Merchant_Banker

He is a fantastic player and a great leader on the pitch. (Just in case prospective purchasers are reading this)

Every time I see new posts in this thread I hope to see a real link to him leaving. The problem is everyone knows he is not good enough.

Anderson?

If we shift all of the deadwood we would need to sign at least one striker to replace Daka and Ayew, we would also need a defensive midfielder. As you say though, any incoming players should be players who could develop further and whose value would increase through the period of their contract.

They would be more tempting for him.

Oh wow, I didn't expect that. Notice he is not holding a shirt though.

Conor Coady pleads for Rangers transfer green light from Leicester as star wary of ticking Champions League clock - Daily Record I thought we were pleading with him to go. It says that Cifuentes wants a look at him before sanctioning the move, if so #CifuentesOut.

Sell Faes, Coady, Vestergard, Kristiansen, Soumare, DeCordova-Reid and Daka, buy Hayden Hackney and Josh Sargent. We would have to fight off lower PL competition, but I am sure they would rather come to a well run club like LCFC!

Yes, we have to sell to buy and no one wants our crap.

31 years old, probably paid a lot and plays in a position where we have plenty of talent and cover, no chance.

As soon as the team is anounced for the first game with Faes, Vestergard, Soumare, DeCordova-Reid, Ayew and Daka all starting and none of the academy kids in the squad!

It's enough, Andy King has them fit and doing the basics. Cifuentes will add his special tactical sauce, whatever that is, and we will be champions despite the 15 point deduction. #EternalOptimist.

Rumors of a release clause?

Dodgy given that they value him at 15m Euros, but he allegedly has a relase clause well below that.

Souttar is out until end of year, I would play Okoli based purely on pre-season and would keep Thomas at LB.

This is a symptom of the situation we are in. We are linked to older players who are no longer good enough for PL teams, but can do a job in the Championship. We need to focus on younger players who can compete in the Championship now, but have the potential to be PL players next year.

Why is it when I try to use this it can't find Aluko or the other youngsters?

Winks, BEK (B2B) and Alves (Free role) behind Monga, Mavididi and Fatawu. Against the weaker teams anyway!

Yes, that was the point I was trying to make. Of course you would be happy to pay £5m for Nelson, in my opinion he is worth more to us than that.

It's funny how opinions differ, I was wondering if he could play as an 8.

Would you be happy if we sold Nelson for 5 million? I think he starts for us and wouldn't be suprised if he is captain when Ricardo is not playing.

I thought he was actually better at this in this game. He didn't try to beat his full back every time and sometimes played the easy pass.

Misrad Ali replaced Kristiansen when he went off after 20 minutes or so.

I may be reading too much into a dodgy format pre-season game, but based on today I would start Monga or Alves ahead of Mavididi, Fatawua will have to bring his top game to start ahead of Marcal and Evans and I have no problem with Aluko and Wilson-Brown backing up Nelson and Okoli as our centre backs! ... and Daka should never appear in another LCFC squad.

A good mix of youth and experience would work better.