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8/10 big Phil, Digne and Martinez contract extension. If you'd offered me that on December 31st I'd say yes please sir, that'll do....that'll do

Nothing like edging your bets eh, either today or in the summer. Maybe or maybe not

This makes no sense to me at all. If Digne gets injured, who do we have as backup? Hause??

3 hours ago, HalfTimePost said:

No rush but if we finish 8th-9th and show ambition Inthe summer we could have a realistic chance of convincing players that may see Spurs, Leicester, West Ham or Arsenal as ahead of us that we can challenge next year.

Finish 13th-15th and it's a harder discussion. A DM could genuinely be the difference for us between 9th and 13th. Then we can focus on a top tier CB in the summer.

Fair point. 

No rush for a DM. We're not getting relegated or into Europe this season. 

My guess is, all the journalist whatever "tier" are guessing 

Lyon also linked apparently. Roll on Feb 1st

55 minutes ago, thabucks said:

Posted a breakdown a few pages back - Everton’s new stadium is costing £505million - spuds £850million - plops main stand was £110 million and new Anfield road is around £80 million … 

Ahh cheers missed that

I thought all the indications from Purslow were to redevelop VP, not move to a new stadium? I see merit in both btw. 

How much would each cost? £600/700m for a new one?

£??m to redevelop?

Media proving once again they know very little. Lange moves like no other I guess 

Build it in Digbeth, demolish all the bloose pubs, turn the sty into an overflow car park. 

If Kamara and Rodrigo come in, I would think he'd be off, we'd have 

Mcginn, Ramsey, Chuk, Sanson, Kamara, Rodrigo and Marv when fit as midfield options. 

On 23/01/2022 at 22:28, Tony said:

Would love a box park style venue at the back of the north stand. Create a space for people to go pre and post match. 

Yeah that would be ace tbf

I can't see us signing him especially not in Jan. He'll be off to somewhere like United in the summer...and not Newcastle United either 

Two attacking teams, should make for a good match 

A team in bad form, losing their manager...enter Aston Villa

Great news, you can see how much he loves playing for the club.

23 minutes ago, AntrimBlack said:

Oops. Thought this was the transfer thread. Sorry.

Same

1 minute ago, pete101 said:

Suarez in , then we use ings in a deal to get bissouma, great window 

Great shout that 

Suarez?! What a mental Jan transfer window. What's summer got install for us ? Haaland? Lewandowski?

5 hours ago, TRO said:

I have mixed feelings on that...

• I see the need for the here and now and the cynic in me say's naturally so will SG, he wants to make a mark.
• I also see the need for younger players too, for maybe after SG.

If SG did up and go at any stage, we don't want to be left with too many ageing players....its all about getting the balance right.

Dean was happy to go with youth, A) Easier to handle/manage b) He thought he would be with us for the duration, so he thought he would prosper from that strategy.

Ron Atkinson, did the "here and now" thing, with little focus on youth and for a while, we hade a really good team, then he left.

Its all about getting the balance right....I think with Kerr Smith, Josh Feeney, and our other youth prodigies, we probably are. 

Given the investment already into the u23 squad, we should hopefully have a very good blend of talented youth and experience. 

And you're right about SG legging it, we don't want to be left with a squad older than god 

Just now, lexicon said:

Over the years we've needed beer goggles tbf 

Thirty plus years, I'm surprised I can still look at VP let alone a game there

Purslow's comments were interesting. SG wants the age profile raising and proven winners which shows with Phil and Digne. 

Will definitely help the talented youth we've got and hopefully phase those lads in to replace them.

Two more in this window? Back up GK and CM?

9 minutes ago, lexicon said:

He's actually marginally more successful with his pressing this season, 27% to 26.5%. I don't want to sound like an arse here, but when I've got a negative feeling about a player or their performance, I check the stats to see whether my instinct/memory correlates with the data first - even just with fbref and whoscored we've got a wealth of analytics available to us now - because I know that I can be sometimes be biased and mistaken.

I agree that he and Ings don't work together, though. I really don't see the point of them both being there when we have so much attacking talent available.

That's fair mate. I just look at games through beer goggles most the time and have no urge to check the data

Him and big Phil are gonna rip it up