Novocastrian

Sixth off day in a row.

The midfield is the issue I don’t care if Howe doesn’t want a specialised CDM but one of the three CMs needs to perform the role.

Anyone checked in on the mentally deranged over at RTG? They must be suffering.

He's a warrior, silk and steel, one minute tangling with centre forwards and the next pinging 60 yard passes and stepping into midfield with the ball or getting in shooting positions. Wish he was 10 years younger, he's almost unique.

Howe needs to go back to basics with this midfield. It’s non-existent.

Carbon copy of Bournemouth away. Dogshit.

They’ve got too many average player; Solanke, Johnson to name two obvious ones.

Sick of hearing about this bloke to be honest. Whatever’s happening in the background his immediate future is totally in the hands of Eddie Howe and team. We only ‘move on’ from a disastrous summer window if the team keep winning and we can battle through to the next window largely unscathed. The alternative scenario is more scrutiny on the summer debacle following key injuries and/or a run of defeats. He’d be best advised to batten down his scran hatch for a while.

The worst player I’ve ever seen in professional football was Paul Dalglish, not sure if a single performance stood out but the lad couldn’t play for toffee.

We definitely need more ‘technical’ players, despite our press and power we often look second best on the ball. Tonali on please.

Haha just realised!!

Brighton looked the better team in the last 15 mins or so.

That’s on top of the PSR fire sales of Anderson and Minteh. Shambolic summer.

In fairness to Forest, they reportedly bought Anderson from us for circa £35m so they will feel Elanga is worth at least that. Plus the fact they have about 5 hours to source a replacement, add on another £10m.

Why wait 4/5 hours before window closes before trying to take a starting player from another PL team? Smacks of desperation and ‘we tried’, this is making things worse IMO.

£35m what the fuck is going on this window?

‘£20m deadline day deal’. So that’s Trafford then?

PSR has a much greater impact if you forget the first lesson that there’s not much value in buying from the PL.

No club is going to sell their captain within 7/8 hours of the window closing. We must have given up on this a couple of days ago surely. Anyway £70m for this bloke is insane. I’d rather they have the post transfer window debacle inquest and then get back to a more sensible approach for the next window.

I don’t think this signing would have caused too much consternation a couple of months ago but waiting until the last day and seemingly caving to Burnley’s price…….

If you can afford upwards of £60m you afford 99% of all the CBs outside the PL. There must be other options.

Was billed as a ‘Happy Clappers’ v ‘Bet wetters’ straightener to sort out a few forum issues.

As depressing as this is within the context of the current window we need proper backup for Pope.

Anyone got Hamza Choudhury‘s number?

We tried…..