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I wonder what Forster's wages are considering he was an England keeper around the time he singed the last contract. Maybe £90k a week? As a guide, Ramsdale joined Arsenal for £24m rising to £30m. A guy already on £125k a week doesn't feel like the type of signing we make. We shall see.

I hate what I see of Lyanco so far. His decision making is woeful. All he does is gamble. He takes far too many risks. Scares me shitless. I also don't think he is very good in the air, which is Bednarek's strength. I'm not a big fan of Bednarek I should point out. I've said since day one that he just isn't quick enough.

he ain't behind Lyanco.

There are mixed opinions as to whether current Prem rules allow a loan to be terminated early unless the prem and both parties agree to it, or indeed if you are allowed to place an agreement into the loan contract that enables you to terminate the loan early anymore. We obviously wouldn't be keen unless we were the one signing him or Chelsea paid us a sizeable sum of money, which I think has happened before elsewhere.

I think he means the Skate in the video looks like Brett Anderson

yeah, June 2023. Only played 9 games this season. Had covid earlier in season, but has maybe fallen out of favour more recently as not been in side.

Marseilles' Caleta-car was mentioned on here in the summer as a possible CB option (we signed Lyranco of course). Wolves have apparently bid £12.9m for him https://www.molineux.news/transfer-news/wolves-have-reportedly-made-bids-for-botman-and-caleta-car/ whether that's enough to get him, I don't know, nor if he is a better player than Bednarek, but he might be. He's 25 with 20 Croatia caps.

we are where we are because we have the players we have.

there are no details or link to an old story even. Weird. Cant see any other rumour/stories about him either

my point being, if you managed someone like Spurs, West Ham or Villa (who would have the required funds to tempt us) would you look to sign him? Has he done enough to impress `top 6' type clubs? I was surprised Leicester signed Vestegaard, but as you suggest, perhaps we as fans are too harsh on our CBs...perhaps.

I'm wondering who would have been impressed by him enough to spend serious money (i.e. he won't be walking for free soon), seeing as he's a year into a 4.5 year contract

https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11700/12515249/armando-broja-southampton-want-to-sign-on-loan-chelsea-striker-permanently-but-face-competition Further down this article it says there is interest in Bednarek. From who? Anyone know?

He's 24, so, possibly what you see now, is what you will get going forward, which is a very hard working, committed left back. Which is a bloody good start. I repeat what I've said on previous threads - it's great to get that desire, and a left footer, but technically he doesn't look gifted. I hope I am wrong (I often am) and he starts to really shine as he grows in confidence, but on what I've seen, which is not a huge number of games yet, I'm not convinced we have a top quality player on our hands.

Good to hear. He looks like he has that ability on the ball and just needs to be able to cope with the physicality of the mens game. He's got a contract with us until 2023 I believe. Hope he can keep progressing.

Did you see those two non goals Carroll scored last night? Might be a good option for Burnley to replace Wood.

Not easy for them. Who can they sign? Hard sell at the moment. I said on another thread, Broja for £35m would be an option for them. But would he want t make that move? Not so sure.

Spurs are going to replace their keeper. Lloris aint very good. Johnstone has been mentioned, but Henderson looks the much better option. That feels a better fit than him coming to us. His wages (every player at United) must be problematic for us.

not sure how much the loan costs us this year (in addition to paying his wages), but if he scores, say 10 goals this season, it will cost a damn sight more next season. Such is life.

£20m feels low. If we were the only possible suitor, but every other Prem side will be looking at him too. Newcastle could do worse than offer £35m tomorrow. Are we another WBA/Lukaku, with an Everton/Newcastle/West Ham/Spurs blowing us out of the water?

I changed my post when I saw the £34m/£68m figures for Abraham. No brainer decision for both sides for Abraham and if similar for Broja also a no brainer. Not sure we have £30m to spend. Maybe if we don't need to sign another player. But a keeper is one straight away...probably.

I didn't know that. Interesting. If we could get him for say £30m, which would be well beyond our budget I should think, it would be money well spent.

what a great few weeks. So nice to get some wins and get us out of this long funk. Hope it goes on forever.

I need to cut him some slack. He certainly tries his heart out.

has he? Sorry, don't see it at all.

great tackle JWP. Lyanco has to win that header. Salisu ball watching a bit. It doesn't matter though. Everything is going our way today. Two god saves from Forster. We can do not wrong.