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On 05/03/2019 at 12:10, eddiemunster said:

He is one of a few who are out of contract at the end of the season, that I would offer a contract to. Especially as it's rumoured that Nyland wants to leave. If we're still a Championship side next season, I'd also try and shift Kalinic, and promote Sarkic to be Steers backup.

Not a chance they will move Kalinic n when he only signed in January.

10 minutes ago, LxYoungAVFC said:

Taylor still got that resting bitch face

Resting bitch face? Looks like a melted candle 

4 minutes ago, villalad21 said:

Whelan can do an ok job when we're on the front foot, we won't today, maybe in parts of the game.

When teams are coming at us and we need actual legs and energy in the midfield Whelan is a liability. I'm sorry but it's just facts.

McGinn is exactly the type of player you cannot leave out in derby games and Smith have just done it and i think we will pay the price for it today.

And if we win? Will you credit Smith?

4 minutes ago, villalad21 said:

Leaving out McGinn for Whelan what a idiot move by Smith.

If we lose the midfield battle this is on Smith.

Whelan has arguably been one of our best players in the last few games. How about you support the 11 players on the pitch and wait until after the game for your reactionary rubbish.

7 minutes ago, SirSteveUK said:

I also think that people are overestimating how many players will be let go. 

I really don't think we will give many of them a new contract. This is a big chance to start next season with a fresh slate almost. A chance for Smith to mold his own team.

6 hours ago, Demitri_C said:

Adomah is the interesting one. We have a one year option to extent. If we have no money to spend will the club exercise it? Personally I'd rather release him

 

Surely the best idea is for us to take the option to extend his contract and then attempt to sell him for some sort of fee? Even £500k is £500k.

55 minutes ago, tomav84 said:

we're a bit short this weekend with injuries so i imagine it'll be a choice between jedinak at cb with hause LB, or hause CB and mcginn LB...i know which i'd prefer

I mean if we want to play players in the correct position, it would make sense to play Taylor at LB and Mings and Hause at CB. I understand that means we have to play Taylor but at least it's his natural position.

11 minutes ago, nnock1984 said:

Any updates on the injury? 

I think I read earlier that he's out for 6 weeks.

1 hour ago, Wainy316 said:

Bowen & Lolley would be nice with some of the Grealish money.  2 Villa fans replacing 1.

I think Lolley signed a new 5 year deal in the last few months so I'd be amazed if we went for him.

8 hours ago, briny_ear said:

Perhaps the plan is to get promoted this season and benefit from the extra TV money? 

We're not dealing with Dr Tony anymore though. These men in charge are real businessmen. I really don't think they would pin everything on promotion. Far too much risk involved. 

2 minutes ago, Demitri_C said:

Remember guys we will be saving almost 200k in wages come the summer per week. That’s a huge saving

I think it could well be more than that when you take into account the loan players leaving too.

5 minutes ago, sir_gary_cahill said:

Gardner, I think he does

Not in my opinion. Doesn't have the right mentality to make it with us. He's had chances in the past and never taken them but he looks okay for other teams. 

7 minutes ago, sir_gary_cahill said:

We’ve got a right back coming in in the Summer and a central midfielder returning from loan

Which central midfielder? Tshibola? Gardner? I don't think either of those will fit into Smith's plans otherwise i think he may well have recalled them in January.

19 minutes ago, sir_gary_cahill said:

You think he’s average? No-one’s taken a chance on him, wherever he’s been he’s scored goals throughout his career, I’d take him here in the Summer

He was at Southampton back when they first got promoted back to the Prem and they shipped him out on loan because they obviously didn't think he'd cut it in a higher league. Don't get me wrong he's very good at this level but at 33 he's exactly the sort of player we need to stop signing.

1 minute ago, OutByEaster? said:

So based on that, I think we need (in order):

1. Starting CB (Mings please)
2. Starting Left back
3. Back up CB
4. Right winger
5. Defensive midfielder
6. Left Winger
7. Back up Right winger
8. Back up CB
9. Striker
10. Central midfielder
11. Back up Defensive midfielder

I don't think we can afford to go out and buy those (at least) eleven players - I think we need to be looking at trying to get as many young and hungry as we can afford, four or five on loans and a couple of out of contract players with a little experience.

It's a big ask.

 

We have the option to buy Hause for £2/3 million i believe. He looks promising, i can see Smith wanting to bring him in permanently. 

15 hours ago, sir_gary_cahill said:

Billy Sharp isn’t average, wherever he’s been throughout his career, he’s scored goals

He's average in the fact that he's not good enough to play any higher than this level.

He's not been the same player since his injury last season in February/March. Just looks like his legs have gone, he can't beat a man anymore which is making him largely ineffective. I think the only reason he's in the team is because he helps out defensively. Needs to leave in the summer.

The Ibrahimovic incident was totally different. I have no doubt that incident wasn't an accident, if i recall correctly Ibrahimovic elbowed Mings twice during that game and the referee wasn't interested so he foolishly took his own form of revenge. The incident with Oliviera in my opinion was just a bad accident. There was no aggro between the 2 players during the game and Mings reaction afterwards shows to me that he didn't mean it. He didn't point out to the referee that anything has happened with Ibra because he did it on purpose.

Two similar incident but 1 was intentional and 1 accidental.

Just now, villan-scott said:

Yeah, as the deadline to register to play will be midday tomorrow. So if he signs he’ll be registered tonight, in time to play. I believe. 

I think he's got a hamstring injury at the moment anyway.

I'm honestly genuinely surprised!

2 minutes ago, Demitri_C said:

Need players now why waste the budget? 

Like I said we're probably not paying much if anything before the summer.