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39 minutes ago, Hanshithispantz said:

He looks quality and has insane potential. We would be absolutely fucking bonkers to throw our toys out the pram because he hasn't personally sucked Eddie Howe off yet.

I think people forget that this is a 19 year old lad who has absolutely zero attachment of any kind to our club, same with Botman. 

14 minutes ago, Dr Jinx said:

I’d prefer Bissouma but the fact Dan Ashworth is here and we haven’t shown the slightest interest tells it’s own story.

 

I know JWP is a better player than just his free kicks but not sure where he fits in.

 

Our midfield seems like a collection of odd parts at the moment. Like where does Willock even fit in?

Tbf, I'd be massively surprised if there were no clauses that stopped him from pursuing Brighton players for a given period of time. 

At this point it makes more sense to sign this new guy than it does signing Botman.

Know nothing of him but he can't he that much of a step down from Botman and more importantly it would set exactly the right tone and precedent for other clubs who'll try and stiff us this summer. 

Edit: After doing some YouTube scouting and reading the comments of my fellow scouts, I am now convinced he is the second coming of Christ and we should definitely sign him.

Total bollocks that, like.

9 minutes ago, AyeDubbleYoo said:

He probably thinks too much if anything, rather than being stupid. He’s not the stereotypical footballer personality. 

Yeh, I think he was born in the wrong era. 

He'd have had teams built around him in any other era of football but barring Nice, no-one catered (rightly or wrongly) to his clearly flawed character. 

Shame because he's probably my favourite ever NUFC player.

1 hour ago, Nine said:

Targett, Ekitike, Botman, Sarr, Henderson

 

Would that please the fan base? I get the feeling quite a few of us were expecting a bit more quality on a couple of those, maybe rightfully so. I’d personally be pleased with those 5.

I'd be over the fucking moon with that. 

Honestly not arsed about having a perfect window. All I want it's consistent improvement window to window until we're in a place to seriously compete. 

If that means improving in only 3-4 of the 6 positions we need to improve on then that's fine by me. I'd hate for us to be the type of fans who take what we've now got for granted. 

I do wonder if ASM's unpredictability and high risk style of play impacts Targetts ability to attack. 

Must he really difficult playing behind him knowing he's not gonna track back if you commit to an overlap and when he loses the ball as often as he can.

Should 100% sign him. 

Yeh what was the context of the Mourihno quotes the other day?! 

Why was he chatting about us?

No one will convince me there isn't a top class player in there. 

Still no way near the levels he was but he was still very effective tonight.

We are gonna be a madness with better players

Phenomenal!

1 hour ago, gbandit said:

He’s 32…

Dunno why I thought he was 26.

Pukki. 

Seems to be criminally underrated despite him scoring consistently for Norwich in both season he's been in the PL. Clearly a very, very good striker. 

Great movement, great finisher, hard worker and still young. No idea why more team aren't sniffing around him. 

4 hours ago, SUPERTOON said:

I think most agree with that, it’s if Tarkowski would be first choice it would be an issue.

Can understand why people might feel this way, but after seeing Schär and even Krafth transformed I'd be content with on on form Tarkowski at the heart of the defence. 

Schär, Tarkovski, Burn and a money signing would be incredible depth wise for centre halves. 

Think people forget building a squad is more important than building a first team. 

53 minutes ago, Manxst said:

If it’s been sold to Bruno like that, we’re gonna be spending a shitload of cash this summer…forget all this 50-100m talk. 

Mad thing we could actually be a decent window away from being in the mix going by current form. 

One of the best things about this club at the moment. 

Love the player/fan interactions angle they take too, just adds another layer to it all. 

So uneccessarily aggressive 

Yeh, I'm aware of his disciplinary problems but he's got the type of fight in him that I like in a player.

He'll do well at a big club at some point. 

Would love us to take a punt on Morelos. 

Love a player who's tapped. 

I think he's going to struggle in a team that is going transitioning to a posession based game. 

Perhaps a move to a right where he won't be cutting into traffic and being able to whip more balls in?

Like this version of Shelvey and he did well tonight tbf, but he's in an absolutely key position and improving on him ought to be a high priority. 

26 minutes ago, HaydnNUFC said:

 

They're fucked I think if they drop yeah. Already in FFP shit, have very few sellable assets and have shit players on big contracts and high wages that no one will want. Then they've got the stadium stuff going on as well. Absolutely knackered if they drop, definitely the worse run club in the league by far.

Aye that's exactly my read on it too.

Won't even be able to get a decent manager in after they've binned off Lampard either. 

FFP would surely fuck Everton if they go down?

Amazing what 1 bad game can lead to.

Not sure this discussion ever exists if he played like normally does. 

16 minutes ago, SUPERTOON said:

I’ve got to disagree, RW is massively important don’t get me wrong, but we can’t go into next season relying on Wilson again. A top striker has to be the number one priority.

Aye, don't completely disagree with that all tbf, but Dubs also spends a fair bit of time out and the alternative to him is Darlow who we know seems to have a negative impact on the team, whereas we've ground out brilllaint results without Wilson.