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I'd hope so, the last time he was in Germany he played in the second division, he's dropping down to the third division where the standard won't be as good, so surely he has more of a chance of getting regular playing time. I always thought his dribbling and ability to get past players was usually pretty good, it was just in the final third where his cross or shot more often than not was off.

If we lost Jodi to Bromley I would be seriously concerned, I can’t see it happening. Also Jodi Jones in an Andy Woodman team, I don’t see how that works. I’m giving this rumour a 1/10 for probability. (Cue news of Jones departure to Bromley by the next week)

I was just trying to look up his stats to find out a bit about him and Sofascore have listed him as a Notts player! I think when it's the overseas transfers they are a bit harder to keep a secret, the news about Jatta and then Traore got out a the night before Notts announced it. Be funny if it didn't happen though... It does seem likely now but I'll still wait for the Notts official website announcement.

No not heard anything, it'll all depend on how Luton are planning their season and transfers, if they think he's going to be part of their first team squad it'll be unlikely. I'm sure we'd like to have him back though. I think he's only going to get better and in the short spell he was our most dangerous attacking midfielder.

He wasn't part of Harrogate's squad for their match against South Shields tonight 🤔 A possible replacement for Norburn? In terms of style they are quite similar, Jack Evans is more athletic but obviously not as experienced.

Welcome Paul, clearly you’ve made an excellent life choice in supporting Notts and now you've made the bold step to join the rest of us who spend far too much time talking about them! I'm looking forward to seeing you around the forums and hearing your views, especially if you can explain why we seem do things the hard way every single season!

Considering how short we feel in terms of goal scorers (and with the Jatta drama) I'd have been quite happy to have him, he scored more than all our attacking midfielders combined last season. It's a key area of the pitch that is lacking right now, obviously there's still plenty of time to sign players but the more time they get in pre-season with us is only going to help them get up to speed quicker.

I really like it and maybe controversially, I think I prefer it to last seasons too! I get that reinventing something that everyone wants to stay the same is tricky but I think the pin-stripes are a nice added detail, in theory mixing them in with the thicker stripes could've looked a mess but I think it just gives the shirt a bit more added interest. Maybe all the sponsors are a tad over-kill but this is just the way modern football is a the moment.

Good to see he was a player flagged up in @ARLukomski 's recruitment doc and going off that he looks like he'll be much more suited to being one of the outside CBs as opposed to being in the middle because I think someone who is more aerial dominate is more suited here. The video from the is Newport fan is encouraging too, the fact he's very comfortable on the ball and pretty athletic means I think he'll be fine with us.

It's hard to gauge too much, especially when Forest put out a side that has 10x the value of our whole club, some players I thought did well and others really did seem to struggle. It is the top end of the pitch where we have the biggest issues right now, but I agree with @McPie the best thing about yesterday for me was seeing the potential and promise of the young players that came on. Looks like Jatta's visa issues have extended to Meadow Lane. I just find it odd, even if he wants to move, why is he not taking part in pre-season and getting himself fit and ready to play regardless? It'll have a knock on effect because he'll be well behind everyone else whatever club he's at. From what I can gather Jodi was at the match and was photographed training in the week so I did find it odd he wasn't playing especially as he hasn't played any minutes this pre-season either.

I think it'll be quite telling if he's not involved against Forest. He's behind the rest in terms of fitness so he'll need to get minutes on the pitch. I've always thought Jatta was pretty happy here though, especially considering we've turned down bids in the past I'm sure he could've pushed for a move if he wanted one.

Yeah it was pretty excruciating viewing by the end, we were just far too negative. 6 defenders on the pitch was totally unnecessary and we had no centre-forward because Kane spent the last 30 minutes closer to his own box than the oppositions! Spain didn’t change the way they played after going 1 up against France, so why did we? I didn’t get it at all to be honest. It was a pretty even match until we scored, ironically that turned out to the best moment for Argentina. I think Tuchel totally panicked, yes we managed it against Mexico but they didn’t have players like Messi, Alvarez, Fernandez and Mac Allister…

It's inevitable that we are going to get bids in for Jatta, the only thing now is as his contract is up at the end of the season Notts have a big decision to make. If Jatta has no intention of signing a new contract we either sell and reinvest or keep him for the season but get nothing after it. I feel like I know what is more likely to happen... If we do end up losing our two top goal scorers heading into League 1 it's going to be a hell of a challenge and put real pressure on the recruitment to get it right. So, fingers crossed we get news of him signing a new deal!

The live stream is on Randers FC Youtube channel for those who want to watch. It's obviously very decent of them to provide a free-stream but it does appear to be filmed with a camcorder from the 2000s. You can definitely make out a that football match is indeed taking place, but l'm struggling to figure out who is who and what is happening on the other side of the pitch, or in both boxes, or where the sun is really bright... But when Kouhyar has the ball on the nearside it's fine!

He should be, he's been ill so didn't travel with the rest of the squad but was due to fly out today. I agree no-one really had a stand out performance. In terms of the new boys Gibbons looked pretty solid in at RCB and I thought Lipsuic was lively going forward, a tad suspect defending at times, but not bad for someone playing out of position. It was a bit tougher for Cal, I think he's more suited to being on the ball than chasing it!

I can't seem to edit my post, but I meant Norway's defence, not Denmark's! It's the heat! 🥵😵

I think we, England, are quite lucky that both Spain and France have fallen in the other side of the draw because they look like the two best teams for me. That's just how it goes sometimes and I think we've got a good chance of getting to the final. Haaland is the obvious dangerman, if Guehi is out, it means either Burn or Stones will be in. He'll stick close to either of them because he's got the beating of them all day when it comes to pace and making runs in behind. I think it'll be another game with goals in, the defence is the weakest part of Denmark's team and England's could be a bit patched together too. I'll take another 3-2 win!

I don't think the result was surprising, especially when you consider Viborg's season starts in less than 2 weeks, I watched the first half and it was pretty competitive. And having listened to Martin Paterson after the match he's quite happy how it all went, because it sounds like the players were training pretty intensively before it. All that said, there's a recurring event in these pre-season away trips now... How have we managed to mess up Jatta’s visa, again? He's going to be 2 weeks behind, having missed 3 of the friendlies too, not good.

Yeah a trio of low scoring strikers behind Jatta doesn't fill me with confidence going into next season right now, but hopefully that will all change by the first match. For whatever reason Traore hasn't worked out and it's a massive gamble (probably not a good one) to expect him to come good in an even tougher division than last season. I still think we need another striker that can genuinely push Jatta for a starting spot.

He wouldn’t have been my choice and I can understand the underwhelmed reaction (maybe not so much to the extent on social media!) because last season he didn’t score any league goals, Bonnyrigg Rose is so below League football level it’s basically an anomaly goal. That doesn't fill me with confidence he’s going to be able to step up to League 1. Obviously I hope it all clicks for him here, I get he might be more of a provider than goal-scorer but we need our forwards to score because as of now, after selling Dennis, we look to be totally reliant on Jatta when it comes to scoring goals.

There are some cracking goals from today, those highlights make it look like Alfreton were instructed not to tackle us! So Aden Flint, Harlee Dean and Jonathon Leko were the three trialists going off the info from here. Obviously hard to gauge much against a team from the NL North but I would feel a tad more comfortable signing a centre back that was closer to 30 than 40. Tom deciding to come a watch us play a meaningless friendly in his free time... Hmmm, I'm sure he's made some new friends at Notts but it makes me wonder. 🕵

Anyone going? It'll be good to see the new players for the first time and it's spot the trialist season too. I'm guessing we'll play two different sides for each half and given the squad is a tad light we'll surely have a few of our academy players involved. Not really fussed about the score, we know the starting 11 come August will be nothing like the one that starts today, as long as no-one gets injured that's all that really matters to me.

7 goals in 16 matches for Oldham last season, likely would have scored more if he wasn't injured. Falls into the age bracket of players we love to sign for a fee, I can totally see why we are interested in him.

I’m a tad surprised by this to be honest, I know we operate in that if a player valuation is met they are free to go but Burton are one the teams we are going to be in competition with to stay in the league. Let’s just hope come the end of the season this doesn’t look foolish. We’ve lost a lot of goals with his departure now, I agree his form dropped but he’s a younger player and with forwards this isn’t uncommon. He was still coming off the bench and scoring. 14 goals in the league considering he didn’t start that many matches second half of the season is pretty impressive. I’ve seen the other post about Mellon, makes it feel even more likely now.

Yeah I think Flint is more because he’s local, his first clubs were Pinxton and then Alfreton, I guess it’s more to get fit and then find another club. Leko has had two ACL injuries and we’re stuck in bit of a curse when it comes to ACL injuries too. I feel like I know what would happen if he signed. Sadly, I think he’s one of those who suffered from playing too much intense football at a young age as at 16 y/o he was playing and training with the West Brom first team. There seems to be a fair bit of research looking into this now as more young players are suffering bad injuries, it’s not just bad luck.