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We've "missed" out on Tucker, Fossey, now Bark... probably a couple more too that I'm missing. That being said can't say I'm arsed about it. Tucker obviously wanted to stay down south, Fossey/Fulham/Agent pushing for more than initially agreed, Bark was pissing everybody about & probably was promised a bigger wage than Evatt was willing to give in to to. All move on now, see who pops up & fits into our philosophy. Not sure about a striker who was talked about playing as a wing back like Bark was for us.

Makes sense if it's true as competition for Bradley with maybe the hope that McKenzie will be good enough to make the position his own once the kid goes back to Liverpool. Some decent pedigree in champ & L1 at only 23... meant to be another one like Iredale who can cover multiple postitions being able to play on the right, CB or DM which looks like Evatt wants versatility to deal with the potential injury crisis we may face along the season to fill gaps. Gills being raided for their better players whilst on the spiral Demps/Tucker/Mckenzie ect would be easy to turn your noses as they had a dire season but they did have a really decent season the prior finishing 10th so must have had some positives about about them amongst the recent abysmal crap that's gone on there. Would deffo put a an end to some fans hopes of Marlon magically appearing here after all what's been put out there if this transfer is true though.

8 assists in the PL2 from right back & nominated for the league's player of the season losing out to City's James McAtee which shows he's too good to be playing in the reserves now. Looks good on paper, not much to go on in the mens game but same could be said for when Fossey arrived unproven. If he does do well for us, they'll probs recall in Jan & shift him a league higher

Surprised they're taking Fossey when they already have Ogbene on the right but fair doos.

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Wanted him back, thought we'd manage to get him back & admire his abilities as a player but it definitely seems its not worth all this amount of fuss. Can understand why Evatt is saying we'll move on because no player is bigger than the club especially not a player from Fulham who's only played a few games in his senior career. Sounds like he has his agent piping him up in his ear about all these potential pay rises from champ clubs along with hoping it makes us act desperate & rash in offering him something stupid outside of our reasonable means. All his injuries in his early career I understand how a successful loan could seal you a very good deal that can give you good financial security incase you do have the recurring injuries so he needs to strike whilst the irons hot. If you want to be part of our journey then you'll be backed to the hills here if you want to fuck off then off you pop, theirs always somebody else out there waiting in the wings.

On the positive side... them Hungarians were bloody brilliant weren't they? If that Sallai doesn't win player of the tournament then there's no justice. Aye three cheers for Sallai!

Great news for Nixon though. On twitter being a leech per usual whenever a club is in trouble.. acting like he knows everything behind the scenes when he knows f all about takeovers. Loves the soap opera of a club being in chaos for the attention it brings from desperate fans wanting to know if their club will exist in the morning. Fair enough he gets some transfers right but he's an absolute parasite when it comes to this type of thing. We've been linked with two players (Barkhuizen/Collins) along with Derby, not sure you'd want to be waiting around for these at this present time if you're a player

Over 250 games for them & captaining them in the prem does count for something, along with them also being a league higher. You also know in Evatt's competitive mindset he'd believe he could go in & take them to the prem again quicker than he could with us. We're the bigger club, better stadium blah blah but with his relationship with Sharon, the project/vision the club has got along with him being backed with cash it would have to take some real nostalgia for him to end up there.

Bored people on Twitter on a fishing trip? Not much has happened in the past few weeks at both clubs so would make sense to make some bollocks up & have our fans in total panic mode for absolutely no reason at all. He's class is Fossey but the only teams dumb enough to hand out 20k to a L1 player with 21 apps to his name who's had known serious injuries would be your Salford/Wrexham/Stockport if they were able too. Evatt & Markham will have everything in place behind the scenes like they've shown, if we miss out on some then f them we'll have very good alternates but it all sounds like bullshit to me.

Oh you effing love to see it 🍻

He looked decent in that little spell of home games against Crewe & Doncaster when we desperately needed the wins to stop us falling amongst the bottom fodder during a very tough period. Funnily enough he started, got an assist against Ipswich when he smashed them 5-2 but I remember bricking it everytime Burns ran at him. He was targeted as the weak link to get at by the teams with better wingers but he was a sight lot better last season than he was compared to his L2 apps for us. He seems a solid pro, good attitude, well liked by everybody whilst showing us as a club a lot of love in his interviews but a lot of our fans have gone proper overboard in regards to his ability. Wish him all the best, hopefully he can develop & be a good un for them.

Hub seems to be just throwing random names with us, in which I highly doubt we're in for Assal unless we see him as a Dapo replacement. Assal is a kid with tons of hype behind him being one of the most promising talents in L1 to the point that even the England youth setup have started to involve him even though he only plays for Wimbledon. He tends to play off the striker just in behind, a bit lightweight but definitely makes things happen & the sort to get fans off their seats. He would fit in as the young, pacey, versatile attacker who can play up top, in behind or even the wings but seeing as he still has two years on his contract it may not be a position we want to spend cash money on at the moment unless obviously we lose the starman🌟

Reinvest the whole lot into bringing Ryo Miyaichi back!

MK apparently want 3-5M for Twine who's a few years younger that Dap, had a better G&A return whilst also winning the L1 POTS. Think we'd accept 2M with a few sell ons & bonuses for Dapo if that's the case.

Looking forward to seeing a fully fit, full pre season & sharp Dempsey fingers crossed. He had a slow start especially as the attacking midfielder which he was signed to be likely due to lack of sharpness and fitness but for many of his cameos from the bench he made us considerably better especially against some of the tougher midfields to compete against like MK, Oxford, Wigan all away. He's a proper throwback centre mid which I like, main thing going for him is he can do a bit of everything so will give us some much needed balance. Gets stuck in, tenacious, can play a bit, another leader, box to box... hopefully Evatt can unlock it. The midfield Sheehan was playing in was far too open especially alongside Sarcebitch as they both wanted to be the attacking roaming midfielder but it left MJ way too exposed hence the mad scoring games early on in the season although it was exciting. See how he comes back, if he has a good season contributing well whilst staying fit he should get another year. Lee for me is up there as our best presser, he may not press as intensely or as much as Dion & Dapo but Lee just knows when to go all the time bang on. Misses a few sitters here and there but he brings so much to us off the ball aswell as being efficient on it. He was key in the pummelings of Charlton & Sunderland but it'll probably be a Hoolahan at Cambridge type management of him where we'll save him for the harder games.

The U21 forward loan from the prem we're working on most likely will be one of Sam Greenwood/Louie Barry/Troy Parrott/Mipo Odubeko. If it was one of Palmer or McAtee from citeh we'd be absolutely laughing though but think they'll have ultra high demand from the champ. We've built some solid relationships now with clubs & have helped develop the likes of Dapo, Traff, Fossey, Kioso etc the only one who didnt work out is Amaechi mainly due to he was hardly ever fit. Clubs know we have prem facilities, best pitch in the league, play good football & Evatt whilst trusting young players is a superb coach.

Massive loss for Argyle that, reuniting with Lowe at PNE you'd expect? Probably been tapped up by him

MK's L1 targets will be many of the same ones ours will be seeing as we are very similar in philosophy & play style. Twine goes to the champ that's a healthy bit of cash to get a jump on everybody in terms of recruitment this summer, reckon they'll go up through the autos next season. Soulless club but got a decent project on the go there.

Drab game but first legs usually are, Ross Stewart 25 goals this season? Rico absolutely bossed & pocketed him in both games leaving him without a sniff. Not to get an Evatt on but we're better than both of these under the conditions we can put out our fully strong XI out with no injuries. Humiliated Sunderland 6-0 with our best XI & managed a 1-1 draw with Weds admittedly totally outplayed by them but f me missing all of Santos, Dapo & Fossey they got us at the right time.

Our midfield is stacked but if we do bring another one in as much as I like MJ, an upgraded version would be the next step. A shithouse unit who does the dirty work, imposes himself with his physicality & get around the pitch well. Somebody like a Dominic Ball who's just been released from QPR? 6'2, 85 champ apps in the last 3 seasons, only 26. Hard to picture us still eyeing Hartigan he was heavily linked but that was before the signings of Morley & Dempsey. Presuming we play Dapo as the 10 in the 5-2-1-2 then only two of Morley/Dempsey/Lee/Sheehan/MJ start which means competition is going to be bloody strong in that department but if we want to go up then we will need to assemble the depth to push through the injury crisis & with our high energy style then rotating will be needed at times. It's going to be a very interesting window to see what Ian thinks we need to level up, not expecting many through the door for the first team after bringing many of the summer targets early in Jan but have a postive feeling we'll bring in the specific types to help limit certain weaknesses we're perceived to have to opposing teams.

Just comes off as a right fucking bully that miserable prick. Remember last season when they shithoused us at our place when we hadn't gelled & he was going on about how he wouldn't change any of his players for any of our overpaid players blah blah which was hilarious considering we had the most accomplished L2 striker of the last few years in Eoin Doyle who was coming off scoring 25 goals for Swindon the season before of course you wouldn't take him 🙄. Then when we dicked them on the last day to go up & the busy fucker was trying to step to Evatt on the touchline all through the match giving it the big one for the sky camera's. Loves it when he goes viral by having a pop at the interviewer every week too, couldn't be fucked having a wankstain like that as our gaffer.

Iredale natural full back, Geth was a full back when we signed him so theres a certain attacking nature to them to bomb on whilst being natural defenders. Evatt wanted two wide centre backs in a back three from the first day he arrived but he had Delaney, Taft & an ageing Baptiste attempting to do it. We did see positive signs second half of last season when we went back to the back three with Johnston/Geth the ones stepping into midfield & providing more threats of deliveries whilst joining attacks linking up supremely well with their wing backs wether it was John or Fossey so if Iredale is another Geth then it'll be a great fit.

Can't say I recollect him from our games but he's certainly at a good age at 26 like most of our XI, versatile, 6'3 to provide some aerial ability, coming off a solid season. Be happy with that

All expected & as straight forward as it should have been so well done Evatt. No sentiment in the decision making & time to really push on with the quality levels all throughout the squad if we're aiming for promotion. Baptiste(age), Amaechi(injury prone luxury player who doesn't fit into our system who's one of the highest earners), Tutte(injury prone), Gordon(potential but very upgradeble) , Delfouneso (can't even get in a shit L2 team), Greenidge(If anybody seen Barnet lose 6-0 to Wrexham the other week my god, Reiss had a bloody mare at fault for nearly every goal), Edwards (injury prone), Alexander (potential but Huchinson was ahead of him) & Fitzmartin (Good in the academy by all account, gl to the lad)