Dman

Surely it has to be over the 40m price mark. That is the price in which City can buy him, so is slightly reduced in terms of market value (i.e a deal for them). Personally, I think we should be looking at 40m after relevant sell on clauses are paid, so c.45m

I think they definitely will. Apparently Xhaka and Partey are both leaving - Rice & Lavia would be pretty much a L4L replacement of them both.

Good move for him, good move for Arsenal, good move for City. Will get game time in a style that will suit him, playing 'pep's way', could easily see him moving to city in 2-3 years. Wouldn't be surprised if Arteta replaces Pep and takes Lavia with him.

Not sure that's true. He got 78 in the first innings which could prove to be vital come the end of today (win or draw). We need to find a way to get Foakes in the side (not only for his keeping, but hes also a great player of spin to counter Lyon), but i'm not sure where / how. Bairstow has to bat 6/7, he can't go up the order, that's been tried many a time before. With the bat, hes been in great form, leave him be down there. Duckett or Pope would be the obvious choice to drop, but then who goes 2/3? The only thing I could think of is sticking Brooks in at 3 (he has opened before but I wouldn't open him now), Bairstow or stokes in at 5 in Foakes in at 6. As for a spinner, true bazball would be to stick in someone like Rashid, who you know will be expensive but will take wickets. We're in a bit of bother from a spinner point of view. But Root is more than capable of holding an end with the ball. He's juts not going to win us a game, like Lyon will. If we're looking for a spinner to hold an end, we could turn to Danny Briggs - Been very good since moving to warks. If wickets / weather are going to stay like this, we need to get Wood in. Maybe for Anderson...

But look what we ended up with... Any red blooded male on a night out can spot & want a 10/10 - the trouble is, a bit like saints, most end up with the minging 3/10 of the group.

Looks like on of those rodents you find on a cartoon, just with acne.

I wouldn't at all be surprised if they went for Lampard (or Gerrard) and i'd piss myself as a result.

No chance - another manager who'll just fall off into obscurity. Poor manager who'd have been sacked 10 games into this season anyway.

Its universally expected that he'll leave though. I'm not sure there can be any more speculation on his future. That being said, I think we're in a position where practically every single player in the club could leave, so I guess they had to use someone.

I guess it's weighing up the value of promotion against what we'd get for him (then lose on a free). We'd probably only get back what we paid for him 10-15m and promotion would benefit us a lot more than that. I'm not his biggest fan, but think Che would do really well in the championship. Personally, i'd rather we kept him than go for someone unknown for similar sort of money.

Doyle, Bednerak, Stephens and Edwards would be a really solid core of CB's (and suited to playing out from the back).

Anyone else really underwhelmed at the prospect of signing Grimes. by all accounts he looks like a pound land version of JWP. Tidy, but backwards and sidewards passing. Might be an average player in the championship, but will he be ale to step up, should we go up.. If he had anything about him, he'd be linked with or playing in the PL by now, surely?

We'll have to take a big loss on him. Like we did Carillo. Useless lump of shit, the pair of them. The comparison between the 2 is staggering really - Hugely over paid, last minute panic buy for a manager who was clearly out of his depth and going to get the boot anyway. There's no point in keeping him around eating up a wage bill and a place in the squad.

Agreed. He's a terrible footballer. Djenepo is a prime example of the sort of player we need to move away from, rather than keep.

Handy player to keep around, championship experience which is also very useful - But I'd much prefer Alcaraz and even S Armstrong (in the 3 games he's fit a season) to start ahead of him.

He's been removed from our list of potential recruits the day we went down.

I suspect, if he is open to leave, there will definitely be other clubs in th ePL sniffing around. Brentford for example. If (big if) West Ham sign Alvarez and JWP, that would leave limited possibilities for him to get game time at WHU, though.

Leicester linked with Tom Cairney from Fulham... Would be a good move for us to make.

JWP their way, Flynn Downes our way then... Perfect!

Newcastle clearly can afford him, he's just not worth anything near £50m, to anyone other than us. Interestingly, Talksport are reporting that West Ham are in for Edson Alvarez at Ajax (DM), which may mean their interest in JWP cools... and also means that Flynn Downs may become available..

Very good player, ready for the step up. Would suit Martin's style as well. Will go on to be a PL CB in the future i'm sure. Would be a good move for all parties imo.

You'd argue that having a wider network of scouting, is probably more important when in the championship...

You're an admin on a fans football forum, where its discussing nothing but a bunch of mercenaries kicking a ball about... Probably not one who can take some kinda high-ground..

I haven't played much attention to the Juventus thing, but what was the issue here? Surely the value of the player is what the selling club deem them to be..?

I thought that, but what happens if it’s offside on VAR? Does the red still apply?