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Arsenal will just tear through of midfield of injured full backs to face panicking Colwill and our heralded front three will not score 3 or 4 against a quality defence. Our wining start ends.

Maresca is seething with envy right now

Another way of putting it,
Out: Essugo, Enzo, Santos
In: 36 year old dressing room cheerleader Henderson.

Yay, it worked, we’ve signed one!
Hopefully he’s as good I’m imagining him to be. Still settling in and what not to be done, but I feel we can hang on to Arsenal and City’s coat tails for a bit longer this season with a better set of midfield options. Surely a top four finish is ours for the taking.
Score a hundred goals and concede maybe only 50 now!

Just praying that Trump doesn't intervene and get the failed medical rescinded.

I've never watched him or Monaco play
But he sounds like the real deal and we are going to win the league.

From the Guardian live transfer thingy,
“The 22-year-old from Senegal joined Monaco from Metz in 2024 and has quickly established himself as one of Ligue 1’s most dynamic midfielders.
Comfortable as a No 6 or No 8, he brings energy, ball-winning and progressive passing, while possessing a fierce shot and a reputation for dangerous set-pieces.”
I’m sold!

Looks like Camara is happening, had a feeling something was gonna happen although Balagun failing his medical helped it fall into place apparently.
Now we have a younger hungrier player better suited for the role and system and Enzo out. £75-80m in the bank as well. Happy days.

He allows us to not play Gusto in midfield. That's good enough.

Disagree completely. Lavia hasn't completed 90 minutes in three years, Caicedo is out injured, Reece is not a midfielder and Barco is a lightweight youngster. Not going to even mention Henderson, he is a hundred years old and is there for dressing room atmosphere.
If we don't sign a midfielder before the window closes, we're worse off in the middle of the pitch than we were last season. They really f**ked up at the end of what looked like the best window they've had so far.

We overpaid for him in the first place. And he’s been underwhelming for us.
For us to make a profit on him, is excellent.

this deal might fall through, we are struggling to get Kone in as Romas manager has told them not to sell, we have offered Gittens on loan but at the moment they are standing firm, we have gone back for Scott

Someone mentioned this in another thread, but it’s hard to believe Alonso’s influence alone is responsible for undoing four years of errors in a matter of weeks. There has to be more at play behind the scenes.

0-0 and they went out on penalties at League 1 Bradford.
The player rating thing on BBC had him as Burnley’s best player with 4.35 (the only player above 3.something. Bradford had no one rated below 7.
Is this another ill judged loan? If he’s as talented as is said, it sounds like he’s completely wasting his time. They haven’t won in open play yet this season.
Recalled at Christmas and sent somewhere else?

I thought it was an excellent window (somewhat assuming Enzo would go to City), but after the first two fixtures I’m realising that I’d overestimated our midfield and it’s pretty clear it’s crying out for some high quality that protects a questionable back 3.
And rumour is City have finally made an offer then? For 60m?

I imagine there’ll be a lot of happy fans with their plain shirts as this sponsor doesn’t exactly look pretty on the shirt.
And I doubt that will of helped with the value of the deal. I read we’d be looking for 50m a season, but 10th meant we’d do well to 36m. And the late start won’t have helped.

He was just as erratic an error prone before his injury this isn’t new behaviour.
Rushes into challenges argues with refs out of position etc

Thank f**k the guy who would have scored the equalizer last year was sitting on our bench lol

Didn’t watch it tonight. But I hate to say that I strongly suspect that Maresca is getting a league winners medal this year.

0-0 and they went out on penalties at League 1 Bradford.
The player rating thing on BBC had him as Burnley’s best player with 4.35 (the only player above 3.something. Bradford had no one rated below 7.
Is this another ill judged loan? If he’s as talented as is said, it sounds like he’s completely wasting his time. They haven’t won in open play yet this season.
Recalled at Christmas and sent somewhere else?

More concerning is that it’s being reported City have opened negotiations with Liverpool for Gakpo. Seems they are happy to leave an approach for Fernandez till the 11th hour in the hope/assumption that we will be forced to accept a low offer and be unable to sign any sort of replacement.

At 7am on a matchday? Are you new to this site? Just wait till you see the match thread!

He was Sánchez’s coach at Brighton and now runs global goalkeeping here, and just the other day, Ornstein made it clear that Ben Roberts rates Sánchez extremely highly.
Given how much control Winstanley and Stewart had, it’s not far‑fetched to assume Shields and Roberts held a similar level of influence. But once Xabi Alonso arrived. and after yet another finish outside the Champions League spot, those four seem to have been quietly pushed down the hierarchy. Their grip on decision-making doesn’t look anything like what it used to, and about god damn time.

I imagine there’ll be a lot of happy fans with their plain shirts as this sponsor doesn’t exactly look pretty on the shirt.
And I doubt that will of helped with the value of the deal. I read we’d be looking for 50m a season, but 10th meant we’d do well to 36m. And the late start won’t have helped.

Isn’t that a bit like the no. 9 curse though? Yes, we’ve made a few signings from them that haven’t worked out, but that simply can’t be because they’ve been signed from a particular club over several years can it?
I think we should go for this signing. Better value than the insanely priced English options that ‘aren't for sale’. And this crap about his height (5’8”) I’ve read a few times? Makalele (5’9”) and Kante (5’6”) weren’t 6ft 2 and they weren’t too bad. And people seemed pretty happy with 5’7” Barco last night. Get it done and then worry about Fernandez.