Mattoon

I've never been so excited for a player I've never heard of, a bit of Dennis Wise scouting though and I'm really impressed with how he reads the game. He has so many attributes that we are missing in midfield, he could really transform us.

Strange strawman to take from that?

It's the pattern that's worrying, NUFC want the player, the player wants to come, club moving goal posts/doesn't want to sell. The whole thing stinks.

From what I've read Martial went on loan to Sevilla for free, they just had to pay his wages but man u quoted us £5m for the same loan. I think its obvious whats going on here.

We're moving that far down the CB list we're not looking at an upgrade to Fede and Schar. Some of the names being banded around don't give me much hope tbh

Time wasters, the price has been bumped up several times now, we need to move on, only hope of this deal being done is if Carlos hands in a transfer request and they panic and agree to our last bid. Nearly 3 weeks wasted on high speed goal posts.

That's how I'd read it too, then who gives a flying what kind of fee we pay for a loan?

Anyone know how a loan fee pertains to FFP? Amortisation would surely be the full amount after the loan period expires?

Leaves the door open for both parties at the end of the season to reevaluate I guess.

Which backwards tit said that??

I always felt he'd be back some day, gutted.

How many times are they looking at these City VAR calls? Watch ours back in fast forward and ignore it!

1 CB, with Fede and Schar I think a commanding CB will bring them on 2 CM, good performances from our midfield today but none of them are good enough or consistent enough to get through the season. 1 ST, Wood is not the answer, we've paid £25m for someone to get on the end of long balls. If we can get an improvement on LB I'd take one but Manq staked his claim today.

ASM let the game and more pertinently the ref get to him and he dropped, decision making (bar the Willock chance) is getting worse too, he needs to start trusting his team mates more.

Some big performances today, Schar motm for me, Shelvey just behind and Willock after spending the first 30 minutes frustrating everyone comes off looking more like the Willock we were desperate to spend £20m on. Even though Longstafg had a decent game by his standard, Mank looked 10x better than Dummett when he came on and even Clark was solid. Wood won a lot of long balls but wasn't much use after that, ASM poor today.

Finally a win!!

Yesssssss

Maxi gets a kick to the head and ref tells him to get up

Great again by Willock, deserved rough score there

Hoooof, falling far too deep again, 5 minutes to play

Longstaff done OK on that left side of MF tbf

Poor by Fraser there

Robbed of another pen, this ref has been suspect

Willock has come into this game really well