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How so? Granted I've not seen a great deal of him, but from what I have seen, he seems to work hard both ways of the pitch and (especially for his age) is quite strong and fast, the holy trifecta for a Howe player If you've got quality on the ball on top of that, which he seems to have, you're golden.

Yes. Exactly the type of player we should be looking at. 21m seems very low though for a player of his ability, nationality, age and potential with 2.5 years left on his contract. Don't know. Depends how much we can spend and what it means for other positions, but provided we have enough to get a right footed CB in too in the summer, I wouldn't start questioning if it was senseless spending until we got north of £50m.

The internet has come a long way since gimp kicked his wash basket in anger

Grealish was excellent over a long period of time at Villa, lets not re-write history for the sake of an argument here

While I don't agree with it, that seems perfectly reasonable to me for such a subjective topic.

It was really only the two seasons prior to this where he regularly played at LB. Unless you mean that he has played at LB far more than CB for us specifically, in which case disregard this entire post Interestingly enough, he has never lost when playing as a winger ( ). Won 1-0 away against Liverpool in 2021 and drew at home to Burnley in 2019. Can't help but feel Howe has missed a trick here.

I mean...everyone being fit, he probably wouldn't get many starts here either. He'd be starting in a majority of teams in the league if they had their best CB out with injury. Burn has been very solid this season.

What a play by Nunes

Bruno Fernandes isn't really good at finishing, is he?

By the standards applied to Schar, Højlund should be off here. Embarrasing by Walker though.

Would love it, for all of us obviously, but maybe mostly for his sake, if we followed this up with wins against Ipswich and Villa. Must be extremely frustrating for him to see the team so inconsistent as we've been this season.

Has anyone managed to find the Leicester left back yet?

Looking forward to your post in the Isak threaad explaining how we need to sell after his abysmal attempt in his 1v1.

Best right winger in our squad

Norwegian media is going to a hoot in the time period leading up to the games against Israel.

Hatem Ben Arfa

He's played more minutes than Wilson this season, so we've definitely missed out here.

Don't think Dubs is nearly as bad as some say. We'll be worse off without Pope, as any team who loses its first choice keeper to injury would be, but we'll be fine.

Considering his age at the time it's understandable. Turning 19 soon I'm sure he's more up for moving and standing on his own feet.

£10m down the tube for what? You genuinely think he was a sellable asset before this injury?

In other news water is wet and the sun is warm

PL experience is extremely overrated. Whether a transfer is risky or not is more on how the player has been utilized in the team we're buying him from, and whether he would fit into our system. I don't think Botman, Bruno or Isak were risky transfers. I think the Gordon transfer was far more risky than either of them.

IMO Elanga is the type of player you take a punt on the same way Forest did with Hudson-Odoi. Not someone you'd spunk a notable portion of your transfer budget on. Still, if Howe and Mitchell agrees he's a target they want then by all means go for it.

Must be at least a little bit interesting to follow them right now. Still in qualification spot, lots of young exciting prospects. Rigg, Watson & Bellingham 17, 18 & 19 years old. Oldest player in their side Mepham at 27. If they are able to keep the players and they continue to develop they could potentially have the foundations for a solid lower half PL team in a couple of years already there.

There's no cashing in on Tripps. Nobody will pay for 34 year old player with 6 months left on his contract. There's no incentive for us to let him leave in January on a free either so I'm 99% sure he'll stay here to the summer.