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Reply | Ronnie returns, but is it the handsome deal QPR hope? – Signing
at 03:44 10 Jan 2026
Glad you’ve asked the awkward questions - we rejected activating the clause to sign Saito last summer, only to blow £5m on him because we had sacked a popular manager and the new guy was having an inauspicious start so they needed a panacea and Derby were about to sign him so pitchforks would’ve been out at LR.
Edwards is obviously a very promising player, but blowing the last of the Eze money on him because we had a crap Xmas has the feel as you say of a ‘look over here’ when that money could’ve arguably been better utilised.
Hopefully it works and we go on a 15 game clean sheet run now with lovely Ronnie in defence, while Saito smashes 20 goals by the end of the season, but yeah… |
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Reply | Burrel out until March
at 15:24 9 Jan 2026
As you know HH, the reality of what they’ll tell you to your face is very different from the reality on the ground. |
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Reply | Burrel out until March
at 13:00 9 Jan 2026
At the risk of being a stuck record, Williams is DOF now. Player availability is *technically* not him anymore. |
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Reply | Ronnie Edwards
at 16:42 8 Jan 2026
Obviously I can’t provide proof on a message board, but it was the very thick end of £5m with add-ons that admittedly likely won’t ever be met. |
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Reply | Ronnie Edwards
at 16:25 8 Jan 2026
LOL! We committed closer to double that on Saito….  |
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Reply | Ronnie Edwards
at 16:25 8 Jan 2026
At the risk of saying ‘I told you so’, I did tell you the deal was agreed weeks ago… |
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Reply | Burrel out until March
at 16:23 8 Jan 2026
I mean they realised they couldn’t have him come back after the farce of last season here and in Boston with a straight face so he failed upwards into the DOF role over the summer and thus probably gets some leeway here. |
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Reply | Dixon Bonner
at 18:19 7 Jan 2026
He’s been begging to be released for ages now and ended up at Våsterås and Morecambe as he had to sort out his own loans outside the usual transfer windows as the club was ignoring him.
I expect/hope for his sake that he’s got something else lined up and we have taken him back to finally let him go. |
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Reply | January transfer rumours
at 10:43 7 Jan 2026
We asked about Castledine and Deivid Washington the January we got Frey and Anderson and were quoted a cray loan fee so left it.
Castledine looks a very promising player who we could do a lot worse than taking a punt on. |
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Reply | Where are the Coal Mines
at 17:14 1 Jan 2026
At the risk of coming over all stainrod, when you sack off winnable games against Pompey and West Brom to focus on home games v Norwich and Sheff Wed and then get trounced by Norwich, you are rather making a rod for your own back. |
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Reply | January transfer rumours
at 16:29 31 Dec 2025
No worries, she’s happily munching on pizza right now so she’s had the best Xmas of all of us |
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Reply | January transfer rumours
at 16:04 31 Dec 2025
Our daughter has been in intensive care with RSV so I haven’t posted much at all the past month or so.
Thanks for asking though James |
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Reply | Baggie ball bags - Match Thread
at 22:20 30 Dec 2025
I have a bit of sympathy for Varane on that front as the club have thrown him completely under the bus by leaking out to friendly journos that we had rejected £5m+ for him - even with all add-ons and a 2x multiplier during the Chinese whispers it was nowhere near £5m - they’ve built him up as the new great white hope to ‘save’ us with a profitable sale.
Unfortunately when you’ve spent a lot of money paying PR firms to call you ‘the Lionel Messi of football boardrooms’ and the football on the pitch is crap, the lies off the pitch have to become incrementally bigger to keep the plates spinning, and there is a very big and painful meeting of plate and floor coming up in the not too distant future. |
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Reply | January transfer rumours
at 13:53 30 Dec 2025
Edwards was/is the last of the Eze money. The deal to sign him has been agreed since September, its note just a case of if he is the panacea in January or they use that money on another striker perhaps to get the twitterati frothing.
Regardless, the once in a generation cash input was blown on *this* lower mid table squad. |
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Reply | January transfer rumours
at 13:51 30 Dec 2025
It’s typical social media nonsense putting 2&2 and getting 5.
Of course we would like Frey to leave but he’s tied down for several more years and they did that to bring his wage to a manageable level. He’s going nowhere.
Of course we would like to get rid of Nardi, but he refused to leave in the summer and will see out his generous deal until the summer.
Of course we will look to sell Smyth for a few quid if he refuses to sign a new deal rather than let him walk for free, but he won’t want to leave.
Kolli & Morgan are still the two most likely to leave in January. |
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Reply | Esquerdinha and his usage
at 09:30 30 Dec 2025
We are neither going up nor down so he should be playing every week and learning on the job with RND filling in on 3 game weeks.
Horrendously mismanaged as per usual from this leadership. |
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Reply | Pompey match thread
at 20:10 27 Dec 2025
Not injured and being aggressively touted about. |
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Reply | January transfer rumours
at 10:06 18 Dec 2025
The loaner can’t recall a player on a season long loan without the approval of the loanee. |
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