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I know that rasmus' relation owns that football site where clubs put what they have available and for sale. I wonder if saints and Chelsea are on it? If so makes sense how we were able to arrange the lesley loan so quickly and then they've seemingly helped us to sell Mara to their feeder club.

Quite a few saves there I've never seen Bazunu or McCarthy make. Exciting.

What is the price range? Anyone know?

Lesley?

He does sound like a top keeper though who would be entirely out of our reach had he not had these injuries. Rather like Ipswich gambling with Broja, maybe this is the sort of move we need to do and hope it pays off to give us a good chance.

Indeed. Premier league wonderkid up top on loan please!

His injury record is here. Certainly seems to be a lot and quite varied. Maybe just bad luck. Justin Bijlow - Injury history | Transfermarkt

Oh God. I can see Martin reading these words and quietly fondling himself in the corner of the room.

Distribution. Bijlow is suited to a short passing game. According to fbref.com, he had the shortest average pass length of all Eredivisie goalkeepers this season at 25.6 metres and launched (defined as balls that travelled over 40 metres) just 17.8 per cent of his kicks. He sounds exactly like the type of keeper that would suit us.

I hate questions like this. It is for the club and the scouting departments to get a list of players to suit our systems with the ability to score goals and keep us up. You could have said where is the affordable box to box player with the passing ability to provide us with assists and approximately zero people on here would have said Mateus Fernandes before this week. Someone posted a Greek striker earlier who may not be affordable but certainly seems like the profile of player I would expect us to go for with the potential to score goals in this league. It's the club's job to find plenty of players not mine and they will have done so. Personally I'd be looking for a promising young striker from abroad on loan, maybe structured in a similar deal to Broja from Ipswich. Moukoko from Dortmund looks good, as does Nelson Weiper from Mainz. Both may be unrealistic to sign but we could maybe get them on loan.

This is just superb business for us. Either it gives us some FFP breathing room or it frees up some funds for more players. My sense is we are almost done bar a possible winger and hopefully keeper. Maybe a lb if kwp goes.

I made the same point about Archer's xg last week but the point is that it's untrue to say there is "no reason" to suspect they can't step up. The reason is that loads of successes in the championship have shown they can't make the step up - including Armstrong and Archer in previous seasons! It's about being realistic not lacking in optimism. The hope of course is that they buck their trend from previous seasons and that under a new style with a new player providing assists they will be able to increase their scoring rate in the prem. Until that actually happens though there is going to be a question mark about their abilities to score regularly enough to finish above 18th and it's just realistic to point that out.

That's true but what on earth is Henderson going to do?

Have a read of what I posted lower down the page and what wolves fans are saying. It appears he is a bit worse than McCarthy at playing out with his feet.

I agree that we won't get another one but that's the sort of thing I think we need. Good post.

Is your sense that we'd ever look to get him back? I've heard some people say that he might want to return but I don't think there's a place for him with our new signings.

Have they shown they can score goals given chances in the prem? Diaz showed glimpses but that isn't case for the other two yet. They might well do but there's no evidence as yet.

In his position on the left coming inside I'd be confident he can do a job n for us there. I don't think he's a centre forward leading the line though.

Yes. One who has had prior performance in this league and whose previous scoring record isn't 4 goals in two seasons.

That's another reason we won't get Ramsdale imo. We can't leave it till the very last minute which is when arsenal might consider a loan to someone like us because we need one in. We probably have a large list with the attributes we want and we will go down it till we get one.

I expect we will see some improvement. Whether it is to the extent that it has a serious impact on our season remains to be seen. The last preseason game and the Newcastle game have still left me with some doubts. I'm glad he's in the team and we must give him a chance but I'm nervous about the prospect of relying on him too heavily abd pinning our promotion hopes on him until he proves he can score regularly in this division.

Think we can write of Patricio coming here if this article is in any way accurate: His kicking is not a strong part of his game, particularly when put under pressure from opponents. Following a back-pass from a defender, Patrício’s lack of assurance invites pressure from attackers who sense an opportunity as the ball rolls back towards goal. As the ball travelled, Wolves’ centre-backs did not drop back to offer a passing option to their goalkeeper, and he would almost always look to play long. On the rare occasions he tried to take a touch, he sometimes even lost possession and gifted an opponent a huge chance (below). Patrício played almost 90 per cent of his goal-kicks long, to the extent that only a handful of Premier League goalkeepers launched more long passes than did Wolves' number one. None of the other teams who played long from their goalkeeper as much as Wolves finished anything like as high up the table as Nuno's did in their first two seasons in the Premier League. That is, the most successful teams play short from their goalkeeper far more than Wolves.

How is Patricio at playing out from the back? Is he still good enough despite his age? I haven't been keeping up with him.

I'd say it would be a sad state of affairs if the person we are relying on the most to score goals is AA given his previous record in this division. When we've done well previously we've had at least one and sometimes two stars who we know can reliably stick the ball in the net. Lambert, Rodriguez, Pelle, Gabbiadini to a lesser extent, Broja with his vein of form and Ings. Who do we have now? My fears may be unfounded but we need more for the attack imo.

Fair enough for Fernandes but I didn't see much chance creation from lesley?