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I didnt say anything about overall wage bill...i meant for one player.

Honestly expect loads more of these transfers and no big ones. Give them a season or two and then ease them in. Cathal Heffernan is one I completely missed.

Most are suggesting we need a player to break down low block teams rather than teams that are pressing us though

Surely the point is we can and should aim to be higher?

But we play direct so we shouldn’t be high up on that metric.

against teams that press us, yeah we do struggle imo. In terms of build up, for passes completed outside of the opposition 3rd we rank 11th in the league with an 83.33% pass completion rate. For reference the top 4 teams are Man City (90.5%), Arsenal ( 86.95%), Liverpool (86.73%) and Chelsea (86.58%). It's definitely something we could do with improving on - the likes of Murphy, Gordon and Joelinton all frequently give the ball away pretty carelessly.

Enzo Fernandez Moises Caicedo Were about that and he's much better.

Yo momma so dumb she bought a sofa at full price

Been called up for the U21s Euros finals. An odd one but it should be good for him.

Such a disappointment when you see he hasn’t keeled over.

I think there is a pretty lazy narrative developing regarding our shortcomings. Everton and West Ham at home we struggled not against the low block but the fact that these teams had strong physical players able to match our centre backs who then led quick transistions. Brentford away illustrated this again but in a game where we had plenty of chances to score. Bournemouth at home was our inability to cope with the press not the low block. Similarly Brighton home, combined with our inability to score chances in that game. I understand the clamour for creative wingers but we forget that we have good ball playing full backs, centre halves and midfielders (Bruno & Tonali). I expect to see greater output from our fullbacks next season.

We don’t see out games by keeping possession. We just make sure that, primarily, we’re extremely defensively resolute from that point onwards. So in a sense @SUPERTOON is right, but given those stats you quote, is there any need to change?

what a load of shite. Marseille's wage bill is around £80m, your telling me most championship sides have bigger wage bills?

it’s a results driven business, he wasn’t very good at it, not that I care about them entitled knobs, get over it girlfriend.

Doubt it...most championship teams can pay more than they can now. More likely there wasnt any other offer

Well last season out of the 23 games we took the lead in we drew 2 and lost 1 of them - which seems pretty good? Ideally we'll not be relying on a 55 year old Callum Wilson next season at the end of matches. We certainly aren't poor in posession

Nice work if you can get it. Work a few hours a day, free travel around europe, and still propably earn more in a week than most in a year, and a bunch of medals to show the kids

I just think that if we sign Elanga, we'd end up with 4 right-footed wide players. Murphy is a useful squad player who can cover other positions, and wouldn't fetch much wonga, so it's between Barnes and Gordon. At this moment, there's not much to choose between those two, and Gordon would be the easier to shift for a big fee. LIverpool seem to have a long-term interest.

We are poor in possession and keeping the ball when under pressure or wanting to see out a game. Pretty obvious isn’t it ?

That's what I mean, it doesn't happen very often. Poor finishing or decision making tend to be much bigger issues in the final third.

Right, so that’s Elanga and Garnacho too expensive/aren’t good enough. So what about this Yamal kid at Barca? We have a manager with a proven record of (greatly) improving most of his players and a scouting team that has consistently identified players that have gone on to improve, whether we signed them or not. It’s great to debate the merits and values of potential signings but once we actually go after a player, you’d be brave to be disappointed if we sign him.

Had my fingers crossed there when I seen this thread bumped!

Do we struggle with retaining possession? We've got comfortable defenders and midfielders on the ball to build up our attacks pretty easily from the back.

Every furniture store is always haveing a closing down sale....never actually seen one closed down. Curious