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Why does Mark Chapman not get the presenting job for the PL games? So much better than Kelly Dalgliesh and that mackem.

Better last 5 when we’ve actually tried to knock the ball around rather than go straight on the attack and lose it.

Pukes had a mess of a transfer window.

Regardless of opinions on Schar, he’s well into his 30s. We had one of the oldest teams in the league last season and half of our defence are out of contract in the summer. It would be ridiculous to go without signing a centre back this window.

Nearly everything is made up though as we’re not flies on the wall in their transfer meetings. You go on what you see and hear and then give an opinion. I love Eddie Howe and he’s generally been great for us, but that doesn’t mean we have to pretend he’s faultless and Mitchell and Eales are these big baddies as some seem to be suggesting.

Howe literally said yesterday he has the final say on transfer targets. He’s talked about on 2 or 3 targets in a few positions. He’s obviously not solely to ‘blame’ if it goes wrong, but this attitude that he’s being hard done to if we don’t make signings is wrong in my opinion.

To be fair, Howe has said that he picks the transfer targets. He’s not removed from the process. I doubt Mitchell arrived to spend weeks negotiating Marc Guehi.

They probably don’t want this kind of signing in the first place.

Like Howe has said, he has the final say on targets and there’s only 2/3 players in the positions we need that we’re interested in.

Think so. And we’ll have the income from the players who will want to leave next year after we toil to 8th-10th and no Europe.

Happy enough to start.

We’ll need a lot more than two positions next summer if don’t finish in Europe this season. He might be over priced, but we’ve put ourselves in this position and we’ve got little option now.

Let’s be honest, mentioning the likes of Sancho is pointless. Howe said in his press conference that he picks the players to target, then it’s the job of others to go and get them. It’s hardly a wonder there a tiny group of players we’d consider.

I don’t think they’re idiots. However the window clearly hasn’t gone to plan. Howe has said as much. We need to limit the chances of scrambling round to meet the PSR deadline again at the very least.

Yep, that’s the way I see. Not signing him now, given there’s seemingly no other option, is worse than signing him for this ridiculous fee. Regardless of what happens in the remaining days, they need to be asking themselves some serious questions so that a window like this doesn’t happen again.

I think people have a right to be a little annoyed. Shearer is saying as much on his podcast. I mean, things may change, but it’s been a poor summer so far.

We’ve been after him for months.

Going years and years without getting a right winger in is a bit weird. It’s not like there’s a shortage of them. The two mentioned in the past few posts here would be good enough.

I’m not ‘writing him off’! 😂

Believe it or not, I’ve seen him play for Bournemouth before. He was a fairly average player at a lower midtable team. He’s not been brought in as a starter either.

Very poor for the most part. If you want to be at the right end of the league, you can’t be carrying so many average/poor players by PL standard. Longstaff, Murphy, Kelly and the CBs. All should, and hopefully will be soon, on the fringes of the squad. There’s no excuse not to play both Gordon and Barnes.

Have we had a mention yet? 🤣

I don’t think that was the point being made.

If you know how to do that, let me know. Better still, if you can make me J7 yourself, i’ll be happy 😂

Do I need to change my user name?