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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

not sure if i'd point to the transfer of silva for an example of when we were well run

Of the ones who would come here, only Madueke and Chukwuemeka would be worth a shout. Chilwell in a vacuum, but cannot imagine him being a smug, injured bell-end would help with the mood around the club.

We'd need 18 points to beat that with a -6 point deduction - 6 wins over a season seems absolutely out of reach (we got 9 in our last relegation season, but the quality difference between that squad and this squad is night and day), but perhaps 3-4 wins at home against the other relegation candidates and a handful of draws across the season keeps us safe of that particular ignominy.

Close thread

Probably were hoping to announce a new signing holding it

He gets the chance to play in the Prem for one season before we get relegated and he goes back to the Bundesliga side that doesn't want him. He'd be the lead man for a team in the Europa League.

lock the thread, we're cooked

alright, i take back any benefit of the doubt i've offered so far if we don't sign hlozek my finger is on the button ready to go

So'ton were linked earlier in the window, I reckon it's them.

Then their scouting/recruitment team will get raided. I wish it weren't the case but short of a Newcastle type situation where you're owned by a petrostate, I think it's impossible for a smaller club to grow past outside chance at Europe for a few consecutive seasons.