Ric Flair

I'd envisaged a loan move to Birmingham or Blackpool but this is a decent test for him. Can see him doing very well.

Iversen Choudhury Okoli Nelson Ricardo Braybrooke Skipp Alves Ayew Richards Mavididi

Just recorded an episode of the podcast with Henry Winter and Sven's PR agent Dean Eldredge, we have tried to articulate what made Sven so unique.

Both leagues are a bit of a downgrade from Belgium's top league I agree, but they've been up there with the leagues standout players, done well in Europe and internationally Nanasi has started well. The fee we'll pay doesn't represent El Khannouss being twice the player of them.

You don't need to tell me about El Khannouss, I know more about football players than you've had hot dinners son. What I'm querying is the inevitable fee we're going to be slapped for. Nanasi and Gronbaek have delivered just as much, if not more than El Khannouss so far in their respective leagues and Europe and gone for half what Bilal will cost. We get done time and time again but as long as it's under €25m I'll be happy to have him.

Absolutely staggering that we're going to end up paying double what Gronbaek and Nanasi went for. El Khannouss is a quality prospect but I'm not sure he's better than either of them and certainly hasn't proven himself to be yet at a level not that wildly different.

Hawk tuah

I still think Serge Aurier ends up here and Ricardo will head out

I heard our up front committed payment was similar to what Cov paid for Ellis Simms. Eith a load of add ons included. I imagine some of that was paid on promotion too.

True but at risk of not selling at all by demanding much more to a PL club, might make their finances unecessarily stretched. They wouldn't have demanded as much as we paid for Skipp.

Shout

Cooper would probably swap them Alves for Chris Wood.

Could well do without them needing a striker whilst we do too.

This is so so sad. I can't explain it but I've always felt a deep bond and love for Sven. It stems from his time with England, which was by no means a success nor was it a success with us but there is something so captivating about the man. He's what I wish I was as a man, he carried himself with such grace and personality. True hero of mine and reminded me very much of my grandad too. Rest in peace you lovely man Sven, I'll always remember you.

What's odd about this is he hasn't been asked to play left side of defence? Unless that was thr plan before Coady got injured. I thought he'd looked decent the opening 2 games, that back heel aside bit I'd not be too bothered if we sold him for north of £15m. If we could get an actual left footed CB then that would be better for us in the long run. If we went for another right footer then I'd like us to look at van den Berg from Middlesborough.

He's a very talented player who's a far more all rounded midfielder than it may seem. As much an 8 as he is a 10 in effecting play from the middle of the park. My biggest concern with him is his 1st touch is extremely scruffy, but he's good at progressing the ball. In some ways that's what KDH was.

€20m + €5m in add ons the magic number? Is he worth that?

I can just about adhere to that too however, whilst we've neither got in the creative players we need, nor have loaned out our top academy prospects it's all very frustrating. Alves should have started most pre-season games to test him in this system and he should have been an option off the bench so far. We were very much in Saturdays game 2nd half and didn't create anything 2nd half as we had absolutely no options off the bench. Picking 5 defensive midfielders in a 20 man squad is mesmerising.

Could probably get him for less than double what we paid for Ayew as well. Looks breathtaking. Where's Sverre Nypan going to end up? Such an easy £40-50m player in the next few years.

Exactly how I feel. I managed to overcome the initial horror of us choosing Cooper by being convinced he'd at least get the fans on board by championing youth. All he talks about is PL experience, was literally the only thing he had to say on the signing of Bounanotte too 😂😂😂😂

Scratch the surface and his development of academy players isn't very impressive at all. He did extremely well with England U17s but I don't think it's unfair to say they were a generational group whom many have gone on to be world class players. He's obsessed with Premier League experience and he's not got the bravery to put his faith in to unproven players in high stakes situations. I've no interest in a manager like that, producing academy players for our first team is essential, just as much as attempting to stay in the Prem. We've chosen poorly with Cooper.

Because he's obsessed with " Premier League " experience. He's not an advocate of academy players at all, did the same at Forest. Plenty of examples of managers ignoring academy players deemed not ready, only for the next manager to immediately use them and them do well.

What on earth you on about? He's physically stronger than many senior players in this squad and Cooper barely played him in pre-season so that's a load of pony an'all.

Giminez to Forest and Chris Wood to Leicester.

Thanks for your comments. He's out of his depth here it's plain to see. His complete ignorance of our excellent academy as well is the most disappointing. He's dining out on getting his hands on a generational U17 England team and it's parachuted him as some sort of pioneer in youth development. Biggest myth I've seen in many a year. Hopefully he lasts about as long as Paulo Sousa and Martin Allen here.