S-Clarke

But the problem is we have no cash flow now, zilch, nothing. We cannot budge or add any more to the wage bill until we get rid of those who currently polute it. That's more the problem rather than outright transfer fee's, although we do also need that moeny. We're skint, basically.

I think the nature of football and fans in particular is that success is seen as now, what's happening in front of them now. Majority are only interested in what can make an impact today, not tomorrow. I quite like the approach to be honest, give it a couple of years and we'll have a bucket load of saught after players. Which we can sell for lots of money, rinse and repeat.

They probably are interested, but they will only pay £0. We want to try and recoup the quite simply offensive amount we paid Monaco. The chances of that happening I'd say are between none and none. I imagine he's also on a stupid wage which these clubs can't meet either. Absolute mess. Maybe we could ask Pellegrino to pay us back for him?

He was better a few years ago. I think Burnley have pulled Villa's pants down with that fee if I'm honest. What on earth are we asking for McCarthy and Forster???

Spurs fans getting themselves a bit twitchy at their lack of activity. Levy to blame, killing the club etc. I think they need to wake up and smell the coffee really. That new stadium won't have come free. They already have a team full of very talented and highly paid players. They even broke their transfer record this summer. But they still want more, more, more.

Do you think something is still happening with Upamecano? Can't see how we'd afford either of these guys to be honest.

https://www.getfootballnewsfrance.com/2019/southampton-have-entered-the-race-for-monaco-defender-benoit-badiashile/

Looks like Dybala heading to Utd, with Lukaku going the other way. I think Utd could get a good deal here. We were linked to Dybala back in the Cortese days, if i remember correctly.

As I said a few weeks back, unless we shift Carillo, Lemina, Austin, Forster – and maybe a couple of others, we won't and can't bring anyone else in. And that's on perms as well, not loans. We need the money. I think we want a CB, but the re-integration of Hoedt suggests that maybe we're looking at a likely scenario where we stay with what we have. Not ideal and not what I expected, but we've been lumbered with lots of seriously overpaid and unwanted players which is going to massively hinder us. Once we get them off the books, it will be like a leash removed from around us. You also need to factor in that some substantial $$ will also need to be put aside for any contract re-negotiations for the likes of PEH, Redmond etc. So, we need to be careful. It's clear we have an owner who isn't going to put his hand in his pocket at any point, so we can simply only acquire players on the basis of what we generate ourselves.

You've pretty much confirmed what I’ve said really, he has talent. I've never been negative about his abilities as a footballer, he has it all in his locker that side. He just doesn't have the application, so his consistency will never be there. He never has had it and probably never will. That's why he's always moving around and hardly getting any games under his belt. There will always be clubs and managers who look at the raw player and hope they can coach it out of him, but the reality is that he's a little bit broken in his traits and that's not particularly easy to fix.

He's got talent, there's no doubts about it. He can play. He's just a flawed personality, his makeup is all wrong and that’s why he's never going to make it anywhere really. If we're honest, this is a great club for players to come to and flourish if they have talent and application. We've seen it all before. He has absolutely zero application and this is why we don't want him anymore, why Marseille didn't want him and why Juventus didn't want him. He'll be a typical journeyman and probably in an obscure league within a couple of years. Shame really, such a waste of natural ability.

Ings looks like he's blowing out of his arse already.

Bale transfer fallen through, not entirley sure why. Given that he's totally not wanted at Madrid, this could open up some interesting last day rush jobs for him. Loan to Bayern is a shout I reckon.

A Man City youngester I think, wasn't first team there.

It's actually a China club, £1m a week contract. Absolute waste of a player to be honest, but never mind.

Thursday 8th of august I believe, just a couple of weeks left.

There is talk they are selling Dunk for £45m

How weird. Utd are a club without any sort of clue transfer wise, aren't they? He's certainly not what they need or want. I have no idea why they are even interested. Baffling club that is right now.

I'd be very surprised, 1 decentish one at the very best for £20m.

He's probably the one we could potentially get value from. But if we're honest he is just another indictment of our horrific transfer policy over the last few years. He'll never fulfil his potential at the top because he lacks some key elements as a professional and in his football brain. Not denying his talent, but you need more than that.

Unfortunately, the tone of what I'm hearing is that Ralph is reluctantly having a look at Hoedt and some others, mainly because we have so many CB's already and we are finding it difficult to shift so we can't afford to sign another. Pretty rubbish situation. My belief is that unless we see significant outgoings in the likes of Cedirc, Hoedt, Carillo, Boufal etc, then we will not see any further incoming. It's frustrating because that means we go into next season still horrifically short at CB in terms of quality, but this is the pain of assembling such an expensive and rubbish squad over the course or 3 windows. That's why I'm as baffled as anyone as to why Ross is still around, should have been held as accountable as Les.

To be fair, he's been a bit of a **** about it. Not the first time he's seen the cash on the horizon, got fidgety and handed in a transfer request. This time WHU didn't blink and offer him a new contract as they've done before, so he's gone. Look at what he did to Stoke before he left there too. He's a divisive piece of work. He'll drift way off into obscurity now, but he's got his money which is seemingly his sole goal!

The most typical Burnley signing ever.

People keep saying this, but I think he'd still be as error prone. He'd still give the ball away, probably lose tackles, and not be quick enough to recover. The curx is that he's not a very good player what so ever and is so out of his depth as a regular at this level.

Arsenal starting up discussions for Wilfred Zaha, £40m ish initially being discussed. Palace are seemingly going to be raped this summer.