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It’s a pretty big deal from what I remember, although seems like these type of things die down with each passing generation. Some itk said transfer to Barca, loan back to espanyol for the season which is beyond mental.

Like the Spaniards love to say, ‘we’ve 20 Diblings you’ve never heard of’… Dibling looks a real talent, but we’d be buying a very raw player, for 50 mil. If there were no psr constraints it’s the type of signing I’d dream of, but for now our signings need to be based around what cost us points this year and will draw losses and win draws next year and at the lowest possible price, because we’re thin and overachieved this year.

Talented but always struck me as a knob, Mbappe vibes…think Bayern would have won 1 or 2 more European Cups had they sold and replaced him and Coman with younger, grittier players.

Im hoping Eddie isn’t locked into one style, we definitely need a technician around the 8/10 or RW area. We were piss poor in terms of attacking fluidity against weak team many times this year. Willock isn’t it, an upgrade on his position would be exciting. I’d hope we improve in transition, when it’s on we should be taking advantage. We need more goals from sources other than forcing mistakes.

This is what worries me. As much as Mitchell acted the dickhead with how he handled things he was right about being cost effective. Guehi is a mental signing. He's a decent center back and we almost paid 60 mil for him. Theres a million center backs who'd have within 5% of his impact for half the price or less. Teams around us have signed better for far less. Why would we keep Willock. If he got back to peak form he's still an injury prone player without the technical ability to bring us up a level. A RW, a CB, and 8/10, and a versatile forward are needed. Young squad players would be good. For that we'd want to be finding the absolute best value and reserving the 50-70 mil fee for a player who is going to be indispensable and near guarantee an extra 3-5 losses into draws/draws into wins. Right now Mbuemo is the only player it seems justified on. And those lads you mentioned need to upgraded if possible, downgrades off the bench when we need changes.

Exactly what I saw happening weeks ago. Our only regular attacking threat is our high press. Shambolic team passing, for years now. Nothing got to do with Joelinton being out, he makes it worse if anything, how he played as a forward is beyond belief. Gordon must go, went from talisman to sulking liability after whatever happened with the Liverpool offer. Hope to Christ Mitchell has a long list of youngsters because we need far more technical quality. And how, when we needed center backs, did we not go for Milenkovic. I can understand missing Hjuisen, I never heard of him. Milenkovic has been a solid defender for a very long time. Sick of the constant unforced errors in possession. Club Brugge will shit kick us in Champions League on recent performances if they are smart enough to not play from the back. Go long you nullify 90% of our threat.

Badly needed.

We've had months to sort this out, so many games we were shocking, the 3-0 win against Leicester being a good example. We score only when we press the opposition into mistakes, occasionally from great individual play off the left, and very rarely from some good passing in the final third involving Sandro/Bruno/Trips/Murph. Counter is shocking, and our passing game goes to shite under any pressure, and often without pressure. The signs have been there for ages that when the chips were down we'd start misplacing 10 yard passes and just turning the ball over under no pressure. Thats why this game worried me far more than Arsenal.

Don't know anything about him other than his highlights, but we're being linked with Martin Baturina, a Croatian attacking midfielder rated around 20-25mil. Love that we're being linked wiith this kind of signing. Really hope we are able to pick up a more technical midfielder as well.

His first touch looks absolutely terrible, Delap looks a better player technically, and Delap doesn't look like ever being world class. With good coaching could be a very useful striker...either way, considering we need a right winger, an incisive attacking midfielder, at least 1 center back, I'd hope we sign either a RW or attacking mid who can play striker, like Mbuemo. Ideally we'd want a couple youngsters good enough to improve the bench in midfield and either forward or defence. We need a lot to maintain top 4/5 while also playing in Europe. Wonder if we could get away with a 150mil net spend...or if Mitchell can pick up a couple of positions for 30-40 instead of 50-60. Always wondered why we havent heard much of hiring new scouts to have a constant presence all over Europe and occasionally in South America

To me he's looked completely different since he supposedly got offered to Liverpool, body language has been completely different since, he doesn't look at all like the enthusiastic lad he was the season before.

It seems as though Man United have had a free run at Cunha which is mental, he's so decisive and takes responsibility for attacks like few others in the league. Delap I think is a good signing for 30 mil, but he's not amazing technically... his decision making will improve, well thats debateable if he goes to Manchester, don't know how much better technically he'll get. As for us being linked with DCL, but people saying Vardy would be ridiculous. Vardy all day. Great striker, DCL never showed he was a great striker. Vardy has every kind of finishing and his intelligence is unbelievable...and he's a winner, a leader. No brainer for me if we aren't spending real money on an out and out striker.

Yea, as soon as it became obvious how tight things would be I wished we got any other bottom team rather than Everton, they're just the type of team that relish this scenario, and they have the ability if we're nervy or lax at all, and especially if we go 1-0 up and go into the second half Southgate style, it really worried me to see it last year, can't understand why its still happening. If you do that, you have to counter attack effectively. Mental how we play sometimes. Hopefully we qualify and Howe has some more options next year

Shame he couldn’t stay fit enough to be ready when a starting spot opened…has to go now surely, we badly need a quick attack minded midfielder. A fit Willock who’d improved even slightly over the years would have made such a difference

It seems to me like he’s been totally different in body language and impact since whatever happened with the Liverpool transfer proposal. He seemed so happy at the club, he doesn’t seem the same lad at all. His game has become massively inconsistent to the point where how would you even sell him now, knowing how good heis capable of being, but that his value has dropped massively this year. Not that I’d want us to sell