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Are the reds the same shade S_C? they look different on your pic.

Let's just buy him now.

Some turnaround from me having to defend their transfer policy on here to it now being lauded. They sold their best player in Johnson to balance the books a couple of summers ago. Last summer they didn't really have to fend off the vultures. Looks like they might price their star players out of moves. Fair play to them.

Loan in talent to get us up and then look again if we go up. Next summer we can offload more players (out of contract etc) and the attraction of PL football (hopefully) helps us buy a better caliber of player.

That's makes sense, but we can't buy decent championship players this summer on three year deals and discard them if we go up. We will be buying players we think can get us up AND then compete at PL level. Perhaps someone like Jack Rudoni meets both criteria.

Thanks. I forgot about all of those. Olusegun is a right back and Zeneli a traditional central midfielder, so not sure they fit the attacking midfielder description. I don't know Rudonis game so will check him out.

the top players in the league are looking for moves to the prem. We will get the leftovers - championship players that the PL don't think are good enough. Is that who we want?

If Downs is possibly the striker, who is the attacking midfielder? Can anyone remind me who we have been linked with in that position?

Maybe he can relocate to the monkey chicken petting zoo car park? Hang on, that is part of the St Marys gentrification plan, right?

The championship will provide the extra time and space his crap first touch needs, so he might be effective at that level. It will be some turnaround/improvement for him to be a PL player should we get there.

I was going to suggest Maja as a possible Che Adams replacement. I thought he looked good in the Sunderland documentary a few years back. He's been around the houses a little since, but did OK last year at WBA. One year left of his contract. Not convinced he would be signing good enough for the PL.

Undesirable? If you work in these businesses or need cement for example, they are quite desirable. Cities need workplaces.

I believe Midfield General mentioned that he traveled to St Mary's to buy crack outside of match days.

ah. you beat me to it,...he was electric.

Henri Camera. My favourite loan signing by far.

Tremendous first half the season. Loads of goals. Did he struggle a little for form in the second half? Are the Forrest links real? I agree, he isn't making a sideways move to us.

Whether the £200m is spent on stadium seats, a hotel or a shopping centre, those assets still need to turn a profit, otherwise there is less to spend on transfers, not more. Right? That's not to say I think it's a bad idea.

You are probably right, but got to say, they don't feel terribly close. Not sure why they have to be that distance...or why the couldn't be a few metres closer?

My point was, if you bring in £2m more a season due to increased ticket sales, but the cost of the loan is £3m a season, you don't have "extra" funds to spend on transfers and wages, you have less. The finances has to be right and PL football will be a prerequisite.

I don't know Sargent's game, so no idea if he might do ok at that level second time around, but if there are serious doubts, let's take a punt on someone else that hasn't come up short.

Whenever I read posts saying we should sign "some seasoned pros who we know will add value at this level" or along those lines, I wonder who they are referring to? Who is this seasoned striker we are sure will be good at this level? Piroe or Sargent I presume?

makes sense. it wont be Fergurson or Vardy.

I'm guessing it will probably look better on, but in that picture it looks really shite. To be expected. Puma get about one in every fifty kits right.

You say that as though the only thing holding us back from spending mega sums on transfers and wages is PSR. It isn't. Our spending is also restricted by our total income and outgoings. Paying off a stadium loan will be another outgoing, reducing the available budget. What we are talking about here is the club taking out a £100-200m loan and then the repayments coming out of the total operating budget. Income will presumably go up, but will it go up enough to cover the approx. 8% interest rate and any additional payments that help bring down the loan? Realistically, unless we are a fixture in the PL, the figures won't add up. Solak seems to be smart businessman, so he'll know exactly what's affordable. Equally, if he wants to turn a profit when he comes to sell the club, he knows we have to be a reasonably strong PL club backed by modern facilities that combined will attract the next major investor and a price to go with it.

He seems to be linked to a few clubs, Everton and Celtic for example. No idea how genuine those links are, but I bet he will be very reluctant to drop down a division.