Nick

Yeah, we’ll probably win this despite the odds and then lose to some league 1 club in the next round because we need to rest players for a bottom half Prem game.

The’ve got Chair on the left of their front three… was that the same Chair we were rumoured to be looking at last window?

Pleased his gone strong. The group need confidence and a winning mentality. It’s an opportunity at least to try and start that.

I’d love to be proved wrong but having watched the vids I just can’t see him being able to deliver in this league.

I don’t think that’s fair to you to refer to the player as ‘just Japanese’ I think you’ll find he’s so much more than that.

I feel sorry for the lad. He didn’t want to go in the first place.

We probably had to do a season long loan with no break clause on our side just to land him. It’s perhaps too simplistic to blame Jon Rudkin for like, y’know everything?

I nearly put this in the funny photos thread yesterday arvo. Embarrassing frankly and torrid use of the Club badge.

Ipswich Town have agreed a deal to sign defender Ben Godfrey on loan from Atalanta. The 26-year-old is said to have completed the first part of his medical on Saturday. (Fabrizio Romano, external) Pretty sure we were tentatively linked at some point but going Ipswich according to Fab.

You still doing kids parties?

Yes.

That shirt is hideous.

I’ll go for, “The January transfer window is notoriously difficult to do good business in and although the club tried to get several deals over the line in the end they proved impossible to complete due to reasons beyond club control.”

If we can we’d probably have to in that scenario.

We paid I think 7-7.5 million was it from Everton? Hes done nothing really outside the Championship so in a Jan window could we hope to get 10 million?

What’s he worth?

This surfacing again. Newcastle United are interested in £25m Lens centre-back Abdukodir Khusanov, but they face competition for the 20-year-old Uzbekistan international from Premier League rivals Leicester City, Manchester City, Tottenham and Wolves. (Chronicle), external

We're gonna win 2-1 Raj.

You're not wrong. I think needing those 5 positions improved with starting calibre players is a given but I've no idea how we achieve that in a Jan window. I'd have thought 2/3 at absolute best but I hope to be surprised!

I've not lost hope. Cold hard truth is that unless Man City get relegated as a punishment then we need to better than one of Wolves, West Ham, Palace or Everton (I don't think Man U come into it despite their current league position) and right now they are all better than us. We need the most magical window combined with our recent upturn in form which is to be fair considerable despite not seeing any points reward to date for it.

So there will be funds but anybody got any clue what ball park we might be talking about? Do we go for shit or bust knowing what awaits us if we are relegated and if so, what does breaking the bank look like, circa 40 million in total?

Win.

Who gets the credit for this signing then? Cooper or Rudkin? Asking for a friend.

I'd rather keep Buonotte and look elsewhere - I thought Mav, El K and Goodnight behind Vardy has promise. Prioritise the RWB position that's where we are currently flailing and leave Evan Ferguson to others unless we insanely have the cash or go shit or bust and buy him.