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What’s the deal with sulemana ? Seems strange he hasn’t featured at all pre season. Even if he does want out we are still playing the likes of lavia who is obviously gonna leave ?

If he’s really going though it ends up more embarrassing for us and they will be lapping it up

Agree completely .. if we keep sulemana and tella with Alcaraz in behind this really could be one of the best attack the championship has ever seen .. neither seem worth losing for the measly prices quoted and these two could be absolutely sensational for us ., seems a no brainer to keep them

Ooh that’s a tough one . Probably keep sully myself but hope to god we keep both … absolute scary pair of wide forwards for the championship .. can’t think of a championship team that’s had better really

Whatever we sell for I hope we are including a decent sell on clause in the deal .. if we can get 20 percent or something that will be another nice payday when he moves for huge money .. wouldn’t even mind letting him go for 45 if we get a decent sell on

Key to a good transfer is not just getting in good young players but to strengthen the positions that we are most weak .. there was a lot of aspects to getting relegated last year but having a Gk who doesn’t save anything and a striker who misses sitters as our first choices certainly was a big factor in us not getting anything from tight games . we need to look at the weakest links and upgrade there, it’s obvious the weakest links are gk and striker just like last year .., and also cb .. tbh I think we are fine atm with the cms even if it’s smallbone and Charles , the wingers and fullbacks also fine.. goalkeeoer position absolutely needs addressing we can’t let the fact we have McCarthy and baz who we can’t shift ruin our season .. a nice solid experienced keeper who Is good at championship level shouldn’t cost the earth .

But what good would it do them for ABK or salisu to down tools ? whilst they may not be happy slumming it in the championship with us they won’t want to ruin their careers . Both have been linked with bigger clubs in the past but the only way to earn those moves is to continue to impress ..I think they have no choice but to be professional about it if they are still here . Much like schneiderlin did

I agree,, just fucking no no no! I think sulemana probably has the highest ceiling of anyone on on our books maybe bar lavia , we only saw glimpses of it so far but when he’s on it and running at players at pace he looks absolutely frightening like he did late on vs spurs and Liverpool.. sky’s the limit and he could be mane good .. would tear the championship a new arsehole: absolutely stupid if we let him go he’s only been here since jan and like Alcaraz should be forced to give us at least a season .. our attack is already pretty much there play a mixture of sulemana tella/edozie as wide/inside forwards Alcaraz in 10 behind and new striker funded by selling adams and we have championship porn level attack .. we really really should keep that bunch together I thought we might have some plan around which players to keep but it’s starting to look like everyone is up for grabs so I wouldn’t get too attached to Alcaraz either

Alcaraz sulemana and tella would be my must keeps .. ..and would keep tino too unless he really threw toys out of the pram

I thought tino looked happy enough to stay in the championship from his comments, if that was the case seems a bit weird to let him go what I wonder is how forceful or the opposite are we trying to hold on to players that we want to keep ? Is it just a case of if someone comes in atprice we are ok with we leave it up to the player ? would be nice if we had some kind of players that are so in our plans we won’t let them go anywhere

Everyone kind of danced around the main point I was making. Not who is the better centre midfielder or how lavia will be in a good team. last season we were a shit team that conceded a lot of goals and had very little creativity.. lavia as good as he is can’t stop a leaky defence by himself. So I don’t see how you think he affected results more then jwp Jwp is No Matt le tissier but he’s the closest thing to a talisman we had last season, the majority of our points jwp was more important then lavia there’s a reason he won player of the season by 71 percent if it was as clear cut as you say that wouldnt of happened I’m honestly not running lavia down here and we all know he will play for a big club and be one of the best midfielders in the world , but he wasn’t as important in winning points for us as jwp

Guess what I’m trying to say is a defensive midfielder like him doesn’t really win or lose you games by himself .. he could play a very good game make tackles .. be press resistant not give the ball away .. but it’s not making much of a difference on the result .. if you had to chose between him and ward prowse .. not looking at in a who we could sell for most money but who would actually have more of a affect on results who would you choose ?

Maybe a bit controversial but I think lavia was a bit of a luxury player for us last season . Sure he looked quality and has a ton of good aspects to his game .. but did he really affect games ? suppose this could be a harsh view for a dm but his contribution wasn’t really changing results for us .. ward prowse a lot more key in actually affecting results

Yeah.. still see many here claiming he’s gonna be great this season or will definitely come good. Based on what exactly ? Hologram man has hardly put in any good performances all season looks even worse then Gunn so far ..why can’t we just buy a normal experienced keeper they are not expensive anyway ?

It’s the most I’ve seen everyone happy with a signing since we signed Orsic 🤣

Hehe funny how you crucify diallo’s passing but love che can’t finish for toffee adams ., not saying diallo is great or anything but he could at least get us up the pitch with pace in a box to box way .. we didn’t really have anyone else with that attribute

I didn’t mind him as much as a lot in here.probably due to the fact he had a a bit of a engine and could drive and carry the ball up the pitch ..I do think that’s something we lacked a lot at times.. never really got going here but offered something a little differant as a squad player

No tella is worrying ..really hope we put our foot down and keep him ..proven 20 goal scorer who can play in numerous positions up top .. could be a key part for us .. the 15-20 m doesn’t seem worth losing him for

I’m with you .. nothing good about him whatsoever wasted all our work in January for him to just ignore practically all of the January signings bar Alcaraz .. we needed wins and his team selections were disgusting .. just brought back all the players that were proven not to be good enough in a super conservative shit version of Ralph style.. no fresh ideas whatsoever

Really starting to think we might keep jwp now ..if it’s only the likes of Fulham who come in for him it’s not really worth the move for him ..we could be trading places and them going down whilst we get promoted

The fanbase tend to judge players being shit on next to nothing these days .. Orsic and onuachu written off as dogshit even though both barely featured., edozie only really got starts under jones .. Mara not many either .. I find it hard to criticise any of them as their chances have just been sooo limited… im pretty sure if edozie had played as many minutes as elyounouusi though he would have been more of a threat ..also very possible if mara had adams minutes he could have scored more goals not being selected doesn’t make a player a shit player… it’s not like we really saw any of the above including edozie messing things up or being totally crap ., the managers just for whatever reason just decided to stick with proven shit like moi or preferred adams impact on games to trying strikers that could potentially be more clinical

Still wondering if we go back in for delap now. whilst he didn’t really do much on his loans last season he was one of the highest rated city youngsters even more then Lavia and has all the physical attributes .. could be an interesting one now his value should of dropped right down from what I read on the stoke forum their creativity was non existent and he wasn’t getting chances (sound familiar ?)

He was mainly coming off the bench under Ralph and selles froze him out..not sure why you’re expecting him to dominate matches as a sub? He’s a promising looking kid who didn’t feature that much because the managers prefer the proven shitness of elyounoussi . Says more about Ralph and selles then it does him

I don’t think edozie was crap .. looks a good dribbler and would have much preferred to give him game time then moi.. jones was the only one who seemed to play him a lot though and selles froze him out completely .. personally I think he will be a big player for us this season

Ok imiginsry scenario if city came to us now saying they really would like Lavia back and made us a promise to activate the buy back what would you do then ? we would get the same money 40m in our pocket as if we sold to Liverpool or whoever now for 50 plus get to keep him for a season ?