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I assume if we don’t sell, he will sign a new contract with this kind of clause.

The only one coming out of this well is Gary tbf. Can easily see him managing in the prem again this coming season with the amount of sackings their are mid season. Either way I think sacking him is ludicrous. Would’ve built a good rapport with the team and I’d imagine the dressing room would all be behind him since he’s kept em up. Should’ve at least been given the start of the season. Especially with how weak the prem looks next year.

Bernardo Silva also rumoured to leave as well. And KDB is in his thirties. If we kept him this window and he performed as well/better then he has so far I could easily see Man City coming in for him next season. Think they have to many proven first team players to replace for him to be a priority rn tho.

From what I’ve heard, which tbf isn’t 100% reputable, Scott will 100% get a bid of £25m. It’s not clubs saying for £25m is he worth that? It’s clearly their managers/directors of football saying should we sign this youngster for £25m who will be good but not as good as we need right away. Or another player for 35-40 who will most likely come straight into the team to do a job. Adding to that the amount of quality midfielders moving this window is a little mad, most teams are looking for their 1st name on team sheet midfielder which Alex won’t be straight away for most prem clubs. Once those deals have been sorted, the teams with money to spend will come in for him. 100%.

Agreed. Some seem to think no matter then Scott situation we were going to spend 10s of millions to get playoffs because the books are finally balanced (ish). Which is just stupid. Think if we are keeping Alex then just Jason Knight is fine. Some think we need a striker but with Conway and wells who both put up decent numbers last season and Weimman who got 20+ the season before I don’t think it’s necessary. The only other thing I would like is a keeper, as much as I like max I think he needs some serious 1st team competition which I don’t see either HWR or Bajic giving.

According to TransferMarkt, which can be a bit dodgy with player values but still, Alex is the most valuable player in the championship. (Discounting the relegated prem teams.) Still very early in the window but I think we will get offers that match or are over our valuation by the time the window ends.

He gets 26 goals in all comps next year. Scores a hat-trick to go from 0-2 to 3-2 against Leeds away and scores a screamer against Watford. Sorry for the spoilers ?

It was leaked on Twitter before he said that I’m pretty sure. And if it wasn’t before hand it was within like 10mins of it

100%, I’m trying to convince myself as much as you mate ?

Not necessarily. If we count players who can play there our midfield consists of: James, King, Williams, Naismith, Scott, OTC, Benarous and Mccrorie. 1. Benarous is still recovering from injury. 2. OTC isn’t at the level yet (at least imo) 3. Mccrorie might be playing a number of positions next season 4. Williams whilst decent, imo, is a midfield version of Baker at times with injuries. 5. Whilst all decent James, King and Naismith are all 30+, king quite clearly being slowly fazed out of first team football. See it more as refreshing our midfield with young ambitious talent that can learn a lot from James and king. According to a lot of derby fans he’s best as a box to box much like Brownhill. Not saying Alex Scott is staying but to me I think Pearson and co would’ve been in for Knight either way.

Btw @Davefevs are you sure you don’t work for the Bristol City scouting department. Feels very Jekyll & Hyde this. OTIB poster by day, BCFC chief scout by night.

Joe Williams is what he is. A championship midfielder. Nothing special and isn’t a tool. Might have bad games fair but so does everyone. Obviously injuries have plagued his tenure but for me when he’s been on the pitch he does the job.

As you know the financials relatively well Dave, do you think we now move on to trading (selling players to raise funds for new ones) or do we still have the assets to move without having to sell?

Think a lot of people confuse not bothering and exhaustion/overworking

Has a strike on him as well by the looks of it.

Agree 100%, at first thought this may be our last opportunity to get decent money for him. But In saying that it seems unneeded with Scott likely to go for big money and many other higher value assests

Would think we are or will be trying to tie down Vyner for longer before the window ends. And hoping we hear renewal talks for pringy around the same time in next season as we did Atkinson’s this season. The one I’m most interested about is Weimann. I know he’s a bit like marmite on this forum especially this season some love him some don’t think he’s good enough. But he’s only got a year left and he’s 32 in august. With Bell, Conway, Cornick and Wells we have cover. He’s one of our players I could see potentially moving on this summer but I hope he does stay.

Yea I don’t know how to change it on the website

It depends if you count teams coming down from the prem. If you do he’s around the top ten, but personally I don’t think they should count. If you don’t and he goes for any amount between 25-30 he’s 4th highest championship departure fee. 1st: Joao Pedro - €34,200,000 2nd: Ollie Watkins - €34,000,000 3rd: Jude Bellingham - €30,150,000 4th: Alex Scott - €25-30,000,000 5th: James Maddison- €25,000,000 (Fees according to TransferMarkt)

The Banksy of football transfers.

With the amount of top quality midfielders moving this summer I can easily see Alex moving late in the window. If they weren’t idiots he would be on the list for just about every prem team and some in Europe too. As a lot of teams (dortmund, Madrid, Man City, Brighton, Chelsea) are losing their best midfielders they will be looking at first replacing them with proven top flight talent. Doesn’t mean they don’t respect or have interest in Scott it just means they have a different priority. Once those deals are done they may then come in for him. Can easily see a Brighton/wolves/spurs wait it out and meet our demands late on. What’s the point in starting bidding so early when there are so many interested. Will just significantly drive up his price which no potential suitors will want.

I was going to post this a couple weeks back but didn’t for that reason ? but seems safe now that joey isn’t coming. Was talking to a friend I hadn’t seen in a while and we are both big city fans and I asked him about what he thought about Joey coming home was. His response was to tell me his grandma’s friend’s neighbour is friends with Joey Bryan Sr and the transfer was 100% confirmed. Absolute boulderdash but did make me laugh.

Assistant kit man maybe?

And that’s all in the pot from previous sales and cuts. I don’t know whether they have liberties to spend beyond that now that we seem to be “out of deep shit” and clearly have at least top 8 aspirations for next season. l Think we will be alright no matter what happens via AS but i personally would like him to stay at least one more season.

100% not. Completely goes against what they’ve been working towards that. Spending money because there’s a chance more comes in the future is just silly. In Phil’s first interview he talked about how they were already planning for the summer and that was in February. I can say pretty confidently they would’ve covered all basis. Here there is only two, sell Scott or keep Scott. If we keep Scott we may sign less players then if we did sell. But they wouldn’t have signed players without having the money to do so. Quite clearly using some of the semenyo funds that some seem to have forgotten we have recieved. And either way if we end up keeping Scott (which I don’t think will happen) we definitely won’t be left short.