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Embarrassing cunts.

Why? Have you ever seen him play, or that just conjecture? His stats are pretty decent this season, 7 clean sheets in 15 games while only conceding 12, last season conceding 38 in 37 and keeping 14 clean sheets for Slovan Liberec. 29 year old Slovakian #2 who's spent his career in Slovakia, Denmark and Czech Republic. Forgive me for being skeptical. Seems more likely to me that it's a means to allow Woodman out on loan.

Can't imagine him being any good.

More likely to get a fee from some Turks. Only really useful if we're bringing in a midfielder to replace him.

He's talented, but he's ridiculously rough around the edges. Saw somebody on Twitter describe him as the kid on the playground who plays without taking his bag off

I mean any normal club would just unregister knackers like Colback etc, but it's clearly being used as one of the many excuses to stop Rafa signing people. He spent the whole summer saying we needed to shift players out the door.

Saivet. Sterry possibly going out on loan. Yeah fair enough Sterry is definitely further down the list. Saivet's been more useful this season, remarkably.

When he was coming through as a youth player he played further forward. Think it was 2009 when their U17 won the World Cup. Feels a bit like the Mikel situation that he has become pigeonholed as a deeper player because he's robust and aggressive.

It's not even just about the money. We have a full 25 man squad so somebody needs to go. It might as well be a player who can't even make the matchday squad and Rafa clearly doesn't fancy. Right now other than Colback he's the most expendable of the whole 25.

He's not like. But he's not a player for a top club.

He's suspended.

The idea of signing a 6ft3 lumpy striker from the Eredivisie gives me anxiety

It's not happening. It's all a load of shite to keep you occupied and distracted.

Fair observation.

Incoming lawsuit from WWE

What has he done to prove he's a 'top midfielder'? No goals, no assists this season. Poor physically, poor workrate, can't tackle, can't dribble, can't shoot, shite set pieces, doesn't get into the box. Short passing game is poor, regularly plays the wrong pass. The only attribute he has, is the odd spectacular pass - which so far has managed to create one goal this season against Liverpool. The idea that he's a 'top midfielder' is beyond insane. He's dreadfully limited.

Being able to pull off hollywood balls now and again doesn't make you a great passer. It's about having a range of passing and playing the right ball at the right time. Shelvey certainly has good technique, but his choices are often abysmal, meaning he's poor at setting the tempo of a game. He has a multitude of weaknesses as a central midfielder beyond that, anyway.

We've been after Wilson since he was still at Cov. I think he's decent (18 in 46 in the PL) but very injury prone.

Sam Clucas was £17 million wasn't he?

I couldn't see Sturridge starting for Inter since they rigidly play with one striker, and the wide positions are filled with out and out wingers. I think I've read before that Sturridge has wanted to play abroad at some point in his career, though.

There's simply no way Ashley spends £15 million+ on a soon to be 31 year old striker.

He looked great against Norwich like. Wasn't particularly interested in him before that game.