13 hours ago, Sconnie Blue said:

Some serious fan backlash if we sign that fraud

Overrated and been placed on the transfer list. Now I have no doubts we will bid 60M for him. For some crazy reason he seems to be highly rated by our board unfortunately...

8 minutes ago, Brigadeiro Mk II said:

Gar

Nacho

Been linked with Everton Jarred branithweigt. He is a good defender with a lot of upside too him.

2 hours ago, axman2526 said:

Been linked with Everton Jarred branithweigt. He is a good defender with a lot of upside too him.

I'd take Braithwaite without any hesitation. Excellent defender and one that does not make the sort of stupid errors that have plagued us for too long.

It’s growing on me. Our backline needs no nonsense and Braithwaite would bring that. So strong aerially too.

Branthwaite typically plays on the left side. Am i missing something but why aren't we looking for a right sided CB?

16 minutes ago, Ukraine Bolt said:

Branthwaite typically plays on the left side. Am i missing something but why aren't we looking for a right sided CB?

He's supposed to be a top class player, flippin LCB.

37 minutes ago, Ukraine Bolt said:

Branthwaite typically plays on the left side. Am i missing something but why aren't we looking for a right sided CB?

It really doesn't matter much in the grand scheme of things

Easy wins for me would have been getting Jonathan Tah and Branthwaite for a 30m fee/swap with Fofana.

Easy improvements and calms the backline instantly

Branthwaite would be an outstanding signing, he's everything were missing in our defence.

10 hours ago, Deino said:

Easy wins for me would have been getting Jonathan Tah and Branthwaite for a 30m fee/swap with Fofana.

Easy improvements and calms the backline instantly

Tah has signed for Bayern.

16 hours ago, Deino said:

It really doesn't matter much in the grand scheme of things

Please elaborate

7 hours ago, Scott Harris said:

Club is been weird arranging pre-agreement with any Strasbourg player linked with a move to a PL rival. They pulled the same with Mamadou Sarr and have been vague with a contract status. These guys are at least 3yrs of constant football away from competing for us. In Sarr’s case there is a rumour that he will be loaned back to Strasbourg, which is just silly as he will be taking up an international loan space.

16 minutes ago, ducavis said:

Club is been weird arranging pre-agreement with any Strasbourg player linked with a move to a PL rival. They pulled the same with Mamadou Sarr and have been vague with a contract status. These guys are at least 3yrs of constant football away from competing for us. In Sarr’s case there is a rumour that he will be loaned back to Strasbourg, which is just silly as he will be taking up an international loan space.

Probably all part of the creative accountancy model !

Rumours are we're after TWO new strikers! Could this be a main expensive striker like this Ekitike fellow and a cheap Delap like striker or could we really go all out and bring in a Ekitike and Sesko, or a Gyokeres and Sesko? Surely if we buy two promising strikers at least one will turn out to be okay, won't they?

Just feels like with CL football this summer could be an extravagant spending spree. The fact we most likely losing Nkunku and Felix and never managed to bag a striker in January two strikers might not be too far from possible.

3 hours ago, DarkMata said:

Rumours are we're after TWO new strikers! Could this be a main expensive striker like this Ekitike fellow and a cheap Delap like striker or could we really go all out and bring in a Ekitike and Sesko, or a Gyokeres and Sesko? Surely if we buy two promising strikers at least one will turn out to be okay, won't they?

Just feels like with CL football this summer could be an extravagant spending spree. The fact we most likely losing Nkunku and Felix and never managed to bag a striker in January two strikers might not be too far from possible.

I suspect that one will be to hopefully take Jackson's spot, and the other will be the one I posted above.

Yeah that makes sense. The Strasbourg lad and a first team striker.

Edited May 27, 20251 yr by Sconnie Blue

The reason we are doing these types of signings from Strasbourg is simple, money and loan slots. We buy him now when his value is low and have a pre-agreement for 2026. This allows us to keep him at Strasbourg without keeping one of our loan slots occupied. Now to the money. If we buy him now, we have bought him at current value. Next year, it is very likely his value will have increased therefore we have bought him on a cheap compared to buying him when his value is high. If it does not work out, we can flip him for a small profit. If it works out, well we have a good striker for very cheap. This is a win-win for us, not so much for Strasbourg money wise, however they do keep him for another year. He has been great for them and will be playing in Europe this year.

Very smart by BlueCo and I am the last one to give them praise, however they deserve it here. Not breaking rules and not really anyway to enforce us from not doing these sorts of deals with our sister clubs.

10 hours ago, DarkMata said:

Rumours are we're after TWO new strikers! Could this be a main expensive striker like this Ekitike fellow and a cheap Delap like striker or could we really go all out and bring in a Ekitike and Sesko, or a Gyokeres and Sesko? Surely if we buy two promising strikers at least one will turn out to be okay, won't they?

Just feels like with CL football this summer could be an extravagant spending spree. The fact we most likely losing Nkunku and Felix and never managed to bag a striker in January two strikers might not be too far from possible.

Delap won’t move here to play backup to another striker. He can move to an Everton or Utd and play regularly as a starter.

Whoever we sign, I just want a proper striker that is selfish and actually wants to put the ball in the net. None of this “false 9”, “off the striker” type of player. We tried it and it’s not gong to work.

If we’re serious about champions league, then we need proper players. We all saw how Villa and Newcastle dropped off once they started playing twice a week in big competitions

2 hours ago, Clown Lake said:

The reason we are doing these types of signings from Strasbourg is simple, money and loan slots. We buy him now when his value is low and have a pre-agreement for 2026. This allows us to keep him at Strasbourg without keeping one of our loan slots occupied. Now to the money. If we buy him now, we have bought him at current value. Next year, it is very likely his value will have increased therefore we have bought him on a cheap compared to buying him when his value is high. If it does not work out, we can flip him for a small profit. If it works out, well we have a good striker for very cheap. This is a win-win for us, not so much for Strasbourg money wise, however they do keep him for another year. He has been great for them and will be playing in Europe this year.

Very smart by BlueCo and I am the last one to give them praise, however they deserve it here. Not breaking rules and not really anyway to enforce us from not doing these sorts of deals with our sister clubs.

They'll only be playing in Europe if they win their play off game

4 hours ago, WhiteWall said:

They'll only be playing in Europe if they win their play off game

Thank you for clarifying that.

On 27/05/2025 at 08:16, ducavis said:

Tah has signed for Bayern.

f**kkk well that's to be expected really. Bundesliga backrooms and all that