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In the event we actually keep all of these, this is the elements of a team that gets us promoted: * Mavididi, Bilal, Fatawu Skipp, Winks JJ, *, *, Woyo Stolarczyk Needs a reliable striker and most importantly we really need to put together a decent centre back partnership that's going to last us a few years. Two guys that can actually defend and who aren't afraid of a scrap. At least one of them MUST be a beast in the air, ideally both. If Nelson and Souttar can do that, great, but we probably want a better option than Souttar and Nelson is never likely to be dominant in the air. Normally I'm the first to defend the players that got us out the league last time, Winks and JJ for example I'd happily give a pass to for this year. But I just want Vestergaard and Faes out of the club at this point. They need to go.

That Tory poser has nothing on the Caledonian Mafia

I thick Tucker is a bit too mild for our current predicament. It might call for more Jamie Mcdonald levels of subtlety.

Dignitas? Us? More like Indignitas.

Yeah but we can't afford to sack him until the new financial period starts

This is an awful post.

Because if he downs tools and refuses to play to force a move then it might be the best we can possibly get out of a shit situation. He threw his toys out of the pram to get his love to Leicester, refusing to train. If people haven't learned from Fofana they're naive. Last relegation we had Soumare, Daka and Kristiansen all trying to immediately leave the club. I highly doubt Sevilla covered the entire cost of Bouba's amortisation and wages we just had to make do with the best we could get out of them. Kristiansen was a bit different because we didn't pay too much for him and I doubt his wages are as high but we wouldn't exactly have made enough there to spend much. "Very likely" is probably me being a bit miserable but it's certainly very possible.

That's very likely and actually potentially awful though isn't it. We get nothing we can spend on reinforcements, he doesn't play for us, the loan fee almost certainly doesn't cover his amortisation for the year and they probably don't pay his full wages. We end up part paying for a player who isn't invested enough to get us out of the muck.

If he's playing a key role in a promotion push he's not getting sold in January.

He's not going to Wolves mate

Was gonna say

Was gonna say, isn't this the loan to equity move we've done multiple times?

But his first day at Leicester:

Looking forward to July when Monga hasn't left but neither he nor Evans, Braybrooke, Popov or even Alves are anywhere near Russell Martin's first friendly squad and Foxestalk crashes.

Stop doing it yourself man

Lets not pretend they didn't drop 240m euros on transfers this year mind.

Is this your first time watching one of his teams? Did you watch his Spain at all? He's played a significant amount of possession football. Hell, how do you think PSG play against all the teams in their own league that park the bus? He gets to approach the Champions League like he does because teams come at them. Pep is very happy when his side can get back to front and score quickly just as Enzo was with us last season. Just don't really get the opportunity very often. The idea that Enrique is playing some sort of spontaneous, elusive, non-systems dominated football is completely bonkers.

Let's be honest, as improved as Villa are and as strong as the Prem is, it's an achievement just getting this far.

They're better off for losing their "stars" but actually building a team.

A bargain is the £8-10m Napoli got him for

Massively underrated?

Kvaradona <3

Youri Tielemans and Marcus Rashford playing for a Unai Emery managed Aston Villa against a Luis Enrique managed PSG featuring Kvaratskhelia and Donnarumma in the 2025 Champions League quarter final. I'm pretty sure this is Prince William's Football Manager 2017 save come to life.

And won it mate