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We don't need him. Thanks for the efforts last season, deccent bloke and great in the dressing room, but he's not going to improve our squad.

Good player. Instant upgrade on Charles and smallbone, would be great cover for Downes or to play next to him to make us a little more solid.

Its been far from dead in the offical COT group chat. VERY interesting. That's all I can say for now, but make of that what you will.

Its also why we battle with relegation every year and will likley struggle to survive this season.

I don't dissagree. As a newly promoted side, probably not a gamble we should take - espeically after so recently being stung for half of that for a player with very limited championship experience and a dubious injury record. As an established PL side, say wolves, £25 is probably worth the risk

That role would be absoultely perfect for Alcaraz.

Still better value than this danish bloke imo

More chance he'll get a perforated eardrum from a few murmerings of "fuck off you mackem twat" and be out for 6 months.

GK: Dubravka (loan) AM: Mctee (Loan with mandatory purchase if we stay up in the mold of the THB) ST: Nketiah £20m improves our side no end and stops the messing around with Celtic over an unproven player they want £30m for. If we're being really greedy - Lets try for Amad Diallo. But He'll be in the united squad this season, i'm ure of it.

Because £25m is next to nothing for a player with PL experience & bags of potential. Gone are the days of picking up ready made top half PL players for 10-15m.

Enlighten us with all you know about the geezer, in this case please.

they're both shite. Move on.

At this price, we'd have been better off pushing for Emile smith-rowe

I like this look of this lad. At 6m (or there abouts), it feels like a bit of a no brainer / low risk gamble. He can't be anyworse than Mara.

doesn't doesn't count for a great deal... He looks really handy from the highlights and stats, but he didn't make it into the Denmark squad for the latest euros....

yeah I like it. Feels a bit like the last time we were promoted when we had a great team dynamic and added to that buy signing top young championship players (Jay-rod and Clyne) with some real experience (Steven Davis).

Do we even need him? not sure we do...

Nosies suggest we're looking to get another forward in. I suspect he's a replacement for Brooks / Fraser.

Is that right? being honest, last season is already a bt of a blur, but I thought from Jan onwards, Brooks was playing on the right? But I guess a front 3 of BBD <someone> AA could work pretty nicely. Still wouldn't mind seeing Alcaraz played through the middle.. I wonder if BBD ability to speak spanish might help..

I don't see how we get both in the side. Both look incredibly similar imo. Neither good enough to play through the middle and both like cuttting in from the left.

If we let Charles go, we'll need to replace him. His replacement will need to be good enough to fill in when needed (Downes injury record is questionable) but have an acceptance that all being well, they'll be on the bench for 90% of games. Better the devil you know imo. I'd keep Charles...

All depends on how long McKenna is there. If Chelsea or United dont get off to the start they want and ipswich are doing alright, I suspect they'll come knocking. I think Chelsea will struggle again this season

The good old days of 2013... before Wokeness hit full flow.

It is. Hardly groundbreaking stuff though. Premier leauge footballer can't keep it in his trousers and people see it as an oportunity to earn a quick buck.

Ha, good old Yoshida. Loved by the fans, but a right seedy bastard. I know of many a story about him being a naught boy behind his partners back. One of which went to the club and he had to pay her off (allegedly )