Holmesy

When?! I haven't seen him do any or no decent ones at least. Murphy offers so much more (despite still being Championship level)

What am I missing with Fraser? Is Howe just picking him for nostalgic reasons?! He offers absolutely nothing!

I would have the confidence in Wood to score some goals if we had any supply to him at all. Who is going to put the ball on a plate for him? Bruno is capable of playing balls through but to who? Wood doesn't have the pace to get on the end of them and Wilson is crocked. Creativity should've been given equal priority to defensive reinforcements in this transfer window and i really hope it doesn't come back to bite us

Fraser has definitely regressed since his Bournemouth days and Wood is arguably past his best as well.

Barca still desperate to shift Dembele and PSG have walked away.......

Likely know he's a moron?? It's pretty fucking hard to miss

What Sky Sports should be is the TV version of The Athletic What it is, is the TV version of Talk Sport and that's why Merson has a job

I don't think he'll drop Shelvey and rightly so at the moment. He's involved in most of the goals we score (which admittedly isn't a lot) I think he'll go with Bruno behind Shelvey and Big Joe. Fraser seems undroppable at the moment as well, despite being crap, so i imagine he'll be on the right

If Howe can coach the terrible decision making out of Almiron he might still have a future here, but speed of thought and quick processing of situations isn't something that's easy to coach. My gut tells me he needs to play under a Hodgson/Rafa-type who will give him very clear instructions - run here, play this ball etc. Give him a longer leash and you get the Almiron we're seeing now

Going into the second half of the season with just Wood and Wilson as striking options and no new creative players would make me very nervous. We've got to go all out for Lingard if Ekitike deal is dead

He came in for a couple of games and we instantly looked more solid than when Ritchie was playing. He needs to get his confidence back going forward but defensively he improved us. Depends what you want from a full back, but Dummett gives us nothing going forward and Ritchie is shite defensively. Lewis has the potential to be good in both directions and could learn from Targett

What?! That's a shit piece of business. We're finally in a position where we have two reasonable left-backs and we let one of them go out on loan?! So an injury to Targett and we're back to Dummett or Ritchie deputising?! FFS!

That's more like it! When he has highlights like that, why put together a compilation of scrappy deflected goals, scuffed penalties and run where he just bundles through players, like the one above?! Baffling!

That's the shittest compilation video i've ever seen

That post was not worded correctly - there should’ve been a couple of ‘or’s in there. I didn’t expect us to sign them all at all, but we haven’t signed any of them.

It’s concerning we’ve got to deadline day with no CB, LB, winger, attacking midfielder or mobile striker. That’s a lot of business to try and conclude in one day

Barbosa would be a nice surprise. We’re targeting the South American market as well so it might fit the bill.

Suggests we've earmarked replacements for certain positions but if we see an opportunity to strengthen the first team even more, we'll make it happen. I love that! It's exactly what they should be doing and so far removed from our approach under Ashley

A #10 and a proven PL striker?! Snap them both up! Wages might be a problem with our frugal setup though

We need to sign some attacking end product now, whether it's goals or assists. Preferably both. Wide players and a quality #10, to replace the likes of Ritchie, Murphy, Fraser and Almiron, are absolutely essential

The messiah?! Don't be daft, I was referring to Longstaff and Shelvey

Like a rose between two turds in our midfield

Fruity!

Problem is the defence will likely still contain Lascelles - ideally we need 2 CBs so we don't have to see that plum in the starting 11 again

I dropped in to see who else had a new transfer thread and the first name I saw was Paul Gascoigne