Are we aware Amad would cost 50m+ aye? And would likely have a lot of clubs higher up start bidding as soon as one club tries?
It’s fine to wish lads, seems everyone who merely mentions wishing Amad could join just gets shouted down.
With that move in doubt we should swoop in for Fatawu cause Leicester will probably not want to lose both
Bakwa was on the bench again today, came off and got the match winning assist - 2 assists in 2 league games for the lad Id be gutted if he ended up at Leeds
I've had one, and you don't! He was holding the top of his leg I think. So it looked like a thigh or maybe groin strain.
There’s no way it’s ACL the physio was pressing his two fingers into the the groin area, they never touched his knee at any point that they showed on the TV coverage.
Why are you so weird about the Amad thing lol, 5 posts in 20 minutes telling people there's no chance. We get it, you don't think he's coming, no need to say the same thing a million times... 99% of the footballing world would have thought there was no chance we would sign Xhaka at the start of the window, too.
I have rewatched some of yesterdays lowlights and have tried to think about how we may remedy what I think our major blocker this season may, which is scoring enough goals. I appreciate of course we scored 3 agaisnt West Ham, but I still maintain they were poor and a decent keeper keeps at least one, if not two out. Yesterday it seemed to easy to nullify us, particularly second half. And I think Burnley were very very average in possession. I dont subscribe to the buy your way through the levels as most will realise from my posts. And I appreciate I am probably out of kilter. I would sooner coach what we have and add quality to it, not just buy 10 or 12 players every season we need to step up. That said, I think our business so far has left us a little lop sided in the final 3rd. So my preference now is to go for one star player who could make a crazy impact in that final 3rd. I would love it to be Harvey Elliot personally. I think he has everything we would need and as fans we would love watching his commitment as well as his talent. If he is not possible Fatawu would be someone I love watching. A bit of freedom to come off his wing and he could be terrifying to play against. I would love Nico Paz but that is fantasy stuff. I watched Grealish earlier and he just sees things so well, opens teams up. We need someone to do that for us imo. Whilst I think Adringa and Talbi are good acquisitions for the long haul, maybe someone more able to make a significant impact this season would be the game changer. They cost the big bucks, I get that, but they do so because they deliver the big moments. I am settled on going with Mayenda as our main man. I would be working so hard with our strikers in training and coaching them about the nuances in prem defending. Get Mayenda in duels with Alderete day in day out. Speaking of coaching. I want to see Rigg pushed to the fore this season. I am unsure why he wasnt brought on instead of Diarra or Sadiki after 60 mins yesterday. Neither were threatening their back line, or the spaces between the lines. When you have a porsche it would be criminal to keep it in your garage. Drive it. Rigg has the x factor folk talk about, he has the talent but also the freedom to make things happen. We are going to need him making some real contributions this season imo. I assume we are buying a CB so no point rambling on about this. One thing I would say, we need pace somewhere in that back line. We are too slow for my liking. My last ask would be we find a way to sort Neil and his contract out. Granit is the man, of course he is. But it seemed quite clear to me yesterday we are going to need alternatives at times, and in games. I dont want to be buying one when we could use and develop what we have. Whatever budget we have needs to go on the two spots I have mentioned, imo. The rest should be on getting already talented lads to stay, develop them and play them. So not difficult Kristian. Elliot and Rudiger, then a bumper contract for Neil and Rigg. Easy.
Bakwa to Leeds would be a strange one. Seems tailor made for our side. We have a strong French contingent and excellent links to his agent. It’s a lot of money but he is one that would likely be worth a lot more in the future. My Leeds mates believe we are offering higher transfer fees and wages. I’ve got a theory that Sacha T bloke on twitter gets plenty right but also is used by agents to leak stories to apply pressure to clubs. His link of Bakwa to Forest came a few days before they signed Hutchinson and Mcatee. Would love to think we are the background and it’s a case of Strasbourg trying to milk an extra mil or two out of us.
Agree with most of this, especially pace at the back though if we look to play deep a lot, that might not be too much of an issue. Of course, the game changers cost money at this level. A lot of money. I'm really surprised Elliot hasn't moved on yet. He is a belter of a player and is absolutely primed and ready for a leading position in a PL team. Probably out of our reach though. Liverpool get high prices for their players. On our own wide men, I'd like to see them, Adringa particularly, take their men on more. He is quicker than Walker is now and I think he would have skinned him if he'd went at him yesterday. He seems to lack a bit of confidence at the moment, so hopefully he'll get that. As for Rigg, I need no persuading. I can see why they don't want to load him up too early, and we don't know how much of pre- season he missed with his injury. but he is just special. It's often true that a player "gets better" when he isn't playing, and that's possibly true of Chris right now. But of all the business we might do or have done, signing him up on a new deal would be the best bit. He will find his way into the team this season, and he'll be very hard to get out IMO. Very hard.
Great post, we need an x factor player in the forward as mentioned by others. Regards being unable to score goals, I think we may have been more threatneieng in the last 30 yesterday if he'd kept the wingers on and mixed up the midfielders. think the lack of natural width and no spark in the middle killed us. Youre right tho, centre half and x factor forward. For what its worth, here's forest in their promoted season 190m spend with zero income really. Here's us and that's euros isnt it? 30 max on lucumi, 144.8 then there's 2x20 or 1x35 left comfortably imo. We havent done a leicester and spent 150m on championship players either, (yes they sold delap and hutchison) but greaves, oshea, clarke all 20m and were never getting anything back for them. I'd be shocked if we werent at 180m euro net come the window close, i doubt the club have outlayed what they have without that little bit more being planned.
