Ric Flair

He's not earnt the chance, abysmal decision making in pre-season and a clear shift in transfer strategy too because of him. Get him gone, cannot stand the thought of being managed by him.

Still not starting Alves is just criminal. His excuse its about getting minutes in to players playing out of position is rubbish as had we got an ACM in earlier they'd be playing instead of Choudhury in the 10 role. Pathetic. Cooper out

This should be the priority signing

Where's the creative midfield back up to Bouanonatte? We need 3 new midfielders.

He's an attacking central midfielder. The fact he's moved roles to a deeper position and not done as well doesn't change that. I'd have him here as a creative 8/10 and I think he'd do well.

Him and Mavididi will alternate as the number 9/LW

Star boy

I don't hate it

I liked the look of him at Reims when he was breaking through. If staying up at all costs is why we're loaning rather than signing unproven players, I really wish we'd also get a few £5m players in and loan them to Leuven for the season. We have an appalling squad value right now.

That's a surprisingly good deal for West Ham.

Depends how much they'd be willing to sell him for. We bid upwards of £20m + add ons for Soule. I actually don't really want us paying loads for individual players anyway, would rather our scouts and recruitment team go and find these players at source. Brighton paid just £5m for Bouonanotte, we seem averse to doing so when we're in the Prem.

We should give him the benefit of the doubt

He is very talented, would rather we buy someone of his ilk but here we are. GERRIMIN

Yeah that sounds about right. Part of me wishes we'd not got promoted.

You sure on that? Souttar was 5th choice last season with Nelson 4th choice. If Nelson hasn't been bumped down, who's 5th choice now? We should be building the team around Nelson, Braybrooke and Alves this season. We're evidently going straight back down.

I wouldn't mind this approach if we prioritised our academy players development in preparation for 2025/26. Not seeing signs that would be the strategy though.

Bravo on a free

I wouldn't even know where to start on what our best team might be. Like having to order food for when you come out of having open heart surgery.

Could we finally land Karamoko Dembele from Brest? Was obscene at Blackpool last season.

Of course we don't. But I got a suspicion we might have been banking on players leaving (as we seemingly do year after year, only for them not to and we can't buy) and was waiting for an article saying as much. It's now arrived. It's like groundhog day.

You might well be right. It's certainly confusing that we've bid upwards of £20-25m for Soule and then it's ground to a halt.

Yeah fair assessment, but would have been nice to sign and send to Leuven. Diaz is good enough to play at a top level.

Missed an opportunity to pick up a few players for free off Bordeaux. Pedro Diaz would have been a decent back up. Swansea nabbed Vipotnik too who I suggested.

KDH money has no impact on 24/25 as we sold him to try and comply with 23/24. Obviously had we not sold him we'd have been in a world of trouble. I wonder if the club will risk breaking PSR for 24/25 by spending in the next few weeks and know they have to sell at least 1 player before the end of June. It's a calculated risk.

That was before Chelsea moved on from Hermansen.