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I don't think you can loan two players from the same club

The crazy thing is, as far as I can tell this is so that Atletico Madrid has the money to sign Gallagher; which because he's homegrown makes this deal worthwhile for them balancing their books. Disgusting club, I really wish nothing but the worst for them.

I do agree, but also I think size and physicality can compensate for quality to an extent when you're not talking about a Man City level squad

Or somebody who is willing to understudy one of the best strikers of their generation for a year before taking over completely

Didn't they just sign him this summer - thought he'd get a bit of a look-in. Or was he purely signed as a makeweight on the Douglas Luiz deal?

Yeah, I think I would have taken him over Skipp, but now there's no reason to go after him.

I wanted him as the KDH replacement - but seeing what United are expecting for him (30m+) - he's not worth that.

Watched him live twice, he's really got something about him. Hertha fans love him, he's seen as the next big thing from the club for sure.

like that in theory, like it less in practice when it's Jordan Ayew +1

I think Cooper will get a tune out of him. Has something about him, and looks like a player who leaves it all on the pitch

Looked great. I still think we need another first team quality attacking midfielder in, but if Buonanotte can put in a shift like that for us semi-regularly this season, that puts a lot less pressure on us.

That's a shot, I'm counting it

Missed that, but doesn't really undermine my main point which is: we have somehow ended up back up with almost the exact same backline we got relegated with.

Cannot believe we spent 15m on Okoli only to end up playing Faes and Vestergaard again. What a nightmare

On the bench tonight, so nothing particularly close

Solanke starting for them

I agree, but also all of those signings would have been bad value if they'd come for half of what we paid. (excluding Seniorman)

Oliver Skipp Elijah Adebayo Reo Hatate Josh Doig

in excess of 20,000,000 british pounds **** me i felt as though 14m was them having our pants down a little bit, what the **** are we doing?!

Reading on the spurs forum that he also provided good cover at LB, might be valuable in our situation.

Be interesting to see how he performs, given we were linked a while back.

I agree that we need other positions more, but he's still better than anybody else we could play there. If we can get it done for a reasonable price, I'd say do it.

IMO we need at least 4, but I think we'll do 3. 1 permanent, two loans.

Soumare should be off. That'd just be 4 players for 2 positions and Hamza won't start unless there's an injury crisis.

Winks & Skipp in the pivot is good enough to stay up, but it won't be enough without somebody to link them to the attack - I'm not sure we can rely on Buonanotte to do that, and I don't fancy any of our wide players in the hole. So it's a yes from me, but we need more. Someone like Hatate is capable and would link that up nicely