tom1988

This whole thing just screams Dan James. He'll never come good and Leeds will have lost a tonne on him

Brucey would have said all of those things #howeout

Really hope that we announce Osimhen out of nowhere

If he stays fit.

Are you his agent?

I dunno man, he's a serial winner. Yes he's a diva and the wrong side of 30 for building a team around but what a statement of intent. The likes of Ekitike, Diaby etc. if they saw that Ronaldo was willing to come to us for 'the project' how many others would sign up? Similar to signing Zlatan, you would do it for the aura of them around the club and not necessarily for their on pitch contribution (even though last season Ronaldo still outperformed the entire manure squad)

In fairness to him he was neglected at Spurs by Mourinho after being one of Poch's favourites which started the decline and then got shipped off to the scouse mackems where he has fat frank as his boss. Hardly someone that is going to get the best out a player - I don't think he's a complete right off yet but he's very quickly going the way of Wilshere (who, somehow, is still only 30).

Definitely missed the boat on this... what?

Hmm I'm probably the opposite; rumours, shite and banter I get from on here and vids, montages etc. I get on Twitter. I don't bother reading posts by anyone that has some shit nufc photo or parody or black and white emojis as their name or their bio. Same for any other club. If that is all they have going for them then clearly whatever they say is going to be their unverified, biased shite.

I really don't understand all the hate for Twitter, surely if you're selective with your sources/accounts then it's fine? It's not like you'd be sat in a pub and actively start listening to or acknowledging the crazys propping up the bar and taking their ramblings as truths so why would you do it on twitter?

Atletico? Manquillo, Tripps, Gamez... were there others?

Zaniolo from Roma? There was a story last week that we'd had a bid rejected

Bruce forgotten that he's not our manager any more? Although he used to fly Jet2 didn't he?

Would love us to get Neves, can't see it happening though as if he moves it'll surely be for European football

He's not, Rovers took their option to extend for a year. They'll make some money on him now as there's no way he's staying.

Just because someone plays well on loan, it doesn't mean they should be signed permanently. Willock as another example

Chelsea can't sell at the moment though can they? I thought as part of the sanctions they weren't allowed to collect money as well as spend.

I have often wondered this as it used to really piss me off that we did it all the time under Bruce. Apparently the aim is to get the ball to a non threatening position for the side kicking off, preferably a throw in, so that they can adopt their tactical positions based on the ball being in that particular area of the pitch. The thought/worry being that if the side kicking off immediately go on the attack from the kick off, losing the ball in the middle of the pitch would result in the opposition being able to quickly counter from a strong position.

I'd have him here just to piss off the scouse mackems. Can't wait to see them struggling to get out of the Championship next year, horrible cnuts.

Was thinking last night that despite how pissed off I was after the game on Sunday we really should be bottling this feeling and committing it to memory. That feeling of having been outplayed, outsmarted and ultimately smashed by a 'top 6' club that are better than us all over the pitch should be something to remember and reminisce about because if this summer and the next few seasons go as we hope/expect then getting a spanking and seeing our average players chase shadows will be a thing of the past. Remembering back to games like Sunday will just go to show how far we've come and what the last 14+ years have been like.

Probably has more contacts at Burnley than he does with us now

Dream scenario today is Burn, Targett and Lingard plus out of nowhere another CB and a class forward/AM. Imagine the scenes if somehow we got Joao Felix or someone of his caliber!

I just hope that we don't focus too much of our efforts on Monday getting rid of the deadwood. They should just tell the players/agents that they're surplus to requirements and you have until 11pm to sort something else otherwise you're out of the squad and in the reserves until the summer.

Ok so based on your logic, we won't pay these exorbitant amounts to buy players out of their contracts so we'll just carry on fannying around trying to get clubs who clearly don't want to sell to us to sell us their players at a fair price, meanwhile each day passes and we don't have new players bedding in to the squad in what is a relatively quiet period of the season. It's hardly a recipe for success is it? My point with the release clauses is that if the club acknowledges the, at present, virtual certainty of relegation and wants to do it's absolute upmost to avoid it then we need to act decisively now and if that means spending over the odds to fill certain voids in the squad then just do it. I'm not talking the ridiculous €1bn amounts that players like Gavi and Fati have in their contracts supposedly but if that Kounde at Sevilla has an €80m release clause (not saying that he'd come to us atm) then we should be asking the question. I'm sure that at most of the clubs in la liga (barring CL clubs or those with CL aspirations) there are players that are better than we have at the moment with release clauses that would be interested in hearing us out if we made an offer.

If we're getting knocked back by clubs left, right and centre which appears to be the case then why aren't we just focusing on players with a release clause - it worked with Wood. Pretty much every player in Spain has one in their contract as far as I'm aware, in the interest of urgency just pay the price, get the lad in and start improving the team!