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Thank fuck we were never in for him.

News of what? If not signings ? He posted it in the transfer rumours thread

How do you know Howe doesn’t rate Darlow?

Souness has said Stoke are a bigger club than Sunderland and it’s sent them in to meltdown

Love all the wannabe Dan Ashworths in here

Hopefully the appearances clause isn’t a high number

According to 360 they reckon appearances will trigger the £5m permanent signing. If there is a decent loan fee on top of that then it’s not the worst deal

If we want another 2 in we’d have to shift about 3 or 4 surely

Exactly this. We need to shift players out. We were always going to lose a goalkeeper. Sometimes we just have to make the best deals we can or end up with 4 keepers one of which would be unhappy

Perhaps we are getting a substantial loan fee? Perhaps getting his wages off the books is the difference in bringing in a midfielder. No one here is in high level discussions of what the deal is. Modern day football some people seem more concerned at the deal we can make rather than the players/squad itself. all I’ve read on here is Ashworth & Eales are the business let’s trust them with the deal then. They won’t be giving him away that’s for sure

Out of interest how much would you realistically expect to sell him for?

Could be anything. Could be the fact we need to drop a keeper from squad and Dúbravka is only one that has offers, could be Dubravka Is unhappy and the loan fee plus possible £5m buy option represents a good deal for a 33 year old keeper, could be Howe doesn’t trust his injury record or it could actually be Howe rates Darlow. Could well be a combination of all these things. Who knows? The club/Howe haven’t made many bad decisions so far

No one knows what the loan fee is and it gets his wages off the books which could open up a little more for a new midfielder. That being said I’d rather keep him but love how together this squad is we don’t want any unhappy players

‘Send him’ I think he might have quite a big say in it

Well this is it isn’t it? He probably thinks it’ll be easier to displace the guy who’s had a rocky start than the guy that’s just been bought to replace him that’s had a solid start.

I just explained that. Howe might disagree. Howe might see the harmony of the squad as more important than having an upgrade in a back up keeper, if Dúbravka is unhappy he might want to let him go. Ill be amazed if another keeper comes in.

We have 4 keepers we aren’t short in numbers. In fact we have one too many and Howe’s opinion of a back up keeper may differ from others. Personally I’d rather have Dúbravka but just looking at it from how the club might view it. If Dubravka goes there isn’t a chance another keeper comes in

Aye we can’t have it all unfortunately

I mean we have 4 keepers and one has to go. There doesn’t seem much interest in Darlow. I imagine he’ll end up going with a few million loan fee with the option to buy.

What’s ando saying? Come on let’s get these last 4 days hyped up. First summer transfer deadline i have a proper interest in in a very long time

we have no interest in signing him I think that’s pretty clear

If they don’t sign anyone and freshen up their squad they’ll get no where near. Especially if they sell arguably their best player

Are you confusing Neves with Their manager?