Jimmy

he's more proven than Dibbling so no less than £45m

if its over wages then great I don't want him here, it could be he sees it as easier to break into their team as well

more of a 6/8 but obviously technically good enough that Marti has used him at 10 pre season

Louis Page is really more of a deeper midfielder than the no 10 he's been used as in pre season, I'd like to see him start there in the cup game

I was hoping we'd get Bausor on loan but can't see us signing another keeper to do that. You'd think Silko Thomas, Wanya Marcal and hopefully Michael Golding will be going out soon

we can register 25 players over the age of 21, several of those are under that age so don't need to be registered others simply have the number they already have

what's happened with Emilia Pelgander? has she left the club or still on loan?

I think the last player that wore 13 for us was Slimani, we don't seem to issue it otherwise it would have been an obvious choice for Begovic

Rantala signs a new contract

if it keeps Stolarczyk happy whilst we get another year out of Mads before selling I can see it, Begovic and Bausor backing up Mads

back in the team for the friendly, might see some progress now he's back fit

not in the squad today, has he picked up a knock or is there something to these rumours?

I've started listening to Benjamin Bloom, quite good so far, a lot of shorter 10-15 min episodes as well during the week

Rangers fans booed them off after a 1-1 draw at Motherwell, could have lost having lead most of the game. They wanted Coady I wonder if we could tempt them to take Vestergaard instead...

if he was going to do that you'd think it would already be under way, he's shown no signs of being disgruntled in pre season so far, its not like players in the Championship don't earn big money moves either, look at Jobe Bellingham for example, he'd be as well having a starring role here as going to another relegation scrap

well unless someone chucks in a huge sell on I think we should hold on for the release clause

Owain said on the When you're smiling pod his release clause is far closer to £30m than the fees being touted about

it means we don't lose Abdul for a month as well so every cloud...

is he left sided?

for all the criticism of Daka its not like there are a lot of strikers available out there so unless we sign another striker we shouldn't be selling him leaving us with just Ayew

how different his career here would have been had he not broken his foot in his first pre season, he would have been a key player under Enzo and we don't end up giving Vestergaard a new deal he maybe even leaves that summer.

I hope you're right but frankly I'll believe when I see it, if both of those go at a minimum then Brownhill becomes more of a signing I'd like, but I'd still prefer to see Winks, or Hamza come to think of it, as well

I'm not expecting them to e starters but I want to see them getting regular minutes off the bench, that won't happen if we have Brownhill, Hamza, Skipp, Winks, Ndidi and Soumare in the way I don't expect Hamza to be playing right back that much when the league season starts. If Page agrees to sign a deal then gets a good loan to league 1 then I have less of an issue signing Brownhill before we manage to move others on

From that I'd take him but I worry about blocking the likes of Page and Braybrooke if 3 from the other 4 aren't moved on, Page is still to sign his pro deal as well

does Brownhill give that or is he more of a grafter/box to box?