Elephant

God I wish we signed Eriksen now.

The cost of us getting relegated is so massive in so many ways, that for 5-months I would pay what he wants to keep us alive

There is no more time to complete anything new. We came in hoping to get Lingard and Ekitike, who would have given us more options, but failed. Why the hell did we leave this so late? Throw hailmary bids for PEA, Icardi, Dembele, Zapata, Carrasco or whoever. We need goals or we’re done. But as I said, it’s probably too late now. On positive note we have now great players for Championship and should come back quick hopefully.

We needed desperately more goals and we only signed Wood. Draws don’t keep us in league, so we have solid defense now, but if/when ASM gets injured, we don’t have any firepower. Feels like we are screwed now.

I would love for us to go for Dembele, Icardi or Auba late on - or all of them. We need goals and Wood alone is not good enough.

Most likely Targett

You are right, complete brain freeze on my part. Kurzawa was not the player who I was suppose to say was Thilo Kehrer.

Hope we get Carrasco or Dembele (probably off to PSG though). I wonder why we were never linked to Icardi. Hopefully we can also get Kurzawa from PSG, but I fear it’s too late to sort more than Burn, Targett and Ekitike

In Hoffenheim he did not play as winger, he was striker there. Only few games as winger, not used there much at all.

Well, in 89 games he has 5 assists, so not for that either.

Yes, it does. We didn’t sign him as midfielder, but goalscorer. He has played 89 games and scored 7 goals in PL. I like how he is playing now, strong and full of confidence, but failed in role he was signed for. However Ekitike has better stats than Joelinton, but that’s not exactly hard, because we signed Joelinton because of his great performance against poor Favre’s BVB.

I have exactly the same feeling about this, feels much like Joelinton’s signing.

Ekitike is not very quick, is he? We need pace upfront.

Not worth 20 million euros

Not for that price

Just offer them money + players, we have plenty of players to give them for with no problems.

God I hope they use the money to buy Nico Schulz

Probably Schick leaving then.

Delighted for him, I would love to be completely wrong about him, because I love this club more than I want to be right about something. Hopefully he can build on this, he has made big mistakes in previous games and hopefully he’ll learn from those. It’s still only one result and long way to go. He needs now support from our board with new players. We need to back him and get the necessary players in. Hopefully today convinced that we still have fight left and need players in for it.

Yes yes YES!

The problem is obviously money and the hard part is that if we start splashing alot early in January, every next signing is hard. It’s clear we try to get as many deals as possible at the same time, so we avoid having to pay +20 million for every player. If we sign now someone for £70 million, then all the clubs know to ask more. If we do it well, we can finalize 4-5 deals at the same time without having to use £150 million for players that other clubs would sign for £50 million. And it’s really bad business to overpay, because if the players flop, we are gonna lose lot on these deals. But we should have had these deals lined up already before Christmas.

Benitez knows the squad, he doesn’t need time to settle, could have instant impact. Not easy call, but after last two games I would be ready to gamble. Howe can be U18 coach or ”consultant”.

When you look at our opponents, you realize it’s not good at all. We are not going to have these easy games, because we blew almost every single of them with poor results. We’ve had opportunity to gain points from the weakest teams and we have not done it. Brentford, Norwich and Watford home, no wins in these games. Stats of 29.55 points looks pretty crap when you think about who we have played against. Only two positive results and honestly winning Burnley home 1-0 is not exactly win of the season.

Do you honestly think Emery would have said yes to Chris Wood? Or Rafa? Howe said yes, because obviously manager has to accept the signings. And for me that’s very concerning. We can’t sign big names like Coutinho or Digne because Howe is not attracting manager. And right now we need class more than anything else.

I feel the same way. He seems like very nice guy, who knows lot more about football than me and you, but it seems like he lacks character and toughness of great manager.