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Knowing us we will probably haggle and penny pinch over Armstrong or whoever our target is until the end of the window, possibly losing out in the process

That’s our fan base for you.. get excited about every Tom dick and Harry we had never heard of before and it’s now at the stage we getting excited over untried kids Southampton board got it easy appeasing us

How many of those appearences where starts ?.. if you wanna go with those appearances as proven though that adds up to 5 goals between them in 50 appearances, does that fill you with confidence If say ings got crocked for the season? smallbone has 12 appearances would you want him as the main back up to jwp and romeau ? lets be honest we don’t really know ourselves if tella and obafemi are up to it yet.. tella does look very quick and something differant but maybe more suited to being a winger/10 and obafemi finishing wise does not look great and was out of favour for the majority of last season and looked set to leave to a lower level

But really tella and obafemi are pretty much just youth players who have been blooded a little.. having them as back up to our first two strikers when we play two up front is not much differant from having say Vokins or Ramsey coveting Bertrand and kwp last year.. its very risky even though I do like tella

Tella and obafemi are completely unproven though It’s a big ask to expect 10 goals between them over the season even if they played a fair bit. Both are Quick but neither have showed much finishing ability..

Yeah but at least with what Virgil done we got full valuation for him.. what ings and hojbjerg done is making us take a crap valuation because it’s better then losing for them nothing and we end up not even getting half of what they are worth

Koeman used the league he knew to make signings.. and it worked a treat.. players like pelle and tadic he knew all about.. shame Ralph hasn’t really done that approach I’m sure there’s some real quality in the bundesliga that would do a great job for us

To be honest if it was up to me I’d bring lemina back into the mix.. think it’s a very skewed perception of him since Ralph froze him out..before that many regarded him as one of our most valuable players and better then hojbjerg.. fulham fans were also saying how he gave 100 percent, would give us a different option in midfield anyway someone a bit more dynamic for when we need to attack teams more I’m sure hardly anyone agrees though :)

Can’t we just give Redmond away on a free and give Danny his wages too to stay 😃

It’s a bit differant though as Bertrand wasn’t really in demand and it’s more that we decided not to keep him rather then him not signing a new deal..

Agree it would be a joke really to only get 20 m for one of the best cfs in the league..would hope we don’t sell too.. Trouble is we really do not seem the kind of club who runs a players contract out or keeps them against their will, all the talk that semmens spouts that we would not stand in a players way im kind of leaning if he doesn’t sign then we will crumble and sell him

Wasn’t Armstrong playing more as a box to box number 6 type cm at Celtic..?don’t think he was playing the same wide attacking number ten like he does here. So maybe makes elyoununoussi numbers look better against him?

How do u mean that Ralph saw eventually.? Ralph is still picking him ahead of tella and Walcott up until the last game of the season! even after Redmond gave away a goal by misckicking a clearance and standing with his hands on his hips for the offside Ralph left him on the full 90 so I’m not sure what makes you think Ralph has realised ? seems to me ralph rates Redmond and has him higher in the pecking order then Walcott djenepo and tella.. which kind of makes the Walcott signing even more pointless if he’s not even seen as better then what we have which bar Armstrong is not that good

Binning off Redmond isn’t gonna happen as long as Ralph is here is it? ralph prefers to play him over Walcott who we have now just taken on perm, prefers him over tella, and sometimes even prefers over Adams up front lol..

Well Denmark got by using this and the same one we had in the 86 World Cup. Probably comes of more white and pink so can still use against teams playing in red or just use for away games when feeling like it.. tbh I wouldn’t mind this as the home shirt either.. it’s still red and white would appeal to fans of the Denmark style and differant from last time win win

Yeah it’s a stunner isn’t it.. would be nice to get this one maybe as away or 3rd strip

New shirt is a bit meh for me but I’m not a fan of basic stripes.. But super excited for if/when we get the Denmark style shirts. would be good if we also got the Denmark away version that they used at the time. Half white half striped, think this was even sexier then the home shirt 🥰

Anyone that purchased the retro shirts are they the same/similar material to the real shirts?? last time I purchased a retro rank xerox type shirt the shirt was more T-shirt material then the shiny polyester of the 80s so just wanted to check ??

Here’s the thing our form under him has been terrible for ages, Do we really want to wait until what looks like will happen happens and we are in the relegation zone by Xmas and hiring the likes of allardyce to save us? or do we take action now whilst we have the chance of getting a better manager whilst we are not in a bad position where no one wants to risk it employ someone else give him the summer to get to know the players and the chance to bring in who he wants? im all for the latter

Adkins wasn’t a bad manager for us but do you remember how quickly we instantly improved when pochetino took over..we transformed instantly into a hard working horrible to play against teams and the tactics worked a treat. judt wanted to put that out there for those saying it’s the players and no one could get a tune out of them better then Ralph.. gotta ask the questions does Ralph make tactical changes that benefit us very often in game ? does he learn from bad runs of form and do differant things to try get a differant result ? is his player selection and use of subs good? all the talk about him being some thinking manager that analyses the shit out of everything and has tactics and his finger on the pulse of everything I’m really not seeing it

Every match he plays you see that stupid hands on head surprised but grinning face when he messes a chance up.. offers nothing lightweight, hardly ever beats his man/ brain dead can’t finish.. really cant see the point in us signing Walcott if he can’t get in over this dude.. and tella looked instantly better the moment he came on.. but more then anything it’s making me totally sick of Ralph to keep picking him!

Please get this man out of the club..we are totally awful,, playing the same way that doesn’t work all season, keeps selecting brainless Redmond over decent alternatives like tella. its just not working at all I think that’s clear to see now. We are crying out for a differant strategy that works.. nothing we are doing is working can’t defend, create little chances especially second half time to try something differant

Still find it odd that Ralph isn’t using the remaining games to give tella more prem experience.. he’s shown good promise and it makes more sense to use these games to help devolop him then it does to start minamino who isn’t ours or Redmond who isn’t even much better then tella is now

Think we need better.. Adams is from the Shane long school of finishing. Majority of chances he gets he finds some way to mess it up just like long

Lampard could be great imo, high iq super hard working as a player, commands respect, and think you have to cut him a bit of slack with Chelsea as he had to gel a ton of new signings.. very much simular profile to hoddle when he joined us.. as for him seeking a higher profile job don’t think he’s really in that place at the moment he’s failed at Chelsea so none of the other big clubs will be so keen now.. and the likes of Everton West Ham and Leicester are all doing great with decent managers so we would be a decent club for him to bounce back and rebuild his reputation