Shak

You taken the kids out of school to follow the thread today?

Apologies. I like how the hair is the line I can’t cross

He’s basically the Steve Parish of the league. Same hair and all.

I’ll be quite disappointed if we haven’t brought in our CB and RW in time for the start of pre-season. They’re the spots that we’re buying what should be immediate first choice players, you want them starting pre season training and bedding in with the team as soon as possible. We know Eddie has a very high standard for fitness before he is comfortable throwing players in there to start, it’s not a disaster but it’s hardly ideal having our key additions starting off a bit behind the others.

Barring a massive injury crisis, he won’t play almost any football next season. In a PSR world, I don’t really see the sense in keeping him around to be an extra unused bench option over trying to get something for him now.

Gonna need you to show your work on this, please.

Elanga would be interesting as it would seemingly be a commitment to playing a right footed player on the right you’d imagine, Elanga becoming first choice with Murphy his backup. I did feel at times last year we were a 4-3-3/4-4-1-1 hybrid with Joelinton almost serving as the wide left option while Gordon/Barnes were almost playing just off Isak. You could see it in our defensive shape quite well, operated as two banks of four with our LW having a lot less responsibility than Murphy had. I’d personally prefer to stick with the 4-3-3 and buy a left footed player for the RW but just a thought.

It’s more a reflection of how far you’ve fallen than any sort of endorsement of Deuce.

Injury issues and his lack of form the last couple of years are obviously a significant worry with DCL. I will say however that I very much see the merit in bringing in a big, physical striker who is good in the air. We know by now that we’re not much use at breaking down a low block and need a different option, something that a target man like DCL would definitely give us. I’d prefer someone else but Eddie apparently really rates this lad and he’s obviously earned the benefit of the doubt at this point.

You might consider being nicer to some of the more respected posters on the forum if you’re hoping to rebuild your reputation.

SHAVE YOUR HEAD CUNT.

I think if Tonali missed time we’d possibly see Bruno dropped into the #6 role as he's played there a lot before. I do think there’s a possibility that #6 may be Miley’s best role long term. But it’s a lot on his plate at such a young age.

I can see why Eddie would want Guehi and Mbeumo over trying to bring someone in from a different league, we are very clearly looking for players to come in as first choice in those positions and those two are about as sure a thing as you can get in terms of hitting the ground running. Positions like backup striker or another midfield option is where I’d like to see us looking to unearth gems from abroad that maybe carry a bit more risk but will come cheaper than buying established PL talent.

Like a modern day Steve Harper?

I think we’ll sell Longstaff if we can get reasonable money for him. The 15m or so PSR boost over the next few years is probably more valuable to us than having an extra registered player that Eddie doesn’t want to use in the squad. There’s also an element of doing right by the player if he wants to leave. Been made pretty clear to him the last couple of months that he’s no longer in Eddie’s plans, if he wants to leave and find first team football then I’d hope we will accommodate him.