jonny1403

Why? CB and CF are clearly the most urgent needs.

His point was that you can't just expect the existing players to instantly up and leave when they have their lives already established here and have 3/4 year contracts. They can stay there for that four year period if they want to. It's a perfectly reasonable point and one that lots of us would agree with if we were in the same position.

It sounds like you are tbh. It has been literally four days - how many other clubs have made signings? 1 or 2 at most? It gives our fans a reputation when we start to piss and moan this early in the process. Let's face it, none of us have any idea how the transfer process works - it's all well and good saying we should have lined it up by Jan 1st but there are so many different factors involved that probably make it impossible to do so.

Haha this. What a mental suggestion

I'd have Hayden in the team every day of the week over Shelvey.

I don't think it's quite that strict (i.e. it can be assessed over the course of a season), but yes they will be selling Digne if they do buy this new lb.

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Rivierie was a million times worse. Joelinton has been a million times worse excluding the last few games.

What Ben Arfa left a year before Rafa even arrived!

Should be starting every game now. There's a good chance his attacking play will improve as he grows in confidence/has more players around him as well. He was linking up well with Fraser, ASM and Wilson before Clark fucked it all up.

This could literally have been written about Lewis 18 months ago.

Can we stop with shit like this please.

BBC have confirmed he will be banned from playing our next game.

Atsu and Carroll were both in the squad from Jan onwards. So adding Woodman to that means we should have one space left.

Of course

How much did we get for him?

It’s not his money. It’s the clubs. It is his money. It's his asset that is depreciating in value.

Confirmed Wilson is out.

Even more fun when you know that he was a fantastic defender, but because we didn't feel he fit in with what we think a central defender should look like, he must be unsuited to British football. He left because he didn't follow Rafa's instructions Yeah, at the end of things, Rafa didn't want to play him for whatever reason and the club was not wanting for quality centreback play while he was manager. Like Mbabu, it was a poor economic decision, given the way the player developed and the low return on investment, but would not be a problem if Rafa was still here building. I have always been a fan of Chancel though, and it has been intriguing seeing him as a fairly dynamic midfielder for DR Congo while being strictly a defender in Europe. Boy is definitely talented too, I hope things continue to progress well for him. Yeah spot on. Another one who, because they're doing well elsewhere, makes you automatically jump to "should never have got rid of him," or something similar. When in reality the context dictates that it was probably the right decision for all parties, including NUFC. Chancel leaving paved the way for Schär and that tasty three-man CB dealio Rafa constructed in the second half of the season. Mbabu is just about the only player who Rafa didn't fancy where I think he objectively got it wrong. Mitro, Armstrong, Toney, Mbemba, Merino - all perfectly justifiably outgoings only brought into question by them being allowed to excel elsewhere and/or NUFC insufficiently replacing the player. Mbabu isn't tearing up trees, I fail to get the hype around him. Just because he plays for a decent European team doesn't make him a good player, he's only consistently started in the Swiss league ffs.

] 'Winning a World Cup' ffs. It means absolutely fuck all.

Play Gayle before the other two. Agreed. I fully expect big Joe to start though.

Such an exaggeration - as if any club isn't going to vote for measures that benefit themselves Two of the scummiest clubs in world football ffs

Hendrick has a 4 year deal doesn’t he? Insane.

He didn’t have a chance man Funk off man, totally at fault One of the best free kick takers in the league putting it into the top corner, aye ok