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If we're able to pull off the O'Riley tranfer now, it would actually be transformative. BBD, Archer and Arma with MOR feeding them would be a huge upgrade on last season. I'd even suggest as it is that Smallbone's eye for a pass/assist with these three is exciting.

I get Longy vibes. A willing runner with a good turn of pace and solid finisher albeit not overly consistent.

2 loanees from Premier league clubs. I think the Broja chat is just lazy journalism. Easy link to make to create some noise. I would hope we keep that second slot open for Ramsdale if we aren’t going in for Johnstone.

One of the last bits in the Newcastle presser. I actually thought the same thing. Just based on how he reacted I suspect there is more to come there, it felt like a telling look. could also be nothing 😂 Amazing how the transfer window works eh? A couple of days ago this thread was drab and lifeless with a lot of doom posting and 48hrs later it feels like there is a lot in motion… and there is still a couple of weeks left. More loanees to arrive I feel.

Pretty sure Russ has the measure of the man better than any of us and regardless of our opinion he's the manager and the guy that he'd need to play under. Glad we've moved him on. Ultimately didn't fulfill his potential whilst here regardless of circumstance. So now we take our small profit and go again.

I guess it depends on the state of finances and squad planning to a degree. If we thought internally we had bigger priorities and perhaps GK would be covered by AM, JL and Baz then it would save a fee whilst we tackled other areas. i don’t agree with that assessment but could see that being the logic. Cheaper to tie down Mecca than bring in fresh. Hopefully his utter shite performances is preseason have set some alarm bells going and we course correct.

Agreed. More worrying is them not disclosing exactly what has been the setback. We’ve been snakebitten with a few real long term injuries between him Juan and Baz but players can/do recover eventually. Biggest question is what sort of player he will be when he finally does! 😬

If he can get himself fit he offers us something we don't really have at the moment. I think there's a player there, he's looked good in the very small cameos he's made. The whole situation is quite remeniscent of Danny Ings prior to him finding his fitness. Hopefully he comes good and stays fit.

We're not though are we... £18 Mil for Downes £20 Mil for THB both would've been club transfer records back then. Reality is we were relegated we don't have the funds of Brighton or Brentford. I don't think people realise how far the club fell in the last 3-4 years. We're not the same team that were regularly putting in performances against the big boys and punching above our weight into europe. We're a struggling Premiership club that's just won promotion back to the league. It hurts, but that's the fact of the matter.

I'm confident we'll still buy 1 or 2 too. We're not totally fucked just spending within our means.

Yuki to Tall Paul. I see the vision... In all seriousness if we don't get an offer north of £12M we should absolutely try and make it work with him, I could see him developing a bit of a cult following here. As others mentioned he just brings something completely different and clearly knows where the goal is. If his head is in it let's see what he can bring.

Can only draw the conclusion that we are fucking with the Newcastle scouts at this point 😂

Bizarre subs

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Aribo looks miles off it at the moment.

Flynn is limping 😬

Disgusting challenge again

The kick to Janny B was pathetic and unnecessary. Getafe players flopping at the slightest touch here

It’s been said before but Sugawara’s delivery is excellent Getafe players really being petty in this first half.

Loved the challenge from Yuki

Arma not controlling anything today

Are we stronger than we finished last season... no. But I also think it's a bit of a stretch to say it's not looking hopeful when we have 20 odd days left of the window. We've been pretty active. THB and Downes skew the perception a bit because they were here last season but we still needed to get pen put to paper on them. They are now both assets to the club both for now and the future. Outside of them we've added: Ronnie Edwards - Looks like a gem for £6M and will provide good competition at CB Yuki Sugawara - £5M for a player that has looked to give genuine competition to KWP as opposed to the level of Bree Ben Brereton-Diaz - £6.5M for a player that is at minimum of an equal standard to Adams but looks far more promising Nathan Wood - £3M for a player Martin clearly feels he can develop (Jury is well and truly out but we're not breaking the bank there) Adam Lallana - Free - Added experience in bags, will likely provide more value to SAA and Dibling than the first team but still a shrewd signing Charlie Taylor - Free - Bit of battle tested cover for minimal outlay again pretty shrewd to bolster depth A few other fringe signings for the future/Goztepe We clearly need additional cover a 9,10,6 and GK and I'm sure those are deals that are being worked on. But I think we've had a pretty pragmatic window to this point and with time to spare I think we'll see a few more exciting deals in when the likes of ABK et al. are moved along to free up cash. We also have a lot of headroom to bring in loan deals, which typically happen late in the window. When you consider that most of the depth and quality we've lost are from loan signings you'd be hard pressed to say we're not a more attractive loan destination this year than last. So not a particularly exciting window yet but plenty of solid deals and gems had so far and plenty of time to add.

The Eze and Olise point is an interesting one in as much as prior to that break out season they were mearly seen as great high potential youngsters. Now if only we had a couple of high potential youngsters within our ranks… a winger and an attacking midfielder would be ideal 🤔😂

65M for a player with 29 Premier League goals in 134 Premier League appearances is madness.

We must protect him at all costs.