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That works well in sky blue and white, not sure if it would be so good in red and white as the original often looked red and pink from the stands. Away kit is also impressive, same design but yellow and navy, a far better combination than our grey and yellow. http://www.footballshirtculture.com/19/20-Kits/coventry-city-2019-2020-hummel-away-kit.html

Clearly something Ross has learnt from Les. Apart from that his age doesn't tally with the photo-fit of a Ralph signing. So no thanks, and unlikely.

Good, they can afford both Boufal and Hoedt now. Don't suppose they want a former Engalnd GK as well ?

Rupert will sort him out in the car park... ..or perhaps pistols at dawn are more Rupert's style.

.. or something rising to £25m, which allows facesaving with their own supporters. £25m in today's press.

Never heard of him.

Watson becoming Assistant First Team Coach. Is that the "cone stacker" role that had been suggested ?

I thought it had been reported that we'd dropped our interest in Webster and were pursuing targets abroad.

That was the point I was making...

I'm sorry to see him go without getting an opportunity in the first team. Annoying when you consider the dross we've persevered with elsewhere, in defence, and the non-performing of Austin and Long towards the end of the season on the bench. But bow to RH's judgement, and it's clear that SG needs to move on. Hope it works for him and that we retain a healthy sell on % in case it comes back to haunt us.

Definitely some good finishes in there covering the full range, opportunism - being in the right place,cool head, and working chances for himself. Perhaps aideed on occasion by some calamity defending, but give Shane Long the same chance and he probably wouldn't take advantage. One or two "quality scuffs" as well for the purists, but who gives a sh!t providing it ends up going in. (Not a convincing penalty taker from that though).

They are both outside the age bracket Ralph has spoken about.

My view - no doubt you'll disagree - but it gives another dimension in our play,and threat to the attack. I read somewhere that Adams fared better playing alongside Jutkiewicz at Brum. We've been at our most effective with Lambert and Pelle in recent years. The difficulty is combining height and mobility, otherwise you end up with a carthorse like Carroll. Take you're point but not sure Liverpool or City are a good comparison. We're not buying at the same level as either of those two who buy the finished product.

Not sure too much can be read into the usual Youtube collections, but from this he certainly shows strength, awareness and it appears an opportunist, right place right time. Definitely a quality we've been lacking, how often have we seen promising moves come to nothing with the ball bobbling around the six yard box, no one there or Redmond arriving too late. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-C5SHZWh_Ho Shows a bit of pace at 4.48, but no idea the sort of donkey defence he's against. I'm sure Ralph will work his magic and he'll be good for us. Would have preferred Agustin but he'd probably have been another £10m, and who's to say he'd have settled in the EPL, at least we know Adams ahs been up against fairly physical opposition in the Championship (although given more space there). My only remaining gripe is that we're still lacking any height up front.

Saw the report of £7m. Too early to judge if we missed an opportunity or dodged a bullet, but we've wasted a lot more on absolute guff players. I suspect if we or another EPL side had been in for him Toulouse would have added another £5m-10m to the asking price.

So in the event of a decent cup run,will priorities be OS+ with say only five ticket purchases, ahead of an OS with 8 or 10 ? In truth don't suppose they've thought that far ahead.Or don't want to advertise it.

Yes it was, think he's FA Technical Director. I noticed that on the BBC highlights.Classic Reed, seated in front of Beckham where he's bound to be noticed, and basking in the glory of the moment. No doubt he'll be giving interviews soon about advances in the Womens's game etc, but no doubt it'll go t!ts up after he's had time to make an input. He can been seen after the first and third goals, if you want to see Bunsen at his best. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/av/football/48794990

Might be worth bearing in mind the European U21's tournament still on in case Ralph is looking at any of them. As is the Women's WC of course, in case he's looking to sign a couple !

Problem is that the fee for Maguire will probably inflate the domestic prices for CB's and it will affect our level. If Leicester look to sign Dunk or Tarkowski, Brighton/Burnley will immediately look at Leicesters sudden windfall and look for £25-30m, and Bristol City will consider that as a marker for Webster and the £15-!8m we might have been looking at becomes £20m. Meanwhile in the real world we still won't be able to give Hoedt away.

Any Celta Vigo players we'd like to take in part exchange ? Seem to recall they had a decent Slovakian MF at the start of last season we were linked with. Good job Les has gone, otherwise he might have allowed them to convince us to 'sign' Hoedt in pt exchange.

Or Dennis T-shirt Half-Time Entertainment Officer ?

Not necessarily involving us though in reaching those targets.

I thought Elynouusi was the back up after Maddison chose to go to Leicester. Either way a pretty poor substitute for our first choice.

Probably after he read it on here.

As well as Valery did last season I'm not sure I'd want to rely exclusively on him for a full season. Maehle certainly looks a cut above from what I've seen and read of him, si if he is still within our price range then he'd improve the team and squad. Unfortunately I expect this to be the case.