Ric Flair

Very tight at the bottom of Serie A, after years in the wilderness they can't afford to risk going down again. They're investing in young talent but they need it to work.

They reckoned we'd breached 23/24 before the Guardian article, so it was either a punt or they're in with a journo.

RC Lens as a replacement for Khusanov. Team up with Will Still again 😂

This could well be bang on from what has been doing the rounds and from reliable sources.

Just to clarify, I didn't say it was the worst for under performance. That is clearly the class of 2022/23 which is the worst relegation of any PL side in its history. But this current lot are underperforming where as 1994/95 we were just an extremely limited bunch of misfits and journeyman who had character and got a number of impressive results. 2001/02 is comparable to this lot.

How about we actually use him? Got 8 goals last season, beggars can't be choosers.

Yet Palace needed him gone to sign and register Eddie Nketiah. To have had to pay a significant loan fee with no termination clause is astonishing in such circumstances.

Someone would have him on loan

The money comes from banking on selling Hermansen in June for £40m + i presume and even then might not be enough. All depends whether we needed to do that already. We spent £80m by my estimates last summer, which over 5 years is £16m in amortised costs for 2024/25. We had a few players drop off such as Praet (£4m) and Vestergaard we're £5m a year on PSR better off and hopefully saved more in wages. I think we need to get one of Faes or Coady out this month, likewise Edouard, Hamza and possibly Thomas and we can then look to get a couple of loans and a couple of players at £10m a piece.

Meanwhile Maswanhise now has 8 G&A in 11 games for Motherwell, 3 of which have come against the top 4 in the SPL where the opposition are at least upper end Championship standard or higher. He was managed very badly by us and like Calvin Bassey will probably go on to compete at the level we're at or aspire to be and yet they've walked away for free or a pittance. Frustrating.

Yes that's correct. It's a nice move for the player to regain some enjoyment and probably put himself in with a chance of promotion and then a PL move.

Christ

This has got to be the plan. The club can't get upset if Monga does piss off in the summer, we have to fast track his development and hope that's enough to convince him to stay for a bit.

I'll be there again in a few weeks, it's only 10 mins walk away for me too.

We'd need to sell for around €11m to be no worse off in terms of PSR. Parma have spent more than that on a few players in the summer so they can bollocks if they try and plead poverty.

Sara went for far less than what we paid for Skipp.

I'm sure i read recently that Brassier got booed off by the Marseille fans. He'll fit in well.

Did he only sign a 2 year deal? That's ridiculous.

Hmmmmm possibly

Depends. If we for example got £8m+ for him then we'll be £2-3m up on his book value and wages which is the equivalent of a £10-15m signing over 5 years for PSR.

Wasn't it rumoured he wasn't interested in leaving permanently due to his wages he's on? Maybe the distinct possibility we'll go down and he'll then be on much less might convince him to move on but then again he'll play more for us next season if so.

He's not without fault in these last few weeks. The Wolves debacle is borderline unforgivable and he's fixed upon the notion we are better defensively with Ayew at RW than Bounanotte but the reality is neither are capable at protecting the right back and Facundo not starting is a travesty. A few things have gone against him such as injuries but he needs to quickly turn this around otherwise we're done and I'd not be surprised if he didn't see out the season if so. Huge month, I fear we'll let him down massively in the transfer window and the inevitable will happen. The plus points have been the introduction of El Khannouss who's been excellent and I'm convinced more than ever now that Soumare belongs at this level.

I think his track record is extremely dubious, not been a success anywhere.

At this stage I'd even rather Andi Peters in there than any of our back line.

Stolarczyk Joseph Faes Okoli Thomas Winks Soumare Monga Bounanotte Alves Daka