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Special thanks to JRod for his service attitude and goals.
£8 million for Rogers - it should go directly back into the academy.
U18:boss leaving - no shock there, nobody wants to work for Dowling or Jenkins and they are voting with their feet.
Lastly if we don't get busy buying In the next week, Bilic will be off before he starts and I wouldn't blame him. .
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As a club we are well and truely f##ked.
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The fans are the club, it's the idiots that are running the show. I still say they are asset stripping. Any one with 1/2 a brain doesn't want to work for them. Bilic has been sold a pup and if he stays will just hang around for 3 months to pick his cheque up. For the posters who think I'm doom and gloom it's the reality I'm afraid. I will still be a fan even when we are in Division 1 though.
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09-07-2019, 17:56
(This post was last modified: 09-07-2019, 17:59 by Blue Baggie.)
Hegazi gone now.- back to Egypt £10 million
Lai is so happy he's almost got his money back
Just Gibbs to Go
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(This post was last modified: 09-07-2019, 18:07 by Slick_Footwork.)
As predicted after the Villa game, it's proving to be a summer of huge transition where we sell most of the high earners with any transfer value and have to replace them at a fraction of the cost or with loans. Whether we are battling for a playoff place or fighting at the other end of the table will be largely determined by our recruitment team's ability to perform miracles.
To be honest I'm not massively bothered about any of the individuals we are selling, as without Gayle and Barnes last year we were a very average side. I've never particularly rated the likes of Hegazi.
Of the players with any transfer value we have left, Phillips and Gibbs are the ones I would personally like to see us keep.
What I am concerned about is that in comparison to last season we have already lost Dawson, Holgate, Adaraboiyo, Mozza, Barry, Montero, Johansen, Murphy, Rodriguez and Gayle who were all in and around the 1st team. Nyom, Burke and Rondon return, along with Krovinovic.
Overall that is 10 out and 4 in. 1 of those 4 in being Rondon who will inevitabley be sold.
We are very very short already. Before any more sales, we are 6 1st team players players down from last season. Rondon, Hegazi and this kid Man City are after seem to be close to being sold.
These doesn't seem to be many incoming links... Surely we need bodies asap... The season starts in less than a month and we barely have enough players to put a squad out.
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Not sure it is asset stripping, I think it is more the fact that the key players were talked into staying for a year with the promise of moves if we did not get promoted.
I think Hegazi and Gibbs will follow.
We do need to get the right replacements in fast to give Bilic a chance to mould them into a team...I am frustrated that other teams can get players through the door in a few days whereas the Albion board take months.
