janpawel

Fantastic that Bournemouth and Villa have lost today I fancy Arsenal to beat City Hope Potter can get West Ham a result against Chelsea

Not for me, plus we don't have depth at CB for this

Wish Wolves buried there chances first half

The cynic in me thinks Howe subbed him on to show that he is still part of our plans to bump up a fee 😂. Considering him at LB rather than Hall makes us far worse going forward while down 2-1 But naa, I'm sure Hall came off as he was all done

I just suggested this in the Joelinton thread and came in here to see this.. Definitely in agreement Though I wonder who'd we replace with as Longstaff / Willock are poor but we wouldn't want to break the bank when RW, CB, keeper etc are urgent

Probably a controversial one as I know he's loved, but is he someone we could sell to Saudi for pretty decent money without complaints? All our other sales / potential sales like Maxi, Miggy, Trippier, Targett etc are pretty small He turns 29 this summer and is in his prime, appears to have a 'reputation' which seems to partially matter to the Saudis, is capped for Brazil etc. And we bought him for £40m and he is now clearly a better player than we first signed him In a non PSR world I'd rather keep him, he's a great physical presence, can play a few positions, and can can be used tactically by Howe such as when he's played as a wing back / CB out of possession I'm just thinking with his age, probably high salary after his last contract extension, could he be a valuable sale to help us. Obviously a downside would be that he'd need replacing and Willock/Longstaff are poor..

Botman has never played left back?

You have to consider the Vlach 20m Anderson £35m Vlach (£20m) Net £15m Anderson £35m Elanga (£50m) Net (£15m) Seeing him perform this season, I think he'd have been a great addition for around £30m, like a better Murphy imo. Though hindsight and all that

Maybe using the Duran fee to consolidate wages across their squad, rather than maximise the 70m with new signings? Just an idea

Yeah I agree. So much potential change and even excitement I wonder how our squad building approach will change should we make UCL, EL or the Conference

Yeah I said previously I do worry about them getting all this potential FFP headroom, in the sense that they match our ambition and are run well. If Villa or us had the revenue if Spurs, I'd trust us/them to be a top 4 regular in a few years

If we sold Longstaff, I'd love it we managed to get Angel Gomes on a free We have an abundance of physicality in midfield, but he would give us a different dynamic in possession, I'm thinking when we play teams at home who sit back where the likes of Longstaff / Joelinton etc aren't as effective

Kamara is quality like. Was the only good player in their game against West Ham

If Villa get around £80m for Duran, and presuming they beat Celtic and get £15-£20m for progressing in the CL, I wonder if they could use this FFP bumper to consolidate themselves ahead of the likes of us, and be a mainstay around 4-6th at worst in the league

Insane how much Manu pull in despite being shite for an age. Imagine how much revenue they'd generate if they were ran like city of madrid

Yeah I agree, I'm saying for the season after next where Schar and Burn will be 1.5-2 years older I know I know, we're not there yet etc... I'm just saying if we sell Kelly then we will probably need 2 more CB's in a couple years, on top of the RCB this summer Having said that, maybe selling Kelly makes sense if it's a good fee

I disagree, I think you need 4 good CB's if you want to go deep in Europe / the 2 domestic cups and not have a significant performance drop off Having said that, Burn is doing excellent at the moment, I was talking about the year after next where I imagine Burn won't be enough for a team with CL ambitions, and thus we'd need an alternative to Botman

Not realistic as it's Brighton, but would love Carlos Baleba for our LCM role

I just worry that we'd need to buy another LCB not this summer but next, with Burns age, and at that point as well Schar will be 1/2 years older too so could mean a lot of transfer activity needed to give us 4 decent CB's. Having said that, considering our FFP position, selling someone we got on a free for circa £15m who hasn't impressed in their cameos is good business I'm torn on it

A very quick look up and Leicester fans think he's their best player and there only chance of staying up, currently injured He also has the highest 'goals prevented in the league' at 5.8, ahead of Onana in second with 3.1 Only 24 as well

I know Trafford is the rumour, but are there any good, established goalkeepers we could ambitiously aim for? I don't know many goalkeepers tbh, I checked Mike Maignan and he has 4 years left of his deal As much as I love Pope and what he has done for us, I can't help but see how much Dubravka's calmness / ball playing helps us, however prime Pope was an elite shot stopper, so imagine someone who has both will already be at the very elite clubs

Agreed, though Huijsen was outrageous value, wasn't he wanted by Barca etc? For £13M he would've been worth a punt, even if he was squad player / midtable level after a few years, we'd surely be able to sell him to a foreign club for what was paid. I know what you mean about Newcastle prices, but since he went for 13, I'm sure in the area of this is what he'd go for regardless But like I've mentioned before, we had our Guehi goggles on, we'd have probably rather have gotten Guehi over prime Maldini last summer

This 👏

Disagree for me, he could have done better for the second and fourth imo

His pace at DM is so helpful Reminds be of Fernandinho at city years ago