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Or if you think he isn’t ready, bought Samir El Mourabet who Chelsea rejected a €35m bid from Leipzig from, and sell Essugo to them. Chema Andreas who is billed as the next Rodri literally moved on the last day of the window for €22m, and Alonso is reportedly a fan. There were options for us in the market.

He was never an option till a week ago, and we did make a £55m bid for a £35m player. There is no guarantee he would have been a success here, and if he is a bust he will be very hard to shift.

He is 35yr old playing in a high energy league. His legs were already gone by the time he was playing for Roma 4years ago. Just a waste of a squad spot.

You want to pay £75m-£85m, well they have rejected £55m for a player Palace walked away from after getting a £34m bid rejected earlier in the summer? There is literally no other competing bids. Sometimes the best thing to do is stand still in the face of chaos.

Won’t be surprised if we get a last offer from Arsenal for him. They are very thin on options having gotten rid of Martinelli, Trossard, Jesus, Vieira, Nelson & Nwaneri, and only bringing in Tzolis.

Seems the Kone deal is £52m + year long loan deal for Gittens to Roma. Worry is his injury history, and Serie A is an awful league presently.

Let play devil’s advocate; you get £140m for Enzo from City tomorrow, and you pay £65m for Camara and Kone £75m for Kone?

Weren’t they asking for £20m 😂

Might sound crazy but I’d rather just go with what we have than panic buy last minute. Tosin & Murdyk type players is what you end up with when you buy this late in the window, or worse still buy a dud on a Blue Co 6yr contract that you can’t shift. That or sign Samir El Mourabet from Strasbourg who I rate highly, and send Essugo on a permanent transfer the other way.

Think the idea is they buy Tosin, and loan Murdyk.

He isn’t seeing that though, and he isn’t going to get it under Alonso. Yesterday our forward 3 were dead on their feet after the 65th min and the press wasn’t really there. We needed someone to relieve the pressure and move the ball up the pitch, but he spent the 2nd half trying to undo the mess he created with the lineup/set up. Let’s be honest until he score in the 72min, Palmer was a prime candidate to be hooked. He got 7mins v Fulham, those are the kind of mins he and other wingers are looking at this min. His next start will be v Leeds in the Cups if he is lucky without European football. Won’t be surprised if Ancelotti doesn’t bother calling him up for Brazil’s next internationals, which will speed up his exit.

Yup.. crafty bastards will keep him on the bench all season, and destroy any little value he has. Writing was on the wall once they started 18yr old Hemmings ahead of him in the Super Cup. If I were the club I would pull him tonight and send him to a Coventry where he will get starts.

Enzo won’t have helped us yesterday even in a deeper role. What we needed was some steel, and a player who could help us carry the ball upfield which he isn’t.

To play where though, if Alonso insists on a 3-4-3. Forest will be rightly asking for £80m min, and he is already on £150k/w at Forest. It Ndiaye who seems to be holding out for us. That move also seems silly; as you think the priority would be to give Quenda & Estevao mins, and not pay £60m for Ndiaye to sit on the bench.

“Chelsea’s Estêvão is a dream target for Liverpool, who made a loose inquiry to Chelseain past 24hrs but were told door is not open to exit; now weighing up move to test London club’s resolve.” Fully expected this, and can see them trying again in Jan, and if we resist he will move in the summer.

Can’t see where he get mins from, and they will need to take a big hit on his value when he is loaned out next season

So James and Caicedo are fit? He is hilarious

No way he is 20 with that hairline

James can’t play as a WB, and he ball watches too much to be trusted as a RCB. Only place I see him fitting in is as a CM, which I am not a fan of. Think they will keep sticking him somewhere for the next 4yrs

Hang on, what happened to Quenda? Didn’t feature v Luton, and has disappeared off the bench. He has Caicedo, Barco & even James on the bench. Squad is still way too big IMO

I would be wary of signing a player from Monaco; our last 3 signings from them Bakayoko, Disasi and Badiashille have been a bust. That €60m would have bought Angelo Stiller 2 weeks ago. Not convinced another 5ft 8” midfielder is the right partner for Caicedo. I’d rather just see if Barco can make the step up this season, and dip into the market in Jan if he can’t cut it. What we don’t need is another project player. The funny thing with Camara is Blue Co actually have Samir El Mourabet at Strasbourg who is a carbon copy, and better still 6ft 1”.

Fans keep forgetting the reason he is here now is because the club signed him to prevent him from going to Bayern. His metrics also stacks up well against Wharton & Scott.

Barco?

Spot on! Might end up playing out like the Baleba situation where Brighton put a £100m price on him, he phoned in the whole of last season, and still ended up at Utd at a discounted £65m.

Had the most errors leading to a goal amongst GKs in the league last season. He is bad with crosses. Wouldn’t survive in the PL.