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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.

Stephens is weirdly dependable for a fourth choice centre-back. Much better than Yoshida/Gardos were and can cover other positions too. The lapses in concentration and guarantee of at least one mistake per game is the reason he's not further up the pecking order. Would be a loss to the overall squad, as don't think we're getting better backup at CB.

Any idea why we released Ben White? I believe Van Dijk to be the only player we've sold for £50m, or above, unless I'm missing someone obvious.

Alright, Alex Crook.

I don’t think Alfie Jones was let go because he didn’t fit a style. He’s 23 now and was behind Bednarek, Vestergaard, Stephens and Salisu in the pecking order.

Part of me wonders why Christie is valued at just over £1m, even if he is in the final year of his contract, but then again we signed Steven Davis for less than £1m from the SPL and the rest is history. Then I wonder why a 26 year old only has 20 caps for Scotland, but then Stuart Armstrong only has 27 caps at 29 and he's one of our most consistent performers. 🤷‍♂️

Indeed, US owners seem to have a trend of being disliked and unsuccessful over here. Glazers and Kroenke the two standouts, while FSG aren't too popular at Liverpool despite the Champions League and Premier League titles. Hicks and Gillett before them were also seen as woeful. Lerner at Aston Villa and Short at Sunderland brought nothing but relegation for the two clubs, while I don't know too much about Swansea's owners, but they were soon relegated after their takeover and are now having to sell any asset they have despite the parachute payments. Eisner down the road also, helping maintain their status as a Mickey Mouse club, keeping them in the third tier.

If a club matches Spurs’ valuation of Kane (that’s a big if) he’s going to be off in a flash. Everything so far this summer will have convinced him that he’s better off elsewhere.

Liebherr bought the club for £13m, probably spent less than £10m in transfer fees on obtaining the best players of League One/the Championship in Lambert, Hammond, Fonte, Barnard, Puncheon, Cork and Sharp. (Plus others, and obviously our last paid for manager in Adkins). He did of course need to invest in a new training ground, which we now have and didn't have the Premier League money incoming. There wasn't a guarantee of the consecutive promotions, he did have to take a risk, but our club at the moment is valued at £200m and probably needs a further £60m put into the playing squad to remain competitive. You can see why a billionaire was tempted to buy us then, and why they may not be so much now when there could be better value around.

Meslier's got the Leeds number one spot locked down, at least with Norwich, you could say they are looking for Krul's successor. They're just rehashing a story: https://www.footballinsider247.com/door-opens-for-leeds-united-to-sign-gunn-from-southampton/

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Norwich being the better option, who are also skint and were shiter than shite last time they were in our league and just sold their best player?

He fell behind Joe Hart in Tottenham’s goalkeeper pecking order, not sure he’s the answer to our goalkeeper problems. Would be much of the same as Forster and McCarthy, but with different limitations and another wage packet.

His best game for us was his debut against Chelsea, and I thought we had a good talent between the sticks for once. However, like the other two, he regressed and yeah, never recovered from the 9-0. I always thought that it was fortunate he was the league goalkeeper and not the cup goalkeeper when we played Portsmouth, as I think he would have conceded one of the early chances they had. He also looked dodgy at Stoke last season - 6:01 and 7:41 for two highlights in the match below. Hasn't worked for him here and will be interesting to see how he gets on competing with Krul, who is a favourite as well at Norwich.

Sheldon's Athletic article, which was summarised said we wanted to sign one permanently and the other was likely to be a loan, so wouldn't be surprised if it's Brandon Williams for the third window. Stagnating at United after four league appearances last season.