Matt1892

He is the replacement, presuming Palace will be more reluctant sellers if they can’t get someone in.

I watched it. Is there a number of episodes?

Bournemouth are a good side and will look to target us down their right if we play with both Burn and Hall, they play intelligent long balls in to the area behind the fullbacks for their wide player to run on to. I wouldn’t be surprised if we go with wingbacks for this one.

Nobody should care about Mike Ashley. It is the here and now we should care about, and if we have serious aspirations of being a Champions League level club we need better players through the door.

Huijsen looks really good for his age, plenty of room for development. A good signing for Bournemouth.

I thought Sterling was decent for the first half of last season, there was talk about him being difficult to leave out of the England squad at one point. He will be a decent loan signing for someone.

We didn’t get going at all today and looked second best before Schar went off. I thought we defended well with 10 men but it helped that Southampton didn’t have much variation to their attack, the worry was that we could not retain possession for any period of play to take pressure off ourselves, we were booting it down field and inviting wave after wave of attack which a better team would have punished us for. Still, 3 points from a tricky start so on to the next one.

It was a difficult game to come in to as we were up against it but he wasn’t very good when he was on, he hardly touched the ball and didn’t put a great deal of effort in when closing down in the final 20 minutes, compared to Joelinton, Bruno and Longstaff.

In the run in the season before last and the balance was all wrong.

Comfortable 3-0 victory.

You can’t blame Palace for expecting the add ons to be achievable to be fair.

Is that how the clause works? I didn’t know if it would be this summer only or not.

I’m sure Gallagher doesn’t look at either Joelinton or Tonali and think to himself that he has no chance of getting in the team in front of them.

Offer them a big sell on percentage, what with Guehi being a superstar once in a generation talent it surely won’t be that long before he moves on to Madrid.

Ipswich signed Omari Hutchinson from Chelsea who is predominately a right winger, unless they plan to play him off the front man.

They will be fine, they play good football but it can be death by passing at times if the opposition sit back, whilst they wait for an opening.

We can still have a great season in spite of the transfer window, you just know the window will be talked about through the season for every dropped point, impact on our finishing position etc.

I think Mitoma would have gone this summer if injuries hadn’t ruined his season/valuation. I am not sure how they will handle Ferguson and his transfer.

I think there is a good chance it goes through, the concern I have is that after the posturing of the last few days I don’t think it is going to go through any time soon unless we increase our bid even further. The longer we hang on the more we can’t afford for it not to go through, as we will have problems. I don’t have faith in the club getting a short term replacement in either, we have seen in previous windows where we have been crying out for a stop gap but they have gone with what we have.

An opinion from watching both of them play, there are a lot of similarities in their play but Rutter combines his with an unbelievable work rate.

Rutter was excellent last season for Leeds and was in the team of the season I believe, he is better than Joao Pedro and will likely fill the attacking midfield role if they stick with the double pivot in midfield. He can play up front but it would be like us playing Bellamy up front as the lone striker, who would do a lot more in creating opportunities for the midfield than being a goal threat himself.

9. Newcastle Last season: Seventh Strange summer at Newcastle United, with churn backstage caused by the departure of Amanda Staveley from the boardroom and the arrival of Paul Mitchell as sporting director following Dan Ashworth's move to Manchester United. The European football Newcastle thought they had was taken away by Manchester United's FA Cup final win over Manchester City, while profit and sustainability rules (PSR) meant the reluctant sales of Elliot Anderson to Nottingham Forest and Yankuba Minteh to Brighton respectively. And then came the revelation that the departure of last season's star man and England winger Anthony Gordon to Liverpool had even been discussed to raise funds until other players left. Throw in the speculation linking manager Eddie Howe with England and it has hardly been plain sailing on Tyneside. However, if Newcastle can get a deal for Crystal Palace defender Marc Guehi, arguably England's best player at Euro 2024, over the line then the club and the Toon Army will feel a lot better about themselves. Top 10 but still some uncertainty at Newcastle United. Newcastle United fan writer Charlotte Robson on BBC Sport's Newcastle page: "I think Newcastle will finish fifth and secure European football for another season. My hope is that we finish fourth and get back into the Champions League, and that we get to one cup final this time around. We were depleted last season as we dealt with an unprecedented injury crisis, but we now have depth back in the squad." https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cdrlyg088r5o

Sometimes you just need to cut your losses.

Clubs could have registered an interested but need the right parts to fall in to place.

It feels drawn out as Palace leaked it straight to Ornstein from the start to try to drum up other interest.