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Mostly as a 10 in the last couple of years. Of his last 50 games, 30 were as a 10. 10 were at rw and 10 in CM.

Ah, got you. I have no idea what Eddy was on at Palace but it's not out with the realms of possibility that they DID triple his wages if there was competition to sign him at the time.

I'm not really following the relevance of your point, sorry. I was simply saying that Stengs is likely to be willing to move for around £30k a week...

The very fact that Celtic appear to think they can sign him means he would likely accept around £30k a week because they wouldn't be offering him much more than that and I doubt that they would be wasting time on a player who they know would demand more than they were willing to pay.

In his last 50 games, he has played AMC 30 times, CM 10 times and RW 10 times. Looks like a Bilal replacement to me.

Which is 100% and issue, especially with our track record. Although, I'm stupidly allowing myself to naively believe that we done it to assess who we could shift and how much before moving to get who we need in. That's why I think it will be predominantly loans. Ofcourse, I know deep down we won't do anywhere near what we need to, if anything but I'm choosing the gullible, painful path here.

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Celtic apparently have a bid in, which means he is affordable.

So that's the better part of £50m for JJ, Coady, Ndidi, Mads and Mcateer. Expected to go to £80m when Bilal goes. This could be great if we manage to get in a couple of CM's and a striker, maybe a permanent and a couple of loans. Even better if we could move on Faes, Viktor, and Bouba, bring the total close to £100m and get a LB and CB too... ...OR, we get no-one and it's a complete disaster.

Igamane refusing to come off the bench and play! 😆 🤣

He'll be gone by the start of September. A loss against Celtic next week and he is done.

He'll get the next two games against Brugge and Celtic. He'll be gone by a week tomorrow.

So you would offer him a new contract?

When do Ipswich score their late equaliser?

I think Ayew definitely works better in the hole behind the striker but my problem with him is that he needs the ref to protect him. Last week is a great example, the ref wasn't buying his falling over when the defender leaned in and it renders him useless.

The problem is CM. We have absolutely nothing in there. Teams can dominate that area on the ball and double up on our wingers off it because our midfielders can't create anything.

I loved seeing that lad Coventry trying to rile him up. Fella, we've been trying to get some emotion out of the big jobby for year, you've got no chance.

Vestergaard has also scored a goal that got us our only win this season and I don't think he WAS worse than Nelson against was Huddersfield. If VAR was at play in that game, Nelson would have given away 2, maybe even 3 penalties. On TOP of giving the ball away consistently. I'm not advocating for Vestergaard. He has been terrible for most of his time here but not only has he shown more consistency at this level than Nelson (who admittedly hasn't had as much of a chance) but under Marti (which is all he can go off) he has contributed more than Nelson has.

And i don't think it's coincidental that it was Maresca that exposed that weakness. He knew exactly what he was doing.

It's also important that we send a message to young players that they need to TAKE their chance when they get it. Monga did and now he starts. Page did, and now he starts. Both Alves and Nelson got a chance against Huddersfield and let themselves down. Now that's one game and not a reflection of their ability but it SHOULD and does have consequences. Those being a setback to their hopes of starting. They will get more chances this season, we need to hope that they now understand how important it is for them to take it.

Winks and Faes really need to go. They are clearly better than the options that are starting ahead of them but don't want to be here so all they are doing is assuring that crap players start ahead of them and they are actively weakening the team by their meere presence. You think they would get the hint that if anyone wanted them, they would have signed them by now and get over themselves. There is a reason the fans don't like them.

I had a wee look at his thread on their forum and it's wild. He is going to have a job on his hands changing their mind.

This. Plus all the younger academy lads don't need to be registered.

No we don't. We have 23 and a bunch of academy players that have been training with the first team but only like 2/3 of them have actually played in the first team. 1. Stolarcyck 2. Begovic 3. Faes 4. Souttar 5. Vesty 6. Nelson 7. Okoli 8. Woyo 9. Justin 10. Thomas 11. VK 12. Ricardo 13. Soumare 14. Skipp 15. Winks 16. Hamza 17. Bilal 18. Alves 19. Mavididi 20. Fatawu 21. BDCR 22. Daka 23. Ayew Monga and page would probably be included in the first team but there is no evidence that Evans, Aluko will be and i'm certain Braybrooke, Golding and Wanya will not be So "30" is a stretch.

If one of your balls has a big hairy Belgian tumour on it, you cut it off and make do with one. You don't keep it just to have two like all the other boys.