Teasy

We've loaned out a player Benitez won't even have in the squad for a player he wants, that's win win for me like. Also minimum 3 games?, based on what? We only have 3 games in the next 30 days. He's rumoured to be out for either 5-6 days or 2 weeks. We have two games against teams we need to get points off in the next 5-6 games, and he can't play against Liecster The next 5-6 games cover 6 weeks, he's meant to be out 1-2 weeks. Even if he ended up being out for 4 weeks he'd still have 9 games (taking Leicester into account). Two choices: Slimani up front for 9 games Gaye/Joselu up front for 9 games with the comforting knowledge that Mitrovic is still there somewhere giving moral support Which one do people want to see? Nobody's asking anyone to thank fat Ashley for a signing, but pretending this wouldn't be a good signing at all is just daft IMO.

One player who won't play vs one who will, mathematically that's +1

We've loaned out a player Benitez won't even have in the squad for a player he wants, that's win win for me like. Also minimum 3 games?, based on what? We only have 3 games in the next 30 days. He's rumoured to be out for either 5-6 days or 2 weeks.

I would be posting this if we'd actually bought a player who was proven to be able to help us. As long as it helps us I'm happy, loan or buy. All about getting through and hoping we're bought in the summer for me.

Nah fuck the new thread like, at least wait until he's here having his medical.

Nowt will kill us off as long as Benitez is here, we'll always have a chance.

I've no doubt Ashley would sell, but only for a very substantial fee. No such fee is being reported which leads me to believe this is bull.

Lol as if we will sign a replacement A signing more essential to keeping us up wouldn't be a replacement for Merino, it would be a striker. Not that I advocate selling Merino to get a striker, we shouldn't need to do that at all if not for the fat piece of shit running the club.

I'd assume the final straw would mean you'd stop supporting/watching. So obviously nobody here has reached the final straw yet.

Unless I'm missing something that article has nowt in it, not even a mention of what they'd offer for him. Also they seem to be talking as if he's fallen out of favour and won't play, I don't believe for a minute that Benitez isn't going to play him.

Yeah no chance that backfires immediately at all How could it backfire? We'd miss seeing Gayle be shit for a few games? You could guarantee Sturridge would immediately get injured and Jorgenson would be crap. Vs Gayle being turbo shit.

Yeah no chance that backfires immediately at all How could it backfire? We'd miss seeing Gayle be shit for a few games?

Gayle is the one who fucking ducked it..

Aye, I mean we must have created 7 or 8 really good chances against Swansea and only managed to score once. With decent finishing we should have won that so comfortably.

Did someone report the amount of the new bid like?

Erm, but it's not breaking your record if you sign three players? Aye pretty crazy logic like, especially since that wouldn't even be a record spend on three players in one window, not even under Ashley, not even close.

"Ashley doesn't give a shit what we think", "Ashley puts in fake bids to con us", one of the great contradictions of our time

We are in the mix, getting asked for 25m Euro's for a half decent Danish lad..

Which is why they should be doing a bit more than spending £19m (their record transfer?) on a lad who's scored 16 goals in 55 games in the French league.. That's pretty abysmal. Mind you, considering his name, maybe we could loan him from Southampton for a week and he could whack Ashley for us?

Main difference is he looks a confident finisher, Mitrovic doesn't. He looks a bit quicker as well and not as much of a loon, both physically similar.

A striker unproven in this league who's scoring lots of goals where he is now and is wanted by Rafa (so will play) is a big improvement over a lad who doesn't get a game and never will. If we can sell Mitrovic for £15m and bring the other lad in for the same amount then great. Should leave some cash for other areas.

Gayle had 4 good chances against Swansea a couple of them sitters, other players had good chances as well. If we'd had a striker who could finish chances that game we'd have at least 2 more points right now. Not the first time its happened this season either, where we've created chances and they've all been missed. We do struggle to create in some games, against the top sides, but its the teams around us that we need to beat most and we've shown we can create against them.

Could be a worry in some games. But then if we had a striker who could finish chances on the pitch against Swansea we'd have two more points right now. Same goes for a few other games this season where we created plenty and saw our strikers waste them.

Whichever one Rafa wants to play is better (since the other is hardly going to score from the bench..).