Simonb

Hahaha mate I'm in the same boat I'm absolutely battered and should've turned in hours ago, yet I've sat up for the last 6 hours watching a bunch of reporters talk rubbish for hours and bs their way through a day skysports created 🤣 repeating themselves for hours and I'm still watching it All I've learnt is football is even more fvcked than I thought. Forget how long they had left on their contracts and that one is English for a moment Birmingham have paid 12-15m for a player that's had one half decent season, scoring 12 goals in the championship last year .. to play in league one. Liverpool paid 11m to bring in one of the players of the tournament at the 2021 euros, who was rated at around 70m a year or so ago and is quite frankly a very good footballer to compete for the Premier league title Make it make sense because I can't

Don't think you staying up affects the transfer mate Rudkin went bed at 10 if that helps your decision

Going to be positive, he'll have 10 by the new year

Agreed. I think we've got players that can create, but the problem is they all have to be on it at the same time. We tend to have a player having a good game ie facundo vs Spurs, but everyone else is off the pace (I know Abdul got the assist, but did nothing else). If you have 2 or 3 on it together then there is more space to create.. when it's just one man then teams just shun them. My worry is Bilal is going to need 6 months to get up to speed in the league and we can't afford that time. I hope I'm wrong though and he just takes the p1ss and smashes it Side note... Eduoard on loan with no obligation or Broja on loan with a 30m obligation. . We won that one

Same. Would've liked a LB too. I'm hoping Cooper sees sense on Ricardo and therefore moves JJ to LB, then we'd be OK for now. I think Vardy and Eduoard as the number 9 options aren't too bad for a relegation battle really, as long as we create chances which for me is an issue. I'd argue they're a better pair of choices than some of the teams towards the bottom have Calvert-Lewin had one good season, otherwise he's been similar to Everton. Ipswich and Southampton I'd say number 9 wise are probably behind us, maybe? Obviously Daka is poor, but he usually shows up for a month too so who knows, we might be OK. We'll certainly need goals though considering our cb pairing is faes and jannik

I agree with this. Problem is, I worry we'll be in a similar boat with creativity this season Bar 20minutes against Spurs I think we've looked really poor going forwards. Windows shut now though and we have our squad so hopefully once we've settled down we will compete

Contract extension announcement in the morning

Everton love to overpay on rubbish don't they.. regardless of what happens to us. I really hope this is the season they finally drop

Disgusting money to spend in that division They'll destroy that league.. but it would be amazing if they stay down

I paid him to take out rudders mate

To be honest I think Ipswich have dodged a bullet there. I know there is a difference in class, but they were far and away the best attacking side in the championship last season and were one or two minor tweaks away from looking capable of scoring goals in the Premier league too... that's not done by signing mediocre players like Nelson on deadline day. Their last couple of days this window has just reminded me of the idiots clearing the shelves during 2020 when they didn't need the stuff, then wonder what they were going to do with everything Sky are bigging them up saying they've had a great window, brought in some great players and spent over 100m. Realistically, they've just bought the cream of the championship. While I think they look to be in better shape generally than us, and have a squad built to smash the championship if they drop, they're transfer policy just seems a bit of a grab what you can scenario and will lead them with a lot of players they need to bed in and keep happy

Hes now got 3 weeks before he can play Couldn't care less if we just take a photo and leave it at that, As long as he smashes a hat trick against Everton on his debut

I'd actually say we might have the best deal here on the basis of what the club actually needs We need a 9.. he improves the match day squad and is just a case of covering wages Sterling offers something to Arsenal and could be brilliant, but something just isn't right with him. His big wages could upset the rest of the squad, especially considering he's not really needed Nketiah has potential but hasn't shown anything yet and was a big cost Nelson to Ipswich, they've signed 14 players already.. just seems to me a case of 'we'll have him' but without any need whatsoever We've managed to bring someone in that we can afford, that's half decent.. better than ings, fofana and broja that we first feared without any obligation. Favourites to go down as it is, gives us a slightly better chance

Exactly. If there isn't a buyer we're stuck Signed a promising looking player and he turned out rubbish. It's not the seller that's the issue, it's either the player, coaching or the scout in the first place.. maybe a combination That being said, with their window open a couple more days.. hopefully a Saudi team may be tempted and we can encourage him to go

Ed Sheeran will have to fling out a new album to fund this

Does seem that way. Also feel like Contes been smoking something. Although I think mctominay will do well and gilmours good. I can't imagine many other managers in the world having a meeting with their owner and saying 'What I really need to challenge again is the Scotland midfield' 😵‍💫 Then throw in binning off Osimhen for Lukaku

Waiting for it to 'fall through' and the club issue a statement about how they tried

Completely agree. But he isn't going to start too many .. I'd imagine Cooper sees him more for finishing games.. but I'd rather he starts

Can't play against Palace after the internationals.. but vs Everton the week after? Not too bad? Hermansen Riccy. Faes. Vestergaaed. Justin Skipp. Winks Fatawu. Facundo. Mavididi Eduoard Vardy BDCR ayew khanous kristiansen ndidi coady ward Hamza Probably won't start riccy for some reason and I only picked ward because Cooper will. That should be enough to beat teams like Everton at home, albeit we are lacking physicality in the middle and barring Jannik, height. Keep in games and then utilise Vardy for 25/30 mins

They've got themselves a future star for a season. He's a very good player, should start weekly and gives them some class in defence that could keep them up. Hope he comes back and walks straight in to our starting 11

Going Ipswich.. called it.. but then again it was pretty obvious. Fancied Ipswich to stay up, but 14 new players is a bit much to get them to settle

It's not a bad window at all. Problem is I don't really see any of them being that classy signing that will keep us up.. but when you remember we are favourites for the drop, we've bought in decent enough options from the shelf we can reach Eduoard is a better option than daka Ayew and bdcr offer experience Facundo looked good so far Bilal looks to have bags of potential (do we have time to build it though) Abdul is quality and now our player Skipp looks solid, shame he don't offer goals too but then if he did he'd have had better offers Goldings for the future/ticking boxes in the kdh transfer im not keen on Okoli, I really feel we've messed up on that one though, especially when you consider we have jannik on another 3 years too I still don't feel like we have enough to compete, but we have a few new younger players on the books should we drop that should be good enough to help us bounce back, or at least maintain their value to help with psr

Hat trick against Everton then, week before Arsenal do us for 6

Decent signing if we sort it to be honest. Linked to some right dross over the last couple of days .. bottom half epl standard player for a bottom half club.. it's our market

Ah fair enough, I suppose it gives the owning team a chance to get a fee if the player does well or extend further maybe