Delphinho123

If you sign players befitting of a mid table team, that’s where you’ll end up. Until we’re better in the transfer market, we won’t finish higher than 11th.

I don’t hate him I just don’t rate him. He may be slightly better than Trezeguet and El Ghazi but that’s all it is. Too slow, too weak and often finds himself in a good position only to completely mess up the situation. He’s not good enough, hence why we replaced him in the window we signed Bailey and Buendia. At that point, it was expected he’d be on the bench because the manager and the club knew he wouldn’t take us forward. Fast forward 12 months and the club made the decision it would be better to pay his wages to play for somebody else. We can all romanticise about him coming back and suddenly being good enough to fire us into Europe but nothing will have changed. A couple of very good goals aside (El Ghazi scored better), he’s worth nowhere near what we paid for him and not of the level to help us get into the top half of this division. Probably not even good enough for a 15th/16th place side. You can disagree all you like and try to convince yourself using stats that he’s this brilliant wide player we’ve been missing but absence has just made your heart grow fonder. Emery will hardly play him and he’ll be shipped out to some no mark European team at the end of the season while we continue to pay him. He can take Buendia and Bailey with him too and finally, finally the club may actually sign a decent wide player with a bit of pace.

It’s going to be great when he scores his first goal. Hopefully he does it in front of the Holte and it’s an important one.

Perhaps, but that pair are still brilliant and boss most games. I don’t think Luiz is there yet. He’s not a general. Just a tidy midfield player who at the moment, is probably one of our better players

Hopefully it works out. Just frustrating at the moment I guess.

I’d still like us to be looking at Alex Scott

He might as well have just picked the ball up there. What a baffling decision.

Traore will be shipped out again and I think Bailey will leave. Buendia will stay and I think we’ll be stuck with Coutinho even though he has a role to play. Digne will be tough to sell due to wages. Cash and Martinez should fetch healthy fees. I still think we’ll be in for Guendouzi. As mad as it sounds, I don’t think we’ll sign an out and out striker. I don’t see it as a priority. The player behind the striker is more important. Bailey has struggled in that role and Buendia/Coutinho don’t have the pace I think Emery wants to see from someone in that position.

I imagine Forest will be interested in Cash. Seems a logical move.

Yep, so you could argue we’ll spend 200m close to. I can imagine Emery will have his eye on a keeper in Spain.

I think you’re right. Unfortunately.

His goal yesterday was absolutely superb.

£160k a week for this bloke doesn’t bear thinking about. Need to move heaven and earth to get rid of him in the Summer. He’ll be holding us back with the wages he’s on.

Maybe it’s something he’ll try with Carlos back.

Agree with most of this but think we can probably get away with having Mings at the back. Carlos hasn’t proved anything yet either so who knows how that turns out. Too many fans on here seem to defend and rate so many of our players in their own individual threads but are left scratching their heads when we can’t seem to break into the top half of the table. The painful truth is, we’re not good enough. Not even close really.

That’s because he’s a good, tidy player and much better than Dendoncker. I just don’t think he’s a general. He doesn’t control games enough or dictate the pace like Kamara can.

Big Summer ahead. Think it’ll be our most active since we got promoted. I imagine we’ll be looking to spend 120m as a baseline with a few quid added on top when we sell Martinez. We may even be able to generate some extra cash through the sale of some fringe players. I think we’ll see a couple of surprise departures too. I wouldn’t be surprised to see Bailey leave and maybe even someone like Cash/Konsa. Getting Digne’s wages off the books should be a priority. Probably Coutinho’s too. This group of players isn’t good enough. We need a big refresh and I think we’ll get one. I expect at least 4 new starters for next season. Probably 5/6 if we’re serious about targeting Europe.

If that was the case we wouldn’t have lost the midfield battle today, especially in the second half. I like Luiz, he’s a tidy player, but he’s no general.

Both played on the right for their clubs. That’s where they ‘performed’. Traore was replaced. And we literally paid him to go away. Yeh. Great player.

So we didn’t sign two right sided attackers the summer after Traore was so brilliant? Strange move by the club to sign both Buendia and Bailey when we had such a world beater in Traore.

Lol. He stunk the place out in most matches too. That’s why we signed Buendia and Bailey because the club knew he wasn’t good enough. Which he isn’t. Regardless of injury or Gerrard.

Helluva goal yesterday. Fair play to him. Probably our best player at the moment.

Not sure what you’re getting at here.

Not good enough. We all know that. But, I thought he looked better than recent times when he came on yesterday. Always seems to do better as a sub rather than from the start of the match. Either way, sell.

I don’t think it’s slim at all. Martinez will want to leave, he’s already alluded to that. Of course, we’ll play hardball and try to get a big fee for him but if the player doesn’t want to be here, it’s not always beneficial to keep them. I doubt Martinez appreciated the way the club dealt with the Cutler situation either (could be wrong). No way Martinez will want to be here next season in my opinion, and why would he. He’s one of the best in the world and he’ll want to win trophies, just like Grealish did I’m afraid.