People need to stop relying on loader and especially Barrett. He's crap Nice cross for Meite's goal at the weekend. Lovely goal v Chelsea. You need wingers that can run at full backs. He can't do that. No you don't. Did Beckham ever run at full backs? If you can use a bit of skill to buy space and ...
I'm fine with it. We have Meite, Boye, Barrett, Olise. Even Loader has played there, and Ejaria if that comes off. We can also use midfield a diamond, 2 up front and get the width from our full backs. People call him inconsistent, but he was consistently dire under Clement. If he wants out and is di...
We're having one last hit at it. Either we're going up this year on 107 points or the club is going out of business end of the season. The owners were only ever here for the short term, if the club goes into administration why do they care? They just move on to the next club and have another make o...
I can't see this working out well for Loader or Wolves. It's Tish to Villa mk.2, except Tish had proven himself more. However, if his agent is advising him and he's set all we can do is hold out for a good fee involving guaranteed cash. Not structured in extras and sell-ons; he will spend several ye...
Barrow rumour has resurfaced on Twitter, and we may have accepted a bid. Some account I've never heard of who seems to guess a lot of shit, but he called Miazga before anyone else.
Any indications what a tribunal fee for Loader would be if he left at the end of the season? Some people have mentioned accepting £2-3m or so. Could we not get that at the end of the year? Especially if he has a good season.
Yep. I'm not sure how we'd fit Puscas and Joao together given Gomes doesn't often play 2 focal points up front. But competition between them is great and we'll be less vulnerable to injuries. As for Ejaria, our midfield options are currently Rino, Pele, Swift, Adam and our academy products, of who O...
I wonder if the spending of this window will become regular. I expect it may flatten. If you look at clubs like Man City and Liverpool, they spent shed loads building their squads but have been limited to 1 or 2 big incoming a year recently. I'm hopeful that this squad starts to gel nicely and next ...
If Wolves are interested and Loader isn’t going to sign another contract, then yes - may as well sell I don’t think he is quite ready for this level and doesn’t sound like he wants to hang around another season to find out if he is next year. Can certainly live without him now. Little bit disappoin...
Wolves stepping up their interest for Loader apparently. I'm always loathed to lose good talent, but he has a year left on his contract and Olise looks a more exciting prospect at the moment. If we can squeeze £5m out of him, not ridiculous in today's market, I'd be tempted to accept.
Agree, though that predictions, even three days ago, were about "another team" We have a major upgrade up front, a classic target man, what looks like a very solid keeper (doesn't have to be stellar, just solid and reliable, with experience) We have a foil for Rhino, a player who may well...
Would anyone like to make a guess of where we are with FFP after the 'splurging' of the last couple of weeks? We’ve paid one transfer fee so far and that seems to have involved little or no real outlay. If Puscas joins that pushes it a bit, but hard to imagine we’ve gone from a self imposed embargo...
How long until these guys blend into a squad? Ideally we'd have had them for pre-season. Don't be surprised if some are bit part until the first international break.
I'd expect yesterday's 3 signings to go straight in; allow Boye and Puscas a bit longer.