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As others have said, with a slim squad and injuries and suspension he was always going to try to save some legs for Tuesday. He obviously thought he would still have enough on the pitch to see it out. Lesson learned. Yes when all players are back we can rotate more but with the lack of depth on the bench at the moment, we are always going to struggle late on in games.

Sorry but are you Josh? Or do you talk to him? He doesn't is a big statement. I'm sure he loves the club but does he love it like we do? Probably not. My guess is it's a career and if an offer comes in that helps his career and bank balance?

When it's a big value player, it's possibly best to do a loan with an option at a fixed price. Try before you buy so to speak. Not sure this will work for Real as if it doesn't work out they will have a player with 1 year left on his contract. As for captain America, I am sure no matter how much he loves the club, it must be very difficult to see other players leave for realistically bigger things. It wouldn't surprise me if he thinks he has given us a good few years service, and with a massive rebuild ongoing thinks this is the perfect time for a big move while his star is shining brightly. How hard he would push for it if a bid came in is up to him.

He could be a diamond in the rough but he hasn't pulled up any trees since Real signed him. Never played a game for them but that certainly doesn't mean he's not going to be good for us. 2 years I believe on loan at Dortmund and only 1 start in a dead rubber. It looks like he played a few games for them but all bar the dead rubber one were off the bench and for 5 or 10 minutes. Again doesn't mean he's not championship level, just not as good as he sounds when people say we are signing a player from Real who spent 2 years on loan at Dortmund.

I see 2 problems. One. If as is being said, this is a long term rebuild, with some possible early pain for long term gain, is he going to want to hang around for that if decent offers do come in. His stock is high and he might see this as the best time to move. Two. Every club is a selling club but we have made it abundantly clear that we are a great place for young players to come to get game time, with the idea clearly in place to cash in when we can. Yes this is the same as every team, but we are the only club shouting about it. Will he look at the other players who have left for so called bigger and better things and think, I deserve some of that. Are we advertising ourselves as a stepping stone rather than a team with aspirations to be a premier league team.

That read more like a piece written by his agent. Tenerife are interested so up you bid. I hope people don't get too excited we are looking at a real Madrid player. He has never played a game for them. Yes he has spent time out on loan and with Dortmund being by far the biggest name, but he only started one game for them and that was a dead rubber. Most of the games that he did get on the pitch were 10 minutes from the bench. I am not saying he's going to be poor, he could work brilliantly, but just that seeing a Madrid player loaned to Dortmund is possibly misleading as to where he is at at this point in his career.

I agree with most of what your saying apart from Sheffield Utd. They have had even more squad upheaval than us and are playing a different formation. To balance that up most of their signings have played in England before so probably easier to settle in.

The only way I can look at it is that we have become so disillusioned over the past few years that we are desperate for something new. The worry is we are going into the season with Duffy and Hanley being at least one of our central defenders and a manager who plays a style they will really struggle with. At the same time losing some very good players at this level and trying to bed in a number of young players, new to the country and stepping up levels in football terms. This is going to be a long process and I really do hope it works but I do feel a huge amount of patience is going to be needed. After saying that we will probably win 4 0 tomorrow. It's a funny old game.

I posted this in a previous thread but wondered what the general consensus was. "Under previous owners (not he Americans) this would have been seen as selling the crown jewels. Now fans are ecstatic. In seasons before we were praising getting early business done and being settled for the new season. Now it's for holding out for the right money even if it leaves us in flux at the start of a season and giving other clubs a few games head start so be it. We are openly promoting our policy of getting young players in the team and being willing to sell them on as a recruitment tool but when a young player sees an offer from a bigger club turned down gets the hump and we wonder why. I am not knocking the club at all. Only a few clubs in the world are not selling clubs in the end and we are definitely not one of them. I am just trying to say, some of the things that are happening at the club have in the past been taken in a very different way. Are we in a honeymoon period. Probably, and if this all works then long may it continue. I hope people have patience as personally I feel this will take 2 or 3 seasons to see any real results. I obviously hope I'm wrong." Tonight I went out for a couple of drinks with friends, all of whom support different clubs up and down the pyramid and they are amazed how happy we are. They do to a man agree Idah was a no brainer but are amazed how relaxed we are, and in some cases ecstatic about the transfer business so far. We all try to be positive at the start of every season but I don't think many teams fan base would be this easy going about our better players leaving.

Under previous owners (not he Americans) this would have been seen as selling the crown jewels. Now fans are ecstatic. Before we were praising getting early business done and being settled for the new season. Now it's for holding out for the right money even if it leaves us in flux at the start of a season and giving other clubs a few games head start so be it. We are openly promoting our policy of getting young players in the team and being willing to sell them on as a recruitment tool but when a young player sees an offer from a bigger club turned down gets the hump and we wonder why. I am not knocking the club at all. Only a few clubs in the world are not selling clubs in the end. I am just trying to say, some of the things that are happening at the club have in the past been taken in a very different way. Are we in a honeymoon period. Probably, and if this all works then long may it continue. I hope people have patience as personally I feel this will take 2 or 3 seasons to see any real results. I obviously hope I'm wrong.

As said. Idah, great business. Sara ok but would have hoped for a bit more, Rowe low and for reasons we all know. This might not be your opinion, but from the other Norwich fans I talk to, Rowe's price is not what they would have wanted before he started playing up, for a player of his age, promise and nationality.

Looking at Brighton and Brentford, yes this is the dream. The problem for me is this is what every club is trying to do. We have sold a few players who either had or were about to outgrow us, oh and Idah as well. I think if we had asked fans how much we could make from Sara, Rowe and Idah at the start of the season, I think most fans would have thought more. That would have been with less for Idah, Rowe for far more as we wouldn't have foreseen his hissy fit. And probably more for Sara from a prem team. Now is the main problem. Can we spend it like Brighton or will we waste it? Nappers signings so far this season look promising, but the only player who has spent more than a few weeks at the club, that napper signed, I believe is Van Hooijdonk last year. That could be wrong but if right I do worry.

Rich people not wanting to spend money, nothing to see here. Please Please don't let this be a sign 🤣

I think we have conceded 5 and played Oxford and Stevenage. I know we are in a rebuild and they are favourites to win the league but, I am not going to comment on other teams defending until we get ours sorted. Hopefully this will be soon.

My watford friend is adamant Everton were caught tapping up Silver their manager at the time and things were found on company electronics. Suddenly it all went quiet when everton paid compensation to watford and they brought some young players who didn't really have enough international games to get a work permit but the Premier league helped them.