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c1982

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  1. First impressions?! This is the 2nd time he’s completed his medical and had his unveiling photos etc in the past 6/7months! I just hope Contract Dave’s absence doesn’t put him off.
  2. Not saying we haven’t but he’s ‘currently’ in Thailand.
  3. The Gumps… he’s one where, if we’d have signed him, I’d have seen the positives but, if he’s going elsewhere, meh! From a Forest point of view Elanga, Gibbs-White and Johnson behind Awonyi (whatever he’s called) is pretty exciting - their defence is still shocking though!
  4. There’s someone with a user name ‘toffeenut’ on another forum who obviously has links to the club who has cryptically confirmed (well if his clues have been deciphered correctly) that Iheanacho and Gnotto are in the pipeline. Alan Myers said 3 in and 3 out were near and has since said 2 could be done by the weekend… looks like Danjuma and Iheanacho as the 2 then. Both improve us in my opinion. I’d be a little (very!!!) worried about our squad post-Christmas as that’d be Gueye, Doucoure, Iwobi and Iheanacho off to the AFCON - that’d put a massive strain on an already poor squad.
  5. Only 17minutes in the Dutch Super Cup?! Move on!
  6. So is that 1 in 3 or a goal involvement every 12th touch or a win percentage of 86.473% when he steps onto the pitch? Does this mean he’s good?
  7. Too injury prone and wouldn’t put the hard yards wingers are required to under Dyche.
  8. Decent player? Yes. Better than what we currently have (Maupay, Gray and Cannon) but I’m not 100% behind this signing as I’m not sure if he’d be useful in the system we’d play… much in the same way that I’d happily sell Gray on the basis that I don’t see where he fits in a Dyche team e.g. not good enough defensively on the wing and not effective enough as a striker.
  9. 100% in Maupay, Holgate, Gbamin and Gomes you’ve got some high wages and not a lot of quality - we’d probably get little in transfer fees but we need the wages off the books. My point about needing to sell first is because of the 90% or whatever of our spend going on wages - it’s far too high and the reason we can’t compete until we get more lucrative deals and financial benefits the new stadium will bring. We don’t have the extra millions we had when we were consistently in Europe and started paying silly wages under Koeman and we don’t have the Russian sponsorship deals which were bridging this. We’ve trimmed loads off the wage bill but we need every high paid 1st team squad player to at least useful! Gbamin on £120k per week and Holgate on £80k is horrendous when you look at players you could bring in on a fraction - we need to bring costs down and the best way to do it is youngsters and rough diamonds from abroad.
  10. Yeah because no decent players have ever been relegated.
  11. I agree on the lone striker point - needs a partner. His link up play is decent with a proper number 9 - Dyche has gone 2 ‘up top’ throughout his managerial career so may be looking to do it here eventually.
  12. He doesn’t play many 90mimutes so the stats are probably true. His goal involvement is decent to be fair. Underrated player in my opinion - instead of Maupay… great. Him and Maupay? No thanks!
  13. Shockingly, Maupay’s one of our better striking investments in recent years… try ranking these since Lukaku left: Sandro Rooney Tosun Kean King Rondon Maupay I’d actually say Kean was our best signing there on the basis that he actually brought money in! We simply can’t survive another season with DCL as our only option!
  14. Pickford/Virginia/Lonergan Patterson/Coleman/Young Mykolenko Tarkowski/Keane/Holgate Branthwaite/Godfrey Iwobi/Gray McNeill Gueye/ Garner/ Onana/ Gomes/ Gbamin Doucoure/ Dele Calvert-Lewin/ Maupay Add in Warrington, Dobbin and Cannon as players who have played league football and, no doubt, I’ve forgotten someone. It’s a very poor squad, short on quality but I understand why it’s 3 out and 3 in as adding another 6 players to this squad before it’s trimmed could be a big mistake in itself.
  15. 4 year deal on the table but unsigned as yet according to the usual ‘ITKs’ on the bird app.
  16. Feeling a little more optimistic about this one…
  17. Sky Italy is a notoriously bad source - not saying this won’t happen but it’s not like English Sky reporting something.
  18. Lonergan in goal - that’s got to be a record!
  19. I’m okay with this IF it is just a short term cheap option to, as Romey said, allow us to bring attacking players in AND it means Branthwaite gets a chance as first choice alongside Tarkowski AND it means Holgate leaves permanently!
  20. That doesn’t matter entirely though as I believe we can put it on the FFP accounts as £8m as the add-ons are achievable e.g. promotion.
  21. Not exactly what I said but shows more than £3.5m guaranteed.
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