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honestly don't see how we can sign another keeper until we get one or two off our wage bill permanently. Who is signing one of our three?

it really annoys me that Liverpool get such large sums for their failed signings. I know their standard/quality is higher, and Ings proves they do have some players worth signing, but the vast majority are just not good enough yet they still get tens of millions for them.

no one is offering any money for him. Failed premier league signings on premier league wages are not in great demand. Who can afford their wages never mind a transfer fee and the wages? Certainly not teams in Norway who are the ones that would have seen the best of him. Loaning him out paying a percentage of his wages is pretty much the best we can expect. I think we are trying to entice Celtic to sign him by saying we won't loan him. Its a bluff.

Three half decent goals maybe make him look a better player than he is. Looks a little stockier than Cedric perhaps, with a little more bite, but not as quick. If he was £5m like Cedric, I think you might be interested, seeing as we need a couple of players. It would be great to see youtube videos of players fucks ups too.

The way I read that, the club doesn't want to loan, it wants to sell. I actually quite liked what I saw and didn't really understand the hate. Seemed neat and tidy on the ball, just needed a run in the side to find his feet and role...but I guess he just didn't impact the game enough in the games he got so didn't deserve more game time. Redmond to Palace. About time the forum got another rumour started.

very busy player, which is exactly what I'd expect of a fullback. The polar opposite of Valery. I was going to say the same thing about the height, but perhaps we have been scarred by Cedric (same height by the way) not leaning into opponents and doing enough to put them off. I notice from the youtube video that he doesn't mind pinging it long down the channel for willing runner. I wonder if that will knocked out of him, if he joins.

The price Leeds baulked at is supposedly £15-18m. How accurate that is who knows, but with him having four years left on his contract and him being one of the best left backs in Ligue 1 this season, they will try to drive a hard bargain. You have to wonder though how cash strapped teams are and if they can turn down even half decent offers. If you have money this summer it could go a long way. Maybe this is the summer to spend if you want to make a step change improvement.

I actually wonder how much the poor wide players (and player as a whole in front of the back four) contribute to making our defenders look bad. Some goals conceded are purely down to poor defensive play, but many are a result of losing the ball in bad areas, being caught on the break and not providing the necessary cover and applying enough pressure on the man on the ball. Not taking chances at one end also means you have to keep clean sheets at the other. Better CM play, he easier it is for CB. More control of the ball, less defending, scoring goals at one end, means not needing to throw players forward and leaving you exposed at the back. In short, if we don't improve on the play from Redmond, Theo et al, we will continue to lose games. I'm very concerned we will have exactly the same personnel next season in those areas as we did this. Perhaps the manager is too close to the players and doesn't see their faults. Changes need to be made. Doing that ain't easy of course.

Leeds linked with a couple of left backs Javi Galan from Huesca and Romain Perraud from Stade Brest. The latter is said to be too expensive for Leeds, so that would count us out too I guess. I still think Vinegra from Wolves would be an option.

Not disagreeing, but no matter how low the price is for a player, its essential that they have the ability and/or potential to be a good player for us, otherwise they fill a shirt that could be filled by someone else. Low transfer fee mean less up front money, but wages and long term contracts mean it's no less risk. The same applies to free contracts.

The £70m loan didn't give it away? I like the idea of a loan signing. The fella has talent, but we need to see it displayed more often in games and for him to dictate games before we give him a long term deal. Perhaps he's had enough chances, but having not seen him live, I'm gonna sit on the fence.

I was hoping we'd look at Ryan Kent, but that ain't gonna happen

The way I read Ralphs comments to date, is that he has been told by board that they will allow Ings to wind his contract down (giving us another season) rather than sell for less than their valuation of him. We won't simply accept the best offer we get. What that valuation is, I don't know, but Ralf's confidence that he will stay, perhaps suggests its sizeable. However, a club our financial situation cant afford to allow all assets to leave for nothing, so as you say, if that valuation is met, he's gone.

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/liverpool-can-raise-80m-selling-20697081 Maybe the writer just has made educated guesses, but the suggestion is £10m for Minamoto. I'm not advocating his signing, but I'd offer £7.25m max on principle. Why on earth Liverpool should make a profit from a failed signing, especially in a downgraded market. Yeah, OK, I know why...

not exactly comparable. Personally, I couldn't care less when we get them, as long as we do get the right players. VVD signed for us on the last day of the window. It was worth the wait. Good players don't need a long bedding in process. Good players just play and improve sides. They will all be doing fitness work for their current clubs. Expect lots of knock backs. It's normal. If united can fail to sign players with all their might and glamour, we have no devine right to get the players we want. Aim high, if you fail move on to the next best target.

As Newcastle found out, Burnley don't have too many good players and Jeff Hendricks isn't one of them. Brady is an OK player, decent ability, but unless it's McNeil, Pope or Tarkowski being discussed, which it won't be, then its a big `no thanks' from me.

aren't our socks usually white and shorts black?

Likewise. They'd look much better in dark blue, like in our earlier years, but can't see us ever going there. Shame.

Irrelevant. When he asked for a wage rise it was 2017 and he was the England full back, and among the best left backs in the league. He was in the pfa team of the year. Walker went to City and got his 200k, while he remained at spurs and on 65k. He and walker were at a very similar level. Spurs underpaid their players compared to other prem clubs. He questioned that.

we needed cover because when Vokins got his chance he was found to be out of his depth. I repeat, why did we offer Bertrand a contract if we were so keen to upgrade?

we didn't want to pay him what he felt he deserved. Simple as that. Absolutely nothing to do with us wanting to upgrade. If that was the case, why did we offer him a contract at all?

I think he was a good player before Poch turned up. He's always been decent. The issue was Spurs didn't pay him what similar players like Walker got elsewhere. He wanted to get paid. He also wanted Spurs to be better. I don't see anything wrong with that.

Bertrand turned our contract offer down. We didn't offload him because we wanted an upgrade, he departed because we didn't want to pay him. We may not sign better than Bertrand is now. Hopefully we will, but there is no guarentee.

You might be right, but Spurs obviously underpaid him. He will have asked for a pay rise and Levy probably told him where to go. He asked for a move, but Spurs obviously priced him out of that move. In the end there no winners, but Spurs could have an England fullback playing for them if they had put their hand in their pocket, but instead paid him less to do nothing. He said he couldn't wait to get out of football because of the racist abuse he got. I think that is fair enough. Not sure what his driving has to do with him being a solid pro. Is Shane Long a solid pro?

I like Rose a lot. I thought he was a very decent full back a few year ago. Speaks his mind and has suffered because of it. Saying he wanted to win things and Spurs should be signing top player and paying them properly was spot on. I didn't see him at Newcastle. How did he play? Why didn't Spurs farm him out again paying a chuck of his wages? Or did he refuse to budge? We need two left backs. If Bertrand has taken a wage cut, then he'd of been ideal cover/rival for a young prospect. Not sure if Rose would come cheap, but same could apply. A younger guy with an older guy pushing him could work for us.