S-Clarke

Football fans love a busy transfer window/lots of new players to support, but what Forest are doing is beyond the realms of 'busy' to be honest. It’s more akin to a frenzied approach. If I was a Forest fan I'd be fearing the worst, because other teams have tried this approach before and it didn't work.

Another one... Nottingham Forest are interested in bringing in Tottenham defender Japhet Tanganga, according to The Athletic. Forest want to bring the centre-back in on a permanent deal but are put off by Spurs' £16.8m asking price. AC Milan, Bournemouth and Napoli are all said to be in for the 23-year-old. The England U-21 international made 19 appearances for Tottenham last season but has yet to play this term.

I think we're a bit of an unknown to the media and other fans, and somewhat irrelevant to be honest. I have seen comments from other fans and even the media suggesting that we ''need to spend'' as we can't keep this 'sell to buy' policy and expect to stay up. This may be the season it catches up with us, so they say. But I'm confused as to why of all seasons they are spouting this now, as it's the total opposite this year. We haven’t sold anyone. Lazy and uninformed I guess.

ah fair enough, didn't realise. That's a blow, he's a good young player.

You do wonder where Everton go next, this summer has seen their already low-quality squad picked off of it's better players. Lost Richarlison, their next best bet DCL injured all the time, the next best bet Gordon now off to Chelsea. Their attack is pretty much made up of Demari Gray and Solomon Rondon. Not sure there are many goals in that. I'm sure they have targets to sign, so it'll be interesting. Broja as part of the deal seems a no brainer for them as it gets a player in the door straight away. The next week and a bit of the window is going to be fascinating, so much still to happen everywhere.

Broja isn't going to get much time there, he'll have a wasted 12 months if he's not careful. CHO, Pulisic, Emerson, Chalobah, Broja are all probably up for sale/loan at the right price. (I think Emerson is off to WHU)

They'll be fine. They don't give up much defensively, so that will always be a positive - but they just lack a goal scorer without Jimenez. By all accounts they're going to sign the guy we wanted, Sasa (i won't spell his last name). So, if you put him in the team with the likes of Neto, Traore, Neves, Nunes, Guedes etc they should be absolutely nowhere near and on a different level to us. I don't think they've been too bad so far, just lacking a final touch.

It is quite incredible really, for that outlay they've not even signed a bucket load. Cuccurella, Sterling, Koulibaly, Chukwemka. Sterling adds a bit extra in attack for them, and Koulibaly was a necessity, but other than that.......they don't look any better for the outlay. Cuccurella for that fee made no sense to me, they already had Chilwell. Ditto Gordon would make no sense to me for that outlay.

Is it just me who doesn't get the hype around Pedro? what has he ever done to warrant this sort of fee? Given Wolves pursuit of Sasa, and Newcastle’s pursuit of Pedro...it does potentially open the door for Ramos, given that these two clubs were the others we were competing with.

This is what I thought, in my opinion Pulisic is on a different level to Gordon. Even Zyiech (although a slightly different sort). You could even give CHO a chance in the wide areas. Gordon is alright, just an average english player in my opinion. By all accounts Pulisic is on his way out though, why....god knows.

What is their strategy? They signed the guy from Bayern (Omar Richards) for £10m, he's a quality LB. They also signed Toffolo from Huddersfield. Their approach is starting to scream wtf.

Yeah, Wolves were also linked - not sure if that was just lazy journalism though given he's Portuguese. Jackson is more of a wide player though I think, whereas Ramos is a CF. We need both types imo.

Looks like Wolves have found a load of money down the back of the sofa. Potentially a bit of a domino here with regards to Ramos.

But how much longer can they continue shuffling through managers before tackling the crux of the problem? So many horrible characters as players in that club (and terrible players too), terrible ownership, equally bad football management/DoF stuff. Until those things are fixed, they'll just keep cycling through manager after manager with no strategy. First thing they need to do is work out what they are, what style they want to play, let the manager build that and go from there.

Like Tajjuk has said, you can't judge anyone yet. There are so many changes yet to happen with regards to transfers in and out which could make or shape teams. For one it's impossible to predcit how Forest will do, these new signings could make them a super team, or they could blow up. Impossible to judge yet. 10-12 games will give you a fairer idea of what's what in my opinion, but even then stuff can still change. How teams react to the World Cup in the middle of this season is also unpredictable. Teams could flourish from the gap (similar to how we did in lockdown), or teams could come back with players fatigued/injured and it could bomb the rest of the season. Lots of weeks to go until we can say what's what with any side.

I'd say that Bednarek makes Salisu's game worse, as Salisu is pulled all over the place trying to cover. He's not a truly hideous CB like Hoedt, but you cannot get away from the cold hard facts - we have had one of the worst defences in the league, consistently, when he's been a part of it. He ball watches, he gets caught on the ball, has no physicality and is out muscled way too easily. No pace either. Not a great advert for a PL CB.

Crap news to end the weekend. He should have had years left in him. Met him once many years ago in the George Burley years, friendliest guy ever. RIP.

Not the greatest of sources. The descriptions of him being our 'brick wall' and 'star' are funny though, couldn't be further from the truth.

Villa fans are a bit confused by this as well, mainly because they don't play with 'wide players'. They think it's a waste of their budget and scattergun, and it's hard to disagree. Coutinho was a bit of a pointless statement signing for them, he's way past his best and doesn't seem to be able to hack this league (or any league) anymore.

Yeah, there is the off the ball stuff which is very important, I think he's good at that and like you said probably one of the reasons he's picked. But I think an attacker should be able to influence on the ball as well, he just doesn't seem to be able to. It feels like we're at a disadvantage on the ball when he's playing.

I would say so, feels like it's following in the Thomas Frank model. (He was brought in as Dean Smith's assistant at Brentford).

How do people get onto their Telegram group? I've not had an invite, not sure how to get one. I did ask for an invite when I resigned back up but that was ignored.

Yeah that's correct re: Leicester. They're a bit stuck in two area's, FFP (they need to move on some high earners first) and also a lack of investment from the ownership due to a slow down in their operations after COVID. King Power took a massive hit, which is no surprise really given the nature of their business.

Yeah it's a shame, flawless for many years. Obviously a bit of a crack down on them, given that they got rid of their website and such. Surprised it lasted as long as it did, it's had a bigger longevity than most I can remember.