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Don't know why they'd get rid of Almorim and then get El Khannous. Very similar players, just El Khannous has less end product. Smacks of desperation from the Geordies. Maybe it's because Anthony Gordon has got an injury.

Thoughts: If Okoli plays it needs to be with Faes or Nelson rather than Vestergaard. They seem to just be on massively different wave lengths. Winks +1 is the base of the midfield. Personally i would jettison soumare and skipp to the bench and have choudhury behind winks and elk. The front 3 of Mav? Fatawi and Ayew with back up of Monga, McAteer amd Daka is plenty competitive for a play off run but will lack the consistency for any 10 wins on the spin runs. For that we will need to bring in a 9 that meant Ayew and Daka were seen as 'a strong bench". All in all we are on the crossroads between a potentially brilliant season where the decks are cleared and homegrown talent (stola, choudhury, monga, thomas, mcateer, evans) starts to power a new era for the club alongside 1 or 2 judicious buys OR we lose 4 or 5 players (elk, fatawu, faes, justin, mavi) before Sept 1st and are banned from bringing anyone in + a points deduction, cancelling out a good start. its going to be a long 3 weeks...

Begovic Ricardo Faes Nelson Thomas Choudhury Skipp McAteer Alves Monga Daka

Glad Ward and Coady ate a ahit sandwich earlier today. Back 6 just need to do their job tomorrow and get the ball to Mavididi, Elk and Fatawu to do the business. Ayew is our only striker so get him in the box.

Drain. The. Swamp.

funny peculiar, rather than ha ha

Ive got a funny feeling we will be seeing Antonio

we havent lost bilal

We know that the money needs to go on a striker first.

We wont sell bilal now we've sold coady, mads and ndidi and not signed a striker. Thats £30m in, Vardy's wage of £6 or £7m off the wage bill, ward and iversen gone and players like Justin and Kristiansen likely to go.

****ing what?

£50m was before his legs and his confidence went. he has lost both in spades and so £9m is massive. Particularly given his high wages. A real shame, but everyone peaks some time and I think his was n 19/20 like a few others.

Id take him and ship Faes & Vestergaard purely based on wages and so i dont have to see them play, but striker and cdm is our priority.

we did the.equivalent of over bowling a gun fast bowler. he just had too many collisions and too much over extension to.make up for our luxury midfield. it did for Kante eventually when he wasnt too old and has done the same for Ndidi. Nearly £9m for him is similar to how Everton burgled us for Coady.

fruit corner?

Hermansen Ricardo Okoli Nelson Thomas Winks Choudhury Fatawu El Khannous Mavididi Ayew

It's a big ask for top tier international squad members to be happy playing in the championship in a world cup year. I'd expect Vestergaard, Faes, Hermansen, Okoli all to massively want away based on that, in case their international managers. Okoli.maybe in January after a super strong start to the Champ season.

candidates: Nelson - if Cif backs him as a starter with Okoli Winks - if he commits to the club Brownhill - if he signs Ricardo - if he can be relied on fitness wise Stolarzcyk - youth team graduate who will be first choice post Hermansen exit.

Hermansen 6- Nothing to do, but some good short and long distribution. Choudhury 7 - good energy, not composed or great quality in any of his work but is needed in squad Vestergaard 7 - just ok and not playing the same role he did under enzo. no trust in soumare or skipp so went wide or in to ayew more often. Okoli 8 - front food defending but had an easy ride in the first half. Thomas 6 - nothing too bad but didnt / doesnt commit to his actions going forward Soumare 6 - some nice flashes but an absolute positional disasterzone. constantly just off it. Skipp 5 - good energy but very little in the way of output - what even is he as a player? jack of all trades master of none. Have the lid off aswell ffs. Fatawu 9 - pure class. Had their whole left side on toast. Loving the new back to basics lid. Billy Canoes 7 - good touches but not the heartbeat of the team youd hope. Looked committed. Mavididi 7 - great energy and looked up for it. If him and Marti hit it off he can be a big influence. Ayew 8 - good goal and linked play well at times. Needs to be number 2 up top option though. Daka 5 - loads of pace, load of shite. McAteer 8 - some class touches and good turn of pace. Will be needed this season. Monga - 7 - showed for the ball and took his man on but got little change. Winks 8 - looked like a class apart from Skipp/Soumare Nelson 7 - looked a different player from the one that went to Oxford. Should be in alongside Okoli Faes 0 - get out of the club. Aluko 6 - some good signs but not om for long. Page 7 - not on for long but looked confident and will be a player... Ndidi, Alves, Justin, Ricardo, Stola, Kristiansen, Souttar not playing is interesting.

For Fiorentina Stolarzcyk Justin Nelson Okoli Thomas Winks Ndidi Fatawu El Khannous Mavididi Daka Second Half Bausor/Begovic Choudhury/Joseph Vestergaard Nelson Aluko Skipp McAteer Alves/Page Monga Ayew Evans hopefully not involved because they are being sold: Soumare, Faes, BDR, Kristiansen, Souttar

ill tell thee for nothing aswell. if faes ia in the team v wednesday and nelson isnt i will be sending a very sternly worded letter to Top..

no. and they have four.

theyve got 4 more strikers than us...

we don't need Brownhill unless BEK is going. We have a plethora of attacking midfield and wide options. Mavididi, Fatawu, McAteer, Alves, Monga even Ayew. We need someone dynamic in the middle of the park who can screen defence and link the play more than we need a proper attaking midfielder.

This is mine Banks Mills Morgan Walsh Nish Mahrez Kante Izzet Weller Lineker Vardy Schmeichel, Huth, Heskey, Fuchs, Simpson, Worthington, Shilton, Albrighton, Elliot