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The idea that he's worth a million quid is unhinged. He's worth what someone will pay, and right now that really isn't any more than a quarter of that. The calculation for us is purely whether we can get a replacement as good for his wages and 50% of the fee, or whether he'll really come good...

Oh yeah. Forgot about that! Won't have been huge though.

Plot twist. Burton are apparently interested too. Get that bidding war underway.

You heard right. And he wasn't in the squad last week. Lots of murmurings from our end that you've got him for £200k or so (though I've also heard more). That would give us a million quid in summer sales without paying a fee ourselves and he's our biggest earner. Will leave us light creatively...

Not at all, and it's not like we didn't realise. Our kitman showed a pic of them side by side and you could play one against the other and be fine. Third kit is red, anyway. It's more of a mistake from a marketing point of view as I'm not sure anyone will buy both. Away kit is going to be by far...

It's administratively London but culturally a mix of urban sprawl and suburban Surrey, which it was still part of until 1965. But then Leyton couldn't be called London either 150 years ago so your jellied eels credentials aren't much older than ours.

Had Josh Parker all pre-season as a potential back-up forward but have announced we won't be signing him. Phew.

I have it in my head that we always draw, but looking it up we are leading 7-3 in wins. Doubt Hudlin will start and unless we bring in anyone else we'll line up something like this (though may go 4 at the back): Nik Tzanev Jack Currie - Chris Gunter - Alex Pearce - Will Nightingale - Lee Brown...

Which is the most I think anyone would pay for him right now. How much sell-on Chelsea cream off is irrelevant to what he's actually worth on the market. Anyway, not in the squad for today's friendly and nothing about him being injured. Make of that what you will.

Can't cope with the complicated set of options for home fans - 10-year tickets, debentures for a guaranteed seat, people sitting together etc. All of which could be done on a decent system but ends up on ours with our brilliant office staff working tirelessly to sort stuff out by phone. Whether...

A ticketing system unfit for purpose bought by a CEO who also proved unfit for purpose. Not the only off-pitch problem we're trying to pick up the pieces from.

Yeah, maybe I'm being harsh because he scored 7 in 40 for us - better than the 6 in 39 for you. It's not that he's been poor, more that there is clearly much more in there that we don't get to see consistently. Can't do much for your confidence to have successive relegations on your CV - the...

We've sold 4,300 as of yesterday, which is slightly up on last season even after relegation. With the smaller number of away fans we'll probably average about 7,000 to 7,500 this season.

I should have been paying more attention to League Two given our permanent residency in the relegation zone of League One for the last few years, but I really have absolutely no idea about most of the teams and absolutely no idea how good we'll be. So on that basis I'll go for 12th for us with...

Back in 2011 he was our first academy graduate to make a first team debut. Nice to hear he's turned out a good lad. As a footballer I'm a bit surprised, though pleased, he managed to dig himself back out of non-league which seemed his level.

Couple of hundred thousand and it's a deal. He's certainly not been the player he was at yours though. Frustrating because you can see the talent there, but he goes missing at times when he should be taking the game by the scruff of the neck and some of his decision-making when in dangerous...

Ayoub Assal was very impressive for the first half of last season so hoping he recaptures that form. Paris Maghoma on loan from Brentford comes with rave reviews, but I haven't seen him yet so who knows? On paper Luke McCormick should be a stand-out (and is a big earner on the expectation that...

I don't think we'll play that way, though I wouldn't be against it if it works. Sure, Hudlin's height gives us a target but by all accounts Davison doesn't win anything in the air. Assal (5 ft 6) will be playing alongside or behind one or both of them and the last thing he needs is hoofball. If...

Do you know who these geeks are? From what I've read about your crypto bros their aim is to sell football to crypto investors rather than the other way round so are actively going after people who know nothing about the game and are making a small side-bet on Crawley. That would terrify me, to...

Doesn't always work like that though does it? Birmingham paid £2 million for Sam Cosgrove before loaning him to us, and he turned out to be toilet. I like having the option of Hudlin but pretty sure he won't be our main striker and that now the Rudi business is done we'll move for at least one...