JDY

Cherki is on another planet in terms of key passes/progressive passes/chances created compared to our wingers/attacking midfielders. There is no one in our squad like him.

You say no more creative players like we have creative players in the attack. ALL of our wingers prefer to dribble and cross. Just look at the second half earlier it was rinse repeat the same attacking pattern over and over. Having a goalscorer would do nothing against a low block like that when we are just aimlessly crossing. We are in desperate need of an attacking midfielder who has elite creativity. Someone who can thread a ball that no one sees. Until then it will be the same as West Ham, and a goalscorer fixes none of that.

Forget Lavia and Adams. Caicedo/Ugochukwu - Enzo/Santos

Caicedo is more transformative for our team than getting two lesser, more inexperienced midfielders. We only have ourselves to blame that its got to this stage. Its nice to see a player with desire to come here though. Pretty unprecedented for a transfer of this level, a British record fee, for a player to hesitate and wait for the club he wanted to join.

Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't Lavia a similar profile to Enzo and Santos, ie more of a deep-lying playmaker? We're looking for a partner for Enzo not a lesser version of him. There is no scenario where this is redeemable now.

We fucked around in a position where we couldn't afford to fuck around, twice. First with Ugarte and now this. We're about to go into the season with a midfield average age of 12.

Keep seeing comments about how Sanchez commands his box but whenever I saw him for Brighton he was an absolute clown when facing crosses. Misjudging, flapping.. Not sure I like the transfer, especially from Brighton.

Onana vs Ugo when they were both 19 years old, in Ligue 1. You can definitely see that Ugochukwu is more of a 'project' signing.

Caicedo looks far better on the ball than I thought he was. Shame him and his agent have a had a mare, dumb and dumber. Shouldn't be playing if he was so intent on a move.

Jackson's first time passes are so crisp and clean. We finally have a striker who doesn't fall over their feet doing the most basic stuff. Tears in my eyes.

Seen a few Lyon matches on TV and every time he's looked absolute quality, the closest to Hazard in pure talent from a young player. But he's quite slow and does no defensive work. Might not work with Poch, or most top clubs.

The pitch is pretty awful but his link up play is still really clean in terms of both technique and game intelligence to bring others into play. This is all I ask for as a minimum from a striker. 👌

You can never fully tell from clips but he looks class on the ball, someone who even if they aren't scoring can contribute in matches. Reminds me a bit of Anelka and he was one of my favourite players in the modern era. Also has similar movements with his body when dribbling to Mousa Dembele (Spurs one) when he was playing as a striker for AZ. Anyone seen more of him?

That was against Palace away I believe. Pretty much sums Havertz up. He's a player capable of producing moments of amazing technique.... once or twice per season. And that's what they are, moments. We need this technique in his general play whether it be dribbling, creative passing, ball retention in general over the whole 90 minutes, week in week out. I could forgive the lack of goals/creativity if he did atleast that.