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sure, could be. My point, or question was more along the lines of how Still sees the two players we have/are signing - are they the missing quality and thus better than what we have or is that quality coming later in the form of PL loans. I didn't see Quarshie as a starter, but maybe I have underestimated how good he is?

Sorry, it's Will Still, in the Daily Echo interview.

"There doesn't need to be a massive overhaul, but there will be addition of quality where it's needed" I wonder if Quashie and Downs are the quality where it is needed or that might be some loans closer to deadline day?

Lowish fee, but there is nothing low risk about the signing. Every signing is important. Get it wrong and you are stuck with a waste of space for three or four years. Get it wrong and you weaken the side, weaken the squad. Get it wrong and you don't have the striker you need to get promoted. Signings need to spot on. Getting one out of five right and you are fucked. Get four out of five right and you get promoted.

he looks a million miles more fluent and mobile than Onuachu. Never seen Onuachu on the half turn, ever.

they'll only get a percentage of any profit.

Not sure he ever played in the to flight never mind get relegated from it.

probably back to Turkey, possibly on loan, although Besiktas have offered €7.5m for him.

We will have a budget to be within and a need to cut the wage bill. Even if we are signing three players before selling, player sales will dictate what we can do in the GK position. But Ramsdale out, new number 1 in (possibly on serious dough), and keep the other two as second and third choices would work.

I get the same feeling. Having seen a host of scruffy finishes in Onuachu's youtube video, that is a little concerning. We are obviously shopping at a different level than last summer, but you still want to see a guy murdering opponents at the level he currently is at. There has been a lot of talk of signing players with the right physical attributes, but all I see if "tall" in Quarshie and Downs. As Onuachu proved, that isn't the most critical thing.

Bit more meat on the bone. Not sure I am totally convinced, but he looks better than his US strike partner Agyamang to me. Tall, decent turn of foot (not electric), seems to play on the half turn well, happy to lay it off first time...he's much more comfortable doing that than dribbling with the ball. Touch seems OK. Not sure I see a PL striker there, but he might have more tools in his bag than Stewart.

Not sure, as I don't know championship keepers, but if there are better, how to do we offload the two we have? That part os not piece of piss. No one is taking McCarthy off our hands and he has zero reason to depart while we are paying him a decent wage.

Likewise. You are probably a good man to ask for the best (valuable)/biggest named players to stay with a relegated club? Sander Berge, KWP in recent times. Going back there was Barton/Kevin Nolan/Alan Smith at Newcastle, and further back Michael Carrick/Defoe (for half a season). Not too many player 'easily good enough for the Prem' seem to stick around.

Assuming we buy Downs, would Armstrong need replacing if Archer remains?

Watched a few videos of Agyamang and wasn't terribly impressed. He's tall, but I don't see a PL player there.

He really seems to know where the net is, but Im not entirely sure he has top level touch etc. The Downs noise seems louder.

Will be interesting to see how he goes. Our scouting team will have no excuses if he shines more than Downs, assuming he signs.

He can't be in two places at once. But he could train with us in the morning and visit their training ground in the afternoon. We'd have to allow it though. The social media team might not be fully aware of the Downes 'situation', should there be one now, but someone at the club would be aware he was in talks with Ipswich/going to be visiting their training ground, so would stop this tweet. Unless of course the social media team don't need authorisation for every single tweet (seems unlikely that there's not some review policy).

...except the Lonsdale karate slipper.

I thought he wanted to move up norf to be closer to family? Glasgow is a bloody long way from Warrington (assuming that is where his family is from).

If he is excellent, why do they want a new number 1? If he's not `excellent', just good, then won't he be their ideal number 2? Players that have helped their sides get promoted tend to be very reluctant to depart before getting the chance to show they can play at that level. I will bow to those that know more about him and the position, but if Sunderland don't think he is good enough for the Prem, is that not a red flag? We have lots of championship type players (players that have shown they cant make the step up). Perhaps we should be signing players that we think are going to be good enough for the PL, but others just haven't seen it yet.

I don't know anything about him, but if he is any good, why would Sunderland let him go? Even if they sign a new keeper, in the PL, you still want/need a decent number 2. Is he not that great?

We'll get paid at some point. The league won't let them do anything unless football creditors like us get fully paid.

Looks better in that photo. The sponsor logo looks a bit smaller too. Less tacky. It's not a bad shirt. Get promotion in it, and I am sure I will grow to like it.

The sponsor logo looks so tacky. The kit has very little black in it, which is fine by me, but the three items with black on it (badge, puma logo, sponsor logo) seem to have different thickness of black lines around them. Piss poor design work. Having curves on the shoulders makes no sense at all when you are using straight lines on the main part of the shirt. Again, really poor design choice. I can't stand the puma logos on the shoulders. Worse than stacked logos on the front of shirts, but that's a Puma thing. I have to say the sponsor logo on the ladies shirt is ridiculous. If you are having that size of white surround, why not have the white bullet shape cut out of the stripes, not have some tacky sticker over the top. Looks fucking cheap...yet you pay a fortune. Overall, not the worst (the underarmour kits were in a different league of shiteness), but as is so often the small details let it down in my eyes. That said, I never buy shirts, so they are not aimed at me.