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Murphy is a direct post threat

I think I mentioned this the other day, Maldini will have a decent amount of pull for a young CB like Botman. If both us and Milan really do have offers accepted I think that alone might swing it for them, still thinking that they won’t match our offer though.

This injury could make him as slow as Botman

Nothing new here, just repeating other sources

If it’s true that his preference is Milan then you can hardly blame him, it also shows just how massive Bruno’s balls are that he agreed to come here during the situation in January.

Ah yes, the RTG way of thinking

So they loaned him from Chelsea and on the surface from those numbers it looks he had a decent season, then signed him permanently and instantly loaned him out to Juve for 2 years? Wtf

wtf

Fill me in, did he get stuff wrong in Jan?

He must have some sort of say there? (I was including his Dortmund signings also). https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/jurgen-klopp/spielertransfers/trainer/118/plus/0/galerie/0?station_id=12366 Lewandowski for £4m

Klopps record on signings is ridiculous. Nunez will probably be another hit.

I think its likely we get him at this point purely because we can probably make Lille a better offer than Milan can, they will surely hold out for the most money.

Today is a good day, bet he’s over the moon that’s here permanently now.

It’s gonna be interesting to see where Howe sees Ekitike, I’m sure he will get a good chunk of minutes at RW but I personally think his biggest part to play next season will be as 2nd choice behind Wilson. If we sign an out and out RW like we’ve been linked with it would suggest that Howes sees him centrally. 3 central strikers is plenty of competition for that spot for us imo, when you start talking 4 the position gets overly congested and players might start to think they won’t get a chance and kick up a bit. Wood must be kind of sick that he signed, started for the vast period post Jan and 6 months later is down a 3rd choice.. down to his lack of goals of course.

I’d agree on the CM as we currently have 5, if we persist with 4-3-3 then 6 in total would make sense. Striker I think we are covered with Ekitike in, I know Wilson and his fitness issues but assuming he can play at least 20-25 games then Ekitike and Wood behind him should be fine. If you look at Wilson’s fitness record at Bournemouth besides 2 freak season ending injuries in his early years there was pretty consistent for 3/4 years after until he moved to us. I have faith that Eddie can get more out of him fitness wise than Bruce did.

Targett, Ekitike, Botman, Sarr, Henderson Would that please the fan base? I get the feeling quite a few of us were expecting a bit more quality on a couple of those, maybe rightfully so. I’d personally be pleased with those 5.

Thought we might be looking at at a more forward thinking LB but that might be a step to far for now. More than happy to see this lad back next season, solid as a rock and his character fits in perfectly with Howes dressing room. This might also indicate that ASM is staying.

That Barca kit is gross

Will be a loan but a good move for everyone involved

Good luck to him, done well for us overall. Perfect move for him to.

If Ake is available for £35-40m I’d say he’s one of our best options, £50m is getting a little steep.

Well that’s exactly what are we doing, it’s just that we won’t sign Botman for £40m or whatever to sit on the bench as he would come in and be a starter. Burn would be providing the cover for his position.

We were bidding for Botman before we settled for Burn and if links are to believed we are still trying to sign Botman now, so we are almost certainly looking to upgrade Burn first instead of Schar.