Can only repeat a lot of the above. MK away, on paper the hardest game first up so odds are we’ll get nothing. Positives - we historically do quite well against them, Alexander going back, first day results often not reflective of how a season will pan out.
Obviously Port Vale have chucked the cash around but I don’t think anyone gets close to the MK squad, pleased to be playing them away first up when those first game results can be a bit of a lottery.
Jack Shepard, centre half from Barnsley confirmed season long loan. Feel like we’re going with quantity over quality in that position, plenty of 6/10’s but little more.
We couldn’t afford Critchlow’s shoe laces never mind the actual player. Someone on Twitter quoting DMac that we offered 35% of his wages? What a waste of an email/phone call that was.
5 promotions to his name, FA cup quarter finalist with a L1 side and League Cup finalist with a L2 side? The guy’s got a better CV than the rest of the league put together.
Not even going into the £500k rent etc. we are basically maxed out in the budget barring a young kid or two coming in on loan, one of which already seems to have fallen through after he’s started well in preseason. For two years we’ve handed out long and or expensive contracts to often not good...
Technically a preseason post but we are randomly hosting Sunderland Vs Marseille in August because the SOL pitch won’t be ready. “Oo la la Bradford is magnifique at this time of year” the French club probably said.
Would’ve loved him back but until we shift Vadaine Oliver and a couple of others I feel like our hands are tied at offering the big guns anything.
Squad wise we also would’ve had to change things massively to accommodate him, either 442 with Cook which we never play or rotate him and Cook...