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Tbh when it comes to technique Woltemade is closer to Crouch than he is to someone like Berbatov.

It sounds like he doesn’t want to bring in too many players this summer though. 6 was too many last summer for him so I’m guessing he’ll want a max of 4.

Arsenal are looking terrible. The bottle is back on.

I think you would have to be a huge talent to make it as a premier league striker these days with his lack of pace and strength.

That’s probably close to as well as this group can play these days, but lack of quality in the final third was the problem. We need to buy lots of new players.

I’ve been aching for Wissa to get on the field.

Probably Barca.

Sels went down with a fake injury so that Pereira could give instructions, and Forest have looked the better team since then.

If he’s not signing a new contract then his value starts to fall off a cliff after this summer. I expect a decent amount has already been knocked off by his injuries this season.

They’ll all still be hungover from reforms success.

Any CB we get has to be a leader, we don’t need another Thiaw or Botman, being talented isn’t really enough.

Abysmal reading. Good if he’s back on incomings though.

He seems an obvious candidate for a move to Turkey IMO.

We’ve got plenty of the likes of him around.

My concern with all these links to young players in Brazil, France etc is that it’s just our scouts watching them and the players agents publicising it. Rather than our transfer team actually wanting to spend money on those sort of transfers. I’m not sure how much we really relied on scouts last summer.

If we’re offered a big profit on a player that has been underperforming for 2 years and wants out, then IMO we should take it. We need to be better sellers, this would be it.

Do we understand that offering a percentage is supposed to lower the price we pay a bit? Gordon’s fee was considered huge at the time, then there’s Wissa.

Delap reminds me of Kieffer Moore whenever I see him for Chelsea. A big aggressive lump running into people. He seems to confuse his opponent for the ball quite a bit.

I don’t mind Nunez making the list, but I would’ve thought that we already have someone in mind that we’ve been in contact with. That could be Nunez tbf, but I doubt it.

So how many new players is a perfect amount to him, 2-4? You’ll always have a couple of positions that need improving, then some players will leave, some players are simply failures, some players get old. Sometimes you need a refresh. The number of players we brought in last summer had nothing to do with how poor the season went.

I think it would be a mistake as Barnes all round game isn’t great. I’m up for Park getting minutes throughout the season and potentially being a Barnes replacement in summer 2027.

We go 5 at the back if he thinks we’re going to get humped.

No more than whatever Bayern bid, and even then I think we might need to loan him out for a season first.

I wouldn’t say easily replaced, nothing about the transfer market is easy. I would be looking for a young player with a high ceiling from a smaller league. In the past we have been linked to players like Doue and Cherki long before they got big moves. Whoever we bring in will likely rotate with Barnes next season, who has his limitations but gets similar end product to Gordon.

If we aren’t capable of replacing Gordon then we’re pretty fucked. We need a striker and a keeper as well, and those are probably the two toughest positions to fill.