Genuinely think he will be back at some point
Genuinely think he will be back at some point
Yeah, fair point. I’d still like to see more cover at RB because relying on Godfrey or Holgate to cover Patterson and an ageing Coleman isn’t ideal, but maybe we’d be better off with a specialist LB who can occasionally switch to the right rather than the other way round.While I don't think he's a bad player at all, I don't think he's what we need
We have Patterson who is maturing and, I would expect, we'll give Coleman another year - they sort out the right back areas
It's a specialist left back we need - Mykolenko just about does a job there, but he makes my eyes bleed with the ball at his feet.
Walker-Peters is a decent player, but he's right-footed and he wouldn't be enough of an upgrade at left back.
I don't have a name for you, but I'm hoping the club has a specialist left back in mind if we manage to stay up and are allowed to spend some money - that's quite apart from needing another striker, another wide player, a centre back (given Mina and Coady are off and Holgate needs punting) and ideally someone with a little bit of quality on the ball in centre mid.
gomes is a tricky oneGuess I’m going to look for positives in that…
Mina
Gomes
Who account for about £230k a week will be off the books. That’s just shy of £12m a year saved.
Would expect a few others out, which leaves a nice big chunk of ages available (if we can).
He's shambolicHope we don't go back in for Maitland Niles FFS !!!
The most likely scenario with Gomes is that Nice might offer him 2.5m a year for 3 or 4 years and we’d demand a small fee of, say 5m, then give 2.5 to Gomes ourselves to take him up to the 5m he’d earn next year.gomes is a tricky one
he has another year left on his contract which means someone has to pay actual money to sign him
he's have a great season on loan to a french club but i very much doubt that the french club are paying his full wages
if gomes is to join them he'd have to take a significant wage cut
would he do that?
I think he will stay there, they seem to want it and he seems to have found a new lease of life in France, something will happen there imo.The most likely scenario with Gomes is that Nice might offer him 2.5m a year for 3 or 4 years and we’d demand a small fee of, say 5m, then give 2.5 to Gomes ourselves to take him up to the 5m he’d earn next year.
We arguably have the best run in thereAfter week 35:
20th Southampton- 24 points . .-33 goal difference
Fulham- Home
Brighton- Away
Liverpool- Home
19th Leeds-30 points . . . . -25 goal difference
Newcastle- Home
West Ham - Away
Tottenham- Home
18th Leicester- 30 points . . . -15 goal difference.
Liverpool- Home
Newcastle- Away
West Ham- Home
17th Everton- 32 points . . . .-21 goal difference
Man City- Home
Wolves- Away
Bournemouth- Home
16th Nottingham Forest- 33 points . . . .-31 goal difference
Chelsea-Away
Arsenal- Home
Palace- Away
Coady still has a say though I assume? 4m for a backup CB is reasonable but given he came for first team football I’m not sure he comes when Dyche clearly doesn’t fancy him that much. It’s also another big wage to take on even though the fee is reasonable.GK: Pickford/Tyrer
LB: NEW/Myko
CB: Branthwaite/Coady
CB: Tarkowski/Godfrey
RB: Patterson/NEW
CDM: Onana/Gana
CM: Garner/Warrington
CM: NEW/Doucs?
LW: McNeil/Gray/Nkounkou(if he hasn't got a clause)
ST: NEW/Dom/Cannon
RW: Iwobi/Mills
Granted we stay in the PL I would go for this personally. I would activate Coady's £4m release clause.
Sadly we just don't have the money for 4-5 new solid players unless we take risks from abroad.
I have a weird feeling Leeds will get points at home against Newcastle and Spurs (based on nothing really!).We arguably have the best run in there
Coady still has a say though I assume? 4m for a backup CB is reasonable but given he came for first team football I’m not sure he comes when Dyche clearly doesn’t fancy him that much. It’s also another big wage to take on even though the fee is reasonable.
TBH I’d be more inclined to risk offering the 4m to Yerry for a one year extension and see what he says. Unlike Coady he instantly improves the first team.