MarkSFC

Are we going into administration then? You incessant agenda (against Gao) is more tedius than the pedancy of MLG. Get over yourself mate.

Apparently we are signing Fu Kin Nowaan.

I think you're missing the point. To loan you usually pay a fee anyway. In this case we could pay the same fee but sign King on "permanent terms" for 6 months to get past the maximum loan period. Win win.

Was thinking the same. Reckon Ralph has wanted a left-footed AM and ANM fits the bill perfectly and also provides that LB cover. Must surely be motivated to perform given the Euros in the summer. If we get him on loan, great. If we get him with view to a permanent move....awesome.

So we're not considered a rival?!!! Would be very pleased if we get him.

It would be utterly crazy if not, unless very suddenly we have decided there's someone else in the club who can play LB!!!!

Certainly sounds plausible if a 19 year old who is on the brink of the first team, albeit maybe a year to 18 months if all goes well, "appears" to be throwing his toys out of the pram because one or two other kids have got in ahead of him in a couple of games. Seems pathetic attitude to me. Ego drives achievement and successful people but it also destroys some.

Bertrand will end up in the boardroom environment not on the coaching field by all accounts.

Please explain how that would work...

I wonder whether Ralph isnt actually too bothered either way. He has a history of building teams of young players and perhaps he has highlighted one or two younger players, probably 23-25, (theres been a few names bandied around on here) that he fancies more for the next 2-3 years.

maybe he wants to go / got an offer from abroad, which might be more guaranteed

He won't "develop" under Mourinho. He could however become part of a well oiled machine (just like Saints are) but with more quality overall and so more chance of Europe and trophies.

Considering if we win tonight we play Arsenal twice in 4 days selections will be interesting. Tonight I'd go with this team GK Forster LB Vokins RB Valery or Ramsey CB Stephens CB Tchaptchat CM Diallo CM Chauke LAM Ferry RAM Walcott or Valery ST N'Dundulu ST Long IF we then win its a few more days rest/recovery for some of the main and injured players. Saturday you could go with the strongest team rather than Tuesday as a possible run to the final is probably now more useful than league form as we are obviously safe and unlikely to make Europe and will end up 7th to 10th I predict.

"Doing very little" is a unfair opinion unless you know for a fact this is what he does throughout throughout week at training. If he did "do very little" in training it is very unlikely Ralph would use him at all. Footballers are paid for training and if they do not play sobeit, that's not their fault as such. What I think lots of people forget is that the training pitch and classroom is where the performance on match day comes from. This requires lots of hard work and deliberate practice. This cannot be achieved by "doing very little".

yes

I doubt thats the real number. Despite furlough the accounting period in question is not a normal one and there was more negative impact on income than expenditure. It is not a reflection of the real situation now and so I would think your point is unfounded. No concern over these numbers.

Not really noticed him as dont watch much Championship stuff! How does he compare in styel and ability to KWP as I would assume RH wants a left sided KWP if at all possible, as in high energy, skillfully, good defender and good crosser.

spot on

It is likely that at some point he will be offered a reasonably bigger team BUT given how he works I wonder whether he would get the time he would need to implement his style at a club where trophies are demanded which would be the level. I think we will benefit from him for 2 or 3 more seasons yet and the longer he stays I think the more likely it is that he stays longer.. The dream would be that he is here for a very long time and produces coaches (particualrly for academy) and his successor as well as players.

Last 5 games in fact.

If true then surely Redmond or Djeneppo off???

If I can only pick one position it would be LB. Not that Bertrand is a bad or weak player but because he isn't dynamic enough for this system. Most of our good stuff comes down the right and KWP is far more attacking whilst also defending well. If allowed to improve another position it would be the left-sided player of the 2 behind Ings and Adams, and I would want a left-footer.

Maybe Liverpool have submitted a large bid...

Will we sign him permanently in January or wait until thr summer? He's free!!

Jack Harrison would be a decent replacement for Redmond, and left-footed which we do not have in that type of position. I would think he would cost upwards of 25m; is that where we'd want to spend that sort of money? I'm not sure. It would though annoy all my Leeds supporting mates who rate him highly.