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Maybe the club are worried about his physicality? A year in the SPFL getting kicked with the north sea winds tickling your bawsack will do the trick.

I can't say I'm 100% but I am sure he did on occasion.

I couldn't really care less about Faes. He's not as bad as some are making out but he's nowhere near as good as he seems to think and that confidence breeds mistakes. The bigger issue is how the squad see Cooper. Faes played LCB for Enzo without issue, the fact that he's kicking off about it with Cooper COULD be a symptom of him not demanding the same respect. ...or I'm just overthinking it.

So did Ryan Bertrand, shall we give him a call and see if he fancies a return?

Being used as a winger and being an out and out wingers are two different things. That is my point. We used Perez on the right, doesn't mean he was a winger. We should use Ayew where Perez should have played... in the Okazaki role but only when absolutely necessary.

I'd be willing to take a pumt on Jota if we are after a winger. He was incredible at Celtic, moved to Saudi and iys pretty much been a disaster since the minute he walked through the door. Im not sure exactly what's happened but I believe they left him unregistered weeks after joining and he's only played about 16 games since. He's desperate to leave, I think they are desperate to sell and he's still only 25.

I wonder if Steve Cooper knows that some CB's have a left foot.

Ayew BDR like i said, they can both do a job there but they are both getting on, losing pace and neither are out and out wingers. Both would work far better in central positions whilst covering the wing We need pace, especially if we are going to be pinned back and need to counter.

I don't understand this "collecting wingers" narrative. We have two. BDR maybe was at one point but he's not got the pace or skill to be a winger at this level anymore, backup winger, maybe but that's it. Same goes for Mcateer and like them Buonanotte is better at CAM. Ayew is another who could do a job there but the truth of it is Fatawu and Mavididi are the only two natural wingers we have. That's why I was surprised about the link with the Moroccan lad, I think we need a winger and a striker more.

Why are you all freaking out? You've spent all pre-season saying we will be sh!t and are going down, so we were sh!t and we will prob go down... Just accept it and chill the fcuk out! You're p!issed off we didn't win a game you didn't expect us to win?

Elye Wahi only played with Mavididi for 1 and a half season of Stephys 3 years there.

I'm not arguing he should... just pointing out that he has experience doing it.

He was Montpelliers main striker for a few years.

Mavididi has played as a striker 107 times.... Cannon 95. Stephy has more experience as a ST than Cannon does.

OFCOURSE people are going to be more excited about signing an up and coming 20 year old who should get far better than his current level and potentially retrieve a good profit from future sales, which in turn will allow us to stay on the right side of FFP regulations and repeat the process than they are about a soon to be 33 year old who is only going to decrease in value and ability, which never been better than adequate even in his prime. I've never heard of this lad and I accept Ayew makes decent footballing sense but so does he. The only difference is that he makes decent business sense too and we've not shown a whole lot of that recently.

Apparently you don't like when people are overly enthusiastic either though. You should change you're name to ready salted.

In all competitions last year they both had 12 goal goals/assists. Granted Ayew was playing a higher level and played less minutes but he's 33 in a couple of weeks. This lad is 20, has far more room to improve and has the potential to make us much more money. He's a more logical signing.

F'kin hell mate! Do you go around Nurseries telling kids that one day their gran will die, too?

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From his comps, it looks like he plays quite deep. Is this maybe more a KDH replacement as opposed to an out and out #10?

I'm really surprised. With Cooper all but confirming Hlozek and Saha were close, I expected a winger and striker/10 hybrid. Didn't see a 10 coming. Can't grumble with a talented young up and coming player who's outgrown his current level at 20 though...

Exactly. I just had a quick look. 16 of our current squad have PL experience. About half of them have pretty extensive experience. It's quality that's the issue.

You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain.

I think both will come in too but regardless of how much we do or don't spend on them, it doesn't change the fact that this one is still financially suspect. That anxiety is justified considering that being stuck with players that add nothing to the team whilst paying them substantial amounts and not being able to shift them has very much been instrumental in our financial problems and this one looks like it could very well turn out that way.

Because there is more to it than the footballing aspect. As we speak, we are awaiting the discipline for our prior financial irresponsibly. Spending up to £8m on a player we won't get any monetary return on whilst paying him, what I'd imagine to be around £7m (assuming he signs for 3 years on 50k a week) is worryingly familiar and anyone ignoring that, I believe is being niave. Ofcourse we would all like to believe that the people running the club know what they are doing but past events seem to argue otherwise.