DanFromDownSouth

Said on commentary tonight that Dieng has potential interest in him. Obviously it was mentioned on here too earlier in the week. Apologies if it's been posted...but are there any actual articles reporting as such? If we do sell Dieng, I wouldn't mind us looking at Baxter at Bolton. Very good keeper and plays week in week out in a team that consistently play possession football (with him involved in that). This one might be depending on Plymouth going down, but I'd definitely test the waters on Cooper too. Edit: Found a Gazette article quoting The Telegraph. Apparently Newc

I agree with this, but also think Kane is hugely important to how we play. His ability to drop deeper and play balls into the wider players/midfielders making runs is massively under-rated. Obviously Bellingham is THE star of our team so missing him would be really damaging. I agree with this too, only problem is getting Foden to play like he does for City, likely means having to play him in the 10 role in my opinion. He's clearly very good, so if he played left of Kane he'd still make an impact, but to really maximise it I think he has to play centrally. That is an abso

It's so bizarre, because when you consider Pickford in an England shirt he's never really looked poor or made any costly mistakes (I can remember). But everyone always wants a better option (myself included at times). One observation is Pickford with the ball at his feet suits how England seemingly play perfectly, so credit where it's due for sticking with personnel that suit the style of play (Very unlike the England managers of the 2000's). It's really evident when Pope has been capped, how much we rely on a Keeper comfortable with the ball at their feet. Not to say Pope isn't a go

This is the exact team I'd have in mind to. The left hand side is a real weakness for us, left wing, leftback and left central defence. Mental to think we've always seemingly struggled with rightbacks, but now have so many quality options in that position. Maguire is the most "experienced" partner for Stones in terms of international games, and we don't exactly have someone waiting in the wings that's head and shoulders above him. Based on recent squads you have to assume that 2 or 3 of the following are likely to get into the squad, Guehi, Gomez, Tomori and Konsa. Leftback at t

Roberts is a decent enough Keeper...but playing out from the back is not his strength. So he doesn't exactly fit the bill for us. If we sold Dieng I think we (the club) will look for another 1st choice. I'd like Brynn to be given a chance, but he's not exactly playing in a team at the moment that are known to be playing out from the back. So they'd still be a bit of an unknown around that part of his game.

Sorry I was generalising on the calibre of player Browne fits into. For what it's worth I don't think he'll command a ridiculous wage. But usually championship ready players are naturally more costly wages and fees wise.

Would a free transfer count? 😂

I agree...the big downside of those types of players tends to be the financial impact...in the case of Browne it won't be a fee but more the wages he may command. I think that's why last summer we appeared to bring in a lot of project type signings as we needed depth in the squad. Personally I think we will go down a more targeted approach this summer. Carrick has already said himself quality over quantity. On the face of it, it looks like we might have a high turnover of players, but realistically most leaving are either injury cover (Ayling/Thomas) or fringe players (Dijksteel/Gilbert).

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I think that's the risk really, Barlaser was very good statistically for Rotherham but it hasn't quite worked for him here. Leonard in my opinion has a little more to his game in terms of the defensive side, but that might be more to do with how Northampton tend to play.

Anyone of these 4 I'd be onboard with. Hutchinson and Willock would definitely Championship tested/ready. The 2nd two would be more thinking of expecting some growth over a season or two. Azeez does tend to play on the right hand side a lot of the time...so with Jones and Forss there already there may not be room for another right sided attacker.

Would love Browne, think he's been a very solid Championship player over a few seasons now. I'd get a Leadbitter vibe if we signed him. I've mentioned Sheaf at Coventry before as I think he's a very classy operator in midfield, but not sure Coventry would want to sell.

If we can do a deal with Southampton for James Bree, I'd definitely take a chance. He was very good for Luton past 2 seasons. No clue what type of fee we'd need however. Southampton signed him for allegedly under £1m, but the lowish fee was due to his Luton contract expiring.

Seen Leonard a few times at the Cobblers this season (Google his goal at home vs Burton). He's definitely the gem of their team. I was very surprised they managed to loan him again after last season and a huge part of their January window was him not being recalled. One name not on your list from Peterborough is Ronnie Edwards. He plays centre back but in my opinion he'd be an absolutely perfect fit to our style of playing out from the back. He's only 20 so imagine Peterborough will want a sizable fee. I'd also be really keen for us to see if Celtic would sell Micheal Johnsto

One of my first jobs was a barman in an empty hotel...Sunday afternoon's were bliss. Barely any guests and sky sports viewable from the bar! 😍

Must be nice having a hobby 😉

The good thing with both sales at least is they'll practically be recorded entirely as profit for FFP purposes.

Just for context our pre-tax losses for year ending 2021 and 2022 combined was just under £50m. As much as we want to be able to sign 11 players that are proven quality, we simply can't afford to. We've spend good money (for where we are) on Engels and Latte Lath if the rumoured figures are correct. People will point to say we've sold Akpom, but realistically we'd be lucky to see half reinvested purely due to the costs of the club. Personally I think the signings (if Bangura is the last), on paper are probably not Top 6. But there are a few players we have signed that I have faith m

That's going to be very useful for Championship clubs. Opens the overseas market right up again.

Latte Lath from the video MFC put up reminds me a lot of Archer in terms of play style and his build. Really hoping we've done our homework and he has the same impact Archer did. I'm also pretty excited to see how Engels gets on as well. Has similarities with Giles, but appears to have more of a habit of popping up with goals than Giles did/does. Chuba is a bit of a free hit in my eyes, we got incredibly luckily we didn't offload load him last summer and now we look like making upto £10m on him. Would have been great to keep him, but all about player sales this new model we've gone d

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