He might thrive under Howe, but he has had a good manager at Villa and went backwards. They had to sign another though, so we'll see soon enough I suppose. I still wonder at them selling Anderson, whatever the numbers said or didn't say.
Doukoure being frozen out at Strasbourg, has been linked to Chelsea this summer - seems to fit our model to a tee Young exciting CB with huge upside Id def take him or Lucumi if we are after another CB (i think we will be) We should be speaking to Strasbourg about Bakwa as well, started on the bench today but did come on and set up a goal
The things I would do to get him back I’d happily deal with Roberts on the right for a few weeks if it means that the player that made me fall back in love with football returns. especially since for medical reasons I couldn’t get to a game while he was here
Wonder if we’d have to make a little bit through sales first to even have a chance of this - thinking like if we sold a Dan Neil for 25m, for example
Less than a year on his contract so 25m is pretty unlikely. I’d like him to stay but if he went it’d be more like 12m at the most.
Yeah they agreed then bought 2 wide players instead. I thought Como had agreed a fee earlier im the window too. Edit. Maybe it was McAtee and Hutchinson
Think we’d do well to get even half of that for Dan. The wage bill could be a bigger sticking point rather than what we have left to spend. I doubt our net spend is 100m. We could probably afford him, we may think he’d be a luxury signing when there’s still a couple of places we need to prioritise in the squad. It could be a season too early for him. He’s more of an upgrade signing, at the moment.
Think our net is probably about 110m. I think we’d push for the right big signing but otherwise I reckon there’s a loan and one permanent signing. Think we’ll try to be within 125 net so we have some scope in Jan if needed.
Def the priority position for me, I do want another CB but the fact we brought 2 CMs to play on the wings on Saturday shows we need at least 1 winger in