Simon bristol

Transfer fees arent an exact science these days with contracts coming to an end or actually ending, but generally speaking better players cost more. Dickie and knight have looked very good for us, i like what they bring, but clearly there are better players than them available if you have got the money. 5 million for twine is a lot of money, but manning knows him, its a position we need, and hes about as good as we can reasonably get.

Hes a step up from what we have, a few more players who are a step up on what weve already got ought to see us make some progression. Would iversen or travers be a step up on max? Yes,, would adam idah be a step up on cornick? Yes, and willock or chair would be a step up on mehmeti too, and they would all cost more. Its whether the owners want to pay that price.

I get it re signing 2/3 players for that money, but they wouldn’t necessarily be any better than we already have. Ideally we would have another 3/4 signings of the quality of twine which then ought to have an impact on improving our league position. Bringing in cornick and mehmeti type signings because we shouldn’t go for anything better seems a false economy to me, and they will still be on decent salaries too.

Not sure how the massengo to burnley fee was structured, perhaps we could waive any sell on fee for him we may have agreed?

Theres others on here who know better than me, but i always considered the tgh loan was done with an option to buy for accounting purposes,,, making payments in the next accounting year may suit us in terms of when the scott money came in, or when certain salaries are likely to be off the books. either that, or they just fancy seeing how they bed in for a period of time before committing the full transfer fee?

One additional player wont get us in the play offs, but we have to start somewhere with good championship players, someone has to be the first of the 3/4 we need, and it’s clearly one of the positions we need to sort as a priority… a starting midfield of twine, knight and tgh bought in with the scott fee is about as good as we could reasonably expect

Really hope this is true!!! I cant think its just a loan though,,, we havent done a loan without a signing option in quite a long time now

They just cant get it right, perhaps they are annoyed with themselves too? While they are sat sipping cocktails in bermuda obviously

Agreed, one bang average keeper in the squad is a ridiculous position to find ourselves in as well

I agree, but theres nothing to suggest if we do rebuild in the summer that anything will actually change, just that weve sold the family silver, and no one js worth much until we find another great academy player

Hes not a play maker 10, but he is a very good player

Thats why the hierarchy feel we are a top 6 side!

Hes not a bad striker at this level,, unlike some of the shite weve signed over the years!

Anyone setting up to close the game out, we dont have the quality to break them down. If someone wants to give us a game we can stretch it out, and give a good account of ourselves

Hes on ignore for me pal! I used to love steve neville playing for us too

Hes right though re taking news from official club media before believing it, we are currently also following a news story about a leeds player based on someone they know in harrogate hearing something… and there are a load of others on this forum alone

Like us! Apart from no danger of relegation

Muller was ridiculous, incredible goal scorer,, reminds me of greaves as an out and out goal scorer?!

Rip to a legend, fantastic player, the german equivalent of charlton for england,, their all time greatest player.

I remember having patricks for a bit that I swapped for some toys, but eventually settled on adidas world cups with the cool red white and black pattern on the sole. There must have been others but cant remember now!

Sports fair was great! By the late 80s they starting stocking foreign shirts,,, loved them, i got a glenn hoddle monaco one with loads of shirt sponsors, and the first shirt id seen made by nike!

Why the hell is the football league adding that game in between boxing day and new years day,, this is what happens!

If we hadnt sold our best players over the last 5 years we would certainly be better than we are now…. But we have signed so much shite over the years to replace them with that it’s embarrassing… combine that with some shite managers in charge and owners that couldnt get us into the prem if they plowed a billion into it, then really, nothing we could have done would have gotten us up

Surely ronan is a boyzone kinda guy

If we played like man city and scored 4 or 5 most games, it most certainly wouldnt be boring, and guardiolas barcelona, with messi xavi and iniesta are probably the best technical football team the world has ever seen and scoring 4/5 per game was easy for them… we are bristol city, and not very good, set up with players designed to play counter attacking football and not enough money to sign the players needed to play highly skilled passing football.