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I don't know. Lower than England, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, and Russia definitely though. Outside of the European qualifying teams, there is almost nothing. This is irrelevant, though. The crux of what I am saying is that both the Erevidisie and the League in Portugal are significantly weaker than the Premiership and neither of these players will have experienced the week in and week out competition that exists in England. Plenty of players better than these two have struggled when making the move to a bigger league and Wolf hasn't impressed me when I've watched him personally. We'll see though. Honestly, good for Norwich. They've been at the top for a while now, so they should pursue a higher quality of player. All I have said is that there signings are risky. Even Redmond has only been decent at the Championship level, which could be said of Howson and Snodgrass.

Portugal isn't one of the top six leagues in Europe. I'm not talking about UEFA ratios and how well the mega rich sides perform in Europe either. League has no depth.

Two players who are completely unproven in the top six leagues of Europe? It is not guaranteed to work, especially with what they will be surrounded by.

Fair. I know you will have seen him in MLS league and the WCQ qualifiers. I am only going by the few games I saw, and it is possible he wasn't put in a position to succeed.

From what I saw of him during Wigan's big matches last season, he has almost no talent other than being somewhat fast and high stamina. He's low budget Jonas on a bad day. He'll do well for Wigan if he stays in the Championship.

I don't think that's his position though. Toulouse used him correctly I believe. Capoue, a strong tackling DM, sitting behind him and Didot who is a keen passer and a good striker of the football alongside him in a 3. From there he could do what he does best, i.e. driving the team on with athleticism, pace, and skill without having to worry about being the main midfield creator or being hamstrung by needing to constantly sit back. We need to just unleash the guy.

Mourinho has brought in the likes of De Bruyne, Omeruo, and Lukaku back from their loans last season and there has been all sorts of talk from the club and the players about how they are ready for the first team squad, yet Chelsea are constantly buying new expensive players in their position. It is the same with Moses. Some of his performances last season accompanied with his age would lead you to believe he is a big player for Chelsea in the future, yet they seem to want to ditch him as well. Very odd all around. If any scraps fall from the behemoth, we need to be there on top of it, because all of the ones they've signed are good players and would improve our team.

As long as we stop playing Sissoko as some sort of Trequarista, he will do fine next season. I think he's one of the 2 or 3 best players at the club. First of all, he's one of the stronger and more explosive athletes in the entire sport. He actually is fairly clever and skillful with ball control especially at speed and has a good shot on him. He's not a precise passer, but he doesn't need to be, and is passing is still good enough for the Premier League. I think he plays in a midfield three ideally, but he can play in a two, or even on the wing. Just not where he was at the end of the season. At every level of every sport, the main goal of your tactics has to be putting your best players in a position where they can succeed and make your other players better as a result. If Pardew can't figure it out in the first ~2 months of next season he should be and will be sacked.

Haven't made my mind up on him yet. He's had just as many good performanes for Chelsea as he has bad for me. Can't see him being anything great that's for sure. I think Oriol is rubbish personally. Or he has been in England at least whenever I've seen him. Also, I think he's much better as the big dog in a small yard. Some midtable team (or Newcastle) would do very well to sign him. Good player.

The strikers of today are far better athletes; stronger and quicker. It's not about who likes elbowing defenders. Disagree - Shearer(before his injury at Goodison), your Brazilian namesake, further back, KK himself, Supermac, Mike Channon etc....and what about the likes of Milburn in the 50s..? Macdonald would leave ANY modern striker in the dust for pace, KK the majority of them and as for muscle, KK was built like a pocket battleship and Supermac was too strong for the majority of defenders. Shearer and Ronaldo I would agree with, but any further back and it becomes extremely difficult to compare. Players from the 50's, 60's, 70's, and 80's only ever played against players from their own era, so you have to judge their athletic ability relative to who they were competing with. The sport as a whole was slower and less athletic back then. In theory it would be much easier to stand up against this competition. You mention Milburn in the fifties. In the 1952 Olympics, the winning 100m dash time was 10.4 seconds. In 2012 that time wouldn't have qualified for the semifinals of the events. For a number of reasons, the world simply produces better athletes than it used to. In reference to your claim about Malcolm Macdonald, I think you are seriously underestimating how quick some of the speedsters from the current era would look in the 70's.

You haven't been through training and fitness regimes I suppose. Your athletic peak is probably in your mid 20's, but it is much easier to maintain fitness levels and have high metabolism, etc. when you are in the teens and early twenties. I am 23 and athletically I feel more explosive than ever before. Definitely I am much stronger. This is because I have been training fairly seriously for five years now. You are still young enough to improve your fitness levels, tbh.

All four or the players you mentioned had careers that fell apart at some point during their mid to late twenties. Maybe clubs have learned how to better develop and nurture young growing talent.

Oba is at most 1-2 years older than he says. He was pretty well known in Lagos and the guy wasn't in his twenties when he left. The problem is that he's lost a step due to getting older and and hasn't developed any other part of his game to mask it, even though he is still very quick. It's funny to watch him because he is genuinely the exact same player that debuted for Inter in 2002 or so, all that has changed is his athleticism, no development whatsoever. It's also pretty clear that he's motivated by money and will coast when he's comfortable financially. He was one of the most aggressive and hungry attackers I'd seen when he was first coming up fighting for his chance. Mental as in ridiculous, awesome, off the scale, not in the head. Apologies I should have worded it better, but I thought you'd have guessed what I meant. For clarity: his strength and pace was mental, or f***ing ridiculous. Mentally on and off the pitch he was in nursery. He is one of the most foolish people in the world, easily. Naive in every way, even now.

If he's available then we should definitely be in there for him. Would cost more than £10m though surely? No chance of us going for that, most fans on here didnt want him last time for £6m+ did they? I saw £8m, but that was on twitter. If he is available at that price I would like to see us go for him. No chance Chelsea would ditch him at a loss when his value is probably rising after last season. Nothing Chelsea is doing makes sense so far this summer. He's 22 and played for them in about forty matches last season. Getting rid of him doesn't make any sense. Than again, it is pretty well known that he was signed because Di Matteo was a very big fan of the guy, and obviously that is now two managers ago. If they want to get rid of him, I don't think a 1 million loss is going to hurt them so much.

The strikers of today are far better athletes; stronger and quicker. It's not about who likes elbowing defenders. If any league should be known for its atheltic forwards it is Ligue 1, and Yanga-Mbiwa is our most athletic centreback by far. I don't think Taylor provides anything more physically than Yanga-Mbiwa offers. He is however, a much more experienced player in this league and a better pure defender. I'm fairly confident in all three of our centrebacks when they are fit. In fact, I quite like the players we have in defence. We really need both of our fullbacks to perform consistently next season though, because neither did last season despite all of their talent.

London is an hour from Birmingham by train. I've done it before. It is not a reason to jeopardise your future with the current employers. I like Benteke a lot as a player. He was probably my favourite in the league last year style-wise, but he needs to cleanse himself of the money-takers he has hanging with him back from wherever. It's the same problem Ba and a lot of African or Afro-European players seem to have and it messes with their careers.

Love how they make signing players look so easy. You'd think it was impossible the way our lot go on. People go on about our board the way a scorned woman does about her ex lover. And for good reason. They're hopeless. Have your issues with the board, but don't make things up. We have made many similar signings within the last calibre year. Good for Norwich to sign a highly midfielder from a top Dutch team, but we did the same exact thing last season. We also signed Sissoko who is more highly regarded than Fer just a few months ago. Are you complaining specifically because we haven't signed any this window? It's hard to have much thought about it, when it is only nearing the midpoint and the usually much more active second half. August is where I'd think you would see most of the bigger business being completed.

Love it There would be paragraphs to spare if Jozy was from Nigeria. I'm just saying, Jozy would've bagged a first-half hat trick against Tahiti. The quality of defenders would have been a step up from the likes of VVV Venlo, Bermuda, and US owned Central American country #4, so it would have been a good test for him.

It's country≥club for most people outside of Europe and this will always create clashes Having said that, hoping for a player to "do well" at your most indirect club rival is....questionable. I understand supporters from this country are desperate, but this may not be the way to go about it.

Altidore is just average player, with no special qualities whatsoever, but that makes him one of Sunderland's best attacking players by default, so he'll do fine there.

Love how they make signing players look so easy. You'd think it was impossible the way our lot go on. People go on about our board the way a scorned woman does about her ex lover.

It is the equivalent of there being corruption in the race for promotion in the Conference or something like that. Nigerian football names are usually odd to the European ear, anyway though. There's corruption at far higher levels in Europe, it's just the stupid blatantness of it that's so funny. Yeah, it's hilarious. I just wonder what the point of no return was. I mean, you would think after the twentieth or thirtieth goal you might realise that the fix was a bit too obvious and stop scoring, but once you get past forty, there isn't really a point in going back, right? You might as well just keep going. It's hard to have shame once you get to that point. Our domestic football is an embarrassment, though at every level. There are blatantly fixed matches in the Premier League every week. It was only last month that we had the "attack" at the game between Akwa and Wolves in the PL. The home side were up 2-0 at half, and when everyone came out for the second half, the ref came out of the toilets with his shoes off and his clothes torn claiming he was attacked and refused to restart the match, which was canceled. The only problem that no one agrees with the story besides the ref himself. It is a fair point, too. Why would the fans attack the referee when they were winning by two goals.

I think you are overrating Sinclair anyway, but he hasn't wasted that much time. Just this last season, really. He was an (expensive) youth player at Chelsea and was playing consistently at lower levels throughout his time at that club. It's easy to blame his club history, but I think he is an above average forward player, but ntohing more than that.

It is the equivalent of there being corruption in the race for promotion in the Conference or something like that. Nigerian football names are usually odd to the European ear, anyway though.

Joel Chuks Obi?