Dr Jinx

Lascelles man, what the fuck was that

It’s always the same, he has one or two games where he looks like he’s turning a corner and then retreats back to what he knows. The lot of them have been a disgrace, can’t blame Trippier or Wood yet but Joelinton doing good things bringing the ball forward yet cannot finish any number of chances he gets. ASM has been terrible and needs dropping. Murphy on for him please. Switch Fraser out to the left. The midfield and defence are known quantities at this point and been discussed to death, all we can hope for is that they don’t make a fuck up that leads to a goal and that we nick one from somewhere.

The look of someone preoccupied..

Was looking at the training pictures earlier, Willock looks absolutely depressed in every single one of them. Wonder if he's been frozen out by teammates, something just not right there at all.

Can you imagine how much better almost every other player in the team could look if we had a competent midfield? More patient controlled attacks, protection for our defence.. comfortably in possession of the ball in the midfield. We can do none of those things at present because we don't have the pace, physicality or intelligence.

Ludovic Blas could be decent, doesn't seem to have crazy pace but knows how to use his body to get ahead of people, would be fouled repeatedly in this league. Right side of midfield is a problem area for sure.

When Liverpool signed VVD for 75 million there were some raised eyebrows, but now when you see how that team of excellent players looks like with and without him in the team… 75 million looks cheap. The question over Botman is if he would have the same effect? Or would splashing a similar amount of money over 2 players add up to the same effect? Botman and Carlos are both left footed players iirc?

The kid would be mad to go there at present, maybe they are prepared to loan him back until MBappe joins Madrid in the summer though. Makes you wonder just how good the kid is though

I’m surprised we haven’t been linked with Gareth Bale

Can this shite just be merged with other clubs transfers?

Could have a midfield of Cantwell, Shelvey and Haidara by end of window if the bullshit rumours ever came true. Could actually see that balance work ok as the others would be able to do the leg work for Jonjo

We should go woke and get our cast offs gender reassigned. Ciara Clark Darina Gayle Gemma Lascelles Matilda Ritchie Karen Darlow They'd probably still get stuffed every week

I think we’re stringing those clubs along, making a low ball bid and then just upping it slightly. We’re in for 2 of them, am sure of that but they aren’t making it obvious who the first choice players are. Clever. Once things heat up a bit we’ll come in with a proper offer for the ones we actually want.

True, clubs paying in instalments is pretty much the done thing. Only Mike Ashley used to do it the other way. Probably thinking he’d get a cheaper deal if a club was skint.

Rafa’s flown the cuckoos nest. It’s like one of those graphic drink drive videos.. you know it’s gruesome so the tendency is to look away until it’s over.

“Everything is AOK, coz I’m strong as an OAK..”

Am gonna go out on a limb here, I predict he’ll score 12+ goals for us between now and end of season. That could be a few close 1-0’s if we manage to sort out the defence

Good signing imho, proven scorer at PL level playing in a very poor side. He’ll bring in others around him and add a bit of muscle up front. My slight concern is that’s 2 players in with Burnley connections. I’d like to see the manager being able to attract a player who isn’t already aware of him

The deadline isn't Thursday like, would be great to have more in but give them time. It's important they aren't going to get mugged off financially in this window as other clubs are watching. The summer will be a different kettle of fish once we manage to stay up. 1 central defender, 1 left back, 2 midfielders (one defensive and one creative) and a forward would be enough to get us there. There's loads of time

Take out the sell on fee and whatever bonus, but yes loan him back for the remainder of the season. We need to think about the here and now but also what's next. If this kid is as good as they say he can join in the summer and be prepared for it.

Prime Shola would cost about 40 million in todays market.

Anyone notice the absolute bellends who began posting regularly as soon as the takeover happened? They mostly seem to have registered their accounts about a year ago, almost as if they were just waiting for the instruction to post absolute crap.

It was more a case of Carr mentioning him amongst many others to Lee Charnley, Mike Ashley didn't want him but Charnley went out on a limb to get him for some reason.

French clubs are shite to deal with at the best of times. Spain and Germany are where it's at for hassle free transactions. Cisse was already on the flight over before we even found out about it.

Reading those quotes, it sounds like he could quite easily get homesick. The club would have to make sure there was a support network here with him. He's definitely got self confidence though