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He made a massive difference to the attack with his workrate - to the point we were a toothless team for the months he was out injured. Temperament and finishing issues were the letdown but Jackson is a good player and you can see that in many clubs lining up to buy him.

Plan seems to be to sell Jackson and Madueke

Surprised they seem to be going for Gyokeres in the end.

Instantly undermines all the work we put in to make Noni a Premier League regular. I actually think the interest in him is not surprising and we should really keep him for continuity. Works well as a winger in Maresca's system.

Until last week the brief was we will do minimum incomings - GK, CB, LW, ST But every transfer window, do the directors get a high out of getting involved in the market?

Time to make it count - this side of the draw we are on. Benfica Palmeiras and potentially Fluminese/Al Hilal

This Al Hilal side will be tough

Even when returning from a long injury layoff, Rodri just jumps out in this game.

The plan seems to be an XI of wingers

We don't need more AMs. We are well stocked.

Neither will Hincapie be cheap - he has a contract till 2029. No reason for Bayer to sanction a cheap exit. Marquinhos won't leave a CL winning PSG and Murillo looks a tough grab from Forest as well. The market for CBs is not great and we have a lot of CBs to shift - Disasi, Badiashile, Renato Veiga, Anselmino loan. Not expecting activity for a few weeks at CB

Long time left. Still have Petrovic around too

Who would you go for ? Clearlake have got far more midfield, attacking signings right than they have defensive signings. Only Cucurella is a success.

I understand Arsenal’s logic with Ekitike (to an extent our logic with Pedro). The game is going towards a rotating fluid 4-man forward line. PSG in the Champions League and Liverpool in the Premier League both played without a power forward and with four attacking players changing positions.

Arteta (Sesko) and Berta (Gyokeres) have different ideas for the striker role and now they’re going with neither!

Even though there's Liverpool interest, we could be in the conversation for Guehi because of his time here, familiarity with Colwill + the fact that he is keen to be playing regularly in a WC year. Not sure he fancies rotating with Konate at Liverpool.

Don't need to fit them all but agree with the logic - instead of spending 100m on Gittens and Neto in successive summers, we might as well have signed an elite winger by paying over the odds

Currently have 9 players in the AM and ST roles for 3 or 4 spots in the XI - Neto Madueke Estevao Palmer Gittens George Jackson Delap Guiu + not even including Mudryk Carney Sterling Nkunku Felix DDFofana Broja Deivid Kellyman Wonder if they didn't spend on some of the kids or had the sense to stay clear of Sancho and Felix, we would have the funds to go for one serious player instead of signing Gittens + Pedro for 100+ million?

Aaron Anselmino gets gametime

Do they have Oscar Cardozo on the bench? He will be a threat

Can we ask VAR to check if there was actually a lightning strike? This is ridiculous

Badiashile off