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3 hours ago, Nogbad the Bad said:

Almost 2 weeks on from his shin injury and he's been recommended to see a specialist, though unclear when this will happen.

With a continuing 'anxious wait' before the severity of the injury is known

All seems a bit slow, 

May have been waiting to see if the injury settled. I had a long running shin issue which, as a last resort, eventually required minor surgery. Same leg I had a complete ACL reconstruction. It now looks like a grandmother’s patch work blanket. 

4 minutes ago, tin said:

On his day, Semenyo’s unplayable at this level and worth every penny of the £20m asking price being banded around this summer IMO.

I thought, however, there were signs teams were beginning to figure him out towards the end of the season and for that reason I think it’s a massive season for Semenyo next year. He’s no longer an unknown quantity and will have to raise his game to maintain the standards he’s already set. 

You only have to watch 5-10mins to figure out what he’s all about. Power and pace. Stopping it is a different problem. 

1 minute ago, bcfcnick said:

He's such an important player but the reality is that if there is no contract extension his value declines with just one year left on his contract at the end of this season.  He's got a great attitude but like all players, he's ambitious to play in the Premier League aside from the financial considerations.  I think it's almost inevitable he will go for between £15m and £20m with add-ons. 

He'll be a significant loss but I am very impressed with how Nigel and co have operated this transfer window.  That was my one fear that the manager had a taste for players a bit past their sell-by date. But that was clearly just an interim approach and he is now going for both experience with mileage left on the clock and high potential flair players in tandem with bringing on academy players.  Very relieved and impressed by that.   Antoine will be hard to replace, but there's no doubt the recruitment team have upped their game and there are always exciting up-and-coming players out there in the lower leagues that they will have their eye on.

It’s hardly a shock that we’re receiving a bid, with probably more to come. Let’s hope recruitment have been succession planning for this eventuality.

Surely the Premier League is his target? He’ll 100% get his move at some point, whether that’s this window or in the next 2. I can’t see Celtic appealing to him, if I’m honest. 

5 minutes ago, Northern Red said:

Think he was banned a while back.

Not before he got me a week's ban for responding to his never-ending stream of misery though.

Haha I had to dig through the ignored users archives to find him

10 minutes ago, Ian M said:

Is Mark Carter on here? Make yourself known 

@markcarter

14 hours ago, AG City said:

When he signed from Oxford, he seemed to be an out and out left winger, bombing forward, beating full backs.

Johnson then  tried to be clever, sticking him out on the right wing.  Then whenever he had to cut inside on his left, more often than not lost it or got crowded out.  I am not saying he didn't have his faults, but Callum strikes me as confidence player and if he was put in his proper position early on I think he could have flourished.

Good luck Callum, you don't deserve some of the nonsense written on this thread.

I remember LJ saying he was teaching O’Dowda how to do the Waddle shuffle and drop the shoulder. No sure which made me laugh more, the thought of LJ demo-ing a step over or the fact O’Dowda, as a professional footballer, playing out wide, needed the lesson. 

So a suggestion then?

Fantastic news. 

41 minutes ago, Finley_Smith10 said:

FGR just signed a wing back. New kit release, could it be?

Wilson was always going to leave. Them signing a replacement will have no bearing on us. 

Wry smile at all those who weren’t renewing their SCs unless/until NP was relieved of his duties and convinced hundreds if not thousands would be doing the same. UTC. 

18 minutes ago, 77 punk said:

how would palmers contract be taken on if coventry bought him ?

See the other thread, in the transfer section.

1 hour ago, Glen hump said:

Thought it was one of the plumber brothers, not sure though.

It’s not Dwayne and Tristan would have been younger when this was taken?

12 minutes ago, alexukhc said:

A- Louis Carey, B-?? C-??? D-??? E- Mike Donaldson

C - Dominic Barclay?

6 minutes ago, robin for life said:

This. The most logical option all round. Say he's on 20K now, say you go right how about we guarantee you football this year, we pay you £15,000 a week, you're helping our wage bill, but in return we'll give you a 2 year extension on 10K a week for the following two seasons, with appearance, goal and win bonuses, so if we win and score, you'll get 15K that week.

Why would we guarantee him football? 

24 minutes ago, formerly known as ivan said:

Every club now knows what league they will be in next season. Surely if there were other clubs willing to make an offer this would have happened now otherwise they run the risk of missing out.

Of course this may well be the case but surely it would have made its way to the media if so?

It could be that he’s not first choice for some clubs and he has to wait to see how things progress over the window, who knows? I think we can safely say we won’t be the only club who has put an offer in front of him. 

This made me laugh

I always root for English teams in Europe, regardless of who it is and I hope Liverpool beat Madrid tonight. 

2 minutes ago, ExiledAjax said:

Luton 1 - 2 Bristol City (Naismith '90+2)

The real reason for the level of annoyance among Luton fans.
2021/2022 team calendar. 

17 minutes ago, bs3 said:

I’m sticking £500 for us to go down , easy money, there is no way we are staying up without investment in the squad. 

Do it and show us your bet receipt. 

3 minutes ago, underhanded said:

Scandalous wage considering their role and the pay of their fellow colleagues. I used to work with students who'd intern at prem and efl clubs (including City) who were paid nothing for a whole season of interning. Lead performance analysts would get about 25k average at championship level, less at lg1 and 2 level. I knew one guy who'd been a performance analyst at Peterborough + left the game and retrained as a heating engineer because he couldn't support hsi family on the wage he was being offered. 

Maybe teams would be more generous with their levels of pay if it didn’t go towards FFP? 

Not a huge fan of either but I think LJ always had the clubs best interests at heart, whereas MA had his own. 

12 minutes ago, 22A said:

A Grimsby fan I know admitted today that at 93" he turned off the TV. Imagine his amazement to find GT had actually won! 

He must get some looks, being 7ft 9

12 minutes ago, Pezo said:

How do you know there are 2 or 3 in a cubicle (I assume you can see the shoes) and then from there how do you know they are passing around keys? Why are they passing around keys?

Swingers