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What do you mean "look yourself?" Obviously I cannot see the rumour anywhere hence why I made the reasonable request to know where the rumour had been seen. @RoversClitheroe please could you share from where you saw that Pickering could be going to Reading.

Can we have some actual substance please, where are these rumours from? Link/screenshot?

He isnt in the team to scare the opposition. He was our best player for me last night which is not saying much. He is very good at what he does and its a very specialist role. Problem is, there is a mess around him. It is pretty embarassing that we signed a new centre back and after 1 game are not playing him, considering how poor yesterdays back 3 was individually. Centre back like other positions is an area where you could write down enough names to suggest we have more than enough bodies yet quality wise its impossible to put together a competent defence. Forgetting how good or otherwise Cashin is, his profile made no sense. Our centre backs are poor in the air, so we sign a really short centre back. We badly needed someone who is right footed and who can go in the middle, Cashin doesnt tick any of those boxes. Atcheson clearly has talent but isnt ready to be playing at this level. O'Riordan looked out of his depth and when the pair are looking for a dominant partner, they get McLoughlin.

The squad we have is crap, so any manager would somewhat have their work cut out. Towards the end, all of the last 3 managers made it clear that they werent getting what they wish in the transfer market. Players signed against their will, the players they wanted not being signed, an unwillingness to spend and an unwillingness to trade, whatever that is. However Ismael seems to regularly double down on his involvement in our shoddy recruitment, and actively seems to want these crap players.

@ruggles1995 you say that Baradji tried but I dont think he did at all, again. He was signed after a very strange career, being relegated from the Swiss league having been in the lower leagues in Italy before that. A Championship move should be an absolutely massive opportunity for him. He clearly has more ability than most of our signings but he just strolls around, doesnt bother running back, regularly gives the ball away dawdling and just is symptomatic of how we have been run down. Hes is one of our more talented players, we have plucked him from obscurity and he cant even be arsed. Another symptom would be that McLoughlin has regularly worn the armband and often (not last night) played in the middle of a back 3. Absolute crap.

Ive no idea why you keep focusing on his time at Barnsley as if he did anything other than an excellent job there. He finished 5th with Barnsley! A good job that has very much proved the exception in the career of a crap manager.

What would it do? A journalist who is banned criticising the club wont make one jot of difference.

The only reason it keeps coming back up is because people like you keep questioning me on it. I haven't said that Mercer has done anything wrong and indeed said fair play to him for knowing that someone had signed.

Pathetic, pitiful display yet again. Tronstad was the only player for us that resembled a Championship standard player. Nice to see Jorgensen score but I didnt see the quick forward that was suggested. Very slow and very weak, constantly losing the ball. Baradji an absolute liability again, constantly losing the ball and not someone you want in the trenches with you, bone idle. Ohashi again nowhere near good enough. O'Riordan miles away from the standard. Gardner Hickman and McLoughlin again showed why they had become surplus to requirements at previous clubs. Powell with a nice assist but physically isnt ready to compete with Championship players. Doherty anonymous. Not fair to keep throwing all of these kids together.

I am unsure why you (and others) are getting so precious about what I have said. I am not criticising you, I said fair play for knowing that a signing was imminent, but without knowing the name, that its hardly a massive scoop. Ismael said pre match that Cantwell was injured.

Frightening.

He was indeed spot on in that we were signing a player. Fair play. He just didnt know who the player was, which is fine. Its nothing to do with any supposed disagreements in the past. I am not saying that he has done anything wrong or deserves any criticism.

Spot on regarding the timing. But without a name hardly qualifies as a big scoop.

But surely the players name/identity is quite important in getting a story/scoop. Not just me being pedantic.

Its not sniping, I literally asked for some detail as to who he was referring to. He didnt get Jorgensen before anyone else. He never once specfied his name.