Dr Jinx

You really want Wilson to be running onto those Bruno through balls, Miggy always has to check to his left foot, slows everything down.

Forest have given us far less to worry about than I’d thought to be honest. I agree with someone’s earlier comment, we could do with them pushing us more, as we don’t seem to know what to do with all that possession.

So was Lewis. Neither will play much if at all.

I agree, for the internet types it’s another day with no activity but they won’t be doing anything to disrupt things before the match tomorrow. I’d say there’ll be another bid by Monday.

He kept that quiet during his press conference, the beautiful little weasel ?

There will be more news on this but I’d bet a tenner that nothing will happen now until after the match has been played, they won’t do anything to distract the players beforehand.

It’s a very easy solution for Howe, throw him in first few games, either start or as a sub and just see how he gets on. If he’s not ready yet it’ll be obvious and then there’s time to find him a good loan move. But I suspect he’s more than ready. Physically he’s spot on and obviously has skill. I think he just needs a run in the side and to get an understanding going with his teammates, that’s all that was missing really from his pre season performances. Id get more enjoyment out of seeing this kid become the next big thing over buying ready made. So signing someone like Maddison would set him back a year or two (unless he got a good loan move)

There’s nothing to suggest that we were ever interested in the player, in fact Eddie Howe when asked directly about the player (and being left out of the squad for their game) said that it was nothing to do with us. He wants to bring in players who will improve us.

I think we’re in pretty good shape despite the need for another 1 or 2 forward or attacking players. If we have to start the season as we are I still think we’ll win far more games than we’ll lose. It’s like having a very respectable hifi system, you’ve reached a point where it sounds really good but you’re curious about how far you can push it, now you’re looking at an interconnect cable that costs more than your amplifier and speakers that cost almost as much as what your car is worth. In football terms though, it’s the difference between top 6 and top 10, it could even be the difference of challenging for top 4 if it’s like last season and those supposed big teams underperform again.

I’m not going to get hysterical over some random tweet but yes that’s been hinted at that it’s a possibility that he’s been after a better contract. I don’t see this as being the case. 1) If that was the case, the agent would be burning his bridges with us. Lots of future deals potentially. 2) We’ve been given encouragement to bid, we need to do more to make it happen. That’s on us. If we don’t agree a fee and leave it at that, we (us forum folk) shouldn’t take it personally if he gets a better contract at Leicester. 3) Dan Ashworth has been involved in this and it would be a bad look if this went tits up. He wasn’t there for the Ekitike fiasco but collectively the whole thing of not landing targets could also be put back on Steve Nickson who had drawn up the lists.

I don’t think that’s correct. We’re not a selling club but I would imagine there’s clauses in these contracts that allow for a player to be moved on if we haven’t say, reached the champions league within 2 years.

So that sort of rules out Sesko, I mean, why would you spend double the transfer fee on an understudy to your main man? If you spend big on someone they have to play, unless it’s like Bruno being eased into things over a month or so.

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With the players they have brought in, I’d be delighted if we managed to get Soucek from them, I’m sure I read a few weeks ago he was told he could leave.. surely that could mean they’d accept a bid that would be within our budget. Rice tends to get all the plaudits in that midfield, but Soucek has at least an equal part in that. He’s an excellent player and still only 27.

There’s players that earn 100k+ a week and by the time they hit early 30’s, they’ll be set for life, for the ones who might have been on a meagre 30 grand a week, they will obviously be able to live a good life if they don’t spend foolishly, but if they want to continue keeping their wag in the life they are accustomed to, taking up coaching is probably the thing to do unless they are a personality that can do well on tv.

Dummett has been heading in that direction for a while, he regularly attends the youth games and joins in with training and aside from his injury problems is a model professional. He does an awful lot more for this club than his first team duties.

Diaby is a no go, he’s committed to staying put for this season. I don’t get why we’re seemingly not in for Paqueta, maybe it’s just as simple as he doesn’t want to come here but I don’t see why not, Bruno is loving it here and forming a Brazilian 3 man midfield partnership at the age they are could bring them massive success at international level too. But if he doesn’t want to move, I can understand Maddison being the other option, he’s got the experience and proven record at a high level. Transformative for where we are now but perhaps not for where we want to go? I mean, I can’t see him ever playing for City but I could see him being a Lallana type signing for the dippers, but certainly not a main man for them. But that’s what 50/60m costs now.

I agree he has the potential to, whether he’ll get the chance to is another story. I’m not sure who he starts ahead of.

How would you feel about Joe Willock going the opposite direction if they struck a deal like that?

It’s a recession after all.

Everyone suffered under Steve Bruce, we all did. Lascelles speed of thought is his biggest limitation though, he could well be far fitter and stronger than he’s been in previous seasons but his reading of what’s going on and making decisions for himself when we’re under pressure will always be an Achilles heel. Botman on the other hand reads everything wonderfully while also having the physical element. There’s such a gulf between them.

Ah I’ve nothing against Forest, a club with history who’ve done more than most other clubs out there, been out in the wilderness too long so great to have them back in the PL, every clubs fans has whoppers, ours included so wouldn’t pay much attention to their forums or twitter shite. As for the game itself, I’m more confident about us as a side than I’ve been in years but they’ve spent money and every game in this league is hard now so nothing is a given. That being said, I think the atmosphere and quick start might catch them like deer in the headlights.

Pound shop Saint-Maximin, some of the skill, some of the pace etc. Aside from making up numbers I can’t see how he would fit into the description of players who can come in and make a difference as Howe mentioned. Maddison of course fits that profile but not this lad though.

I don’t see Cornet as an upgrade on Almiron or Fraser, certainly not Wilson.

The process is, club speaks to agent - “what’s the story with <insert name>, would he be open to a move away?” Agent: “well he’s got x amount of time left on his contract but club aren’t prepared to meet his wage demands on a new deal” Club: “So if we opened contract negotiations at x amount, can we begin to try and negotiate a fee with his club?” Agent: “my client has indicated that he’d be interested” Anyone suggesting anything else is talking through their arse, remember, Hugo Ekitike had accepted the proposal in principal until it became known that PSG were interested. All those steps had happened beforehand.