markpitts

He will start and earn more at Liverpool & Utd for starters.

That is a Cup game though, and he will definitely start. I just don’t think he will hang around post Jan playing 10-15 in PL games. That also applies to Quenda & Gittens. If the manager insists on playing 3-4-3, he needs to be able to offer his options more than 15mins each game.

Yeah think It’s a tactical flaw. Colwill needs to be in the CCB role instead of Lacroix progressing the ball which is his strength, and Lacroix needs to be at RCB. Issue I think is Alonso needs Lacroix height and strength as the CCB.

The club know more than we do, and there is a reason most of our managers since last season have insisted on moving him into the middle of the park. He doesn’t have the legs to play as a marauding RB anymore. If Alonso insists on playing 3-4-3 there is no role for him.

Nope but it’s that ridiculous contract that is a noose around our neck. If Reece James can't play RCB, RB or RWB , then he is holding the team to Ransom. We need to start having the uncomfortable conversations, but there isn’t a market.

Dodgy goalkeeping

Rated the best player on the pitch. He has come on leaps and bounds in short time. Quality game time does wonders for young players. That is why you sell for a low fee, with a buyback and sell on clause.

Find it odd we never tried helping Lamps Coventry with loan deals at the minimum this summer.

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