SambaMaverick

AA weak as piss

Seems like it is us vs Wolves then. Newcastle prioritising Joao Pedro.

Gomez signed a new five-year deal months ago, think it would take too big a fee to get him now.

Only ones worth a wank from what's possibly available to us is Holding and Lindelof - maybe Soyuncu if Fofana doesn't go for whatever reason.

I mean as long as you're winning the PL and CL and playing about 20 apps / season I imagine you're fairly happy. It's when you're frozen out completely like CHO and Ziyech seem to be at the moment that you'd probably start to look elsewhere.

Jack Stephens is signing for Watford. Not sure if it's a loan or perm.

Don't know what they're seeing in him. £40m is absolutely mental money when they've got Ziyech and Pulisic rotting away, both definitely better players.

Ralph just doesn't seem like an effective motivator or man-manager, and that's something these precocious kids - a lot of whom have been mollycoddled at some of the biggest clubs in the land - will need in order to flourish. Now I was never part of the group clamouring to get Eddie Howe in, but look at what he's done with Newcastle. He's made a few signings, yes, but that group under a miserable, stubborn git in Steve Bruce look light years away from what they are now. Howe's good at tough talk, and he's also good at backing it up.

If the fans aren't at it the players aren't at it? Fucking seriously?

They've done some great business, for me. Used their money to strengthen all over the pitch as well as investing in youth.

There has to be something more to this. IE Ralph fall out or wants to move up north. This would be even worse business than Carrillo... Baffling.

Cheick Kouyate still a free agent, I'd get him for a year for sure. Would allow us to move Diallo on if we wanted, as well.

Bazunu KWP - ABK - Salisu - Perraud Romeu - Lavia JWP Aribo - Adams - Djenepo / Redmond Mara on the bench please!

It's just weird how we're needing to now sell to buy after having spent just under £30m on two players in Mara & ABK who seemingly aren't first team ready. Seems like we've gone about this window in a totally backwards way.

I don't know what fuck-up you mean so I'll just respectfully disagree. £15m is fuck all. In terms of strikers signed last season alone: Ings (circa £30m) - 7 league goals, same as Che Weghorst (circa £15m) - 2 league goals in half a season Lukaku (circa £100m) - 8 league goals Edouard (circa £15m) - 6 league goals Daka (circa £27m) - 5 league goals Wood (circa £25m) - 2 league goals in half a season I think alongside someone else, Che can be the perfect second striker. We saw glimpses of that with Ings.

That just isn't true. He's one of the best players we have at holding on to the ball by any means necessary and bringing others into play, or winning a foul.

Spunk maybe a bit of a strong word but Mara and Kotchap both not involved in the first game of the season, Bazunu didn't look great. Lavia a bright spark but in our position, we needed players who can come in and hit the ground running.

Yeah, I know. There won't be any if we go down.

Why did we spunk most of our budget on kids who haven't made a noticeable improvement then? Seems to be a bit backwards. SR have got a lot to learn.

Maybe, but which players did they really think would have interest? Especially in our attack, most are gash. It just seems a crazy decision. We'd be taking a massive gamble selling someone who is guaranteed 7-8 league goals, especially when £30m barely registers on the transfer radar these days.

I just can't bear the prospect of AA getting meaningful game time this season, I really can't. I genuinely think he offers less than Shane Long.

Club are 'willing' to move Che on, as per today's Athletic piece. Are they fucking stupid?

Six caps for Germany, a full season for Anderlecht and Wolfsburg. It's a step above the calibre of Mara, at least.