It wouldn’t be the first time we asked an Irish defender called Doherty to fill in up front.If Emerson signs we could end this window with 8 full backs/wing backs and only one out and out striker, who often misses 4-6 weeks each season through injury.
Give it 4 hours and they’ll realise bellerin is going betis and they say the Aurier deal has collapsedSky reporting Aurier could be an option for Real Betis who I thought were signing Bellerin
To be fair, I know a lot about Pacos and they are not the same team as last season. Notably because they lost players and the coach who got then 5th moved to a bigger club.
Scarlett will need to be eased in to PL football and I hope we don't get to a situation where he has expectation on him because Kane and Son are out.
Looking like another season of pinning all our goal scoring hopes on Son & Kane.
Atleast we had Bale last season to chip in with some goals.
Our defence will have to keep up this form all season if we aren’t to score many.
The assumption is probably that the overall wage budget would be the barrier, but I like to think that's not too much of a problem:I don't know why Emerson is spoken like he would prevent us getting someone else in another position. We need a right back, 2 of our current 3 are not good enough. If this so happens to be the position that we can fill today then it's good business. It won't stop us trying for other positions too. Ndombele and Aurier can sit at home playing FIFA for all I care. It will just mean some players left out of the squad for Europe. I really don't know why it matters if we have a bloated squad as long as we have enough quality.
A big meltdown by the looks of things ?After 5 days with no Virgin internet in Waltham Abbey its just come back on in time for last 12 hours of deadline day. This has to be a sign of something big happening!
Ings doesn’t fit. Nuno plays one central striker which means you’d be paying 30m plus big wages for a guy with little to no resale value who isn’t going to play outside cups unless Kane is injured. If we were going to buy a forward one who can play centrally or wide would have been the one to go forNo striker being brought in is bizarre. Still think we missed a big trick not going for Ings. We are relying on two players to score the bulk of our goals., if Son and Kane get injured we are stuffed, we have a totally raw Dane Scarlett carrying the weight of the team.
Bringing in Traore does nothing to alleviate this either, as he can't score in a brothel.
should absolutely be signing Emerson this summer. Aurier leaves next year on a free. Emerson is 30m this summer prob 50m+ next year. Tanganga can go back to CB rather than.ake shift RBIf Emerson signs we could end this window with 8 full backs/wing backs and only one out and out striker, who often misses 4-6 weeks each season through injury.
This could be a hint that we're interested in someone in the Italian league as that is open later than than ours..? ?romano fans, hes twitching all the way until midnight (CET)
or do you prefer jim white?
Scraping the barrel for outrage there a bit matey.
I can see why people think Pacos are 5th best team in Portugal but they punched above their weight and this season I expect them to finish much lower.Thanks for the info re Paco.
Oh yeah I agree we don't want to just throw him in at the deep end, but I also think if he's deemed good enough, he's old enough. Wasn't greenwood a similar age when he started breaking through at Utd?
If it's a case of waiting a year to get a proper replacement/backup for Kane of the quality of Vlahovic or Martinez I can totally understand not wanting to spend big on a stop-gap. People always moan that we have no long term planning, but signing a striker just in case Kane and Son are both out at the same time for a few weeks is pure short termism.
I don't see anyone having kittens in case Hugo and Gollini are both out at the same time, or Skipp and PEH.
Scarlett didn’t get any service at all against a mid table Portuguese side - I don’t know if he’s ready or not but you can’t tell from one shambolic team performanceYes, but probably not out of choice. As he'll have no other option but to.
Scarlett really struggled against a mid-table Portuguese side - he's not ready yet IMO.