Turnbull2000

Total bollocks. More chance of Gordon being helicoptered to Liverpool tonight.

Doubt both Botman and Lascelles will be effective at any point this season due to severity of injuries. Gonna be disastrous if we start leaking goals again - never mind struggling to play from the back.

Buy Sancho for £15m, sell him to a Chelsea group club for £30m in January window, then sister club loans him back to Chelsea and covers half his salary.,

If we don't reach a cup final and/or finish top 6, they deserver to be playing elsewhere.

Almost as annoying as not signing anyone, is that I've wasted countless hours at work checking this forum, Sky Sports or any other sources constantly.

Registering for that. So small time

Don't think those are unreasonable questions. As hard as it is to accept, to rules that are essentially designed to stifle growing clubs will likely leave us on the fringes of Europa League season after season, not Champions League. Maybe the owners heave realised that too - thus infrastructure (ground, training) spending has been suspended.

Can't say I'm reassured. If his thigh muscle can almost pop after only a couple of sprints, his body isn't really cut out for the top level game.

I'm comparing relative to the same point in the season last year.

In reality we're weakened in defence, with no Botman or his backup, Lascelles.

8 game just to progress to last 16? Jesus. Sounds like the bigger clubs are going to earn an extra £20-30m each as well.

We've just lost Willock again for what's likely to be many weeks, Miley picked up a freak injury prior to the season even starting and is still some way off returning, our two CBs remain long-term wounded, and then there's Wilson... We're arguably already experiencing a minor injury crisis. Just takes one or two more to drop and we'll have big problems.

Can we rename this thread NUFC Transfer Farce?

Could possibly add Lascelles and Willock to that as well

Could possibly add Lascelles and Willock to that as well

Let's just see what January brings eh

At worst they'll probably get the Juventus treatment - wait till they fail to qualify for the Champions League, then ban them from a competition (Europa League) they probably don't want to be in anyway. If Chelsea finish top 4 this season, expect a suspended suspension

Only joint leaders rather than breaking away at the top so far https://www.premierinjuries.com/injury-table.php Didn't realise Lewis Miley was out for so long

Don't quite have the momentum to put six or seven past them. So just the four this time. 4-1.

8 weeks it is then. Can't say it's surprising.

There's absolutely no excuse to allow them to avoid each other, only schedule the calender to avoid clashing with expanded CL. I can only think the cup sponsors want to keep the cartel clubs sweet, and the more of them in the semi finals onwards the better. They'll hardly want a West Ham or even us in the final.

Nope. Champions League money has increased 25% this year as well. Cartel clubs just keep getting cosseted from every direction.

Fuck me that pisses me off.

Gonna be properly deflated to get knocked out of this. One of the few competitions I'm hopeful for.