Villaphan04

Newcastle had a similar issue with hiring Bruce from Sheffield Wed. They ended up paying some form of compensation iirc

yeah he did

After today, 5 point gap between 5/6 spot (& playoffs) and Bournemouth in 7th. Looking like that might be growing too as well The promotion race is really heating up b/t Swansea, Brentford, and Watford though

well the other thing is that Barnsley are on fire right now so if they do get promoted, I'd think they would want him

think I read somewhere today that a big 6 team looked into buying him. Wouldn't be surprised to see him move permanently in the summer.

El Ghazi & Targett are linking up quite well I think

exactly my thoughts.

I think there might've been a brief topic on this, but with Brexit, a few more PL owners have done something like this. Rumors that NSWE were going to do something along those lines but nothing ever materialized iirc

they triggered his purchase clause recently so I'm assuming he won't be leaving them anytime soon sadly

I just don't understand some folks fascination with wanting to sign Tammy at £40m when we already have 2 strikers whom we spent £25m+ on and have shown some levels of potential. We have other spots in the squad that would need improving first before dropping that cool £40m on a depth striker imo. And Tammy would want to be the clear cut #9 in terms of playing time. I'd rather spend that on a class #10 or winger.

Now I see why Agnelli wants to expand the group stage.

Liverpool couldn't afford what we would ask for Jack without selling one of Salah or Mane, and then why sell them to replace them with Jack around the same cost. City buying him would be like those big money FM moves where in Jan the player requests a transfer because he doesn't get enough playing time. trying to take away my villa lens, I just don't think he would be worth spending over 100 mil on just to be rotated by Pep and his system. United is the one that's a mystery for me. They wanted him last summer but didn't pay what we wanted. Chased Sancho as well and didn't want to pay the 120 mil that Dortmund wanted, and its just been another covid hit financial year so I don't know if they have the money to buy him while also buying players that they need -- as @nick76says above, they already have starting level players in the positions that Jack plays for us. The wild card for me is PSG and Poch. I would think they could afford him, and if they sell Mbappe they would be in need of another high profile attacker. Would he want to go there though is the question.

just looking at out of contract players transfermarkt and there are a few names that interest me: Thauvin & Amavi are the two that spring to mind. There are a few others whom I've not really seen to make a judgement on (I see a few youngish players that could be interesting but who knows)

Norwich look certs to go up automatically, and the race for the other auto promotion place looks to be dwindling. And if Barnsley win their game in hand there looks to be a gap between 6th and 7th that might separate the pack

It will be nice to be one of the teams that is able to take advantage of the financial problems caused by covid for other clubs then the other way around. And has been pointed out a few pages before, we already have a good idea about which league we will be in next year (compared to the last 2 seasons) which will help us in terms of targets, preparation and planning.

I thought he was the one who Koeman doesn't particularly rate for some reason. Could've sworn that he was linked with Leeds in the summer

I’m genuinely curious at this but at what point should Klopp be under serious pressure? think if their run continues like this that he’ll step away in the summer.

talk is that Barkley is going through a half time warmup

commentators over here said they think Mings/Konsa is the 2nd best defensive paring in the league besides City

Is JPB going to be the first option off the bench for Traore/Trez out wide?

Not sure if this link works for everyone but here's the interview.

I think the reason I’ve been harping on about him being clearly out of form is exactly this. We saw his game drop significantly last season when playing pretty much every game up until Southampton. I have to wonder why Deano never wants to drop him and give him a rest.

fwiw he didn't help us unlock a 10 man sheffield united at the beginning of the season