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Adam Markhiev - who Nurnberg signed to replace Jander - is one we did like but not sure if a) we’ll be signing another CM or b) whether we’d want to still do business with them following the stories of the potential legal action they want to take against us.

Trying to sign Aster Vranckx - midfielder - from Wolfsburg.

They’re a terrrific side - so well organised, fit, strong and tough to beat. All the things we aren’t at present. 0-2.

We’ve bid for Falchener the CB from Viking who Wrexham were after a few weeks ago

Anyone keeping count of how many goals we concede from down our left hand side? Whether it's Wellington or Manning at left-back, opposition teams constantly target us - knowing that Stephens is LCB too. Biggest concern for me is the physical side of the game. We get shrugged off far too easily, aren't aggressive enough off the ball and it's far too easy to play through us. If a strong CB and CM aren't signed in the next week - we'll be midtable at best.

We had a scout at LASK v Celtic last night. Could be for any number of the home team's players, but we have looked at Bogarde who is a number 8 type before so maybe it could be him.

As I said on here a couple of weeks ago, Solak tried to persuade him Serb to Serb but sounds like that hasn't been successful.

Quarshie has a loan offer from Paderborn

Ah, there's the bi-monthly story to the German media from his agent.

Peretz Bree THB Wood Manning Downes Bragg Fellows Azaz Scienza Larin 2-1 Saints, winner in stoppage time

The reality on incomings is simply that we need to offload some more dead wood before we can press ahead with incomings as some of those here are on big wages having signed in the PL days. We can only register 25 senior players and we don't want situations like with Edozie, Aribo etc. in the first half of last season where they're just training and picking up a hefty wage for not actually playing. When you look at the likes of Wolves, West Ham and Boro, whilst their first XIs are very strong for this level - beyond that they are very light in terms of depth whereas we're still suffering from bloating the squad with quantity over quality in successive transfer windows 2/3/4/5 years ago. Ramsdale and Bazunu (both hopefully buy but most likely loan), Quarshie (loan), Larios, Kay Sanda, Sugawara, BBD, Downs and possibly Edozie and Archer all need shifting which is a huge task individually as well as collectively. Then you're looking at a 3rd GK, CB (or two if THB goes on top of the above), CM to replace Charles, another LW if Edozie goes and a striker to come in (they're still pursuing Ratkov so I don't believe the noise that we're done on that front). A busy final couple of weeks to the window if we really want to get the squad to where we want/need it to be which doesn't help start the season well - added to the cloud over the manager - so we need a win on Saturday and to get to positive points ASAP in the meantime.

And people wonder why our fans get labelled deluded by others in this league.

Anyone that thought we were was in fantasy land. 4 point deficit to begin with in a much stronger league than last time around and the hangover from the most embarrassing saga in our history. Top 8 is far more realistic but we need much more to be done on transfers first.

Benfica’s highest ever fee paid is 25m euros. Given we’d want at least what we got for Charles, they’d have to pay around 10m euros above their record transfer to get him. Unlikely.

Šolak still trying to persuade countryman Ratkov to sign.

George Kift from the academy is signing for City. Plenty of compensation but it’s sad that these big clubs can hoover up talent so easily.

Heard a whisper that’s one of the options so it’s what I’m hoping for now to save the Mrs dragging me to Swindon or fucking Portsmouth instead.

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Bragg has been offered a new contract. Blackburn want BBD. We want to sell but they can’t afford what we’re after at present (only a few million) so pushing for loan with option to buy. Edozie has interest from Rennes, Cardiff and a couple of Dutch teams.

Mubama is decent. Was doing fairly well for his first ever loan at Stoke first half of the season before his injury. Powerful and presses really well - can see him starting a lot of games to do the main bulk of the running and then Larin comes on like he did yesterday to finish the job. Gives us more money for a Charles replacement, too.

Malick Yalcouye at Brighton. Was on loan at Swansea last season, central midfielder. HCDAJFU as a Charles replacement.

BBD will still go if the offer is right and we can then replace him (shouldn’t be hard), he’s just part of the squad for now as there’s no benefit to him or us to not being involved at all. He wants to move back up north.

What site is that screenshot from mate?

Lallana will step in as interim if Eckert gets anything more than a touchline ban.

It was the main sticking point why he didn’t sign the contract on the table. We only wanted a 1 year deal, him 2 with an option of a third.