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Telegraph said Spurs and West Ham

International defender with suitors from more than one club. Methinks our overdraft is quite high. Very quick to accept IMO

Nat Phillips?

Brighton getting 50 mill for White makes this look a steal. Ho hum

Rolled over for £14m re JV. Not exactly hardball is it?

Villa and Spurs preparing offers for JWP apparently and we are happy to sell JV to Leicester for 15m. Obafemi refuses Blackburn move. Not as good a day as yesterday.

McCarthy is crap and will cost us 10 points a season

Agreed. His game management is often questionable. Even during the latest 9-0 I saw very little reaction, tactically. One can hope that he doesn't persist with the 'Djenepo is great as a defender, just not at the defending bits' mentality. Build a strong spine, from the back. Make us hard to beat. Add goals. About time we had this, to be honest...

£15m is pretty crap as offers go. Hope we get them up to £20m. Or perhaps we could take Bertrand as part payment (that was a joke)

I thought that. Scary.

I just think, while it's commendable that we have plugged some holes going forward, it's pretty dumb not to have replaced McCarthy with his calamitous distribution and dubious command of the area, and haven't (yet) sorted the spine in terms of a muscular, break-up play midfielder and commanding centre back. Call me old fashioned.

A look at our goals conceded column may show that a more defensive formation or at least attitude may be beneficial. Ralph is a bit gung-ho, hence why we roll over so easily in games. Plus we have low quality keepers. Still, we will score a lot of goals hopefully...

Good news from forum: JWP seems to be staying. Bad news: not planning on getting a decent keeper

What he does provide is physical muscle and we need that in the team. Were way too lightweight last season.

Thing about Vestergaard is he's not quick enough over a few yards. Skinned too often. Plays that lumbering role a bit deeper trying to read the game like VVD so his pace over that distance doesn't matter but VVD has that too (or did). Selling him for £20m would be amazing if we invest in a decent replacement CB. And quick. Nat or Matt...?

Maybe he's just fond of ham and they misconstrued it. What a twonk. Bye Jannik

Really hope that is true. Don’t trust Villa. Personally hoping for decent keeper (no chance) and commanding CB. Oh and a decent Cdm

Are we still sure JWP will stay?

agreed. but add a keeper.

Excellent news

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Isn't that all clubs, pretty much ever?

Eh? It's great that he's not very good so we can keep him?

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Agreed. He loses the ball way too often, which often leads to dangerous transitions, and his manner/attitude is - in my opinion anyway - not great for the team. And we appear to play with more fluency and less hands on hips whining when he's not there. I was hoping that a return to Norwich might be a good way out but it seems that wages may be an issue there. Can we convince Villa he might be a better option than JWP? Here's hoping that getting better options will see him on the bench more often.