Old Fox

Early in his career he moved to United and never settled so moving to Turkey did seem a strange move and hopefully a return to the UK would suit him - undoubtedly a motivated and fit Zaha even at 31 should add some creativity and threat

we will just need a defence and midfield then…….

Interestingly I feel for the two new lads you mentioned as the lot you refer too I hate more - promotion back does not repay the debt from relegation for me as the two past seasons has seen us fall so far and all the great work that was done in 16/17/18 …..just view but I would be glad to see the back of VK, Wout, Vesty, Ndidi as they never seem that bothered to me….the lack of prem talent and ability in this squad is sobering …….really sad and in hindsight apart from financially we may have benefited from a rebuild with the foundations better from another season in the championship…..us and saints will comeback down ….i have a feeling ITFC have the spirit and management to have a chance of staying up

Sadly it’s a reminder of how we have fallen Mendy was a squad player but would walk into our current team - the depth of the squad when he was here and the talent we had in our relegation season just makes me more angry and frustrated with BR and his self promotion clap trap as that squad should never have gone down. This squad is 100% going down …….shows how poor the championship is and the gap is huge …..we will sadly do a Burnley or Sheffield u down with a whimper but ITFC will put up a fight……just wish we had the players and team spirit to do likewise…

We do not have enough quality to play possession football in the prem so the plan has to be good at the back, ability mixed with hard work in midfield with pace as outlets and a goal scorer - we do not have any of it - I for one wanted ndidi signed but he has looked leggy, winks anonymous and Fatawu under cooked to name three who I though would be fine……we need some energy and legs with some quality…….the next week is pivotal as we are miles away from being competitive and I have been to all the games except today which I watched online and I have not got a clue what cooper is setting us up to do and granted he inherited a mini crisis but he is damn well not improving the situation

True

He is carp and no one will convince me otherwise he’s a liability who does not concentrate - not great on the ball, not big enough to dominate physically, not quick …..and Belgium frankly had way better players attacking wise so dominated possession but they were still carp too so do not see your point tbh

You can destroy youngsters in a team getting dicked every week and based upon Coopers tactics so far we will not be competitive as he has no Plan A let alone a Plan B

He would improve us at left back by 100%……..VK and LT are nowhere near good enough

I agree apart from Vards - he would still score goals but should not be our first choice as we need his experience but hamza, Wout, Daka were bang average last season but the standard was dreadful so made them look better than they are …..the core team still has too many who took us down and they were poor squad members let alone starters…….based upon the signings we have made we may need a complete rebuild in the Championship…..sadly

Rubbish - the gap between the championship and prem is massive - we have gone backwards due to poor recruitment, selling our most attacking link between midfield and attack, appointing a completely average manager with a different approach. Preseason has been a shambles due to lack of fixtures not helped by Enzo ……Cooper won’t keep us up but no one would with this squad …….

He’s still got it and he could be the difference to keep us up - this would be a quality signing

Both not good enough so it’s good business if we can move them on and get a decent LB in…..

He maybe ageing BUT if he can stay fit he will play more games this season as he the schedule is less demanding and ironically we will play to his strengths more plus we will hit teams on the break and whilst he has lost a yard in pace he is an exceptional finisher and will undoubtedly be motivated - he had comeback to preseason before the injury and looked razor sharp from what I have been told !! We will see but I would not write off the LCFC 🐐

No chance he can control a ball for a start and finish - he is miles better than Daka and is hungry he will surprise a few imo if he gets his chance - £10-£15m is his value and I will be surprised if someone does not give him that chance

I do not believe this ! It would be some signing if true - could go a long way to keeping us up IF he still has it (a year out would be a worry) - keepers are worth 10-15 points and he would hopefully be the difference. Presumably would mean we are cashing in on Mads.

Agree to disagree he added little or nothing in my opinion and another £5m would be wasted - will never cope with the prem

Truth hurts for some I guess......................

Brighton may currently be being well ran but they will never achieve anything like we have and Man United would swap places with us over the past 10 years so the sense of entitlement on here defies logic..................so many fans do not realise how lucky we are and have been - we have fabulous owners who have massive credit in the bank even after a low point of backing the idiot BR who got us relegated we bounced back first time by retaining a talented squad at the championship level and also our owners are still as ambitious as ever but the constraints of the rules and granted some indecision in 22/23 has led to us having to rebuild. We are trying to rebuild in the prem within the rules having had a treacherous little Oik leave us for the first sign of money.........I agree with you 100% BHA or any other club except City and Liverpool would trade places with us!!

How do you know we are not or were not - maybe he does not fancy us - maybe Florence is a slightly more attractive option 😳 It is possible that we will not sign everyone linked with us and actually maybe we need to trust the process - our record generally since Glover arrived has been pretty good !

Yep if you don’t include one of the greatest ever in Esteban Cambiasso 😂

Alves needs to go on loan - he’s not ready - still wants too many touches and needs to play games

Your deluded if you don’t think they will games and lots of them - whether they should is a different matter but replacing two experienced premier league players would probably cost £30m+ and we don’t have that under FFP - I think we had to sign them and I think they will be invaluable next season

Quite a bit and two players lighter who will have important roles - your point is ?

Not sure we get either plus they won’t keep us up imo…..we need 3 or 4 quality starters in my opinion plus the bench attacking wise is weak - left back, attacking midfield, striker to start