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Ooof

Fuck the players fitness just throw him in

Agree with everything you’ve said here, reading between the lines a bit on Howes comments and such I think he’s pretty set on not shaking up the squad to much this summer. We keep hearing only 2 more in and at the start of the window it was reported that we only wanted 5 players in total including Targett. January might be a big window for us on the midfield front.

He has the perfect attributes for an impact sub, form wasn’t great last season as we know but to write him off is silly.

We won’t be able to compare his fitness record under Bruce to what it will be this season, look at his games played under Howe at Bournemouth. Besides a couple freak injuries he was largely a an almost 30+ games a season player, I know age will play a part but Howe and his team will have him far better managed.

It’s funny how ASMs lack of form since Jan last season was put down to being paired with Wood but Miggy or Fraser don’t get the same treatment, not saying these players are of the same quality but Miggy defo has a lot to offer to this current squad especially as an impact sub.

Yeah but that young winger is a vile rat faced twat

Always liked Edwards

I’d have taken him in Jan, I’ve got reservations about him on and off the field but I do feel he’d make this side stronger and if getting him on a free meant we could spend in other areas I think I’d take him now.

Could never warm to Gordon, one of my most disliked players currently

And at least £1m of that was for his forehead alone

Hopefully we see more of the outgoings start to happen now, Gayle, Clark and Hendrick will all have championship takers but we’ll still be paying half of their wage. I know they want loans with obligations but I can’t see that happening for more then a few of our players.

Crossing politics over with football is fucking aids, you can live life without intertwining one with the other. Sport should be an escape from wasting energy over things things that you have no personal control over, not the opposite.

Has to balanced out with sensible, realistic signings though. You don’t just spend on players to make a ‘statement’ unless they are what the manager wants, Targett and Burn improved us immensely in Jan and they were low fee signings that proved to be right choice. Thankfully our owners seem to have adopted the right approach and arnt just throwing money around like Everton did, I’d rather the manager got who and what he wants for reasonable money that lines up with the point we are at financially than do the former. The squad needs steady growth over a couple of seasons, wage structure will slowly advance with that as we get new sponsorships in place that will allow to push our FFP limit further and further and then and only then we will see the big, marquee signings happen.

I think you will be disappointed then, imo we will likely spend on a RW, striker will probably be a loan and no guarantee we sign a CM at all but I think it’s possible if the right deal is there. The only real instant difference making quality will be the RW though, less so in the striker (2nd/3rd choice) and CM.

I can’t tell when you are trolling but it’s amusing anyway like

No way we sign 4 more players from here this summer, even with a loan in there. 2 or 3 at most now depending on outgoings and registration issues imo.

They wont be keen to loan to us anyway and thats without the links that Lampard has to that club, sadly Everton have a massive advantage with this deal

Since its Chelsea they will surely prefer to deal with fat frank than us, shame as I'd like to see Broja here

Diaby would be my pick out of the RWs we are linked with, still can’t quite convince myself that it might happen yet.

Yedlin

Not a chance

Sorry Had no idea about him

This is what I've been saying, I know everyone wants Paqueta but I personally think a quality DM would see us much more effective against the top 7 or 8 sides in the league. Our midfield isnt robust or industrious enough without a DM with destroyer attributes in certain games, we saw this vs City, Liverpool and Spurs.

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