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feel the same about cm's now Merino is coming, especially at the prices quoted for McCarthy and Samaris. We need an AM, ST, GK and LB. One more CM would be great but its not the priority.

that first touch by gayle

He's a Nu additition with Kappas to his name. Not great with the ball at his Theta but with Benitez the Chi's the limit. I just hope he doesn't become another sacrificial Lambda thRho.

He's definitely a risk, but one worth taking imo for 7 million. Would much rather a young player not content with sitting on the bench than a player like Samaris for much more, when we know he has his limitations.

Just looked at Spain's team from that tournament. Must have some ability to get into that squad.

We've been linked with that Cafu geezer a few times this window haven't we? Yep but I think he's already signed for West Ham about 5 times

Not necessarily with Bellamy he was bought after a not exactly outstanding season with Coventry when they were relegated iirc. Probably only cost about £20 million in todays market

.. he couldn't get a game for Dortmund. What Dortmund, you mean that club that we're in the Champions League last year? Yep them's the ones.

very happy with this for no logical reason. Certainly would rather this sort of deal than samaris for 17million.

Not sure how I feel about this one. His reports from Benfica aren't that promising but sparta me thinks if he does come then at least it's solon Jack Colback.

Always thought the complete opposite he seems to enjoy being a mentalist.

.... hold on so is Rob M of terrorising comments sections fame a geordie? never knew that.

Summed up perfectly. is it f*** anita was far from our worst player. Just because he's a f***ing new signing. He's had two seasons on loan to a PL club, liverpool and sunderland, started both seasons in the starting XI and ended both seasons dropped so can't say I'm overwhelmed here.

I wonder if we're considering playing one of them through the middle in the number 10. Its the sort of position that a winger could play in.

That is the one that is actually annoying me, last year of his contract, much better than what we have, we should be tying him up asap.

Considering £3.5m broke their record transfer with their first signing then what did you expect them to do? Would you have been happy then if we'd spent £40m on the players Huddersfield had? Mooy at a push but Huddersfield were always going to get him after last season, I doubt it. Harder to spend money when you want quality. To be fair Ince and that striker would have been decent buys. Definitely give us more options in positions we need players for and the price they got them for was pretty fair in both cases.

looked at transfermarketd and he seemed to play the majority of last season through the centre. Gibbs would be good but undecided on Jenkinson. I think he'd be worth a shot for a few million, we need another body there ideally but its not a priority position.

He'd cost upwards of 15 million in todays market if you ignored his recent injury spell. hopefully he can stay fit as he's the only person I'd currently be content with filling the number 10 role.

I really hope there is something to the Gibbs and Jenkinson rumours. Get those in and our defence work is done at least.

All other reports say that he's joining Fulham. Already in London and medical happening today. Hopefully, his record is awful. Awful? Really? pretty awful. Another Riviere in my opinion, if he can't score 10 goals a season in the french league then I can't see him scoring many here.

I don't think Luque ever fell into that bracket.

I'm just not big on stats when it comes to GK's. After all didn't Darlow have the best stats last year? Well he is a good championship goalkeeper to be fair

fucking like lord of the flies in here at the minute.

I think it depends how much for and whether he's the only winger we bring in. We only have one good winger at the club and could clearly do with , someone proven, but if we can get him in a straight swap with Darlow then I think he'd be worth it, as a backup for Ritchie if we sign another left winger. He may not have had a good season last year, but in his final season for Barcelona B he got 8 assists and 3 goals in a team which finished bottom of the league, so even though I can't say i've ever seen him, I can't believe he's got no end product based on that. Hopefully he's got a bit more than he showed with boro.