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Townsend gone now, just confirmed.

Again, it really surprises me that anyone has come in for him...

I appreciate Ipswich probably just see him as cheap cover, but you'd think they would've gone for someone with the potential to grow into a Premier League player rather than a 30+ bang average Championship player on his best day. To be fair to him, he had a good period under Ismael but has been poor otherwise and was one of our weak links last season IMO. While Corberan improved him defensively, he lost the ability to get forward and provide any quality a couple of years ago.

My main concern is just our ability to put a squad out with all the outgoings. A lot of the players who have left, while poor, did stay fit. We might already have Towsend's replacement in Heggem, but who plays there if he is injured? That's Townsend, Pieters, Reach and Pipa gone, 3 left backs and a utility full back, with only Heggem incoming. We need more bodies and it's going to be difficult when we only seem to have the ability to scrat around in the free agent and loan market.