Villaphan04

Quietly becoming a decent side. Iraola is a good manager

Doku also went off injured for Grealish too...

yeah, would be a good squad depth addition. Unai definitely trusts him as well (signed him twice already)

a Rodri yellow card so he gets suspended for Wednesday

yeah, I think we need another RB at a minimum.

Liverpool also drawing 2-2 vs Fulham now

uh oh. If the SDNY is investigating, this 777 deal will fall apart in a hurry.

This was a question on the Claret and Blue podcast earlier this week. I think there might've been a similar thread over the summer as well but thought it would be interesting to see what we all think now, after what we have done so far this season. I figure that winning the Conference League will probably get no votes, but all three were options on C&B.

yeah, I would be shocked if it happened at all. But the reality of FFP will be different depending on where we finish in May. Who knows. And yes, all young talent that have potential to go very far in the game but need to prove it. it's a hypothetical situation that @Stockbridgehibbyasked folks to answer. There's a less than 1% chance he gets sold this summer.

I don't think he would be easy to replace, at all. My point is that hypothetically replacing Ollie Watkins or Douglas Luiz (and what either of them bring to the team) will be a lot harder than replace than John McGinn. *this is not me saying that I want to sell McGinn at all Getting the CL revenue is a game changer, but if we don't I don't know exactly what we do. From that group of players, we probably only get money back for Dendonker and maybe Sanson and Chambers. But then, if we get rid of all those, we need to build a squad and we get a higher quality one by signing new starters that push current ones down. hypothetically, if we sell McGinn this summer i'd expect. a) 50-60m b) I'm sure Emery + Monchi could come up with options. Some off the top of my head- -- Pino, Almada, Moleiro, Veiga, Reyna etc. They all have different qualities but can play that attacking wide midfield role. C) No clue what they would cost If we were to make it, then they do have a more stringent FFP we would have to comply with. Cannot like this post enough. We probably have too many players for that advanced wide attacking midfield role (especially if the Zaniolo move becomes permanent). I think Bailey is probably going to be sold in the summer and that will be the first team player who gets shifted (and maybe Cash but that's another story).

Unless we get Champions League in the summer, I'm under the assumption that we wouldn't have the FFP headroom to spend big on another 3 top players without selling a first team regular.

so, we keep McGinn for his performances over the year but then could sacrifice Luiz or Watkins who have had better overall performances than him over the year. I'd also argue that replacing McGinn would be far easier than Watkins or Luiz for the roles they play in the system. I don't see that at all tbh

penalty? VAR got it changed

How do you not give a pen there and also not call a dive? Atrocious officiating.

I'll be honest, I think that would be more destabilizing than not signing anyone. What positions do we even go after? If a say Nico Williams becomes available, then yeah that would be great. But adding 5 players would be overloading the squad -- and if we hypothetically do get CL, how many of them will be at the level we need? Where would all our money be?

Dier coming on already

Bournemouth are showing a lot more since their schedule "softened" up

it was called a foul on the pitch, is it a "clear and obvious" error? It's not a foul for me. but I don't think it's clearly an obvious error

if Ramsey is vying for a spot, then I'd have to say McGinn is as well -- but I think a lot depends on the opposition.

this could be a big blow to Forest.