TRon

So you have signed Martial and will be paying him 200k a week for the rest of the season, and now you will need to at least double Carlos's wages. Can Spanish clubs afford to run their business like this? Isn't that why many clubs in La Liga are in trouble?

I always think of Woy as a doddering old dear type who wouldn't offend anyone, and Ranieri as a bit salty, but I think that's just his humour. Could never make my mind up about Claudio, he always comes across well in interviews, but his results are always less than you would expect.

Agree.

I'm sort of inclined to agree. I think we'll have our pick of CB's in the summer and it will cost half the money. Risky to pin our hopes on Schar and co, but they were decent enough up until this season.

I can't see them selling tbh, it would have to be close to what we paid for Wood at least. The Carlos fee is higher, but he's got pace, so I would rather pay more and get the real deal.

Would Tarkowski be half the money?

Problem is we can't afford to wait until deadline day, we might end up with no one.

This thread's done a canny job tbf, I don't think they like the locals. This is the problem you get with immigrants, they don't like to integrate.

It's going to get done eventually, they are inching their way closer to a compromise.

Him and Bracewell were absolute tigers in that title winning Everton central midfield. I don't think they even had the term midfield press at the time, but effectively that's what they did.

Hodgson is a fairly inoffensive type, and Watford have made some decent signings. All he really needs to do is get them somewhat organised and not piss them off.

I would imagine we've got a pretty wide net on all positions in case we can't get our primary targets, so the links might even be genuine, but the bids probably haven't gone in at this point while we are still chasing our preferred players.

Not that surprised tbh, he does chase players down, if somewhat clumsily at times. The main issue is as you say, his use of the ball once he's got it isn't that great. But I still prefer him to Shelvey, I think he puts more pressure on the opposition, even if Shelvey has more quality on the ball.

Well that's a thought, would love to have seen her go out there in wellies.

I only saw a few highlights on Youtube, but he seems very hard to get past. Not surprising seeing the size of him. He's quick too.

Tbf, I didn't really peruse the different forums that much, used to only really look for the match threads, transfer ones and the one about the manager. Bruce had just been sacked so happy days.

I think Wykikitoon's pants paint a picture all by themselves.

Which just makes it pointless. If you have VAR, then might be a good idea to use it. All they had to do was advise the hopeless cunt of a ref to go and have a look at his screen, they didn't have to directly overrule it. He could have made his own mind up after viewing, same as they do in so many other games.

Is the barrage of nonce/porn stuff still going on then? It's hardly any wonder so many of you post with avatars of stained pants. I remember when I was over there for a month I used to have to deliberately avoid certain threads and try to find something related to football.

I'm not surprised the way Spanish press conduct business. Whatever you think a value is, you can bet it will rise £5m a day exponentially as the negotiations drag out.

Don't think I've heard a single opinion from anywhere around England that it was anything other than a penalty, and we've got someone in a black and white shirt arguing it.

That deal's collapsed now though.

I know Zapata is ridiculously expensive for a nearly 31 year old, but really think if we signed him we'd be guaranteed safety. He looks absolute top level.

Yeah enjoyed that.

And there you go.