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Gotta say that is very good! Very good indeed.

This.

Meh.

True - this guy might be OK as at 19 he is still quite young and probably quite happy to play 2nd/3rd fiddle to our established strikers.

I agree there are loads, but not necessarily loads available to us for whatever reason. If that were the case our transfer dealings would be done and dusted by now I might imagine. Let's not forget we're clearly planning to go up - this in itself will limit the type of player we might look at (i.e. no point bringing in a NPC level player now unless we're completely desperate in a given position, which we're not).

Don't believe Lee will feature unless Guly is not fit and even then I think De Ridder would get a game ahead of Lee. Falque will be on the bench as will Harding and possibly Fonte if close to fitness. Chaplow not ready yet.

OK then - Hooper and Rodrigues - that's two. Any others you can think of that might be (honestly) realistic?

Example(s) please?

Not sure I believe this one to be honest, but hey who knows?

I would hope this would be a loan to purchase deal to be honest otherwise (assuming he gets starts), the team spirit might take a bit of a tumble. Need to remember loaned players are at another club usually largely for their own purposes IMO.

They try to cover too much in too little time - same before as now. In the intro to the show they declared they would be analysing Saints staying power to see out the NPC as Champions (or words to that effect). Great I thought - this will be interesting. What do we get? 3-4 sentences - it's all over in 30 seconds...quite literally. They might not have bothered for all the good it was. Not sure I'll be watching that again (well I might next week because the Saints game will be featured as it's on the Monday). lol

Fantastic!

Good. Anyone else think he's looking like a bit of a porker lately? (;

Good. But may I be the first to ask the inevitable. Sauce?

My take on it is, providing we go up, the expectation is for us to be knocking on the door of the top 6 thus negating some of the wish to join a 'bigger' club. This was the wish of Markus and the goal for Nicola.

Great minds and all that!

I am liking what I am hearing from Adkins here. Just hope it's not a pipe dream and we really have the muscle to ward off the top 6 in the Prem. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/16543255.stm

£4.8M + Puncheon. Just a guess, but would be good business.

Absolutely 110% this - top post.

That would be a really awesome signing IMO. Please be true!

If there's no news by midday tomorrow I will start to become a little concerned. We certainly need to strengthen in a number of areas and I forsee a problem with confidence evaporating if we continue to lose games - especially at home. We've done very well so far - sustaining the effort was always going to be an issue.

To be fair, that's not a bad offer for a 1st team level player that's not playing any games. I personally think he is being punished for something (dissent?) and the club has unofficially put his career on hold as a result (i.e. £1M or rot).

This guy is good and it looks feasible that the double loan (as stated in the article) is possible. If the lad helps bolster the squad for our run-in, why the hell not?!

Could probably do a job for the Skates? Agent Pele - has a nice ring to it. LOL

Unfortunately I agree. We're an unbalanced side not firing on all cylinders and without big characters on the pitch at the moment. It's not the end of our promotion push, but it could be a defining moment.