Saint_lambden

From what I've heard this summer (not since Ramsdale news came out this afternoon mind), Spors and Still want to bring in another goalkeeper if (when) Ramsdale goes to compete with Bazunu, with McCarthy becoming the third GK who is actually looking to get in to coaching when he retires which will likely be at the end of this coming season. Tommy Setford at Arsenal is one we like.

He played more as a second striker/number 10 for Orient last season. Even at times dropped deeper in to central midfielder as his off the ball work is brilliant. I know we’ve enquired at least but nothing formal in terms of an offer on the table. Unsurprisingly we’re not the only Championship team interested. I’d be surprised if he gets many minutes at Spurs this season. Played 45 minutes off the bench v Reading the other day but will have plenty ahead of him in pecking order.

That's Donley from Tottenham. We're waiting on them to commit to whether they want to send him out on loan or not. Although I wouldn't classify them as a big club....

We’ve asked Spurs about taking Jamie Donley on loan but they’re keen to see more of him in pre-season first before deciding whether to keep him as part of their team for the year or loaning him out again (was brilliant at Orient last season).

Basically yes. Like last time, we don't need to spend the earth to get out of this division but need to be far more ambitious and, frankly, accurate with our recruitment if (hopefully when) we then get to the PL like Sunderland are doing this summer. They may well go down but you can't fault their efforts in the transfer market to try and avoid that. Burnley's business meanwhile looks similar to ours from last summer - not breaking the £15m marker and signing permanently the guys they had on loan that got them to the Premier League but who most likely won't have the quality to keep them there.

Our current squad literally has over 2,000 Championship appearances between them.

We’ve offered a contract to Morlaye Sylla who was most recently at Portuguese Premier League side Arouca but now available on a free as his contract expired. Versatile, can play across the midfield but most common on the left wing.

No wonder he turned us down - PSG are now after him 😆

Dejan Zukic at Wolfsberger in Austria is another we’ve scouted. 24 year-old Serbian attacking midfielder. 10 goals and 8 assists last season. Perhaps Solak can have a word…

There's a new contract offer on the table for him but he's not going to sign it as it's not seen by his side to be a good offer at all. The club know he's off this summer, it's just not clear to who or for how much. All the 'new' contract would do would bump up his value slightly with longer for it to run.

No and yes I would assume, otherwise we surely wouldn’t bother negotiating. We were ready to send a significant bid to Krasnodar but Spertsyan said no so it went no further.

We've been persuing Eduard Spertsyan (Armenian attacking midfielder at Krasnodar) but he wants to play European football so that's a bit of a dead end sadly. We didn't make a bid as wanted to establish if it was go-er first. A shame because he's a superb player but probably a bit too ambitious.

I know for a fact that we were very interested when Russell Martin/Darren Mowbray were here and he was scouted several times, but for whatever reason we never pursued it further. As others have said, a bit of a surprise he's not already been hoovered up by Celtic or Rangers

Bah has joined Nice on loan and Joe Mendes has gone to Samsunspor so we can scrub them off the list.

Excited about this one. He's a decent finisher, movement is great and can stretch a backline which we've been without for a long time (Ross Stewart shows flashes of it but isn't as mobile). Got plenty of potential too. If we can sign more in this and the Quashie mould, we'll do very well this year.

An actual (non-horse related) snippet, which I rarely get: We were scouting Zeneli again on Sunday but also looking at a Hacken (Elfsborg's opponents) player in the same match. Not given a name on that one and would only be guessing to try and figure out who. Not exactly ground-breaking on the former as we've looked at Zeneli a few times but will be interesting to see if we step-up our interest now.

It will probably change through the season but going by the way Lens set up for the final match of the season: ————————New GK———————- ——Quashie——THB—-New CB/Stephens— ————————Charles————————-— —Sugawara—Downes—Fernandes-Manning- ————AA/Archer/Stewart—Downs———

Downs seems to fit the profile of the type of player we’re looking for and that will fit Still’s system and style so you have to trust Spors and his scouting team. Of the major nations, German football is probably the closest to English football (compared to Spain and France) in terms of style so hopefully he’ll be able to settle in and get up to speed quickly with the Championship.

Sunderland about to sign Petrovic (GK) from Chelsea. I wonder if that will lead us to stepping up our interest in Anthony Patterson who's been linked with us the past couple of transfer windows. Would represent pure profit from a PSR point of view for them and he's likely now to be back-up there which - at 25 - I doubt he would want.

Couldn't persuade him to come here whilst in the Premier League, not sure why anyone thinks we'd be able to in a league lower.

Would rather Tyler Morton

Marco Grüll...

Absolutely no chance with any of those in bold. Even the others we'd be looking at £15m-£20m to buy from direct rivals for promotion unless they're in their last year of their contract.

Don't think it's unreasonable for us to ask them to pay 5m euros for someone who scored 17 goals in 25 appearances for them 2 years ago.

They sold 170m euros worth last summer and only spent about a third of that so will have plenty to play with.