ChinlessWonder

Well, I lasted about 60 secs of the double Redknapp disaster on sky’s ridiculous deadline day wankfest. I’ll go and do something else for a couple of hours and come back on here to check at 11...

I'd agree with all of that other than putting more urgency on the idea of the LW/ST option. A lot is riding on Traore at the moment as a combination of speed and quality is still desperately required wide attack. We've done well in many other areas but i won't be completely confident until this is properly addressed and i'm not sure we'll get anything like the best out of our new £30 centre forward as it stands. Would be a pity.

The bidding is at £12.00

£10.00 yes I'll up the bid to £12.00 though, happy to buy him for that and have him come round my house and lick my arsehole clean every morning for the rest of his natural life.

You never know we might see a bit more activity but they’ll probably sign another goalkeeper, centre forward or attacking midfielder and continue to play 4-3-3 with two orthodox wingers.

Best 11/18 with everyone fit; Martinez, Cash, Targett, Konsa, Mings, Luiz, McGinn, Barkley, Grealish, Traore, Watkins. Heaton, Elmohammey, Hause, Nakamba, Hourahane, Trezeguet, Wesley. Players ok as back up; Steer, Guilbert, Engels, Ramsey (who could nick a place on the bench before long), Davis. Possibly Taylor So that's 23/24 The bench is full of players that can do a job but no real game changers, and then when you consider the probability of injuries i certainly think we could still do with another attacking player, probably someone who can play in any of the three positions being best but otherwise probably left side. Rashica still would be the best option but i think Benrahma or King are more likely but i'd take either of them at this point, they would be an improvement on El Ghazi, Jota, Davis and Trez for sure. I also think that if we could offload Taylor and get someone to compete better with Targett that would be a bonus.

That's just so bad that you can only laugh. **** SKY jokers.

'He is of Nigerian descent through his father and bears his mother's maiden name instead of his father's name' Same as Paul McGrath i think. There's a good omen if ever there was one :-)

I hope that it's a way of getting around the financial fair play side of things and that we have something in place to sign him permanently in a year. If he does as well as everyone seems to be expecting it'll be a right bastard to hand him back over and try to sign someone else to keep up the standards. And i'm also hoping that we have funds for another deal, specifically another winger before the deadline.

Excellent. I didn't realise it was that little flange that he **** over until now :-)

Yes, if we don't bring in any more wingers/attackers i don't see how Watkins could possibly go the whole season without playing some games or parts of games on the left, even though i'm quite sure they have signed him primarily as a central striker.

Yeah, i think we do need to upgrade quite a few players but agree it's unlikely to all happen i one window. I do have a feeling something will hapeen on the CB though, not that i dislike Engels myself. Great username btw :-)

I think it's already been a 7/10 window with the signings we've made, but if that's it i'd be slightly disappointed as for me we really need to get a left winger in. Sign Rashica or Sarr and it's a 9/10 window, and if it ends up being Benrahma it's an 8/10 window. I think we needed it to be at least an 8/10 window after last season. Loftus Cheek on loan neither here nor there, i wouldn't complain if we did but i'm not arsed if we don't. If we do i hope it's with an option to buy and we offload Nakamba and Lansbury as i agree with Smith that we shouldn't be stockpiling players. Better competition for Targett would be good but i'd hope we'd offload Taylor first. For me we can also offload Jota now and if we do get a left winger in we can offload El Ghazi. I can see us bringing in a CB and offloading Engels, that one's been rumbling a bit even before the lockdown when the word was that he wasn't getting along to well with Deano.

I like him a lot and he already looks like he could easily play as much as the likes of Hourahane and Nakamba this season.

Whilst he's been far from a complete failure overall in his two years (he was part of the promotion team and scored in the play-off final), at premier league level he's cack and if we're going to improve, selling and upgrading El Ghazi is one of the most obvious moves to make.