Optimistic Nut

Just takes 4-5 top signings this summer to add to that and with one game a week, we could have a belting season. No reason we can't make those 4-5 quality additions either.

Thought I'd give this forum another shot, 5 minutes doom scrolling in this thread and it's really just not for me anymore.

Don't want any of the under 30 year-old defenders to leave this summer.

This could be a problem for us tbh. We should definitely be finishing ahead of Brighton, Bournemouth & Sunderland with their squads & schedule, but these two have larger budgets than us and the same schedule. Going to have to be at it every week to reach top 5 or even 6-7.

At least two of these last year, were the profile of players a lot of people seem to be craving we make this year?

He can easily scale up what he's doing at Gateshead over there. Crawley was a big jump at the time going to a team always likely to go down from League 1.

Carlisle probably going in my league winners bet before the season starts then.

What's Abde like as a player? Get me excited please as his stats before last season don't look up to much?

Have we set the prices or the organisers at Murrayfield?

Give him a year or two extension with an option of a third or something so he holds his value a bit longer. He's the sort of player a bottom half team would pay £25m for even at 30 as he'd still be good for double-figures. Could easily see someone like West Ham or Wolves fancying him for £28-30m next summer if they came back up, by which point the first new LW would be settled and you could then go for another one to compete.

We needed some experience. Coloccini was pretty much finished by this stage, Taylor & Williamson shite, Cisse finished, Colback & Anita some of the other senior players were shite. The money we spent on Shelvey in January we should have moved heaven and earth to bring Cabaye back who had a great few years at Palace. He'd have probably come too. Him added to that lot and we'd have been nowhere near relegation.

Mark Hughes has left Carlisle. Can definitely see Elliot going there.

Could easily see him at Spurs or Chelsea for around £60m in 2 years time.

Fair do. Not sure how I'd feel about two relatively unproven players replacing Gordon & Barnes at once. Has shades of the Wijnaldum/Mitrovic/Mbemba/Thauvin window. Would keep Barnes and sign one of those two's profile to compete with him.

A decade after hoying a poster up at the Airport saying go to Sunderland for top flight football. They've played top flight football two years since then.

Think he's along the same profile as Solly March in that I reckon he'd be the perfect signing for West Ham to help get promoted and then keep around the squad in the Premier League for a season.

Can definitely see Le Bris being a victim of his own success next season if they do struggle to manage 4 competitions.

Le Bris and the recruitment team were getting a lot of stick on RTG pretty much up to Ballard's winner v Coventry.

Who's Niang? Only results I get are a 31 year old in Turkey.

Say an average of £25 a ticket. There's an extra £1m even if we just sell 40k tickets.

Aye. Having to pay the going rate for a player in this day and age. God forbid them.

Which is still only 7th/8th largest?

Net spend down to around €390m under PIF after the Gordon sale? Under £80m a year. It really doesn't seem excessive given the squad we had inherited, yet we still seem so hamstrung.

They're 100% going to unsettle Woltemade to the point they get him on loan or something shit this summer.

Isak passing and movement for that, man. I really hope last year wasn't our golden year and that's our peak.