HarvSFC

Would allow us to use the Vestergaard money to focus on other aspects of the squad that are in more need of improving. Hopefully Bednarek would also get over his recent poor spell.

Seems quite promising from the reports. I know nothing of him, but hopefully it works out for both.

We can only scout/negotiate with one player at a time.

Remember that Rafa Benitez wanted to get rid of Xabi Alonso and replace him with Gareth Barry. You wouldn’t want to give him too much control over transfers.

To be fair, Newcastle got rid of Toney when he was 22 and Armstrong when he was 21 and they're now regretting both departures. I've seen nothing from N'Lundulu to suggest he can make it here, other than a poor first touch, poor movement, no pace and a lack of technical ability. However, neither Toney, or Armstrong were anything special until the last two years either. Alongside this, Peterborough were paid £5m for Toney after two good League One seasons. We would take that and run these days, if he is a success down there. Bloody football, so unpredictable! 🙄

Seems like the usual negotiation tactics to me, expect middle ground to be met.

If he could build a good partnership with Kane, then that would help his wants for an England World Cup squad spot too. BUT, with 100 odd managers turning down Spurs this summer, hopefully players start doing it too. Or, managers were doing it because Levy was telling them they'd have to use the cheap market, like Ings. 🙁

https://www.skysports.com/transfer/news/12691/9427276/transfer-news-spurs-reject-southampton-bid-for-andros-townsend

Rickie Lambert + Matt Le Tiss - hit the target from the spot with power and it does itself. 😭

Scored too early again. Same as against Croatia.

Exactly this. The England national team were unbeaten in qualifying matches for 10 years between 2009 and 2019. Simple to go on these runs in international football given the quality of the other teams faced in qualifying and friendlies. Their last eight results before the Euros came against Czech Republic, San Marino, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Northern Ireland, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Poland and Estonia. I think that we would beat all eight comfortably too.

Had a very good three months at the beginning of the season, but think he reverted back to type, seemingly alongside everybody else in the second half of the season. Obviously, his diagonal balls are a very dangerous weapon, but I still think he should do better aerially given his height, especially with attacking set-pieces and I think he is replaceable and somebody we could upgrade on in our starting 11. Be it Salisu, or somebody else, so cash in if someone’s offering £15m+.

Young Bale was believed to be cursed when first at Tottenham too, was almost discarded to Nottingham Forest.

Can't be any worse than Neco Williams. Glad we've likely dodged that one with this one, plus this Williams has been a very long-term target, so has to be okay if we've sought him for this long, surely?

Ings' replacement.

Brighton have a defence consisting of Dunk, Webster, Veltman, Lamptey and White with Bissouma shielding them, though.

Shit to have it confirmed, but then he wouldn’t be anywhere near us if he didn’t have the injury problems. He’s a clear level above us and one of the best strikes in the league when fully fit. I thought being his hometown club and having already tasted the top and finding out that it isn’t too rosy may have given us some hope in negotiations, but not to be. Getting the replacement right is the most important thing now.

It would be worrying if our captain was angling for a move to Villa.

Hopefully those looking for a new striker will have liked what they saw of Schick.

Always surprised that he got stuck at Spurs, could have went onto a higher level.

Jose Fonte changed the pronunciation of his name, so that it could fit alongside "baby".

Nuno, who was let go by Wolves is quite the step down from a Serie A title winning Conte. Bye bye Harry Kane.

Atalanta won't sell at our price range.

DCL doesn’t play ahead of Ings in club football. They could potentially play the big man, little man front two, but that would also knock Richarlison. Yeah, let’s not think about it...

Fulham definitely had the most expensive squad in the Championship in the 2019-20 season, but they only went up through the play-offs. He also has two Premier League relegations on his CV now and while I know Fulham were going to catch us had the league season been a 48 match season, rather than the standard 38, 1 win in their last 12 games and just 28 points shows that something's lacking. I don't personally get the hype, other than him being an upgrade on Jason Tindall, which is not that impressive.