Striker is as urgent as it gets. No way Antonio can handle a 50 game season, especially if he thinks he'll be participating in a Jamaican WC qualifying campaign. It's not just someone to come in and challenge him, but to rotate with him, and even to complement him in some games. Any CF signing comi...

Beyond replacing Dawson alongside Ogbonna this window and pre-season has always been about getting some depth, in my opinion. We saw at the weekend that our first team is pretty strong - although Atalanta are probably a week or so behind us in terms of pre-season work as they don't start until a wee...

Listening to journo Phillipe Auclaire talk about the French league on a pod. He is saying that the league is without (as of August 4th) a tv deal, and that most sides are on the brink of insolvency. He said there will be a huge, league wide fire sale of players in the next few weeks in attempt to s...

steps wrote: ↑Fri Aug 06, 2021 1:02 pm That Pereira is a tidy player, how have they let another one slip through the net?

Perhaps because we didn't have any interest in Pereira?

They seem like they have a plan. GSB don’t. That’s enough for me. #GSBOUT What, exactly, is their plan beyond own the stadium? Appreciate to some that it's enough, but there's nothing about on the pitch stuff, budgets, goals for the club, infrastructure work in terms of training/coaching facilities...

If as reported, we have been talking to Milenkovic for a few days now, we should have some idea if he wants come and after 2/3 days, what else is there left to talk about, apart from the weather ? I'm not going to pretend to be any kind of expert on these things, but I imagine we know if he wants t...

This is what other teams dont do. The manager has told his paymasters who he wants and they seamlessly just go and get him and get the deal done, usually within days. Only a matter of a day or so ago, we enterered into discussions with Florentine, over Milenkovic, we are told the player wants to co...

[*] Have things got that bad?!?! Will Hughes Come on mate Neat passer, strong defensively, Premier League experienced, mid-20s - as a largely reserve player for Rice and Soucek, what's not to like? Would be reliable as a back up, could play with the other two in a three if we wanted a bit more defe...

Slightly related to us, it seems Burnley and Watford both have an interest in Doing, while Will Hughes is likely to leave Watford with Palace and Burnley being interested. https://www.football365.com/news/burnley-palace-to-battle-for-watford-midfielder-hughes Doig has been linked to us, I think, whi...

Play favourites? It was in the rules of the league for years and not even the first time it was used I don’t think. Stupid rule though but that’s inept La Liga’s fault imo Stupid rule yes, but there's no way that Barcelona, with their second division B team and high quality youth system, could in a...

So Barca took Leganes most effective player, Braithwaite, wrongly in my eyes, Leganes were later relegated. A year and a half later and Braithwaite not leaving has probably led to Barca being unable to keep Messi, karma :grin: Agree with that, Jumby - it was ridiculous that Braithwaite was ever all...

7 paragraphs and 90% of the text in them are about their goals for the stadium. This is a property deal to them where we just happen to be in the middle, I fear.

Now Lingard and Pereira seem off the table, it appears we do not need them because "Benrahma is going to be mahoosive this season,na,na,na,na,na!" We never needed them. We do not need to sign another £25m attacking midfielder. Any link with Lingard is only due to him having come here on l...

That's all opinion. "Armstrong cannot win the ball in the air and hold it up" screams every much like Sullivan saying "Bony doesn't win headers". They score goals at the end of the day. He had the most goals outside of set pieces in the championship last year, that stands for so...

Southampton close to agreeing to sign Armstrong apparently. So Villa flog Grealish, instantly sign Ings who should have been our target. Southampton flog that player to Villa, instantly go to sign a replacement in Armstrong, another player who should have been our target West Ham have had about 8 w...

Ntcham on a free, perhaps?

I was wondering what had happened with Maksimovic - it was about four and a half months ago we were reported as having a deal agreed for him (https://todofichajes.com/maksimovic-no-renovara-con-el-napoles-y-ya/) to be our first transfer of the summer, but that was obviously either not finalised/comp...

Fulham are reported to have 'knocked back' a loan bid for Anguissa from Valencia - https://the72.co.uk/243928/fulham-knock ... -anguissa/

They loaned him when they were last relegated - wouldn't surprise me if they were hoping for a transfer this time around.

I wonder if Jesse was brought in because said hadn't fully settled yet I think you might be right in that assessment - perhaps what we didn't expect was Lingard to go so well for us that he became essential. Would explain why we weren't bothered by not having an option to buy at the end of the loan...

That "tackle" on Fofana was disgraceful...a pre season friendly ffs. You can bet Leicester won't faff about getting a replacement and waiting for the next window to "get better value" or "the managers targets won't be available till then". I always remember playing a p...