r0cafella

Most people won't have changed how they voted since September.

Gordon has shown over the last what? 18 months that what's best for him isn't best for the team. It's time he took one for the team.

We can go pay 5m for Asensio and pick up his 300k per week wages but id be sure he wouldn't get much playing time. Ultimately as the gaffer has said in a roundabout way he doesn't want players on loan so what do you do?

Not to be that guy but if we look at those players it's quite simple no? Keepers don't need bedding in. Botman we didn't have many other options Burn we had no other options. Thiaw came in when we had injuries Trips we had no other options/was miles better than what we had. isak came in because we had Wilson who was also injury prone. Also, if you look at all those players they are better than what we had before. We've proven to struggle to replace output recently Murphy is still out best right winger

I wouldn't put it that way. isak is definitely a cunt I do have some limited sympathy with Wissa. Ultimately we did what we have a habit of doing and we kicked the can until we couldn't and ended up paying a massive fee for a guy who was at his peak with no resale value Unfortunately we just aren't a savvy elite organisation, we bumble through making do.

Unfortunately the ship has seemingly set sail. What we needed to do was spending a quarter of a billion wisely. Alas.

As you mentioned Howe doesn't trust a lot of players and we have the trademark bedding in period as well. A loan would be pointless as they would just warm the bench.

Which is odd as I railed against the deal and was told no bother he will fire us 25 goals and we will be back in the CL no bother

Absolutely aye, would have been absolutely mad to pay him that kind of wage for the type of role we needed him for. I know he's having a good season and all the best to him but it's not a deal which made sense for us.

Am I the only one who couldn't give a flying fuck about his preference to play left wing? He plays where he's told and if he doesn't like it he can call his agent

And if we don't win games and continue as we are it's a waste plus we don't get the upside of having an asset ultimately we've pissed away so much money we are in a shit position regardless.

Your missing my point. Elanga is very much worst case scenario and was a poor buy. If he was good it would be beneficial to amortize the fee. As I said earlier loans unless your getting a Lewis hall are very much emergency break use.

Oh for sure, Elanga appears to be a poor buy and yes we won't cover his years amortisation if we loan him out. But at least his age profile gives us a chance. Imagine if Wissa plays like he did at the weekend on a regular basis

No we won't, if we say loan elanga in the summer and sell the year after we've amortised his fee for 3 years. So as long as we get 33m for him we would be fine. I wouldn't touch a player like Ramsdale unless he was free.

Yup that's why we passed on him a year ago.

Good thing about Elanga is we can ship him on loan next season and if he doesn't flop again we won't make an accounting loss. With Ramsdale on the other hand we've gained very little.

Loans are awful for PSR. your borrowing someone else's asset and paying a fee to do so. Very much break in case of emergency stuff.

Really? We still look hopeless again sides that sit in imo. Plus we are running out of time for it to click.

As you know, I'm very much aware of PSR and the constraints we face but as mentioned funds should be available if not cool I balance the books at the end of the window. I think it's clear as day we need reinforcements and with a degree of urgency. At least bring Targett back so we don't flog Hall to death.

Of course I can't say for certain but if the money is there lets get a summer signing brought in early. More time to bed in and we need that injection of energy. I refuse to accept the PSR story given our net spend wasn't crazy, we have spent fuck all prior to the summer in recent windows and we overpaid for what we bought in the summer.

Same issue with our wingers to an extent. Take away Barnes and look at open play in the league and whatever we are doing on the flanks flat out doesn't work.

I'm not Eddie out, but how do you square that? I mean he bought these players how can they not fit his system? The compromised set up we have should avoid that.

I don't think they were lucky to be honest. Sure the goal is low xg because it's from range but it's intentional and something they've been doing on a regular basis.

Ive been done with this cunt for awhile, can't wait to see the back of him. Talks a good game but i can't think of many things I couldn't give less of a fuck about is a footballers opinion.

If we are done for business this window it's a bit of red flag for Eddie's future like. We should be ok PSR wise to bring someone in.