Branston Pickle

And I do believe Kenny played - and played well.

As I said to my son: in a city with two sides to choose from, they chose to support Sheff U - so I’m happy to wait and form my own opinion on Slimani!

I think it’s more of an ‘obligation’ than an ‘option’ - so long as certain criteria are met. He was ideal for today’s situation.

Indeed, for a lump who can’t play, Slimane looked rather decent!

Good stuff, never looked in much trouble, kept the ball well and played within ourselves to protect the lead.

Is that the tarot cards again?!

We seem to be doing ok but want to overplay/over control it. Forson and Sainz definitely not at their best; for a guy who’d never start a game any more Kenny has done well. Edit - looks like Schwartau might be on at the break

Sometimes people want to leave a place, for personal reasons. If it did reflect badly, that news hasn’t spread very well as we have just signed 3 players to the development squad, so they (their families and agents) missed it.

I’ll bet you pretty-much whatever you like to go to CSF that you’re wrong.

The main point is it is one player, and the reasons he wants to leave could be many and varied. They don’t necessarily reflect on the club. BYG clearly rates Kamara, that’s fine. I don’t think he’s currently ready and the fee we’ve got is very decent. Who knows what will happen in the future, I certainly don’t pretend to.

There’s loads of personal reasons why someone might want to leave, it doesn’t look badly on the club in any way. We have an excellent reputation and that remains intact - one person leaving doesn’t suddenly make everything ‘wrong’ All your points are easily argued against, but are your opinion, which is fair enough. Ultimately we don’t know how he’ll go - yes he might be worth tonnes more in x years, but it’s also true he might not be. He’s looked out of his depth in the Championship whenever used so far, but will hopefully come good.

I’m largely with you - £4.5m for a player who hasn’t performed at this level is very good business, given that he wants out. I’d have been more than happy if he’d stayed and it had worked out, but it wasn’t to be.

I’m sure Essex will be along soon to compare and contrast with what WBA do with this problem….

Jeez, what a non story. It amounts to “we sometimes get birds in the stands”. Tomorrow there will be a follow-up article with people complaining they get birds in their gardens, wanting the council to do something about it….

And Onel, I think? Point is, if you scattergun enough crap about during the transfer window, including the most obvious things that everyone expects alongside some utter garbage, you can pretty much claim anything you want in terms of “accuracy”.

Tbh I’m fine with this - he’s not performed at this level yet, so something like £4m is very good money. It will be interesting to see how he fares.

Being reported that we are going to sign the Chelsea u21 player Billy Gee - for development squad; interesting given they nicked Matos off us only last year.

Just seen this re: Sterling on Beeb - astonishing and slightly ridiculous: Arsenal have been offered winger Raheem Sterling but he can't leave until issues around a pay-out for losing some of his projected earnings while on over £300,000-a-week will be key. If all bonuses are met, his side believe they are owed a staggering £70m, which would have to be made up, or a loss negotiated between him, the buying club and Chelsea. Clearly the negotiations would change things a lot, but what an utter mess, football is a mad industry and Chelsea are then on the mad end of that scale!

I said “should”.

What a waste for Toney - it should mean an end to his England career, just chasing the money. Can’t see them coming for Sargent but you never know.

Not that convinced about Sargent leaving - he has a well known long-standing injury problem and any side would need an extended medical. That isn’t particularly conducive to being done in a rush on deadline day. I can’t see it, but would never be as daft to say it won’t happen!

You need help

You’re claiming 2-0 to Oxford as being itk? Sums you up perfectly as that could not possibly be ‘known’ without you being part of a major fraud/match fixing scam.

Reminds me of John O’Neill, whenever that was back in the day.

I thought Madders had started the season well. That’s a pretty strong squad and there’s a few unavailable/not selected.