Steve_E

Don't think either of them are world class talents. Deulofeu is closer to it than Barkley though.

Bolasie needs lashing in a skip.

The Lukaku thread has become sentient, and it figured it would repeat your arguments ad nauseum for you.

Holgate has been named in the England U21 squad.

Don't much care about Moyes, was mainly sharing it because he seems to have given away that McCarthy could be off to Watford.

Don't much care about Moyes, was mainly sharing it because he seems to have given away that McCarthy could be off to Watford.

I'd pay over the odds to get him, get that goalkeeper position sorted for the best part of the next decade.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/37165441

If we want high profile big name players we'll have to pay the pennies to get them it's that simple. People can't moan they want some quality players or big names then expect them to let us pay them 80k a week.

Personally I quite like Gareth Barry

Isn't deja vu supposed to be rare?

I've always thought he was crap. Nothing's changed for me. His game is still the one dimensional sideways Jockey. Always has been. This hamstring malarkey is an excuse for those who raved about him. Average player at best. Koeman knows this. He's now a squaddie. Not a £30m+ man ha

The best thing about Koeman coming in is him getting rid of JMc from central midfield. Barry has always been the better of the two but as a pair they were particularly shite. Spotted it from day one!

We need better midfielders than McCarthy to compete with the big boys. We need an Eric Dier type still imo: a mobile and fairly strong, but tactically disciplined sitter with a good range of forward passing. McCarthy and Barry are lacking in some of those aspects. Having said that, we should sell off the shite ones (Gibson, Cleverley, probably Besic too) before even thinking of moving on the decently productive ones.

We have a glut of poor center midfielders and a shortage of decent ones.

Gibson isnt fit to clean Barry's boots!

If McCarthy goes then we have:
Gueye - Great
Barry - 35 cant play every game
Cleverley,- not a defensive midfielder,
Gibson -, injury prone, drunk and inconsistent,
Davies, - good but inexperienced.
Besic - out for the season.
 
Is that really enough?

I'd agree with all of this if he had technique to rely on!
 
Gana is a gem, him doing the leg work will bring out Barry's class as well.

I really thought we'd be past just having players fill in in positions rather than actually buy a player to play there tbh.

Loveren and Smalling?
 
Yer ok, sound ?

Given the fact that Bolasie and Koné are clear targets, left wing and centre back are two positions they're clearly still wanting to improve. Koeman has confirmed to the Echo that the centre forward position is another one they're looking at. That leaves just one spot, one where they're not sure whether they really need someone, but where they probably have someone in mind that they would love if he were to become available (that could be someone like Mata for example).

It's all a bit "shit" more like.

Love the optimism. I don't see it at all.