Winter transfer window

Okay, but if the incoming player is not significantly better than Hjelde, I see it as stunting his growth.

 

Yeah agreed and actually, we took a similar approach the year we got out of league 1

 

Aye, left back, can also play on the wing. Has had injury problems but is a good player

 

Hjelde is a CB tho, he has said many times that's his position. So his development isn't going to be impacted by us signing a specialised LB

We have a great chance of promotion, which is great for the development of so many of our players so we should 100% be going for it

I don't want us to just sign players for the sake of it as I'm all for developing our young players but the only other specialised LB we have that might be able to step up is Bainbridge - and imo he needs a good loan to gain more experience 1st

 

Interesting to see if he pushes for a move. He’ll fancy going to Burnley, you’d imagine

 

Is that hull city?

 

I thought this, you'd imagine it looks something like:

Burnley have bid 8 million
Hull have bid 750k

 

Realistically Bainbridge is a year off and not guaranteed good enough. A player one step ahead at left back is what we need I think, done a loan, not getting games. It’s probable they’ll get them here with Cirkin’s record. OR an older pro who can cover us for 18 months.

 

If Whittaker is going to go to Burnley we could at least do with Plymouth holding out another few days pls so he doesn't play us.

 

Not sure he’d be straight into the side anyway, Anthony has been playing well on that right hand side for Burnley. You’re right though, preferably he wouldn’t be a part of the squad

 

With our injuries I think it would be a good idea to buy one of those cryogenic things that Sam Allardyce had and our injuries seemed to be minimal.
Any player injured, just stick them in the freezer for a few hours.

 

Valued at £7M

 

Is there a reason Southampton seem to be letting all their best players leave. So strange given their league position

 

FFP could hit them HARD next season,

proper big fire sale is coming

 

The players they are letting go have been really poor and some in Walker-peters case are out of contract

They have quite a big squad so probably need to trim it anyway

 

We could do with them charging them a fortune so they can’t spend elsewhere. He’d be a good addition for us in that he scores goals from wide. However, I wouldn’t want us to spend what he’ll cost because he isn’t all that in general play.

 

I'd back O'Nien to be able to produce every bit as much attacking output as Hume, mind. I don't think there's any drop-off there if I'm honest. It's more in other stuff. Plus, Hume is incredibly robust. Left back I'd agree the dropoff is more pronounced.

 

Said it the other day

I’d love us to stick a bid in for Whittaker with a couple of players going their way too

 

Quality player, can't see how we sign him tbh - would love to have enquired tho to see how many the full deal would be (wages etc as well)

It's out of our range tho, if I was Brentford I'd be looking at him - can cover both fullback areas plus can play as a wingback