ExiledGeordie

Agreed there’ll be too many games where we either lose narrowly or fail to win by being unable to break teams down. Almiron and Murphy are functional squad players, good pros but that won’t contribute to top four this year. RW has needed upgrading for years.

Not another saga I can’t cope 😂

I still can’t work out the deal with the Greek fella? 😂 Did he come in purely as part of some PSR thing and now they’re sending him out on loan? So Dubravka stays as number 2?

Have I missed recent links with him then?

Great description 😂

It certainly hasn’t played out how they usually do but both Caulkin and Douglas have said club would dispute how many bids there’ve been. All the noise seems to have come from the Palace end. You’d imagine there either needs to be movement next couple of days otherwise we lose time securing other targets. I’ve no idea what will happen, what a mental saga 😂

RW links have gone altogether? I’ll reserve judgement until the window shuts.

Players opt for the wage at Chelsea and know exactly the situation they’re walking into so I don’t have much sympathy for him. Chances are he’ll get limited playing time and end up moving on 🤷‍♂️

My concern “if” we were to sign nobody is if we’ve limited ourself to minimal options which doesn’t fit our our previous strategy before. With our scouting network you’d assume we have several options for key positions and some that no fucker in the press knows about.

Be funny after all this there’s a couple of total curve balls out of the blue 😂

Agreed. Though less than ideal we can “manage” RW until Jan if necessary but we could be really screwed if we lose Schar for any length of time.

haha fair point 😂 That is a different discussion though in terms of our entire progress and looking at this transfer window in isolation and potentially helping secure top four next season and preventing the likes of Bruno, Isak, Gordon leaving.

I know there are lots of factors at play including the dreaded PSR but if you’d said to me a few years back we would potentially coming out of the 24/25 season summer transfer window with no first 11 signings I’d have been shocked and bemused. Fwiw I still think we’ll make a signing or two and it does appear that there’s a log jam in lots of the market and things will probably really hot up from here on in or certainly in the last week. Pressure is on though.

Deals ‘often’ happen late in the window, you can’t rule anything out at this stage.

Hasn’t proved he can organise a defence has he. I like the predictions, gives us plenty chance to go under the radar and prove people wrong at the same time.

I think the club does need to do something positive in this window though. It will have been a poor one if nothing else comes in and it would help generate some excitement and momentum. I can’t see top four without a couple signings either as I’ve said before.

Felix signing for Chelsea, I wonder if anything happens with Madueke after this.

Love that. He properly shrunk with the abuse and was ineffective after that.

It certainly hasn’t played out how they usually do but both Caulkin and Douglas have said club would dispute how many bids there’ve been. All the noise seems to have come from the Palace end.

Thanks for the info as always. Will be interesting to see what happens. I still think it might happen based on absolutely nothing other than gut instinct and snippets of info such as from yourself 😂 I think there’ll be a few outings maybe Trippier and that will mean we bring a RW in. I think it’s about to get very hectic.

Waugh saying it’s going to have to be finalised one way or another next few days. Either pay up or move on (which is pretty obvious really)

That maybe the case but on the evidence of the euros he looks pretty fucking good to me. I’m sure there’s areas he can improve in, he’s only 23/24 too and Howe and Tindall seem to have a knack in this set up of pushing players on. What will be will be, I just hope we get some CB cover/depth in.

A lot of our play under Howe relies on being super fit, so it’s fair to say we’re probably no quite there yet and finding our way a bit. That’s no excuse for flat performances but I think you’ll see us looking much sharper a few games in.

I think a fully fit Tonali can help with this.

Apparently he’s shit now after yesterday 😂 Yes fwiw I think they’ll have one more go this week and then turn to alternatives. I suppose they can’t leave it too late otherwise they might leaves themselves short but Mitchel and co aren’t mugs they’re aware of that.