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Buy now and get later does us no good when we badly need another striker ASAP. With Guehi, I don’t see him being cheap even in the summer with a year remaining because there will be multiple big clubs vying for him which will drive up the price.

Don’t really see the point in Ugo returning from loan. He’s not top PL club level and would only be playing during the other competitions where we already play a fully rotated team. As for Delap & Guehi, I still just find it impossible to think their clubs would sell such key players mid-season. Delap in particular is pretty much their only goal scorer. They’d be toast if they sold him.

Mainoo for £30m and I’d say it’s a stupid buy for us. Mainoo for £70m and there should be protests at the Bridge. That would be malpractice. Andrey Santos is better than Mainoo and won’t cost us anything to bring back. As for City, it seems they’re going to start their rebuild now rather than waiting for the summer. Looks like they’re going to completely refresh their squad in many key areas. All of the players they’re currently negotiating with are ones who would help us too.

Seems City are looking to seriously strengthen this window. And they’re right behind us…

Thing with KDH is we haven’t even got to see how good or poor he actually is. He plays once in the Conference League and then isn’t seen or heard form for ages until the next one. I find it impossible to judge a player unless he’s getting a run of consistent games. It’s kinda hard to show your true levels and build a rhythm when you never play. You don’t don’t go from player of the season and team of the season to complete dogshit in the space of a few months, no matter what league he did it in. Would he be amazing if he played consistently? Doubtful. But he’d probably be a very decent player for us if he played regularly. We’ll never see that now clearly. 🤷‍♂️

Yep, he looks like a solid talent but after a promising few appearances last season he has kind of disappeared. Massively overhyped too early. There were United fans on RedCafe asking if he was a £100m player, ffs! 🤦‍♂️

Newcastle and oursleves have completely swapped fortunes. We were flying and looking fantastic whilst they were poor. Now they’re on fire and we look poor. They're a huge threat to our top 4 chances in the league when it looked just a couple weeks ago like we didn’t have to be concerned about them at all.

Even if Mainoo was available, why the fuck would we even consider him? We’ve got Enzo, Caicedo, Lavia, and Santos. Even accounting for Lavia’s injuries were well stocked in CM. What a silly rumor.

His team clearly putting our names out there to pressure Man United into giving him a higher wage.

For me our problem isn’t so much that we’re leaking goals in huge numbers. We need a top class CB, yes, but it’s not a desperate, dire need immediately. I would hope that they now realize what a mistake it was not to buy one and will do something this month. Jackson is a great striker to have in your squad but is simply not an elite one that should be starting every match.

If they want to put us in the absolute best position to get UCL football this season then we need a proven goal scorer this month. We absolutely cannot afford to go another season without being in the Champions League. If we seriously pin all our hopes on Nico and Palmer as our only sources of goals then it’s going to be an almighty struggle to achieve top 4.

Guehi plays almost exclusively on the left side despite being right footed from what I’ve seen, btw. Something he obviously wouldn’t be doing here if we bought him. I’m sure for a top talent it isn’t a huge deal to play either side, but again for massive money it’s still a risk throwing a guy in at a position that will take some getting used to. Anyway, it’s kind of concerning that we aren’t really hearing any substantial rumors about a forward. For me that’s even more important than a Cab in the immediate term. Yes our defense can look shaky but by repeatedly failing to kill games off by missing chance after chance up front we basically invite massive pressure at the other end. If we had a clinical killer in front of goal during this awful run of games we’d have been out of sight and cruising and our defense is comfortable.

Don’t think Trev is any better than Tosin. In fact, I think Tosin provides more qualities like aerial dominance that are more useful. They’re about the same skill level and comfort on the ball. I’d rather just let Acheampong continue to get minutes and seeing what he can grow into if Maresca doesn’t fully trust Tosin. As for Guehi, idk. He’s a solid CB but I’ve never really bought into the hype he has built up over the last couple of years. I don’t think he elevates our level defensively. If we’re going to go out and spend silly money on a new CB (which Palace would absolutely demand) then we should be doing so on a truly top level one or someone we feel could become a world class defender. Guehi isn’t worth mega money for me.

We desperately need a top striker and for Lavia to get back already. Caicedo has been an absolute machine and was great again today for the first half. But then even someone as tireless as he usually is was clearly running on empty. We need someone in there badly to lessen his work load.

We should’ve had 3-4 goals before Palace even had the chance to equalize. Jackson scores ANY of the myriad chances where he’s 1 on 1 with the keeper and Palace’s fight and enthusiasm is killed dead. And it’s not even like he’s forcing the keeper into brilliant saves with these chances. He’s missing the fucking target completely! He is NOT a Chelsea level main #9, simple as that. If Isak or Haaland or Osimhen had those chances today that Nico had they’d have a hat trick.

Nicolas Jackson straight up cost us the 3 points today. Through 1 on 1 with the keeper about 5 times and fluffed his lines every single time. I just do not understand how we go from comfortable and dominant for most of the first half to looking completely out of ideas and dead on our feet the second half. With the form of everyone around us compared to ours I don’t feel confident at all anymore that we’ll finish in the top 4. Which a month ago seemed impossible.

Jackson’s finishing may cost us top 4 ultimately. Come the fuck on!

Every single TINY bit of contact and Palace get a free kick. We have a clear penalty not given…

That was 100% a pen. Clear as fucking day on VAR. How do you fucking miss that?!

Palace playing like vintage Stoke just lumping it forward to a huge CF. Just like Ipswich did. And it’s actually effective once again.

Has looked very comfortable in the ball so far and hasn’t panicked at all so yes.

Hopefully we aren’t punished harshly for not finishing all these chances…

Both Neto and Sancho have been awesome so far.

Don’t care how ugly it looks, don’t care how it happens. We MUST win. Anything less and we are in crisis.

We absolutely need another CB this month then. Or a defender of some kind. Because I never want to see Disasi playing in a blue shirt again.