S-Clarke

We're signing all their players.

The football people in charge are too smart to let that happen. It's not the same as last year.

From how I've read it, Wolves can't give us £15m now. But they can next summer. (no idea why). So, they're taking him on loan with a small loan fee I assume. There is an obligation to buy for £15m. He extends his contract here by 1 year before he makes the move so his value remains next summer.

So the unthinkable is happening then. He's off on loan to Wolves. Bonkers. He signs a new deal so we keep value, and wolves pay £15m next summer. Just seems bizarre as we're losing out on a striker for this season and have no money to reinvest. (Well, not the price we asked for). Is he really that desperate to move?

Patrick Roberts is an interesting one. He was a really young talent when he was snapped up by Wilcox at City, he didn't really break through at City and ended up going on loan a bit - before finally settling somewhere at Sunderland. So this is someone Wilcox will know all about anyway, makes a lot of sense.

Lol

There were nonsense rumours about Che leaving on loan last window, that was knocked on the head fairly quickly. Luckily we only have 1 more day of this crap. We do not let him go on loan, we either get £££ for him, or he stays.

Yeah, nothing major though - missed weeks at best, which again is pretty common for a lot of players. He's certainly not injury prone from what I can see.

Is there any reason why he is described as injury prone? I can literally only see one bad injury in his entire career, which can happen to anyone, so I'm not sure how that equates to him being injury prone. Fair enough, if he had a few ankle injuries over the years etc - but he hasn't.

I appreciate that Kalvin Phillips had a good Euros, 2 flaming years ago, but the guy doesn't play football anymore so he shouldn't be getting international honours in front of people who are getting game time. Granted, we don't have many midfield options - but you'd think JWP, as he's playing and Phillips isn't, should be in there. The inclusion of Maguire is equally as pointless ahead of someone like Ben White.

I heard about this a few days ago, a real shame as this was a good opportunity for him. He's highly rated and was desperate for some football league game time. Hope it doesn't set him back too much.

Is he in a wheelchair FFS? SR out!

Surely Che can see the only options he has here? Bottom of the barrel PL clubs, looking for a cheapo squad-filler deal over the line on deadline day as they can't afford anything else, or their primary targets have fallen through. He's best advised to stay here, score loads of goals, enjoy football and play with a smile on his face - rather than slugging around in the dregs of the PL losing every week. He's been there and done that.

That is true, but putting myself on the inside for a second - if there is absolutely nothing agreed for those guys at this point, then we shut the door in my opinion and tell clubs their time is up. Shouldn't be negotiating anything tomorrow. for what it's worth all the players above were in normal full training today (bar Onuachu) if any moves were signed and agreed, pending on us getting players in, I doubt they'd be training as they were.

That Che loan rumour is a good laugh. There will be so much nonsense that gets trotted out over the next few hours. In my eyes we are beyond the point of letting any regular starter go now if there is nothing agreed.

Where the heck did this one come from??

Sounds like this is moving fairly quickly now -

They are the most jammy fucks in the world. Honestly.

Noticed this snippet on the Leicester forum, they claim it's from a John Percy article -

They love stockpiling young players, and then never playing them. So yeah, he'll end up there.

It's irrelevant really, as the chances of ABK turning out in the championship are between zero and none.

As he's out of contract next summer, there's little point in including any option tbh.

Dortmund move ahead of Bayern in race for Bella-Kotchap Borussia Dortmund have moved ahead of Bayern Munich in the race to sign Southampton defender Armel Bella-Kotchap, according to Sky in Germany. Bayern’s focus on signing Chelsea’s Trevoh Chalobah to bolster their defensive options has given Dortmund the chance to step up their pursuit of Bella-Kotchap. Sky Germany’s Florian Plettenberg reports that the Bella-Kotchap deal still has a way to go, though. Dortmund’s proposal includes a £6.8m loan fee with a £17.2m obligation to buy next summer, plus at least another £4m in bonus payments. Bella-Kotchap, 21, is yet to feature for Southampton this season because of injury. A £28m deal for ABK? That's too good to turn down, surely.

I reckon it'll be like the AMN loan we did last year - they agree a new contract with him, which kicks in next summer if they decide - then send him out on loan. If it doesn't work out, as was the case with AMN, they don't activate that new contract and let him walk as originally planned.

Yep it does - good spot.