J7

You do realise almost every club in the world sells their best players every once in a while. I’m not sure why some think we’d be the exception. Eales has already said we’ll do it.

I don’t want Rashford, but players seem to be leaving them and excelling now compared to what they’ve been doing there. A bit different to the past where players were dropping down. I’m not sure they have many players you’d actually want though. Mainoo? Garnacho might improve somewhere.

Signed

If we’re signing him, we should be playing in straight away imo. If the idea is to have someone better with the ball on the floor to help change the way we play, then he’d be better playing before we get into September when there’s barely any time on the training ground with two games a week.

He’s on the ‘High Performance’ podcasts today. Lasted a couple of minutes and it went off. His patter was absolutely reeking! Jake going on like he’d single handedly save Everton too.

I’m not sure it’s hard to see happening.

They’ve not made any secret of saying that they’d be needing to trade and sell players to keep building.

‘Abu Dhabi tax’

Cue several boring posts accusing people of over-reacting at the lack of signings.

Joel Bland

Bonny lad

I wouldn’t be too upset with Gordon going if we seemed to have a clue how to sign anyone.

Can’t say I’m that arsed about him personally, but it would be nice to see something move at our end soon. I just want to be confident we know what we’re doing in the market after 2 years of nothing and the Guehi shambles.

There never seems to be many complaints from other clubs at the way Chelsea behave. They got all frantic about our takeover, but haven’t seem to have said anything about all these ‘loopholes’ Chelsea exploit.

It’s about par imo. No Europe and Man Utd and Spurs having horror shows. We’ve got one of the best strikers in the world and arguably the best midfield in the league when all fit. The run from December was very good, but the first part of the season was fairly poor.

It’s not been plucked out of thin air smart arse.

Because we’ve been trying to sign Trafford for a year. Three years is a long time and when a manager signs a player, they aren’t committed to playing them or keeping them forevermore.

It’s not that Pope is a bad keeper, but Howe clearly wants someone better with the ball at his feet to play a slightly different way. I thought that was fairly obvious.

We need a good one.

Yeah, you’re old fashioned. Barely anyone does it now.

Giving a manager control of transfers is a disaster. As is going through two sporting directors so quickly, each seemingly losing a ‘power battle’. It looks amateur.

Sounds like a horrendous idea.

Keeper is one of the most important positions and I think it’s fairly obvious we need an upgrade in all honesty. I don’t think anyone would suggest a ‘midfielder’ who isn’t good at shot stopping or coming out for crosses.

I’d like to think he won’t be going, but the City rumours are pretty strong. I’d be wanting more than the £60m suggested.

I think we’ll sell one of our starters, probably either Gordon or Tino. It’s pretty strange for a club to just go year after year not selling anyone of any value. A lot of work needs done to the squad given the lack of movement over the past few years.