Duppy Conqueror

I was hoping we'd bring in someone like Martinez from Villa,not being because of experience as much as just someone that won"t block his or Eddie Beach path forever. Although players do almost always improve with age and experience which is also the case with Keepers i don't think it's as much a factor as with other positions like CB,DM for example. Also i really don't think a keeper needs to be proven in a high end competition,Before making it at a top club.it's not like a CB going from looking good against 3rd tier farm league competition to marking a world class striker.some of the best shots i've seen in my life were from lower league games. In a nutshell i hope if we are going to bring in a keeper this window that we are spreading the net wider than just well known names

Some travel agents do packages like stay in the hotel behind the shed end and tickets to the game.it used to be Thomson but don't know if they still do it.not needed it myself but know of others that have done it.

Good luck to the wee man.100m and we'll never have to face playing him nor have his salary or blocking a place to someone up and coming in our squad whilst he's mostly out injured.a win all round. He more than repaid the fee we paid for him,goes with my blessing....plus no more will we have to hear him wrongly labelled as a holding midfielder.

Man City CB's are generally highly rated but they play safe in the mind that if they should concede one goal they still likely to win the game. For ours that probably wasnt the case in many games.the better we get infront of them i think ours be allowed to shine.

Rom & PEA having over 650 goals between them is more mindblowing than watching an episode of Through the Wormhole on Acid.

Say Poch really wants Mount to stay,might figure into if we go for Rice.if we keep Mount and don't sign Rice then whoever does sign him probably got a good chance of getting Mount on a free next summer.Mount re-signing+Rice for say 80m and Gallagher or 80m for Moises,45m for Lavia.also worth considering Rice is future captain material and we dont have many candidates for that currently.

Wonder how many of the waffle munchers we used to have in here are signing up to TalkAston(is hell on earth)Villa

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Seeing reports we may keep hold of Mount even if he doesn't extend..might be worth lodging a bid for Rice if thats the case. ¹

Would have preferred Thiago Silva as player interim coach and potentially have him as an assistant to the new coach,or another coaching role in near future. or Drogba (might atleast have a positive outcome with our forwards)

Would have been perfect use of the remainder of this dreadful season to have next seasons coach get a head start to judge the squad before we have to begin to offload 8-10 players before september. But alas..

I think the Lamps rumour is entirely based on him being seen at the ground last night. Thank Zola the modern press wasnt around when the likes of Raquel Welch etc..were seen at the bridge.

Pros of each candidate so far: Poch-Knows the league,has a good record of developing young talent.safest pick of the candidates due to only one whose spent any time coaching in England.aside from front 3 our squad has more talent than he’s coached before.despite the press saying we are a club with big ego’s etc.. in our squad.we don’t,we haven’t since the likes of Costa,Courtois and before them even more so with Drogba,Ballack,Lampard,JT etc..he’s coached players with even bigger ego’s than the latter.he’s only won trophies with PSG and although not the one they really want,but same is true with Pep at Man City.he coached Tottenham with tightarse Levy to massively overachieve. Enrique-managed with success at a big club,system suits our current squad ( if our front 3 can score more) despite being at Barcelona his system is quite different to Pep’s.history of over tinkering in past but hopefully learnt from having more success when he didnt. I don’t really consider what his record as international coach was…nobody would put Southgate as a top 5 coach in the world despite his top 3 record at international level. Nagelsmann: tactically astute,has coached at a big club,atleast when media calls our head coach young they would be accurate rather than keep hearing it about a 47year old. Inexperience only a concern to me in regard to of English football,but same applies to all candidates but Poch. i don’t see waiting till the summer as a way of getting much more options really..is only Carlo who might be available that is good enough to add to the mix.

I thought after the mini revival before the Everton game it would take a longer run of dropped points to put Potter back on the hot seat but maybe TB was waiting for Tuchel to become unavailable before pulling the trigger as didnt want to face calls to rehire him.maybe not but just throwing that out there..

Pocchetino be the safest bet of those available.i’d be ok with him.the german be the boom or bust pick.

For me we got to play either Conor or Mason,playing both is gonna hinder Enzo( unless it’s 4-3-3 with mount wide in a front 3)taking that into account i was happy with Enzo’s debut,especially considering we only signed him midweek.most of his passes were the high percentage type but give him even Zakaria and i think he would be a more offensive factor.

At a position it’s hard to adjust to the PL from abroad,he’s looked very assured.others will shine more than they have yet,but so far Benoit is the the best signing of the TB era.

I somewhat agree but like 4 and 6,the number been used by both defenders and midfielders since atleast the 1980’s. the worst jersey number for us will always be when we gave defender Khalid Boulahrouz the number 9 shirt.

JT put him in his place. Arsenal do like to celebrate a league title 3-4 months before it’s awarded to somebody else. football aside though Piers Morgan is a vile creature leaching on the misery of others.misery that is far worse than us winning 5 league titles since they last won one.

I was excited by Eden but Oscar was at the time more exciting for me. also window we signed Dave,Kakuta,Moses,Demba Ba and Marin so quite a yo-yo window.

Don’t know if we still do it now but hope we still have the obligation for players to learn english in their contracts.something that doesnt happen with some south americans and hinders their chances of settling here. probably the most exciting transfer since Oscar…hopefully pans out better in the long run.

We knew we couldnt loan him..imagine if we fooked up like Spurs did with Doherty tonight.

Plus the two weve signed but won’t get till the summer. Maybe just two more on top of those.

There goes another loophole the governing bodies are gonna be closing because it’s us and not their golden boys taking advantage of it.

Sky sports reporter said Enzo about to have his medical.. testicles crossed