Billy the Kidd

Apparently we are looking for a keeper. One of the guys on the other forum, far from being ITK, has a pretty reliable source who has usually come up correct. I also think we will be trying for one more, which is the No 6, and I still like another No 10.

Maybe we have spoken to him and he though large swathes of our fan base was too negative 🤯

You may be correct, but Ings did also miss chances similar to that. I think AA has started really well, new club, new league and playing better than Ings did for the last 6 months.

He is in Sheffield having his medical.

You’ve got to be fucking kidding me 🤣

We are signing a new CB, and he has experience - he isn’t exactly 18 yo is he. Out business model is to buy to sell, without doing that we dont really have a club.

Yeah, maybe not a strong rumour! I’d take him though in a heartbeat over Redmond, Moussa and Theo in the starting 11. Maybe we are looking at him, we do need a new LB or GK.

Are we seriously linked to Christie though? I would have thought his fee will be below £6m i think I saw someone suggest on here, hasn’t he got 6 months left of his deal?

Christie wouldn’t be a future prospect i dont believe, is isn’t so young.

I was just watching a video of weird goals on youtube, and the Burnley corner that went straight in was there. I’d forgotten that whilst Ings was nuts not to hear der the ball out, MaCarthy actually stood a yard behind the goal line - i mean wtf was he doing. https://youtu.be/0_tBW89zHlM

I thought with how childish SKD’s comments and views were, he was far too young to have a kid that old 😉 (joke btw, in case anyone gets tetchy…)

Yep I dont disagree, just think it makes us predictable and therefore easy to play against.

Thought Villa keeper could be off here.

We used to do good signings, Pelle, Tadic etc. Then did some poor signings. Now we are back to doing mostly good signings. What is with the ‘melt’ thing btw - was it necessary?

Yeah i can see why people think that, but it may work for us next season in the championship, but not EPL. @DT - see that was a little joke - ok by you if I use it 🤣 Seriously though, i doubt very much if that will happen. Firstly cos I just dont see Ralph wanting more of that, and think either will be fine as back up, but 2, if Ralph gets sacked,no one will want AM as No 1 next season. In fact, if Ralph gets chopped before Jan, I’d imagine Andy manager coming in demands a new No 1 in the Jan transfer window.

I think either are ok as a second choice, as long as they rarely play, as in they are the backup. How many teams have great no 2s? I think either are fine for that, my concern is if they still play regularly or if they retain no1 status.

I dont agree, I think that is exactly wheat they are doing, getting one to sign an extension (looks like AM) and imagine we will buy a No 1 next season. I just cant imagine Ralph wants either as his first choice, I mean if he does he needs sacking, so my thoughts are we will play what we have, have one as back up next season. I still think we should just wither buy another keeper now, if we have some funds left, which doesn’t look likely, or play who we feel is the better keeper, as right now McCarthy looks terrible.

I imagine we want one of our current keepers to be our No 2 next season. That does make some sense, however not being in the EPL is a dangerous game to play. I would think we will look to buy a No 1 next summer, so I do see the logic in what we are doing. That said, I’d imagine we could find a better No 2 that McCarthy on a free next summer. I still think it is beyond stupid not to play your 1st choice (which most agree is FF), is it we dont want to put our potential No 2 for next season off leaving on a free?

I’d agree with this for one. I’d be going 4-2-3-1, or 5-4-1 (I guess we can manage many variants of this in and out of possession). The 4-2-2-2 clearly isn’t working, and unless we change it I’m not sure how we expect things to get much different. Although, the keeper issue clearly costs us many goals over a season.

Im not saying you are wrong, but we also need to factor wages, agent fee etc. So if we get say £50m in sales, id imagine the fee we have to spend is closer to £40-45m.

BTK- We want him next season when we swap places with Bompey. Oh bless, DT - did you think I was being serious 😂 I was joking, in case you needed it pointing out. Great work going back and finding my post though, I must mean a lot to you 🥰

Maybe we don't have much money. Or maybe we are keeping options open until the end of the window, and don't want to publicise that. Just like some people should go see a doctor about their knees jerking so much.

Well we could do that just so you dont run out of shit to moan about 👍

Aren’t all positions important?