Saint Garrett

Difficult to argue with this. Although we have no idea even of the system yet, so difficult to say. Boufal in for Tadic and Davis possibly in for Hojbjerg only other arguments. Team picks itself really...

Meh - if it happens it happens, if it doesn't then I expect us to replace him with another very decent CB. Don't want him to go at all, but no point having a hissy fit about it !

Hart to West Ham, paying £50k of his £100k wages. Good deal for them.

Muscle ?

Can't even decide which one of these to put in - Got VVD /Boufal and Gabbiadini in at the moment.....

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Awful footballer, can only think there is some link to £££ somewhere. Might be a nice bloke, hope he plays against us...!

All sounds like agent talk to me trying to get his player a move. Especially given the fact that they're probably going to sign Costa.

1 up top can easily be more attacking than 2 up top, it's about not isolating the front man. In a 4-4-2 you generally have 2 attacking, in 4-2-3-1 you can easily have 4 attacking. Problem was getting nowhere close to whoever was playing up top, and swinging in crosses to strikers who are pretty awful in the air.

Think we only really need two players now - ideally I wanted a top CB alongside VVD but doesn't look like that's going to happen. 1 DM alongside Romeu, 1 AM/Winger who can create. Apart from that I'm pretty happy with the squad.

He can't get a game in the championship - and he's always been the case of he takes a while to get fit and picks up his touch with minutes, he would never get that here.

LOL - FFP is basically non existent these days, and Everton building a 60k stadium too I think?

£40m doesnt get you much these days....Sigurdsson, keep the rest of the squad together.

Would rather Romeu was #4 and VVD #6.

Would rather Romeu was #4 and VVD #6.

From what I have heard - they'll likely end up with both....

From what I have heard - they'll likely end up with both....

Pretty sure Siggurdsson is going to Everton to replace Barkley....

Pretty sure Siggurdsson is going to Everton to replace Barkley....

Surprised the club haven't made a bit more out of that one! minimum £100k, sounds promising? You'd think he's be a bit closer to the first team than the others?

Anyone know anything about them? The new players: Kameron Ledwidge Sean Brennan Kornelius Hansen Will Ferry Daniel Bartlett Christian Norton Oludare Olufunwa Kayne Ramsey Taymar Fleary

Do agree with this. That was our last summer of first XI quality signings, rather than investing in the future. However it is the model and maybe they feel that it costs too much to be signing top internationals to improve our first XI now, as our first XI id arguably better and easier to improve on the positions. We also had the impact of Europa league for the last few years, so we needed a thicker squad so I can see why we built the squad up a bit. Would be nice to bring in a few top players though who will walk straight into the side. Fees are just utter madness at the moment though, an average prem player is going for £25m this summer and a decent one for £35/40m+. If we can find value abroad then so be it, but when a prem side is interested the transfer fee seems to rocket straight away. Even if we don't sell anyone, we could still do with a DM, and a AM/Winger. If we get to a place where we have something along the lines of the below, we look in pretty decent shape...don't think we need huge surgery tbh unless we're going to let a few go. Forster/McCarthy/Taylor/Lewis Cedric/Pied/Valery VVD/Yoshida/Stephens/Bedarnek Bertrand/McQueen/Targett (Maybe either of the latter go out on loan in the championship) Romeu/NEW/Hojbjerg/Davis/JWP/Reed Boufal/NEW/Redmond/Tadic/Sims Gabbiadini/Austin/Long/Gallagher

Because he's a f*cking idiot.

Probably going to happen that one though surely? Lacazette to Arsenal and Giroud to WHU, will be a good signing for them.