I believe Ashley Fletcher has signed for Huddersfield on a free 🙂

west ham have just sold a player for 85 mil

suspect they may piss our league

Edited June 30Jun 30 by L/H White

1 hour ago, L/H White said:

west ham have just sold a player for 85 mil

suspect they may piss our league

And that's before Bowen goes for something similar presumably.

But Wolves and Burnley will be swilling with cash and/or Prem or top end Championship players too, so those 3 can just get on with their own battle.

It all seems very quiet on the "Hull have to sell players to the value of £6mil" front. Has anyone heard anything?

18 minutes ago, Johnnyrotten said:

And that's before Bowen goes for something similar presumably.

But Wolves and Burnley will be swilling with cash and/or Prem or top end Championship players too, so those 3 can just get on with their own battle.

It all seems very quiet on the "Hull have to sell players to the value of £6mil" front. Has anyone heard anything?

I read somewhere they were selling Kyle Joseph to Boro for 5M

I have a sense that Burnley won't be as successful this year, as they have been in the past at going straight back up.

Parachute payments maybe, but they will still need to be judicious in their spending.

8 minutes ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:

I have a sense that Burnley won't be as successful this year, as they have been in the past at going straight back up.

Parachute payments maybe, but they will still need to be judicious in their spending.

Aren't Everton having to pay them £35m or summat?

Add that to parachute payments & general Premiershipness & I think they'll survive.

Survive?

I was thinking about promotion.

I'm not convinced they will achieve it this time round.

There or thereabouts, but not quite.

No specific reasoning, just suspicion.

14 hours ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:

I have a sense that Burnley won't be as successful this year, as they have been in the past at going straight back up.

Parachute payments maybe, but they will still need to be judicious in their spending.

Yes but they can spend £20mil and if it doesn't work, just move onto another £15mil or £10mil signing, and that's just from the compensation from Everton before they dip into parachute payments and player sales.

The bigger clubs like Boro, Southampton and Sheff U are paupers in comparison, Burnley can cock it up and still finish 3rd.

Kyle Dempsey

Port Vale

49 minutes ago, little whitt said:

Kyle Dempsey

Port Vale

Thought he’d have got a better move than League 2.

2 minutes ago, bwfc87 said:

Thought he’d have got a better move than League 2.

I don't think they care, its about the contract.

MK Dons last year - Collins, Maindez-Laing, Callum Patterson, Hepburn-Murphy - as good a set of strikers as any L1 club.

55 minutes ago, little whitt said:

Kyle Dempsey

Port Vale

Good luck to him, wherever. Though I am surprised he didn't get a decent mid-table 3rd Division club.

41 minutes ago, bwfc87 said:

Thought he’d have got a better move than League 2.

dont need move house

and got a 2 year deal

1 hour ago, Dr. Feelgood said:

Good luck to him, wherever. Though I am surprised he didn't get a decent mid-table 3rd Division club.

He'll have been on decent money at Bolton by L1 standards, and it would be hard for a L1 manager to justify to his board both an above average wage and a 2 year deal, with his injury record. Whereas if Vale do have the funds its a great signing (a "statement signing" even). When we were in L2 imagine the fuss if we'd signed him pre-season, compared to who we did sign.

He's not injury prone. He just spends half of each season injured.

4 hours ago, little whitt said:

Kyle Dempsey

Port Vale

for some reason I was sure he'd signed for Bradford?

57 minutes ago, TroySwoosh said:

for some reason I was sure he'd signed for Bradford?

... who seem to be shipping a whole new team in.

We’re apparently after Nathan Baxter

Can he be as bad as Connor Hazard?

25 minutes ago, green genie said:

We’re apparently after Nathan Baxter

Can he be as bad as Connor Hazard?

In his first season with us, I'd say he was our best keeper since Jussi. He seemed to lose confidence afterwards but I don't recall him making any howlers.

35 minutes ago, green genie said:

We’re apparently after Nathan Baxter

Can he be as bad as Connor Hazard?

I liked Baxter but he goes into the list of the Oxford heroes for me. It all changed with his finger injury and whatever happened with ‘super’ Ian

2 hours ago, Duck Egg said:

In his first season with us, I'd say he was our best keeper since Jussi. He seemed to lose confidence afterwards but I don't recall him making any howlers.

Take it you didn’t go to Lincoln away! I think he must have been on the piss the night before. Conceded 4, he was hopeless, didn’t bother trying to save a penalty and got beat from 40 yards with ridiculous positioning.

But yes, one game.

I agree he looked good at the beginning and he’ wasn’t riddled with errors… but there was something about him that wasn’t just quite right IMO.

Edited July 2Jul 2 by desperado

16 minutes ago, desperado said:

Take it you didn’t go to Lincoln away! I think he must have been on the piss the night before. Conceded 4, he was hopeless, didn’t bother trying to save a penalty

I knew there'd be at least one I'd blanked from my memory! You're right, he was shocking that day (along with a few others). You get that guy @green genie and you're fecked! Get the earlier version i mentioned though and it could be a great signing.

3 hours ago, desperado said:

Take it you didn’t go to Lincoln away! I think he must have been on the piss the night before. Conceded 4, he was hopeless, didn’t bother trying to save a penalty and got beat from 40 yards with ridiculous positioning.

But yes, one game.

I agree he looked good at the beginning and he’ wasn’t riddled with errors… but there was something about him that wasn’t just quite right IMO.

I didn't go but christ, that free kick 😲.

Telly nearly got booted in at that point, never even tried to save it.

Embarrassing

On 01/07/2026 at 12:47, little whitt said:

Kyle Dempsey

Port Vale

Am I losing my mind? Didn’t he sign for Bradford a couple of weeks ago?

45 minutes ago, mickbrown said:

Am I losing my mind? Didn’t he sign for Bradford a couple of weeks ago?

Yes, you've lost the plot

No he didn't sign for Bradford

On 02/07/2026 at 15:58, mickbrown said:

Am I losing my mind? Didn’t he sign for Bradford a couple of weeks ago?

haha not just me then, was even sure I saw a picture of him in the kit