goodymatt

Seems more likely this one is going to happen.

Confirmation we were one of the clubs then.

This might be the one we were hoping to get over the line next (perhaps the 48 hours report from Talksport?). Looks like the striker situation is going to drag on which is frustrating but expected. We saw haggling over the price for Orsic the day before the ‘here we go’ tweets. If this is really the guy Benfica were looking at to replace Enzo Fernandez then it would be a coup to sign him. Lots of big clubs have reportedly been tracking him. His ability to drive forward with the ball at ease is something we are missing (peak Stu is the only one who gave us that and he often gave it away trying). With him and Orsic in the team we should be getting into dangerous positions for Che to miss more often 😉

Telegraph reported we recently failed in our attempts to convince him to come back and be King of the Scummers. Big shame as he’s exactly what we have been missing, since he left!

I’m assuming he’s just going to be watching from the stands today after the 1 training session yesterday? Probably be another painful watch but do we expect this one to be streamed?

6 weeks without our best CB, we can’t catch a break at the moment. I guess it could have been a season ending ACL, but not ideal at all.

Matt Targett? Prowsey?

Let’s hope he’s interested then. You’d think since Mr. ‘Here We Go’ is tweeting about it he may well be.

So this guy has been City Academy Director since 2017 and was therefore Joe Shields previous boss when he was at City? Would I be right in thinking that is Joe shields joining was a coup (not that we ever got to see that justified), then this would be an even bigger coup?

Something, something, data.

I just listened to Gabby Agbonlahor on Talk Sport saying we ‘deserve’ to go down as we always sell our best players and don’t invest in our team. We have a net spend now of £84m, and sold none of our best players this summer. He also said that Nathan Jones will have watched us on training day one and thought ‘what have I done’ citing that his Luton team would have been of a higher quality 😂 How is this man employed, he literally knows nothing. I agree we are likely to go down but nobody can ‘deserve’ anything after 18 games. Luton better than Saints, is he a Portsmouth fan do we think?

2.5 year contract is less than the 4 years rumoured, wonder if there is an option to extend?

Think this is a great signing for us at a great price. His European and international stats are great and he looks to be that fast, direct winger with goalscoring ability. Something none of our current players seem to have the combination of. I think we might actually punish teams on the counter with this guy and even more so if we sign a striker of the required calibre. Could also take pressure of us chasing that ball down after Lyanco hoofs it 😉

A boy can dream…

So we are confident of getting CB, midfielder and Orsic in by the time we play Everton but that doesn’t mean we won’t sign a striker. Frustrating that the most important position is going to take longer to fill. Gutted that we couldn’t convince Ings to come back, I think his goals would have kept us up.

I’m losing all faith, like many other posters it seems. The only positive I can think of is that there is still half a season plus Brentford rearranged game to go, we could make some drastic changes either in the transfer market or manager and maybe we can fight to the end with the other crap teams at the bottom: Bompey, Forest, Everton, Wolves and maybe Leeds. 4 games feels mad to be thinking like this but he looks like Ralph did when he’d lost his way. F-me we are awful, for 12 months solid we have been pathetic. We’ve just lost another game without the other team having to actually earn a goal.

Also Elyounoussi, I just cant keep watching him be too slow in everything he does. Could have put Aribo through at the weekend but blasted over the bar and then moments later we concede their first goal from the corner. Praying we sign a new player to bench this guy during Jan.

I can’t understand why we crave CB experience and leave DCC on the bench. The only decent CB that has been with the squad during this 6 week mini pre season. Lyanco is an accident waiting to happen, even if he does have good moments. DCC has good long ball stats too so why Lyanco, it can’t be tactical? There was a knock mentioned before Lincoln game but he keeps making the bench.

ABK, Salisu, DCC and Lyanco is strong enough at CB, we should be playing 4-3-3 or 4-2-3-1 IMO with our squad. What we need is: Someone who can finish, someone who can create (Elyounoussi frustrates me so much), someone who can win midfield battle (for when Lavia is unavailable, so 66% of the time. We miss Romeu so bad) and a keeper to take the pressure off Bazunu. If you want to call back Bednarek you will need to play a back 5 as he is way too slow for a back 4. His interception stats were good previously (wasn’t he top of the stats for one season?) and he is a good last ditch defender for blocks. I personally hate 5 at the back but can see logic in Bednarek suiting Jones football (we have resulted to a newly promoted team survival style, sad times). Trouble is Bednarek has burned his bridges with those silly willy waving comments. There’s a reason why nobody would buy him or Stephens, neither are good enough for the style we should be playing. 90/92 form for 2022, the momentum is sending us only one way and this window has to be spot on. Early indications are not suggesting it’s going to be. I’m super worried for us as things currently stand.