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Unironically one of the greatest videos ever filmed. The second one coming into shot is pretty much comedy perfection.

We've just bought Wood for £25m. I cannot imagine how much a CB in the Prem at the same standard of Carlos would cost us like.

First Atletico, then Sevilla, we may as well go for Vinicius next.

Fucking hell how did that happen?!

Hopefully this is a sign of something happening behind the scenes and the club stepping up the gears across the board.

I'm completely straight but I'd fuck the man daft like

It's not just about getting boddies in before Leeds. There's no reason we cannot be doing deals early in the window. For big money signings like Botman, fair enough, there's going to be resistance from the selling club, if the player is worth it play the game and get him at the end of the window. For the thousands of other players out there who we could be getting for £5-10m on low wages though there's really no need. Before spending £25m on Wood (who was a huge risk in himself given his form) we absolutely could have signed a player for pennies, that with some good scouting, would be of a similar risk. He might work he might not... You can apply that to any position on the pitch. We just don't have the capability of finding them it seems.

I agree but our squad is threadbare. Like I pretty much stopped watching after Rafa left and when I returned a couple year later we basically had the same squad only worse. We got rid of players without replacing them, we're very unbalanced too. It's obvious where we need to strenghen but we need to be bringing in 2nd and 3rd choices anyway. Waiting out for Carlos and/or Botman is fair enough but we're desperate for midfielders. Our bench is awful too. The later we get into the window the less time we have to gel players too. Like it was said last month, we needed to be going into this window with intent of building a squad capable of finishing around the euro challenging places over the course of a season. It would have needed us to spend money and have people at the club capable of spending it wisely. We can certainly do the former but we seem to lack the latter. We'll see how we are at the end of the window but if we still have an unballanced squad with dross on the bench it's going to be a pretty big task putting wins together. Even with a shiney new set of centre backs and a midfielder.

He's looked on WhoDcored and seen that Trippier has 'Strong Aerial Duels' hasn't he?

The best full back he's seen at NUFC? After 1 game where he almost cost us 2 goals and got beaten by an admittedly great run and leap for the equaliser? Like I think Trippier is class and will prove to be so but that's an insane claim. Again I don't think Edwards actually watches football, probably has one eye on the tele while playing on his laptop or something

I think Howe's main problem hasn't been his coaching like, it's that he's come in with far too much responsibility, which is probably partly his fault as it seems like he blagged the interview. There's some weird tactical decitions he's made which don't look good but I think we could avoid that if we bring some players in.

Aye that's fair enough just think it's a bit harsh to blame Lascelles for that goal. It's about as perfect a 1-2 then whipped ball in as you'll see. Prime Chiellini would have been wrongfooted by that, man

I'd be suprised if Luke even watches football man.

It's a great move all round from Watford like, we should have done more to put the game to bed but sometimes you've just got to accept that they've scored a cracking goal.

It's Trippier's man like. Lascelles's man trips over and Lascelles, unable to grow 3 feet taller, gets beat by a great ball in. He's shite but the ball in and leap from J Pedro were both quality.

I'm not hanging into any if that. Rafa has worked at Madrid, Napoli and Liverpool. He will have a lot of ideas that could help any club tbh. He will have extensive contacts in the game too. He could no doubt help us in numerous ways but the main one would be identifying a midfielder, defender and a forward. Getting a proper scouting network in would be the best bet but I get the feeling the people running the club aren't too comfortable in picking that stuff out and won't be until the summer when we bring in our DoF. Hence I'm at the point of 'bring any cunt in who might have a clue' The fact we can all see the glaring shortcomings of the squad yet we cannot seem to identify any solutions to them should be worrying© to anyone. It's not going to miraculously fix itself.

Even when we had him the first time I wasn't particularly buzzin tbh. I mean I was, but you know what I mean, I always want free flowing football. It's great watching your team win but it's better being actually entertained. Howe seems a perfect fit if there's a top class footballing structure around him, it's just a pity he's probably going to get us relegated before that happens

Aye, like we know something isn't right. And we know that there's ways to sort it. We can all theorise what those ways are but at the end of the day we need to do SOMETHING Getting Rafa in some way would be something.

I'm just flapping like, tbh. I just want to feel like there's someone at the club who knows what to do

Wouldn't have to be a DoF though, would just have to work with Howe until we get one in. Whether Rafa could take on a DoF role here or somewhere else I have no idea. Just theorising here like, it's basically fantasy, but the idea would be that he helps the board with footballing decisions in any way he can and works with Howe in identifying players as we're in desperate need. He wouldn't be coming into training and telling Howe how to set us up. Again, just fantasy, but I don't think it would be some outrageous decision or out if it ended up happening.

How, we need someone in an advisory role of some sort. I think that was made clear when we paid £25m for Chris Wood. At the minute I think it's basically Eddie Howe, Jason Tindall, and some no mark scout?

I don't know if Rafa would work as a DoF or not but he has the clout and knowlege of the game for it. Whether or not we can bring in someone more suitable in the summer is another question, I deffinitely like the look of the Brighton lad. I think (and again im pulling this out my arse) if we were to just ring him up and say "Rafa, we haven't got a fucking scooby what we're doing here, we'll pay you a few million quid if you'll come and give us a hand. You've worked in several countries at the highest level, we know you have contacts, talk to Howe about his plans for the club and try and work out a squad before the window shuts. Stay with us until the summer and every single staff member at the club will personally suck you off." It's a win win for all involved. Howe would have to understand that regardless of how highly he may rate himself and his ideas he just won't have the connections and experience to be running a club like us without help.

If we could get him in a temporary advisory role or something I would like I've pulled that completely out of my arse mind.

What about *insert name here* though? From the *insert league here* that would be available for *insert price here*? He's on the radar of a lot of scouts across the globe, I bet he'd come. We're talking like we're a skint club in the 4th tier of Scottish football or something. There's obviously players that we can sign we've just done an appauling job of identifying them. Like a broken record now but to keep blaming January and the fact we're in a relegation fight for the fact we haven't brought in the players we desperately need is clearlly wrong. It can explain why we haven't signed a specific player, possibly, but not literally any player that improves us in world football.

We are also just chatting shit on a football forum, their job is literally to find us players.