paul514

Don't forget the three centre backs, 2 defensive midfielders and a striker seemingly playing in midfield too

It's an experiment apparently, what his hypothesis is I don't know

Southgate easily

Easily

He does have a nice set of legs

It is the formation and the midfield composition.

All right, calm down you lot. I am sure he wouldn't risk his body for a friendly match.....

Just saw a graphic on the BBC I thought you lot would find interesting, it’s not a trait we associate with Jack especially...

It’s like 400m.... I wouldn’t call that massive with their revenue and it’s all from the purchase of the club by those vampires. can you imagine how much they would spend with a normal PL owner, it would be shocking

If your kids can’t cut it in league 1 then they can’t cut it here.

Not worried about a loss I’m just wondering what an ok right back would fetch after a year in the league.... you would think more than 3m

For playing Elmo so much means that Freddy isn’t really wanted so I assume we will buy a new right back next summer for when Elmo is out of contract and 34 and Freddy will be sold. I wonder how much we will get for him.

I agree it is too early but the early signs are really good, I admit I didn’t see the sense in signing him over Aarons but he has proven to be better than what I thought he would be.

I’m not interested in any player we loan out unless it is to league 1 or above, the quality of the league below is a joke and not worth it for the kids loaned out.

As would most people.

I just saw in the Manchester evening news that their bid for Sarr was a loan with the option to buy for 25m

Which is their right, no one on here has said it’s likely or thinks we have a chance this summer, just admiring.

Hope not

Just read up on him, he sounds like someone we should look at if we have 10 million left

Better get on the phone to Lange

We won’t, mores the pity. I can’t complain the owners have dropped hundreds of millions into this club over two seasons

Just had a look on my phone at him of course he wins everything in the air he’s 2 metres tall!! all I could see is that he’s played a full season in league 1.

We weren’t talking about what was likely just that there are some really good players in the championship this season. As for hype let’s lay a few things out, he played in a relegation team for 11 goal involvements whilst his minutes on the pitch were the equivalent of 22 games. The season before he got 15 goal involvements in Ligue 1 in the equivalent of 31 games. In the same season in the Europa League he got 7 goal involvements in the equivalent of 8 games. That is the mans output, without talking about his obvious abilities or the fact he is 22 and can play anywhere on the front line. If we were a year ahead of where we are now and I were buying players to improve this team/squad he would be right at the top of the list. Sarr, Barkley on a permanent, Sangare on a free (out of contract next summer), Aarons, Tuanzebe and Wijndal. Kalinic, Elmo, Taylor, Lansbury, El Ghazi, Samatta out the door. At that point I would consider us to have a full squad and expect to be competing for European places in the league.

David Brooks is 23 he has scored 8 goals and provided 5 assists in his entire time at Bournemouth as a right winger/attacking midfielder/second striker according to Transfermarkt. That is not a Jack Grealish back up he plays on the opposite side and a major step down. In this imaginary world where we can afford them this month Benrahma is the best back up for someone like Jack out of that bunch. Sarr would have been my top choice for the right. Also Buendia is nothing like Traore like Kiwi said but he is wrong on Sarr