Baird of the land

Sure that would go down well with the Bazanu haters. Let's get the young guy who is behind him internationally.

he at least has a bit of pace, which we badly need in whoever comes in.

ahh i thought he had 2 years left like Tella. Noise makes more sense now.

Why would we sell smallbone for 10m? if it was 30m I guess I could get it.

Thought Madley was bad as ref during Wednesday game. Having watching league highlights i see we got the good Madley. Booking a player for celebrating his first goal in front of his teams fans.

Agree on cm, cb and striker situation if/when sulemana goes i’m Curious what will happen. Edozie is not finished product (not great today) & under23 kid looks a decent impact sub. I’d want a more senior player to compete with them.

Awful for the disallowed goal. He did come out and make a nice block later when it looked like their sub was going to score. Think he's very mediocre but we've put ourseves in a bind by extending Mccarthy and signing him, so just got to hope he keeps errors to a minimum.

I'd say he's a steady championship player, which is why at 27 he's playing in it. Clearly offers something in this system going forward but i'm not 100% convinced by him going the other way.

Definitely Manning

Ohh Leeds, 1 point from 2 games. Definitely shows that despite the imperfections, we can be thankful we've actually had a reasonably positive league start.

If ABK is actually injured rather than 'injured' he'd probably be well suited to this defensive approach. Wonder if the link to Holgate is because he's got some element of recovery pace.

I'm definitely leaning towards it being worth taking the bath on Adams (knowing he'll walk on a free) and keeping him for the year if he's willing to do so.

Love the attacking play but we can't go on conceding 4 of 6 shots on target.(i'm assuming 1 of the other 2 was Bazanu's awful palm out where it ended up being an offside goal) Also that was an extremely soft late penalty.

Are Chelsea going to buy both Lavia and Caicedo, that would leave Liverpool looking even more foolish.

Personally i'm wondering if Piroe is just wants to see out his contract and then move abroad like (Gyorkeres and Bereton-Diaz). But yeah that feedback doesn't fill me with joy if we are in for him.

We've got tella(who was 1 of top scorers in the league), is he not a source of goals from wide? Given we play 1 up front I don't see any way we bring in 2 strikers. You may discount Armstrong & Mara but if they stay their wages won't be.

Don't see any of those are happening until we sell players in those positions

So will JWP be at Dean Court watching the football on Saturday.

Until i actually see him and ABK back i'm still assuming their injuries are 'injuries'

All very odd. Were liverpool trying to bully him into joining him? I assume they should have known from his agent that he wasn't interested. Especially after all the time they've spent being cheapskates pursuing Lavia.

Curious how a guy who has scored 5 goals in 2 seasons is more attacking. Is it only headed goals that count.

Not sure we’ll bring in 2. Charles is lavia’s Replacement, hopefully someone like grimes is jwp’s and think Diallo probably won’t be replaced as they are looking to reduce the squad. (Smallbone, alcaraz, Charles, armstrong, Grimes for 3 positions).

Depends on what the upcoming transfers are. If its selling Onachu/Djenepo/Lyanco etc no one will bat an eyelid. Selling remaining members of the current first xi just because we can certainly wasn't expected by me

No ones is really complaining about the current departures. Lavia, JWP were expected, Livramento a disappointment but understandable given the fee as long as you don't remove the only other capable right back we have. I don't believe for a second we can handle the gutting of the current first xi and seriously be trying to get promoted this season. Curious are there similar sell most of the whole week 1 first xi thoughts at leicester and leeds.

Utter unprecedented. If it’s true sports republic haven’t learned a single lesson. Don’t even think Swansea sol everyone, and they are a pretty tragic case of a club with little ambition to get re-promoted.