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    1 minute ago, Satriales said:

    What does his role actually do? 

    His role is pretty all encompassing, overseeing all aspects of the academy and youth development. From getting young players into the building right through to transitioning them into the first team or selling/loaning them out (alongside the SD/loans manager) and everything in between.

    Big role to replace and one that is important for Knapper to get right. Wonder if this change is to do with Knapper wanting to change things or it's just his time to move on. Probably the latter based on comments from ZW in the article.

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    3 minutes ago, Midlands Yellow said:

    £10m for Rowe would be a steal for any buying club. I’d hope for near double that with many add ons. 

    Only a year left on his contract so I think he goes below value. Although I guess Max Aarons went for around 7 and he's a few years older and a fullback. Guess it'll come down to if more than 1 club are interested.

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    3 minutes ago, Ulfotto said:

    Sorry I can’t resist you mean a tackle?

    That's a part of it I'm sure but there's more than 1 way to win the ball off an opponent. I don't know the model they're using but if they were measuring tackle success rate they'd probably call it 'tackle success rate'.

    Is this stuff something the every day fan needs to know? Absolutely not. Do some find it interesting. Yes.

     

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    2 minutes ago, Midlands Yellow said:

    But if the right offers come in we will sell, even if a player is happy here. Reeves and Johnson plus many others prove that one. 

    I mean, that's pretty much 99% of football clubs. I'd also add that the 'right offer' for one of our players seems to rise dramatically after the first big sale of a summer.

    If we don't get promoted I'd Imagine Rowe will be the one we'd find impossible to keep. I'd imagine we'd get around £10m. We'll also likely pick up a couple of okay fees for for Idah and Tzolis. Then a few big wages will be falling off (Gibson, Giannoulis, Baath) so I can't see us being desperate to sell. 

    After that I'd struggle to see a club matching our valuation for players like Gunn, Sargent, Nunez or Sainz. Sara could attract a big offer but I'd think it would have to be a lot.

    All that being said we also have no idea how we're going to be managed financially going forward. With Attanasio's involvement growing who's to say there won't be a bit more budget for Knapper to retain some of our assets.

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    12 hours ago, Indy said:

    It took Sargent a season plus to settle

    DId it? I think the Premier League was just above his (and our entire team's) level and as soon as he was in the Championship he looked good. Had he not been shafted out onto the wing in half of the games he'd have been a 20+ goal striker last season.

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    Just now, S_81 said:

    Who’s to say Sydney wasn’t Wagner’s call? Frankly the whole situation is so unusual that we just don’t know. It’s high time the local media delved a bit more into it though and put him or Knapper on the hook about why we’ve ended up in this situation. 

    No manager is willingly throwing away a player who's generally doing well for him and replacing him with a guy who has played about 200 minutes during the first half of the season. I doubt he'd be talking about the trimmed down squad as often if he was happy about it.

    It's of course logical for Knapper, who is thinking about Idah's potential value going forward. Or even thinking that a run of games in Scotland could be beneficial for him here going forward.

    Maybe there's more to it than that but I'd be shocked if Wagner wanted that move.

     

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    2 minutes ago, mrdi said:

    I don’t think it’s ‘reactionary nonsense’ at all. After the derby (the high point of the season so far for most), any setback tonight was going to be of greater weight. I just think it’s human, especially when 2-0 up 15 mins in without really hitting the high gears, losing 2 points so meekly against a team who’ll probably go down. 

    They've won 20 points from their last 12 games. Doubt they're going down.

     

     

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  22. Posted

    3 minutes ago, Ken Hairy said:

    Won't get there after getting battered in an away leg.

    If we get to the play offs and play away first then we're pretty much ****ed.

    The only teams that have battered us away from home this season have been Leicester, Plymouth and Liverpool. Doubt we'll be playing any of those and even if we do end up facing Leicester I would imagine the dynamics of that game would be significantly different.

  23. Posted

    Just now, Sufyellow said:

    The disappointment is that would of put us in a great position,  2 nil up and it should of been game over, yet again we went negative to early and made the same mistakes. We now need a result against Preston or they are in the driving seat. We don't seem to learn from the same mistake,  barnes isn't a lone striker. But still behind Wagner. 

    After going 'negative' we probably had another 3 clear cut chances. Another day and this game is 5 - 1 and everything's hunky dory.

    Nobody will disagree that Barnes isn't a lone striker. He needs legs up with him hence why we brought on Gibbs, that one obviously ended unfortunately. 

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