S-Clarke

It's a weird one from Ipswich to be honest. He's not a true first team player at Leicester, so they did well to get £12-14m for him. Not sure what Ipswich are getting there, Leicester describe him as fairly average - but that's probably on the back of last season. I remember him doing pretty well against us in the Championship thrashings we had against them.

I don't want to speak too soon, because we've all been burnt so many times in the past. But I do kind of get the same vibe. It's hard to explain why, but sometimes things just feel right and you ultimately have immediate trust. That's what this feels like here. I think a lot of it is because he talks straight, there's no waffle from him. He's straight, he wants to win games, he doesn't care how, here's here to win games. So many times it's been about philosophy and playing a certain way all the fricking time, but for me it's about getting good players, playing them in their natural positions and being flexible when required. That's where I feel we are now. And the Mads signing is another example of our common sense approach imo. Nothing clever, nothing flashy, 'just works'.

Once someone picks him up from South Korea.

I get you, we've dealt with crappy signing over crappy signing for what feels like a decade - but this sort of signing feels like a bit of common sense for a change, and a 'now' signing and a step away from buying kids with up sale. This guy has been signed to make us better today, rather than a view to make us a profit in the future.

How I see it is that he was reasonable enough at that level to allow Brentford to establish and stabilise in the PL. They've now evolved their full back positions with better players, so he's dropped down the pecking order. I think they signed that Kayode guy this summer for £20m or such. Yes, people are now looking at Brentford to struggle - but it's because of what they've lost in attack, as opposed to what they have across the wider team. They evolved on from Mads, but it's not to say he wasn't part of the setup which established them in the PL in the first place. There is a risk that sometimes you can look too far ahead with signings, I think you have to take what he can offer us today. We've all called for players ready to come 'straight in' rather than 'young with potential', well this guy - and Azaz - will be players who can come straight in and immediately lift up the side in our weak positions. Absolute no brainer for me.

I don't think anyone is expecting him to be better than KWP, or were expecting us to signing anyone who was as good as KWP. This guy is a completely different profile to KWP too. I think we all appreciate that having KWP last time out in the Champ was a bonus, a ridiculous bonus. Those levels of players don't often operate in the Champ. We got lucky he stuck around.

Everything about his game is so bad. It's a shame really because I love his attitude and how he approaches 'life', but he's just not right for English football. A poor pick of many from that ill-fated transfer window last year.

I'm personally frustrated that we allowed Real Madrid to sneak in and snap up Trent. (tm)

Not sure if Blackmore is guessing on that one. It would make sense though. He was a player who arrived with much fanfare, but holy christ he is easily the worst RB we've ever had in the PL. He's a happy chap, but he made me depressed. If we get a good fee for him, at least making back our £6m, then we should accept it and move on. He's even frustrated me in the Champ with his awful wayward passing.

Brentford have Kayode and Hickey as their full back options, they are better than Roreslev, yes, but both of their 'starters' are out of our league and thus irrelevant options for us. We are shopping in the market of PL reserve players, I don't understand why you're so upset about it. Who were you expecting exactly? We're not signing a starting PL player, they're always going to be a squad PL player.

Yeah I'm with you, and everyone else by the looks of it. I don't see anything wrong with the deal. We needed a RB, one of our key positions, and we've got a PL right back in the door who has played and performed at the top level of this very division. Looking at all the comments, the Brentford fans love him so he seems a good egg. And that's often just as important as being good in your position.

How have you come to that conclusion out of interest? I'd take the Brentford fans views, who have watched him every week, over other club fans views if I'm honest.

Yeah, I'm really frustrated we didn't sign Aaron Wan-Bisakka, Dallot, James, Rico Lewis or Ben White. Everyone out.

As others have mentioned before, gauging the view of the fans he's leaving is often a good indication of the player and person he is. No faults to be seen with this one.

Well where the feck did that one come from. I've always thought he was a cracking little right back when he's played for them.

I wonder if we'll have him sign his contract on the pitch? That was a funny saga, dealing with that crazy Hearts owner at the time iirc.

It's Gakpo all over again, there's no other way to put it. We'll probably never know the true story behind this ill-fated attempt, but he'll prob end up in the French or Italian league by next year.

If a game ever demonstrated Russ-Ball, that was it. - Keep the ball and have more possession - Tick - Have in excess of 500 passes - Tick - Concede rubbish goals and scrape through - Tick - Be brave - Tick

if BBD buggers off then we may well do.

Spurs will try to throw players in as part-ex, they always do. We don't want your next gen Tommy Forecast thanks.

We'd almost certainly replace Fernandes if he were sold, otherwise we're back to the situation of relying on Smallbone to provide box to box for our midfield should we get any injuries. Too risky, as Downes will pickup injuries and Charles will pickup suspensions. I expect us to bring in the Azaz type without any key sales, but the sales of Dibling and Fernandes should then allow us to bolster CM, Number 9 and further wide options.

If he's going, a bidding war is the best outcome for us.

Weren't they beaten 4-0 away at a L1 Club in the cup or something?

He's not coming Dave. It was over in July I believe.