, i.e. optional £20 and £30 add-on fees to season tickets (Adult and kids) deals for shirts. for early and end of season renewal and new season tickets up to July 15th, not that O'Neills have an excuse as lead times by their own website are 4-8 weeks it seems for UK customer(s). And thats not even touching on the 'splat' issue. Becoming apparent rather that waiting for the wound to heal, we've cut the nose to spite the face - in not waiting for Hummel to resolve their distribution/distributor issues. Buck stops with JL as Chairman at the end of the day.

Think it depends - some journalists (few of them more-so now) have integrity, ask the right questions in depth. Stuart James, Winter, Piercy, etc. Who actually know how to interview someone. Most media and interviewers are now just frauds looking for content to generate clicks and revenue, unfortunately. As for the bit in bold - I think it depends in what context you view it. For some, like myself - I wasn't much appeased by how 21-22 went overall. However, nothing was going to happen 20-21 due to the contract situation and the circus around MA with multiple players (too many of them I'd add) not playing and on bigger contracts. As he addressed in the interview above; its all well and good informing players they're no longer required unless you are able to actually move them on. Culture is one of those overlooked aspects that can require a breaking of club hierarchy to sort - compare and contrast Matt Mills to Kasper Schmeichel's opinions on NP. It's literally taken this long to get a point where we can firmly say this is a 'Pearson' squad. Instead of having the caveat of overpaid shysters from the MA era.

This was my take thinking on it the other day. Retracted to amend - hence delays in production.

For all that it matters:

I think the thing to consider here, is that until Phil's comfortable in the role - we're unlikely to hear much until he gets the measure of it. Gould, initial press release aside, had precious little communications with the fans. As for the kit situation - its shambolic. But ultimately JL made that decision as a quick cash-grab with the Man City cup tie in view of the Hummel/Distributions issues; we're now seeing a case-study in how short term decision making can implicate longer term damage. He likely asked Alexander (at short notice) if there was a supplier at hand who could do it. As for the badge element - if anyone is to blame its the marketing and media team who likely helped or at least corresponded with O'Neils with regards to the iconography used. It's annoying - as I have family in Ireland and their GAA merchandise is superb. I'd have just turned to them and said - take your GAA Cork 22/23 kit - alter it to Bristol City badge, iconography and sponsors. Done, sorted. Not much lead time as its something for which the press/template already basically exists and the quality is better than your current football shirt line-up. Simple and clean.

To be fair GF - the point with regards to "stand in the players way" is not Monkeh's opinion or "mouthpiece" spiel from a "group of accountants"; but a partial quote of words that are attributable to our very owner. While I can see youor viewpoint, I don't think its as black and white or small minded to be thinking about selling Scott. I don't think it was small minded when we did it with Bryan, Reid or Webster. It just may be worth taking into consideration that we have chance here to completely wipe the FFP slate sparkling clean; as well as.spend on improving not just the midfield, but get a keeper, defender, and forward options if we so feel. For example, is we sell Scott now instead of next Summer for £15m - it may avoid us needing to sell a second player to balance costs - so better squad depth and planning for the longer term.

Honestly wouldn't mind £21m plus Cundle and Sarkic.

Being Spearheaded by their supporters trust iirc.

End goal was the same - the difference is that they did so with no £20m losses. Out of all the management teams we've had - this is the most confident I've been where if we had/have a big sale with AS - we'd at least reinvest wisely. The same way Brentford did with M'Buemo, Pinnock, Norgaard, and Jensen from the Watkins funds alone.

Bournemouth blasted FFP to get to the EPL originally and were fined, iirc. Burnley had lower overheads and we're debt free when first relegated from the Prem under Dyche and correctly used parachutes to offset their wages with only a couple sold. Same again this season although slightly more so due to change of identity. Luton and Brentford are the case studies for us. Imo.

Our issue was goals from midfield and set pieces. Especially with Atkinson out, we had no substantial threat aerially. Add in the luck with penalties up until seasons end and sheer lack of goals outside of our forwards - we should be aiming for around around 60 to make play-offs, so not far off. For context - Luton almost conceded a third less than us last season. 39 vs our 56.

Dreadful news - arguably one of the best owners in the division who whole-heartedy bought into the fabric of a club as it should be, simple solid stewardship. Best wishes to Millwall, along with his family and friends - hopefully the family stay involved to some degree after 16-years at the helm.

I think the problem for Han, Preston aside - is that one his last games was that shambolic performance at Brum back in October (?) - think he got subbed off for Kadji. The only game this season I thought he played decently in was Cardiff at home, to be honest. I do think - this season at least - there were not many genuinely good performance. Mainly because mentally, positionally at least, he never seemed switched on - I think ultimately it just got stale for him and he needs fresh setting as proved at Auxerre.

What about the Neves sale?

Even where they don't - as someone who has setup multiple pensioners on smartphones (due to the demographic on my street); My personal recommendation is to use a simply basic android skin setup on a refurbished Google Pixel 4/4a. Doesn't cost much (£80-£125 up front, £6-8pm 18-month Sim-only contracts) and fast enough for near all use cases and fantastic third party support. Especially where they they are using older 3G models (Vodafone are shutting down older networks locally, not sure on time frame).

Should in theory be able to link it to apple pay and Google pay respectively. Then uninstall the city app. I barely bother with cards anymore personally - even my gym membership is on Google Pay now! Hopefully means I don't have to worry about leaving my season ticket at home ever again!

Wednesday also have solid Championship level players in the form of Michael Smith, Bannan, Palmer, Dawson, among others. Way more Champ Experience to work with from baseline than Ipswich - who only really have Chaplin and Morsy that I can recall off the top of my head with experience at this level.

Alot of it for me depends on how well Leicester and the relegated teams restructure. Think Ipswich and Sheffield Wednesday coming up are solid. I agree with Ainsworth, Plymouth aside (on paper), there aren't many what I would call weak teams, and we're barely into the transfer window proper yet.

https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/football/west-ham-transfer-news-alex-scott-bristol-city-b1089004.html?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1687260465

As long as his hamstring stays in one peace. Rolls' team crocked him big time.

Hypothetically, on top of the Semenyo sale, I suppose one aspect to consider is the Bentley sale plausibly? - assuming wages of say £12kpw and a nominal fee (for example £200k) that would still make us able to offset circa £500k - add in savings from the likes of Klose and Martin on mutual terms, selling Towler, that all combined could offset half the supposed fee for Knighty. Assuming they were mutual ar least and ergo less than full payout, and not contract terminations?