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At least this should be over soon, feel like if I was a Barca fan it would be 10x worse for rumours given the amount of accounts they've got. They're sharing Garcia had lunch with his agent and now Barcelona are best placed to sign him.

Echo this. Ultimately could see him being moved on and if you go back and watch the YouTube compilation from his loan spell and a period of 22/23 you can see the difference due to his injuries. If we need gamechangers he doesn't fall into that category now.

Has there been a tier list of journalists relating to transfer rumours produced? I feel like Caulkin used to get the scoop, then Ornstein was pretty much nailed on. Football Insider just seem to go scatter gun to fill their website - Aston Villa are signing that Espanyol keeper based on their report today to replace Martinez, but last week he was 100% coming to us. The most credible link seems to be to Delap who Moyes confirmed in his press conference has spoke to Everton and then 3 or 4 other clubs (probably Man United, Chelsea and us) so far.

If there were any contract renewals at this time there will likely be an agent fee which might suggest this.

It would be interesting to see if it might relate back to the Forest game, fairly sure he took quite the knock in the second half that rolled his ankle, although can't say it impeded his performance against Liverpool.

This is it ultimately, we're stuck between a rock and a hard place but not quite turned into Aron Ralston (don't google if squeamish) in our decision making.

Intent was there for the push as he looks at him before doing it, but the Brighton player was off balance so ended up catching his head. Straight red based on those factors - stupid behaviour.

We miss Sven, hopefully makes the bench but with no replacement for Schar and Burn we're seeing their form take a massive dip.

It feels like this is the season done and dusted. We've not been good enough for weeks bar the odd 20 minute spell in a game here and there. Stupidity from Gordon and deservedly will miss the final, their CB made the most of it, but that feels like the game in this day and age. Our options from the bench today offered nothing, you can make a triple sub, but we are often worse. This isn't an anomaly of a performance, our winning run papered over this season as we've arguably played worse over the majority of this season than we have been better.

Shocking second half and you could see it coming within the first five minutes. We were slightly unlucky with the Tonali and Isak crossbar, but overall it was sloppy. The second goal from them was awful defending and he is tapping it in 5 yards out. After the Bournemouth game a lot were saying write it off and move on, me being one of them, but we've got some consistent issues that are creeping into our game.

It is going to be a big summer, but if there is a deal to be done and we have to lose Willock you'd take it.

You have to assume summer 2025 is going to be a big window for us depending on where we finish this season. Almiron and potentially Kelly sold this window. Schar and Krafth to get contract extensions. Pope will be an interesting one as he enters his final year, could see an extension and Trafford coming in. Dubravka, Wilson, Lascelles, Ruddy and Lewis all out of contract and likely leaving end of the season. Longstaff, Trippier and Targett will likely be moved on given their contracts end in 2026 - realistically these are deals we should be doing. Burn you could see getting a one year deal if we sell Kelly. Mitchell certainly has his work cut out and especially if we qualify for Europe.

Disappointing, but we gave chances away against Wolves and Bournemouth were great today and more likely to take advantage. A game we need to move on from and look to bounce back against Southampton. Majority of the players were below par and they nullified us in attack. We didn't dominate in midfield and defensively were poor with their wingers pushing Hall and Livramento back. I thought Dubravka made some good saves and would likely keep him in goal when Pope comes back due to his form over the last 10 games.

With anything as soon as someone new comes into an organisation they are going to look to make improvements. Last season we were decimated by injuries which resulted in a change of structure to bring in a specialist to look at improving this part of the club. If Botman came back early and was injured then it would be James Bunce getting pelters for allowing that to happen. Generally the better staff in senior management protect those in roles beneath them, however we've had a summer disrupted by change and come January hopefully those processes are smoother. If something isn't being done in the best way I'd rather someone come in and say that then just agreeing and if we're in the top four in December then holding off this summer might open us up for an exciting 2025.

I'm not sure if it was classed as the same situation, but Dalot for Man Utd last season againt Liverpool was a pretty quick yellows to red.