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Premier League website flat out says you can't register more than 2 loans. https://www.premierleague.com/news/464747 "Premier League clubs may not register more than two players on loan at any one time."

Yeah my point is more that I don't think we should be spending 8-9m on someone that doesn't actually improve our best 11. I don't disagree with the fact he's an experienced and proven player at this level, i just doubt that his physicality and mentality will keep him at a higher level than our current players. I do think he's past it.

Feels like physicality is being targetted a bit more this season whereas it was all about technical ability last summer. Suppose that's a by-product of Enzo leaving and Cooper coming in. If this is the case, I wonder if he has plans to use Soumare who is undoubtedly at his best when given the freedom to get on the ball and charge up the pitch with it. The issue would be the fact he's as lazy as **** but a good man manager might be able to get a bit out of him? I know that's probably a hope more than anything but you can see he's got the attributes required. Just needs to get the mentality right. Just feel like a team like this: Hermansen Ricardo Okoli Faes Justin Soumare Winks Fatawu Mavididi Hlozek Ioannidis is extremely 'in your face'. Doesn't look like a nice team to play against and I think making us as much of a pain in the arse to play against is going to be key to keeping us up.

Where was this taken from?

Do you think? I thought he looked quality from the start.

Zaha is past it with a terrible attitude. Obviously there's no evidence that Mavididi is a better player at this level because he's not played at this level. All that we can go on is what we see with our eyes. I suppose you'll just have to wait and see if you've not watched much of Zaha since he was a good Premier League player.

Everything you've said about Vardy could be said about Zaha. Re. the part in bold. We don't need players to be top six standard or even just below that. I think some are in for a massive wake up call.

But it's not in our favour if he choses to join us because that would point towards him being a lad that lacks a brain cell.

I would say it's great to get bodies in but he's not better than either Mavididi or Vardy. Good depth but his wages are eyewatering.

Reminds me of Raul Jimenez.

Superb business from Liverpool.

Worrying to hear Cooper say that we struggled to keep up with the intensity of the game. A pre-season friendly ffs. Postecoglu's teams are notoriously intense. They will batter us. Everything points to an absolutely horrible and toxic night.

In your 30s mate.

Anyone got a link?

Who are these best players that aren't getting a run about? The only lad that hasn't played a great deal is the 19 year old that has never started a game for us. Only Cooper and his team know the ins and outs of each player's fitness.

Nothing will happen today that could affect the season itself aside from an injury to a player. It's literally just a run around at a competitive tempo to get players ready for when football actually matters.

Strange head loss for a pre-season game. Take a chill pill.

Is the squad really this bare by the way? Only 18 outfield players?

Has this kicked off?

Jammy gits.

Screams Ross McCormack only Ross actually had a long time scoring goals as opposed to one season. We've not been linked. We can do better for the price. He's at an age where he won't have resale value. There's no reason for this thread to be open.

Desperately hope we have other attacking midfield options lined up

Break dancing? Come off it. Never should be at the olympics. It's not even a sport FFS.

My issue is that he’s not good enough to come in and make the required difference right now so we shouldn’t spend a year developing him for Brighton. If we need shorter term loans then we should aim for underutilised players that have proven their worth at this level. If we plan on getting a starting number 10 and using Buonanotte in the same way we used Akgun then no problem. But I think it’s a bad deal for us right now.

Think that's a tad harsh. 25 g+a in 4000 minutes (about 45 lots of 90 minutes).