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He's gonna have to be integral to this season.

Wouldn't be surprised if true tbh. Man U are a much bigger brand. Still, our transfer team are clearly utter gash at convincing players to join.

Didn't realise he was 31 ffs. Yeah. not good Longstaff must be wondering why the fuck we let him go. We're gonna be desperate for someone like him soon.

You answered your own question

The question should be - is he an upgrade on Longstaff? If yes, this would be a good move, surely. Doubt Villa would sell to us though.

Make him climb in the bins.

Hiding under his hood the COWARD

Could be our midfield cover if we lose Joe for one reason or another? Tino then left back, Trips right.

I cannot rationalise why we sold him without a replacement in the wings. Our squad was already threadbare before shrinking it even further this summer. Have we actually been linked with a single midfielder?

Christ It's probably not unfair to assume Botman and Willock will miss a good chunk of the season as well. I know I said we should essentially abandon domestic cups, maybe we should just not give a fuck about the CL as well and just take the money Otherwise our league form is going to suffer very badly with exhaustion and injuries.

Via Google top result - is this fast enough to be useful? Although is does add this...

Nothing really surprises me any more. Hepefully we'll get a good interest rate on Liverpool's Saudi backed Isak fee.

Better hope 'talks progressing' counts then

Isn't he basically a modern Titus Bramble though?

Brentford will surely demand an outrageous fee (£60-70m) for Wissa with kick-off only a week on Saturday, that's assuming they're willing to do a deal at all. Think we've probably missed the boat on this one.

Currently gonna be terrified if anyone so much as limps during the Villa game. Just takes a Botman (that's assuming he's even fit), a Joe or a Gordon to pull something and we've got a major player shortage already with a crazy schedule ahead

We could really do with a Longstaff type squad player for the season ahead like...

We're gonna break the c*nt with our threadbare squad. Bring it on

Almost past caring now. The breakaway six have done a massive job on us. Combined with us being bloody useless of course.

Lets goooooo!

How does out current squad depth actually compare to our last CL season? Surely it can't be worse, can it

Just lock this thread ffs It's never happening. We need to target players that a completely off the radar for the breakaway 6.

It's not like we can even reassure Isak that we'll be back up there this season. Our prospects for top 5 are looking pretty remote right now, as CL will crush our squad.

Even in the unlikely event Palace accept, surely Guehi is going to reject any move until Liverpool step in? This is a waste of time.

Who are our representatives beyond Howe's nephew? You'd think our recent reputation for improving players would be a selling point, but I'm not convinced our transfer team are competent enough to convince target players.