I see a figure of £13m suggested for Kehrer and under £10m for Pablo. How on earth, with the way the market has gone this season, are our players seemingly worth so little? I'd suggest they are worth far more to us and it will cost a lot more to find adequate replacements for either. Fornals is in ...

We need to manage the "non homegrown" part of the squad well now. Currently we have Fabianski, Areola, Zouma, Coufal, Mavropanos, Ogbonna, Kehrer, Aguerd, Emerson, Fornals, Paqueta, Cornet, Alvarez, Soucek and Benrahma, which makes 15. We can only register 17. So with ongoing pursuits for ...

kitthehammer wrote: ↑Wed Aug 23, 2023 10:23 am so if we get one of these other strikers then does that mean we are not getting Kudus?
Or we are going to get both?

Sounds like the Kudus issues are way beyond our other signings. Seems to be falling apart from all angles.

ironilunga wrote: ↑Wed Aug 23, 2023 9:16 am If you love them set them free. Regrettably no place for Pablo in our first team and I think Lingard joining probably has him slipping further down the pecking order.

Does anyone at all (other than Lingard and his immediate family) actually believe that he is an improvement on Fornals?

paulhs1 wrote: ↑Tue Aug 22, 2023 6:40 pm Bloody hope not

It'd almost be worse to lose him mid season than now.

If he scores the same as Antonio (who is a "legend" to some), maintains, or increases, the number of assists he has delivered, improves with better players around him and brings a level of control of a football that Antonio simply doesn't possess, then it's not such a bad thing. The guy i...

Felixstowesfinest wrote: ↑Tue Aug 22, 2023 3:48 pm Ok

El nesri or big dom from Bournemouth?

Who would u rather play up top for us ???

En Nesyri every day of those two. Altho I don't think we'll sign him!

But £40m is just a 2015 £20m, and a 2008 £10m. Prices are ridiculous these days, and the question is not whether he is worth £40m, but whether he is worth the difference to us finishing 15th and finishing 9th-11th. I never saw a £20m player in him back then either. His last 2 full seasons in the PL...

Still a no for me on Solanke, and no, it's not because he isn't an unknown European. Agnostic of nationality, its purely based on his goal scoring record (mostly scoring against lower/recently promoted teams). I'm sure we can find someone else to run around and offer no real goal threat I agree. I ...

diehardhammer wrote: ↑Tue Aug 22, 2023 2:26 pm the latest rumour is fornals off in part of a deal for en neysri according to twitter

Which would be insane. Our midfield would then be Alvarez, JWP, Soucek and Paqueta. That's it.

I don't think anyone of note ever claimed we were near Wahi anyway? There was an initial "made enquiries" a week or two ago, but I'm not convinced we were ever seriously in for him.

Hopefully we have other irons in the fire........

Posted this the other day (now with Anang correction!): Homegrown players: Anang, Johnson, Cresswell, Ward-Prowse, Downes, Coventry, Antonio, Ings, Bowen (9) Overseas players: Fabianski, Areola, Zouma, Coufal, Ogbonna, Kehrer, Aguerd, Emerson, Fornals, Paqueta, Cornet, Alvarez, Soucek, Benrahma (14)...

SiamHammer wrote: ↑Fri Aug 18, 2023 9:35 am What's Lingard's wages then?

He was in 6 figures a week at Forest, but I can't see him getting that here now (or anywhere else tbh).

EastleighHammer16 wrote: ↑Wed Aug 16, 2023 6:14 pm He had a brilliant season for Metz last season in the French 2nd division.

Still the French 2nd though isn't it! If we're looking at Div 2's then we should have been in for Akpom.

Doku can choose Man City or us. Why are we even discussing him - he's clearly not coming!

West Ham Matt wrote: ↑Wed Aug 16, 2023 4:27 pm We were shocking up until the same point too so I don't blame him. The guy is clearly world class.

Wouldn't argue with that at all. The point being simply that Paqueta has probably had 10-15 proper good games in the PL and we ask for £100m now, so the market is indeed crazy.

SiO wrote: ↑Wed Aug 16, 2023 4:26 pm Prices rising quicker than my mortgage

I think the Saudi impact is a huge part in this too.

hammerman11 wrote: ↑Wed Aug 16, 2023 4:23 pm Looks like deals for wahi kudus and tah maybe getting nearer

Any sign of defenders ,we need 3 ! Maastens chalobah walker-peters

You literally named Tah in the previous sentence to your Q about defenders!

Aceface wrote: ↑Wed Aug 16, 2023 4:08 pm I like Eze but I don’t see him as a £70m player. Not yet anyway.

We appear to be in a world where players like Balogun cost £50m. If that is true then Eze is well worth £70m.

In fairness we're all saying £90-100m for Paqueta and he was poor to average up until March.

As far as squad size goes, and based on these rules, our squad is: https://www.premierleague.com/news/102383 Homegrown players: Johnson, Cresswell, Ward-Prowse, Downes, Coventry, Antonio, Ings, Bowen (8) Overseas players: Fabianski, Areola, Anang, Zouma, Coufal, Ogbonna, Kehrer, Aguerd, Emerson, Fo...