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Huddelestone the stand out player, will be a great signing for Derby.

I think he would be a good option to brig of the bench and would give us a different look when chasing goals/games.

Gayle has earnt the chance to be our main striker, it's just his injury record that is a concern.

We want James McCarthy on loan but Everton only want to sell. Suspect a couple of loans we are wanting will be like this and selling clubs may change there mind towards the end of the window if no one has met their asking price.

Spanish media saying Griezmann is their number one choice.

Could see us trying to loan Perez and pay next season.

Think they have a great relationship as Rafa is the one who gave him the big chance in the first team, remember an interview he did and he was raving about Rafa.

Also still a big concern over our strikers, hardly any goals in our squad.

If we are going to be playing a three with Hayden and Merino with Shelvey in front, then we really need to sign another CM. as soon as Colback or Diame come into that team, we will struggle to pick up points, they are both that bad.

We certainly seem to be trying to keep possession more in the bits of pre season I have seen.

Loan and pay next year surely means we are saving money for more signings this window, looks like we are doing the right thing for a change.

See a lot of people mentioning Clark and Yedlin and how they proved everyone wrong last season. It's more than a fair point, however it is by no means certain that they along with Manquillo will cut it in the prem.

Unproven is very different to poor though. Yeah, still a massive risk for us given our poor our squad is and considering we have just come up. Obviously they could turn out to be great, I just think in our position we needed proven players.

? he is horrific.

Hopefully this is it. If you've witnessed how much Dummett has improved under Rafa then this guy will probably be starting for Spain in a couple of years He's been rubbish at every club he has been at, not just Sunderland.

Basically filling the squad with poor to average or unproven players. Quite concerning looking at the squad ahead of the new season in just over 3 weeks. Like some have said, they may work out, but as things stands I think we are definitely looking at a relegation battle to some extent.

Fwiw...

Jesus wept, can we blame this on Carr?

https://mobile.twitter.com/wjchapman/status/887320128408494082/video/1 Does he mean Manquillo, or that kid from Arsenal?

Maybe that's why we are signing Murphy? ?

Not really, SSN saying he has to now pick between us, boro and them.

Two very underwhelming signings if true, the quality of our squad is a massive concern.

Really wish this would come to a head one way or another now, either he stays and we can actually enjoy being a supporter, or he walks and we hate Ashley and want us to lose every week again.

We weren't signing premiership quality players. We aren't this summer either, certainly not proven players.

Its not as if we are even fighting of loads of club to sign players, we have pretty much been given a free road to sign Lejune, which took like 6 weeks and now Murphy is at Norwich. It would be understandable if we were in for top class players but we literally could of got the deals done in a couple of days.