Dman

Stewart and Zeqiri would be decent business to cover Tella / Che. Zeqiri can play through the middle as well can't he? Sounds sensible to me as we can't rely on Stewart to play every game this season.

Spoiler alert - Leeds aren't finding out we're interested in X because of the daily echo tweeting about it or someone posting on a fans forum.

Disgusting comment.

Surely they'd fly up tomorrow? I know we're a little skint, but surely we're not that skint that we'll be throwing them on a 6 hour coach and a hotel for 2 nights

We can't reveal too much on this one - top secret. What I will say though.. If someone meets our valuation, he's off. Make of that what you will.

I think so, yes. We need to sign someone else as well though. The way I see it, he shouldn't be the Che replacement, so if Che goes, we should bring in someone else as well. The Macedonian lad from Aberdeen probably my choice at this stage.

He came on and absolutely changed the game. Pace, power looks like he can finish and is brilliant in the air. He'll do very well in the PL.

I really like Doyle, probably not too much in it. Different type of CB's though.

Very good player at this level, very good signing. Akin to the Flynn Downes one for me, exactly the sort of deal we should be looking at. Does leave us with 4 CB's who'll expect to be starting though - It'll be interesting to see how Martin manages that situation... CB is one of the positions you want a consistent 2 playing together every week. Is it a sign we will be moving towards a back 3? or Is bednerak off?

Why have we wasted our time on this fella? Have we not learned from last summer? Its been clearly for nearly 2 weeks he doesn't want to come here. His agent is messing a few clubs around by the look of things. At this point, I can't believe many fans will even want him here. Move on.. ASAP.

Martin himself said too much gets out of the club. Its why we only allow in the trusted. some things are too juicy to share publicly

Spoken to my source and all I'm saying is he made an Eagle on the 4th. Make of that what you will.

Not still pretending to be ITK, are you? You know you had your application for the CoT rejected due to false information.

I hate to go all MLG on you, but we've not been in the 'premiership' since 2001 😉

Does anyone blame Sulamana for wanting out / handing in a transfer request? We've sold everything that has not been nailed down, given his reputation and fee we paid for him, he probably see's himself as a top flight player, thought that he would be and backside is starting to twitch now its so late in the window with limited interest in him.

Literally took 2 seconds to disprove this, you plank https://www.express.co.uk/sport/football/1109553/West-Ham-transfer-news-Aleksandar-Mitrovic-Fulham So looks like, yeah, I might know better 😀

Ahhh so the point your making is in the history of relegated clubs its not just us that lack ambition - Got you, agreed. Off the top of my head, a few clubs have managed to dig their feet in. Fulham kept Mitrovic, Villa kept Grealish, Bournemouth kept Solanke. The list could probably go on if I decided to look deeper. All match winners and goal scorers btw... Everything we're just letting go because we don't have a backbone to stand up.

To be fair, I couldn't care less about the other relegated sides, although I do think we're currently the weakest of the lot. I'd be interested to see if Leeds lose Gnonto & Sinisterra.

simply put, because we lack ambition. If we had an ounce of ambition, we'd have persuaded a number of players to stick around, get us promoted and we'd be back in the PL next season (or they can leave).

It'll be Che if he's still here, which he wont be, so it'll be S.Armstrong.

So what - he had a (long) contract with us. Our problem has been that ew've allowed player power to kick in - anyone who fancied a move got it rather than us actually standing firm for anyone. At some point we need to learn that its not always about what the player wants, it needs to be what we want as well.

QPR's right back was terrible though. He had a horrid time all throughout the game. Their left back on the other hand looked really handy defensively.

I suspect that Fraser is Sulamana's replacement and the bloke from Genk we've spent all window chasing, who doesn't want to come here, is the suggested replacement for Tella. Of all the links to date, I like the look of Patrick Roberts most. Diallo from united would be the best, but he's suffering a long term injury, I think.

He looks and sounds exactly like the type of player we need. I think if he can stay fit, he'll be a big hit here. However, he's not played since January, had no pre-season and no one really knows how he'll return (thankfully his game doesn't look to rely on pace, so he wont lose that). If he is our Che replacement, we need another to cover / mitigate the risk and start straight away, as well. Perhaps that lad from Aberdeen?

Correct, but it was probably the least low risk and most obvious (with the ability to hit the ground running). This Stewart might be just as good or even better, but its a gamble and he's injured until October, which is a massive worry.