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Delap is quality. Even with this lacklustre quality of ball to him and absolutly stagnant offence at times, he looks really good and constantly troubling defenders.

All the players Maresca hasn't had time to work with are the most dangerous for us. The rest are automated side pass bots happy to sit on top of the ball.

Nkunku is dogshit as well. I don't want him to play for us ever again.

This lineup does nothing to promote better player and build on anything for our team. I was all for continuity under one manager, but if you're going to be an insufferable cunt acting way more clever than you actually are, get the fuck out. Pointless lineup and stagnating us.

Nkunku and KDH... Just sack him at this point. This team isn't good enough together to be experimenting, and needs to see its best players out there together ffs.

I think if Gittens comes across for 35-50, it is a fine enough deal.

How much could Juventus actually give us for Jackson? Hate seeing these Italian clubs in for our players. You can automatically assume its a loan or at half the price the player is worth.

We have some shite like any club, but people here would be a lot happier with the players we have if we got a better manager. Maresca has regressed us. Its fucking annoying too because for a team like ours, some continuity in style of play and learnings would be massive. I don't think we're massively understaffed from a player perspective like some let on here. A Hato, Gittens and an upgrade at keeper and we're in it for competing. But Maresca needs to see the light or we need a way better manager.

Delap is the smartest footballer alive. Not for anything he has done for us so far. Simply because he saw what was here, and knew Jackson would faulter so that he could step in as starting striker by default lol.

Maresca plays such boring football. Something needs to change. We looked so good in the first half of the season.

I've honestly never seen a more impatient fanbase than on here. The windows barely been open - and we've secured an area of need - ST. A good player by the looks of it too. LW is the other big need and GK. The LW market isn't spectacular right now and Maignan isn't some must have in my opinion. If the price is right - sure. Calling the group a bunch of penny pinchers won't ever stick considering the amounts spent on Neto, Caceido and Enzo. We're literally one or two signings away from proper competing and acting as if it has to be done today won't make it so.

Liverpool got a bunch of big names, but pretending we are in anywhere a similar position to them is hilarious. Walking into a team that was already near the top and needing to make few changes, compared to trying to rebuild an entire team and put in a different approach to the transfer market.

I clearly remember this and you were one of the few - and actually posted so much about him to convince others. Most were not for him though. I can remember Raphina as well and him getting trashed on here as well.

Regardless - people here binned him off for the most part.

How you gonna put Felix in there when you rated him? lol

There are players that are sought after heavily that end up busting, or being bang average. It means squat at the end of the day. Vitinha literally got binned by Wolves. Dembele I'm fairly sure joined on a free. Cole Palmer came here for 40 mil, and most on here and in other forums said "who?".

Dembele... Gordon... Raphina... These are literally all players that were linked to us that people here acted were not good enough and didn't want. We're literally back in UCL, won a trophy, and are making continual progress with the youngest team in the league... Delap is a fantastic value signing. Fofana would be another great signing for me. Half the board is bonkers for Nico Williams yet Gittens is better in just about every statistical category from carries, to link up, and then goals and assists.

People complaining about Gittens and Bundesliga signings, but don't want to acknowledge we won the UCL with Werner and Havertz starting, and Pulisic playing a big role.

I'll get blasted for this, but I'm a big fan of both Semenyo and Fofana. Fofana, not in terms of quality right now, but looks much like a young Salah - although his finishing and decision making even now is really, really good. Always impressed with him when he plays. Semenyo and Rogers would be great - but I do wonder if Rogers is impactful down the left? He's always seemed to thrive in the middle role more so? Rogers would be a dream signing, but is it us trying to fit him in without taking into account his best position?

The club has done really well with attacking talent for the most part and people are in shambles about our targets, despite from a stats perspective rating very well. Gittens statistically is better than Nico Williams, yet people are acting as if there is a major gap between the two.

Thought he looked fine. He knows he is coming here and playing with that level of player against better competiton is difficult as you rely completely on your own brilliance. Will look better here, and we need to give him time to grow into the league. Don't know what people are expecting... Messi off the bat? Just not realistic.

Yeah - my point was more people saying we don't get the world class talent everyone is after. Enzo was one of the hottest prospects in the world, as was Caicedo - and we got both. I'd say the Lavia pull was big as well - and even the likes of Nkunku who at that point was being talked about as one of the best SS in the world. Not to mention, we were competing with Liverpool for these guys in a lot of cases. Given where we are, and how consistent Liverpool have been and their status in England, when we go head to head with clubs for players, we do really, really well. People are being dramatic acting as if we don't pull the best talent anymore.

I think big names in the sense they were both world class prospects. We've never really gotten the world class established player ala Pogba, Neymar, etc - even Hazard wasn't the out and out star when we got him. He was much in the same position as Enzo and Caicedo. We've gotten players before they get there.

To be honest, we still get WC players now. Enzo and Caicedo were exactly that by the metrics, and the chat on here at the time. You just can't expect every single position to be a 70-100m player.

Dortmund isn't some flash hot team and Gittens outperforms him.