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A lot will depend on the valuation of Victor Hugo. Let's say we value Hugo at 18M (not unreasonable if that's what Wolves bid for him) + 7M. That puts the deal for Alcaraz at a healthy 25M but the vast majority of that is tied up with Hugo out on loan at Goztepe and not really helping our finances or our ability to sign players this summer. Personally I'd rather it was a straight cash deal and think it's probably pretty unlikely Hugo will play for us.

Yes, definitely seems low energy. He's not even doing many rallies either and seems to be concentrating on areas that are solid republican when he does.

Hypo summed it up pretty well. He's still pretty young and was unlucky to have Downes in front of him last season but he desperately needs regular games so hopefully gets it with you. He's a defensive mid who can also play CB if needed. Tidy but unflashy on the ball. Generally decent passer but don't expect any crossfield diagonal Hollywood balls from him. Had a f*cking awful game deputising for Downes away to Bristol City and never really got back into the team after that. Hope he has a decent season for you, good luck.

Fuck me, things must be bad when even Trump supporters won't openly support him on an anonymous message board anymore. I expected better from them.

Le Tiss, Pahars and Richards would/should get into our team. Jones would be equally shite with the ball at his feet but at least as good as McCarthy otherwise. Proper 4-4-2 formations too, none of that fancy continental bollocks. I must have been there for that game but can't remember for the life of me when Stuart Ripley ever got man of the match.

He didn't look that great to me BUT the quality of the videos wasn't that good and half of them were highlights of youth football so it's hard to tell and probably shows up the limitations of YouTube more than anything else. Based on what I saw it's a surprise that Wolves bid 20M (suspect it was probably less) so they must have seen something they liked. One worry I'd have is that he probably isn't a player we've directly scouted and more a way of Flamengo getting the price down to something they can afford so I think I'd rather take the money.

Fucked off with you moaning is all mate.

Christ's sake people are speculating - that's what happens in a transfer window. Just like you speculated that JWP "wasn't going anywhere". Don't read the speculation if you don't like it.

I actually don't think anyone is paying 25M for Clarke and the closer it gets to the end of the window the more the price will come down. Sunderland played hard ball last summer when Burnley were sniffing around but he had three years left on his contract then. I don't think they'll want to go to another window with less than two years and he's made it pretty clear he isn't going to sign a new deal. We've been linked quite a bit before so we may be interested but we've also been linked with fairly cheap winger options like Rak-Sakyi and the Norwich lad (albeit they prefer to play on the right) so I'm not sure how much we put a value on a winger. I guess if we can't afford O'Riley then we may have a bit more money.

Yes, agree with that. I think Dibling will develop into a similar style of player too.

Thought of that but presume Wolves wouldn’t have bothered bidding if that was the case?

Sunderland want 25M so almost certain to be rejected. Think Spurs have a 25% sell on clause. I quite like Clarke but there’s some doubts about whether he can make the step up and by all accounts didn’t show up fantastically well in the fa cup game against Newcastle last season

Maybe YouTube doesn’t do him justice or I watched the wrong videos but Hugo didn’t really impress me much. Fairly big fella so could probably handle the physical side of the game but also looked quite slow. Couple of decent goals but think I’d rather take the money.

Short(ish), powerful runner type of striker. Good that we're still being linked to forward options but he seems quite similar to Archer and would be nice to have an alternative that gives us something different. I guess we've got BBD to be a bit more physical and hold the ball up but he seems more comfortable on the left. This fella has apparently turned down Leeds and Forest when both in the premier league so not sure he'd be that interested in coming here either. Cheers for the link though.

I'm not sure we'll bring another striker in but if we were then I'd quite like Fotis Ioannides from Panathinaikos. Big lad, good scoring record and only 24. We were linked about a week ago, Leicester also linked and they've missed out on Adam Hlozek so a bit of competition there. Apparently 30M price tag but you'd assume that will come down the closer we get to the end of the window. Would definitely give us an added dimension in terms of physical presence and aerial ability. I don't think we will buy another striker but it would give us another dimension.

The deal is the same. Ipswich have taken a risk, all transfers are a risk. Reuniting the strike force from one of the worst teams in premier league history is a risk. If it comes off for them then it’s probably money (from next year) well spent. If it doesn’t then they’ve made a mistake but not one that cost them 30M. I really don’t know how I can explain that any better.

Yeah, don’t forget fires, floods and other biblical catastrophes. They could all happen too. Any player could get injured

I don’t know if he’ll be the same player he was either, no one really does, but it’ll be interesting to see how he gets on. It’s exactly the same kind of deal we did with THB so just seemed a bit strange to knock it.

Whilst it’s fun to knock other clubs, I think it’s quite a good deal. It’s 30m of next years money if they stay up, and if they do stay up then presumably he would have contributed to that.

Before my time but a quick google tells me you're right. Marvellous, isn't it.

Jumpers for goalpost eh? Isn't it? Marvellous, hmm?

shadow striker, or an 8.5

Nonsense, AA is a false 9. Do keep up!

Are we the only club that has a goals scored ration? It would explain a fair bit.

Except no one really is, people are commenting on links not the accuracy of them.