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I think there is definately a market for it for a midlands based journo. For me, Percy is so reliable because of his clear connections with the club who feed him information in exchange for pushing certain narratives. So maybe not so much telling the fans what they want to hear but to a degree telling us what the club want us to hear. I don't think Percy has been quite a prolific this past year and I don't think it's a coincidence that, that happened after he had a bit of a go at the club following relegation with them likely seeing him not upholding his part of their arrangement. You could very well be right with regards to the Italian press playing to their audience but I also think that Percy not mentioning his preference to Rome could just as likely be him/the club not wanting to sour the fanbases opinion of the player if he does sign.

I'm not saying you're wrong, you could very well be right but I must ask, who are the credible journalists that aren't saying he would rather go to Roma? The british ones who you just admitted tell us what we want to hear?

I imagine it'll be someone who can come deep and hold the ball up and bring others into play. Our 3 options as is are all similair players, having a plan B makes sense.

All this "he doesn't want to be here" is nonsense. Cambiasso didn't really fancy us, to the point we were a baw hair away from signing James McCarthur in his place. Yet, he came and he was great and when he left, Kante wasn't 100% sold on us either but he came and he was great too. If you believe than 90% of player come here because they really want to and not because of the piles of money we shovel into their pockets and a crafty agent in their ear, you're niave.

There definately was a lot of talk about them wanting him to go out on loan to a PL club.

Now THAT'S some stats!

Or we are raising the price that Roma have to pay so when we lowball them for one of their players, their need to sell is greater. Ofcourse we aren't that smart but it's fun to speculate.

€15m in £ is about £12m and even that is with clauses and bonuses attached but even if it wasn't... paid over a 5 year period is little over £2m a year or something.

He's either Chè Adams or Steve Clarke!

No need to bring race into it!

I swear to God, people better stop mentioning his name or he's gonna appear like a sh!t Beetlejuice! Scotland are trying to convince George Hirst to switch to us out of absolute fear that we might have to rely on this clown again.

Oh sh!t! I just clicked!!

I'm not sure if they operate in England or if there is an English equivalent but we contacted a company called Money Matters. They changed our lives. Not only did they assign a worker who went everything regarding our finances and help organise it in a more manageable way but she went through everything with regards to benefits/grants etc that we were entitled to and didn't know about and even helped us apply for them. It was a game changer for us. Look into charities and organisations like this. They make a differance.

This sort of insanity, I can relate to though.

I would say that you should be banned for even suggesting this but I don't feel that's a sufficiently severe enough punishment. A year in jail or a Derby season ticket should do the trick.

If it were me, I'd be willing to spend just as much on Gnonto as I was on Soulè. If they want more than that, walk away.

Not only that but if the these rumours are accurate, we are looking to spend BIG on a RW and have made it a priority position which is weird...

I feel the increased level of power that agents have got today as ended that type of thing. Or at least made it less common. Ofcourse, it has brought different issues to the sport also though.

Obviously depends on the price but I'm quite happy with this. Looks like Cooper wants a 2 man base of deeplying players in CM. One more DM and one more DLP. Winks/Ndidi/Skipp and Soumare or Braybrooke could offer that.

That's the spot I thought BDR was going to fill but who knows anymore?

Well that kinda goes to prove my point... If you think Soule would play wide then that means Fatawu would either play as a WB which means no #10 or we drop Fatawu to favour a 4231 and I don't see that either. That's why I think we want Soule and BDR to offer options there but predominantly play wide which would mean likely no 4231 unless £14m Fatawu is sitting on the bench.

Absolutely, that's why BDR and Soule make sense as they play wide but offer good options at 10 when needed. Pretty much anything forest related when talking about how he played whilst there and I didn't say he didn't play wingers. I said generally when he plays a 10, it's without wingers but he prefers 433 or 3421. You absolutely can. I've said a fair few times that I'd fancy Fatawu at LWB if Soule were to play RW. But in connection to my origional point, usually if he plays wingbacks, there isn't a 10.

It IS excessive if you don't plan on playing any wingers!

Whenever he's played a 10 with forest, it was a loose 3412... which would make all these wingers redundant.

You seem pretty convinced we are going to play with a #10. I'm not. Cooper prefers a 433 with no number 10. In games that he expects to be under the cosh, he'll move to a 3421, again with no 10. Ofcourse he could be looking at an entirely new system but there is no evidence of that so far...