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Neville was average for me. Gibson and Cleverly were a car crash and everything we should be avoiding. Barry from Man City was good. I don't rate McTominay at all and it's not a priority position for us to be strengthening for the kind of money we'll need to part with. For me we have Pickford, Coleman, Tarks, Doucoure, and Gana who are all 30+ experienced players. We have Mcneil, Iwobi, Gray, DCL who are all experienced Prem players. This window for me is a seasoned left back and then 20 to 25 Yr olds, that in 3 years are likely to worth more than we pay now, have something new to bring to the team. We've been down the seasoned averageness of bigger teams cast offs over the last 3 to 5 years or so and it didn't work.

I'm completely with you on the hunan element. I hope he is getting all the help and support the club can offer. It's the board/management I'm upset with. To have picked up Dele on the deal we did, we must have known some of the issues in play when we made the deal. This was never a risk worth taking. If we have no out whatsoever and we have a player who isn't in a fit state to play but we are obligated to pay £100k a week then the situation has been completely mismanaged. This was an outcome that we were never in a financial state to take a risk on.

Another full season left on his contract.. https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/besiktas-confirm-dele-alli-transfer-27086477?utm_source=linkCopy&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharebar He's on £100k a week. If we have to have him for a full season doing sweet FA and paying him that this just shows how badly managed we've been!

Too late and too much money now. The time to go for Johnson was 2 seasons ago. We have to get better at identifying talent early and investing. Not investing when a player is just about at their peak value.

Both DM and Talksport reporting we are interested. This is the kind of Transfer that scares the absolute s**t out of me. A journeyman PL player that couldn't even score that many in a Man Utd team. Why the he'll would we think he'd score a load for us???!!! We need up and coming players. Not proven averageness at best

Going to be a really interesting window. Chelsea are going to struggle. Out of Europe completely and need to get rid of players, a lot who are on big wages that only a handful of European clubs can afford. Tottenham are in a similar but not as bad position. All the players Tottenham and Chelsea will be looking to move on will expect to be starters so hopefully they will end up either having to subsidise wages of those that move on or will be forced to loan loads. I reckon Aston Villa will splash some cash, as will Newcastle. Brighton will do more than normal, but unlikely to be as stupid as we've been. Man Utd will buy a few no doubt. Arsenal will only buy a few and have a good young squad. I reckon this year could be a good year to pick up a few under the radar buys. More Garner type buys is what we're after IMO.

In Branthwaite 1xCB 1x RB 1x LB Cannon 1xCF 1xWinger Out Davies (contract) Townsend (contract) Mina (contract) Deli (5 months approx. left on contract) Coady (loan expired) Moise Keane (Juventus should have to buy him this season) Andre Gomes ( 1 season left on contract) Keane Holgate Maupay I want to see lots of young, up and coming purchases, not the established premier journeyman player purchases or the agent pushed ones that are the top 6 rejects. This is how Brentford / Brighton have built their success and its how we need to go about our transfer business.

We're bound to f**k this up. We'll end up with no deal with anyone and the CEO of MSP being caught entering Tottenham's training ground by Sky Sports (like deadline day) with an exclusive interview about how they played us off against investing Tottenham to get a better deal....

Not a chance it will be 0-0 if Keane starts. Well have to score a goal for every one he gifts to Brighton.

Gift number 2. No need to try against us, we'll just give you the opportunities!

Every time we have to work like f'ing Trojans to get a goal and yet we always gift goals that require no effort at all! FFS!!

That's exactly how I feel for this one.

Wow a start for Keane

Yes to Simms!! Deserves his shot!

Wonder why Gray didn't start or come on instead of Maupey?

Onana best player on the pitch. Huge mention for McNeil and Mykolenko in terms of improvement. Completely different players!

With you on the Moffi, Gyokeres etc. Even if its £25m for Gyokeres, I'd rather have that risk than another Rondon. Although it is too much. Anyone we buy this window, in our league position, we are going to have to overpay for.

It's depressing even just being linked with them let alone it being a potential reality!

Having just seen the McGoldrick post in the twitter rumours section I need to add a 4th point to this... 4) or just a s**t championship standard forward.

To be fair I could be reading too much in to your post. The main reason for down voting is for "people who slot in now" bit. I associate this with the proven goalscorer, experienced etc. We are nearly bottom of the league. Any experienced or proven goalscorer is not going to come to us unless 1) gets injured regularly. 2) we overpay on wages massively 3) is old and we'll give a long term contract to them that they cannot get elsewhere. Or usually all 3 come together. So Antonio, Ings etc. are all a stay clear of for me. I would rather have young unproven risk that has the potential of being great vs either proven above or journeyman Premiership averageness ( che Adams, maupey and the like). The difficulty for me is we don't do it enough at scale to have 1 success for every 2 or 3 failures.

Good player and would improve us, but spends too much time injured for me.

I'd love Frank to stay, but I just can't see what progress is being made with the training and "hard work" that is always being referred to? Taking player individual ability to one side that can be fixed by transfers. Before the break we had many tactical and organisational issues. 3 main attacking ones in my opinion. (Defensively we looked relatively solid before the World Cup - Bournemouth aside). 1. Generally Moving the ball too slowly moving up the pitch 2. Midfielders not finding space or making angles to receive the ball when transitioning from defence to attack from the back. 3. When in the final attacking third of the pitch BEFORE receiving the ball, knowing where the next pass/cross was going to. (so that it was quick, the target player was in sync making a run if needed in order to break down well organised defenses) While the World Cup was on there were 3 to 4 weeks to practice/train/coach the absolute shit out of this, yet there is no evidence whatsoever that anything like this has been done. There seems to be no apparent change at all! I don't believe the players we have are all significantly worse than most other lower half of the league teams. Even if you don't have amazingly off the cuff creative players in the final 3rd, you can still run and practice the crap out of range of American Football style "set plays" for breaking down defenses in the final 3rd and run through them so many times until your doing them in your sleep. Whatever Frank and his team are doing off the pitch with the players, I'm not seeing any kind of change in what the players are doing on it at all. This is what concerns me the most in sticking with him. If he is to stay we need to see evidence of the changes the coaching team are looking to deliver.

Really?

Red Wine in a Fridge!!!! Heathen

Yes apart from that....