Harry_SFC

Personally always liked him as a player - has good attributes and always seemed to give his all. Obviously not a great finisher but his contribution last season was key despite knowing he was going to leave. Wish him well at Torino.

Tbh selling KWP and ABK would help a bit. Think we should definitely be selling KWP this window - Sugawara looks like a decent player and a club like us can't be losing out on £15m odd to keep a player for one more season.

Atalanta have had an €18m bid rejected for O'Riley but Celtic are willing to negotiate. Personally don't think the transfer fee would be an issue for us. It would be wages/whether he actually wants to join us.

It's Nixon so massive pinch of salt but Rak-Sakyi would be a decent signing. Wouldn't be good news for Dibling/SAA though.

You just can't rely on having him available for more than 5 minutes. With this in mind we certainly need two more strikers through the door.

My views on Stephens are pretty well known but to be fair despite his lack of quality he does seem like a great leader. Don't mind having him around as back up at all but we can't be starting him in the premier league. I'd like to see Downes or THB given the on field captaincy next season (suspect it'll continue to be AA though).

I know it's only Eastleigh but the young lads have looked very sharp. SAA and Dibling deserve more of a chance this season.

I'm still convinced we will be playing Taylor as a LCB in a 3. He's not really attacking enough to play as a wing back. Leaves Welington and Manning as our LWB's.

Yep we need an alternative to Downes and an upgrade on Smallbone/Aribo.

Agreed. Should all be very competitive matches. Imagine the team might be made up of a fair few youngsters against Eastleigh?

I'd be surprised if he did but i'd also be concerned as it would mean we are starting the season with just 1 proper centre forward!

The club know Tall Paul will be going. Sulemena, KWP, ABK and possibly Alcaraz all likely to go too.

Isn't the 7th August a Wednesday?

Looks like we are signing 21 year old midfielder Kutyu Matsuki from FC Tokyo. He'll be loaned out to Goztepe this season for Visa reasons. Highly rated player over in Japan.

Especially given our fixtures over the first month or so - potential winnable games that we can't afford to waste.

There's still just over month to go but the Striker and CM situation is a big worry. If Downes doesn't sign then you could argue we need a whole new midfield! Aribo didn't fare too well in the Prem last time and Smallbones limitations off the ball will be shown up at a higher level.

Would be nice to get him and Downes in. Badly need two DM's this summer (wouldn't be against loaning Charles back to the championship)

If we play a 3-5-2 next season (pretty likely I'd imagine) then Armstrong and Szmodics would probably be too similar to play as a pair. I'd like to think we are looking for someone a bit more in the mould of Adams (stronger and better at holding the ball) just a better finisher. Not massively clued up on the foreign market but in terms of domestic players - the forwards at Luton wouldn't be bad shouts. Adebayo or Morris.

Tbh with KWPs contract situation we'd do well to get £15 million for him. I'd certainly take a swap. Either way, if West Ham wanted £20m for Downes we should pay it. We know how good he is - that's worth a lot.

Agreed. I'm discounting Mara. That currently leaves us with Stewart who has played about 40 minutes in 18 months and Armstrong who isn't really an out and out striker. If we re-sign Che and get another in that's 3 strikers with Armstrong as a fail safe. About the right amount you'd want really. If we can only spend big in one position it's got to be a CF.

Not bothered about Delap but Philogene going to Ipswich is frustrating, he's a very good player. Greaves is also a solid CB and much better than Nathan Wood.

Still concerned about the lack of proper quality in these signings.

It was intended as neither to be honest, more of an observation 😂

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Agreed. I'm not a huge fan of the Wood signing but you're essentially getting a youngish back up player for a couple of million. He did struggle last season but was decent under Martin at Swansea so we'll see.