Fantail Breeze

Any Chelsea players available if they get Dembele?

You’re officially the most ITK on the forum

Chelsea in for him.

Hope he does his bit for the last half of the season.

Origi would be ideal imo. Definitely won’t be Nketiah.

I think this will cause us to try and go big on someone completely out of the previous thinking. I hope so, anyway.

Maybe the surprise was we weren’t going to sign anyone.

Fuck. That’s a big issue. I hope we have an alternative planned.

We could have signed any tall bulky striker and got the same (or possibly better) outcome as Wood, imo. He’s scored three goals all season, clearly on the decline and his peak wasn’t even particularly high. I wouldn’t want him for £15m either.

125k a week apparently.

Alli confirming his decision to hate football by signing for Everton. I like how the clause is after 20 games, if they get relegated they’ll never pay it.

Absolute dogshit that viewpoint like I’m positive where there is right to be but also offer my opinion where I think we could do better. That’s generally how opinions work. I also think people have a right to point out they might have been right after weeks of snide comments. That’s not “I told you so”, that’s “fuck off and be open to other’s opinions”.

I don’t see Burn as an increase on Schar/Lascelles and same re: Targett over Dummett/Manquillo/Lewis. I think we’ve added two average players to a squad of average players. Although the benefit that they are coming in on good form rather than the loser mindset the rest of our players have. Wood is an abysmal signing. Lingard is essential now if we are relying on Wood for the next two months. I think the quality of Bruno and Trippier may be enough to see us over the line but I still worry about Howe and hope we start to see improvements in the team. Overall I think we could have been better prepared and made our moves earlier and more decisively. We should have moved on from Botman and Carlos when it was clear a deal couldn’t be made. I wonder if Ekitike may have made a different decision if he had a decision to make three weeks earlier, rather being rushed with a couple of hours to make such a life-changing decision. I’m not convinced by our CB/DM and striker options but hopefully it’ll be enough. If we stay up, I’m pleased the consortium have had a January transfer window ahead of the Summer to get used to it and learn lessons, might be a good thing in the long run. I’m pleased the owners seem to be happy to splash the cash and it’s clear the intent is there. Hopefully more lessons will be learnt and it’ll see us good in the future. 6/10 moving up to a 7 with Lingard, an 8 if we get anyone else decent in.

But those posting blinding positivity get their knowledge from an unknown fountain? I don’t even think anyone is unnecessarily negative. People are balanced. I’m overjoyed with the Trippier and Bruno signing but disappointed with the other deals. That’s balance and taking each one on it’s merits. We have journalists following the club providing a similar mindset, yet they’re obviously all wrong too. That said our squad is more than good enough to stay up, if it doesn’t that’ll be a failing of Howe imo.

This deal even more important now Ekitike is off. Wouldn’t be great if this falls through too.

Disappointed by this but hoping we go in for someone else late. Origi maybe? Worry if we’re relying on Wood to score goals.

Nah, we’ve still got a surprise on the way.

If that’s the case, get that fucker paid

No idea why Man Utd would let him go to West Ham. You’d also think they’d be happy for him to come to us and we play all of their top four rivals before end of the season. Hope says Lingard fancies us. Feel like we’re in the school playground.

I think I’d move anywhere if someone is trebling (or potentially more) my salary tbh.

We’ve apparently already got people in France who were trying to get the deal done, he can do the medical and formalities there. Downie talking shit to get people TUNED IN LIVE to Sky.

Has France moved to South America? …. It’s a huge move for a 19 year old. Not surprised he needs to think about it.

All of that deciding for the three games he’ll be fit for.

Put it in the Botman thread, Romano.