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Just seen a fee of £5m being talked about. Genuinely had to read it twice to check we weren't paying them £5m Fucking lord, that'd be our best business in years.

Colback to Villa would be absolutely perfect. We'd be rid of the talentless ginger tosser and Villa would be guaranteed to struggle.

Ryder seems to think Lazaar to Geneo might happen, Geneo flying in for talks apparently.

Would only be a nominal fee/a free to sign Colback though.

As if our wingers ever get that close to the byline. What's he like accepting a cross from the half way line?

Best do like, all these years of wishing them to go down it'd be sickening for them to come straight back up. Remind me a fair bit of us in 2009 so it may wel happen To be fair, the three teams they've played so far have all started the season appallingly.

Strange how the top clubs never seem to have this issue...

Still think that list depends if we shift anyone out. Agree - unless they come in on a free. It'll almost be a one in, one out now imo. Darlow/Krul out - GK in Haidara out - LB in De Jong out - #10 in and so on... We're not going to spend the money on a number 10 who can transform us though, that's the issue. Do you think we'll be able to get anyone better than Perez for less than say £15m? Absolutely not, we'd have to take a punt on an unknown foreign player really.

Still think that list depends if we shift anyone out. Agree - unless they come in on a free. It'll almost be a one in, one out now imo. Darlow/Krul out - GK in Haidara out - LB in De Jong out - #10 in and so on...

With Joselu in, what else do we need (other than to replace the dross that we sell)? A LB, GK and #10? Can see us getting 2 of the 3.

I see this signing as similar to the Atsu one. A player with talent that has never settled anywhere that may find his feet here under Rafa. If not, it's not an expensive signing and he probably wont be on outrageous wages (in comparison to what Perez would demand for similar risk). He'll obviously be competitng with Mitro for the second striker role, which can only be good for both of them. I still think all 3 of our strikers will play a fair bit, with the cup games and Gayle's injury record.

Should have divorced her.

Let down on my Over 2.5 4-fold by the APOEL game. The game was 2-0 after 10 minutes, yet somehow neither team could manage one more in the remaining 80. Would have returned just under £300.

First I'd heard of it. What a way to embarrass our sport.

Not sure how much we "missed out" on Ojo, considering we are reasonably well stacked in wingers and have seemingly signed our top targets in that area.

Presumed it'd be something like that.

Probably been asked before, but Reading always seem to play their midweek home games as a 20:00 kick off... why? I know there is some flexibility in teams deciding what time they kick off/what day they play (Tuesday or Wednesday), so why do Reading prefer 20:00?

Absolute nonsense. Dummett is an excellent CB. He really isn't. The great myth of Dummett being a superb CB based on less than a handful of appearances there. It's also nonsense that Clark and Lejuene are "trustful" and Lascelles/Hanley aren't - what are you basing that on?

Absolute nonsense.

It looked like that at times during pre-season too, specifically at Wolfsburg.