Recent content by Baggzio

7.5, but rounded to 8 for positivity. Replaced every major outgoing with a better, younger, more reliable player and added lots of attacking quality. Could be better but having known how badly things can go if you just throw money at the problem with Moshiri, think the club have been incredibly...

I love how we imagine up the worst case scenarios and not only act like it will certainly happen, but also that multiple versions of it will happen. We are a PL squad without Europe, you realistically need 15 decent players you can rely on, that's it. There is absolutely no team in our position...

Might as well get each of these their own thread now

I'd also be curious if he'd look at a back 3 of Tarkowski, O'Brien and Branthwaite, then use wingbacks, which probably suits the squad a lot more. When fully fit we're fine, it's the depth and injuries that really could mess with that, as we're seeing now.

I'm in the middle a bit on it, but I get why, I think it's fair to say everyone likes Branthwaite, but other than him there's real question marks on the rest. I really like Tarkowski tbh, but he's had a bad start and others don't like him. Every other defender we have visually doesn't pass the...

O'Brien was probably always planned as the starting right back. Outside of Tete at the start we've really not looked for one at all, and all the links seemed to be central defenders. Bit of noise when Patterson was set to go but get the impression it wasn't really an area we were ever properly...

Berlin? He's not Swiss, Rohl?

Looks like it'll be at least 2, and maybe up to 4 today. Very promising window for the rest of the season, but I'd doubt a starting RB comes today, Moyes clearly likes O'Brien and with Patterson not leaving, along with Coleman, he'll probably think it's fine. Not ideal at all, but do think so...

Not bad

Yeah but that's only because we have spent no money in half a decade? I'd have to look into it but I'd be fairly confident we'd have a bottom half PL record signing, there are easily 10 clubs that have bigger. I'm not basing it off of one game obviously, this is more of a Gareth Barry signing...

We have to get past this notion that £50m is some massive number these days, it's not. Madueke is a £50m player, Wolves just turned down £50m+ for a player today. It's not a big amount for a transfer anymore, fairly standard PL fee these days, which I know is mental.

Is it? We have negotiated the option for a reason, and ability wise he's obviously well ahead of everyone else in the squad. Assuming all things go well and his wages aren't an issue (given what's reported, they aren't and that's a reason he's here now) then it'd be a pretty fair thing to predict?

I'm assuming that we'll be buying Grealish for probably £40m-£50m at the end of the loan.

Dibling, Grealish and Ndiaye, only around £90m collectively. Not bad value at all in this day and age. All going well, you make most of this back on selling Dibling in a few years anyways, and that's how a healthy club outside of the 6 have to operate.

Soucek seems a no brainer really, for the right fee. Not a player we'll ever get a sale for of course, but a very solid player who'd have no problem playing well into 34/35. Him, Dibling and a right back would be decent business for us, try to fill loans elsewhere then.