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Had to google that. Thought you were giving it the old 'Diego Swarfega'.

If we get an Elanga or Semenyo, I’d also want a young prospect like Roony Bardjhi so we have options. Elanga and Semenyo are speedy direct options. We do need more guile and flair up top. A door opener like Souness used to say.

Guehi and Trafford would really upgrade the back line in terms of pace and ability to control the ball. I guess I’m still not fully sold on the RW options as I was hoping for a game changer type player who could win games. Elanga or Semenyo would certainly give us another edge on the RW. Elanga is deadly on the break, Semenyo looks like he can do more damage from the edge of the box taking defenders on.

Yeah I think it’ll be either Semenyo or Elanga (I guess we could see a wildcard from the continent), Guehi, Trafford. With some outgoings we might see 1-2 squad additions I guess.

What's horrid about it?

Don't even bother with that article

Fuck off with the Saudi tax nonsense and start calling it what it is, a Prem tax.

What a horrid list.

One of the players I thought would be an ideal and cheap upgrade to 4th to 6th choice midfielders Ndidi, linked with Man Utd for £9m. I'd have seriously been looking at him thinking he'd hold his own in a better side with quality midfielders around him.

Numberwise we're full. Those are the 3 areas where there's an obvious first-team upgrade. After that it'll be something like Willock out, replacement in.

Yeah don't see us getting more than 3 in, maybe 4. Its always less than the ITK journos build it up to be.

Guehi, Trafford, Elanga, then one in, one out with squad players.

Literally just one lad who was at Fulham a few years ago, according to a friend of mine (even then we just assumed Fulham were in the PL at the time, didn't check). Can't remember who the player was though.

As it's all quiet, who do folks reckon we will get in? My guesses are Semenyo Guehi Trafford Couple of younger squad players.

Very honourable but where do you draw the line? As I said before Newcastle are owned by the Saudis so in theory even spending money on the official stuff would filter money back to some really unpleasant stuff. Also that taxi firm or pub you once spent money in could be used for criminality as much as you know DH gate is. it’s a tricky one but I rarely buy football shirts tbh

One player I was who I wanted last summer, Hutchinson. Had a very good link up with Tino on left side (no reason same couldn’t be on right). Work rate was high, made good decisions. Seemed to be a lot more effective in a side with other quality around him which I didn’t see as much last season at Ipswich. Might be one to keep an eye on transfer movement wise. Would split opinions because he’s still a raw player that needs development for RW, whilst others want a more near finished player.

I don't get how anyone uses Aston Villa as an example. They pocketed at least £60 million from selling a promising young player in January and *still* need to sell someone by June? Im sure if we sold tino in January and had to sale again before June this all place would be in uproar.

TBF some of them would have been saving those pop bottles for years

Bring Ashley back as well.

Okay, let's just agree to disagree. I think we'll be fine; 4th to 7th would be awesome, probably getting us into Europe, especially since we were only 6 points off 5th last time after finishing 7th, and we made the quarter-finals of both the League Cup and FA Cup. Saying we couldn't handle European football alongside the Premier League and cups, especially with Howe's first time in Europe, is nuts, IMO. I think you're being overly pessimistic. We need a more realistic approach. A measured approach to the Window staying within PSR will be beneficial to the club, and I think those running the club see it that way too. Let's agree to disagree on this.

Think we may end up with Outtarra from Bournemouth. He just feels like an Eddie Howe signing; can’t imagine he’d be going for more than 40m too. Would be a fairly shrewd signing for around 35m imo.

Hall is the man for LB anyway, so this has to be the answer.

*cough cough splutter* https://www.oxfam.org.au/what-we-do/economic-inequality/workers-rights/adidas/

Dropping back down to 7th-8th is inevitable without a quality squad with depth.

We couldn’t handle it. We were out of the top 4 race by January. Villa were 4 points shy of us going into a period where they played 6 more games than us and they caught up but could only land Europa League. We’ll need to improve the squad immensely to finish 6th. Again we are likely to play 10 CL games. They will be high level games each time out. It’s going to be more fatiguing than the last run.