Recent content by MagpieBee

It’s hard trying to compare the two, as their styles are so different. We definitely were a lot more fun to watch / played more “beautiful” football last year, but have been more effective this year. That Toney only needs 3 more goals to match Watkins tally is insane (his 9 assists put him top...

Barnsley the better team today. Took their chances but out fought us all over the pitch, we’re really organised with their defending and pressing, we just looked really poor. Despite the long unbeaten run, a loss like this has been coming, we’ve been quite lucky of late (which has made a change...

Shame Pontus is injured pretty much till the play offs, but good to get an experienced body in. Had a lot of injuries the past few years Reid but in the past had been talked about moves to the Top 6. Of we can get 10 half decent games out of him it’ll be a good move

Think you guys have done a pretty good job replacing the out of contract guys tbf.

That’d be a really good price for a guy with 6 months left on his deal. Ideally we’d be after Pearson and Davies to help push us over the line but it looks like we’re no longer in the running - doubt we’d be offering much more in terms of wages than you guys, and certainly not near what Celtic...

To be fair, Preston have been stable at this level for a good number of years before being able to afford to give these kind of salaries.

You guys have been much better second half. We might regret not putting this to bed when we had a chance

Pretty sure we reveal the length of all our contracts

We had him on trial for a couple of weeks in late December but seemingly decided not to give a contract to him.

This is why we end up selling all our best players. We could hold onto them all for another 1-2 years each but then either lose out on a fee entirely or at least see that fee severely reduced.

You are correct in that for goods and services, but people don’t count as “products” or “trade”! It’s like, if I went to live in Australia or any country in the world for a year, and then wanted to come back here to live - trade rules have no impact, I’m British so I have a right to work here...

Why’s that? Capoue is French, Villareal is still in Spain... both are therefore EU? Don’t know why us leaving would impact that.

We’ve been linked to Stephy Mavididi, ex Arsenal and Juventus youngster, previously had loan spells with a few teams in this league without ever doing too well IIRC? Seems to have found form in France though, apparently did well for Dijon last year, joined Montpellier for €5m in the summer but...

Your recruitment is usually pretty good, that’s a hell of a lot of good players to lose but a lot of wage bill to play with

Not great for any of us really, fewer trials actually going ahead just pushes back the date everyone else can go in