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Good point, so...maybe 13m to play with? Or we could say we're totally broke even with the Salisu transfer. Would need to shift the likes of Lemina, Hoedt, Carillo and co for fee's before we get anyone else, I imagine.

So potentially 8m for Reed, £15m for PEH. (they both sound like up front fee's as well, so available to us straight away) £23m to put towards a new midfielder? Should get us McKennie I'd have thought.

Agreed, if that's what it came to! This is pretty unusable bar a few days a week. Painful again this morning, not as bad, but just about 20-30 seconds to just open a thread. It's not like it's peak time or anything, I wouldn't even attempt to use this after a match these days.

It's not confirmed yet!

He played LB in the first half, less said about that the better! 2nd half we improved, but he still slowed us down I felt (lots of sideways and backwards, little penetration). I guess in a way that's not really his role, but you'd hope he could do a slightly better job of it.

I agree, it's pretty unusable. Might as well just put a holding page up until the fault is fixed - as someone mentioned above.

Great, Fulham score. They've come to kill this game and they've achieved it so far. Don't want these sort of sides in the top league.

Brentford haven't really turned up tonight unfortunately. Fulham have setup to nullify their 3 attackers, the game will open up in the 2nd half hopefully...that should suit Brentford

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Don't forget Brighton at home either, the first half was utter dross and an example of what has been served up at home all too often.

I assume you're still tweaking stuff Steve? It was fine Sunday/Monday, but today it has been absolutely unusable for me. Sometimes it will fly to life again, but then when i go to reply to a post it'll just sit there. I hope this isn't by design...!

I don't agree with that at all. I think most of us have been fairly fair over our assessments of him, he is honestly nothing special and I have always maintained that - not just because he's now leaving. Bog standard is how I'd describe him, offers nothing more than Tottenham's midfielders currently do. As igsey put above so well, in isolation his stats look impressive. But I know what I've seen for the last 4 years. I've seen the most dull, boring, safe midfield player. Someone who gives up possession just as much as he wins it, someone who waves his arms about and shows passion, but never really did the talking on the pitch. I'll remember someone who shows no composure in the final moments of games. I'll remember someone who makes you nervous rather than excited by his presence. I'll remember him as someone who was a pivotal part to our horrific, unacceptable home form for the last 3/4 seasons. Luckily other managers see a gap in their side for him and are willing to buy him, as this will enable us to buy someone far more dynamic to improve our style at home.

But we then gave him another new contract, a year after his original one - after he'd had a very substandard year. Absolutely moronic from Reed.

You're not wrong, I've never really rated him that highly to be honest. He's what I'd call a bog standard mid-table PL midfielder, no more than that. I just feel he lacks that real 'star' quality that other 'defectors' have had. I don't rate him as high as Morgan for example, not even as close to being as technical or mobile as him, and Morgan struggled at Utd and Everton. I think Spurs already have better players than him, that's why I'm curious as to their hunt for him. Lo Celso, Winks, Nndomble, Sissoko, Gedson Fernandes - all seem to offer what PEH does, but slightly better technically. I don't think we're missing anything, I just don't think he's half as good as the media make him out to be.

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Can someone please do us all a massive favour and ban MLG? Or at least remove his sub? Absolute pedantic WUM.

He has been pivotal in our games since the return, filling in a role that Hoj isn't able to do. He looks fitter and more mobile than he did, maybe this is what he was lacking prior lockdown. I certainly wouldn't class him as our backup at the moment though, one of our first names given the role and job he fulfils.

If Hoj wants Spurs then our hands are tied, we have to hold our nerve and wait for them to offer near what we want.

They have their eyes on any player with two legs.

AC Milan were in talks for Matty Cash in January, but couldn't agree a fee. Clearly has some big admirers all over the continent and Forest fans love him.

I thought that was a decent final tbh. Arsenal sure as hell do have their name on that Trophy most seasons, they have a habit of winning it. As an aside, unlucky for Wolves who have no European football now. (Unless they win the EL of course!)

You're as suspicious as me about this guy then...!

Absolutely not. That would be a waste of wages really. The club got it wrong in the sense of not replacing him when they sold him, but I think they sold him at the right point.

You'd think he was our best player going by all this clamour. He's not. Ings, JWP, Bertrand all much more influential and better than him in our side. I imagine the club don't want this to drag on, but Levy being Levy will ensure he drives the hard bargain.

Sounds like there is a genuine interest in him, but if it happens is a bit uncertain.