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20 May 2025 23:49:52
Hi Ed,
Do you know if we have any interest in Chris Rigg?
Cheers.
{Ed001's Note - yes we do.}
1.) 21 May 2025 09:33:42
He looks like an excellent prospect.
2.) 21 May 2025 09:42:20
Would love to let him him have another season at Sunderland especially if they are promoted. Ed what are your thoughts of those kind of deals where you buy them in 12 months time?
Feels like if it’s the right style of football it allows them to grow.
{Ed001's Note - I can see the merits in them but I don't like loans, it feels like it is falsely altering the competitiveness of football. I would ban all loans.}
3.) 21 May 2025 10:26:16
That’s a widely shared opinion Ed001. I’m friends with a couple of club owners and it’s a gripe they have.
{Ed001's Note - it can also be used to develop a culture of 'favours' like happened in Italy.}
4.) 21 May 2025 10:41:28
That’s an interesting concept of banning loans, however feels like you would need to get blanket bans across Europe vs isolated to UK?
Would definitely stop these farming that the likes of Chelsea do.
{Ed001's Note - UEFA have already begun cutting the number allowed.}
5.) 21 May 2025 11:34:36
Like what a certain sir said" i buy for x mil and chuck him in reserves"
6.) 21 May 2025 12:36:23
I think it’s good if you have some youngsters who can get experience from. Maybe only have it for certain age groups.
7.) 21 May 2025 12:37:04
Banning loans would only work if we adopted a system like Spain where you having lower league second teams. Kids only develop playing competitive football and playing in the reserves isn’t competitive enough.
{Ed001's Note - or they could just do what used to happen, before big clubs hoarded them, and join lower league clubs. Those clubs can then make money off developing and selling them on and make themselves more competitive.}
8.) 21 May 2025 12:58:56
Plus loans leave the door open for clubs like Chelsea to hoover up loads of young talent then loan them out repeatedly, ofte to the detriement of their development and careers, players never kicking a ball form them and playing for 5-6 different clubs in 5 years.
17 May 2025 17:30:15
Ed do you expect De Bruyne to end up at Napoli or do you think it's one we could push for?
I know a lot on here say his legs have gone, they aren't wrong, but I would love him at LFC. Klopp built a squad who were top professionals willing to put a shift in and I think he would carry on that culture. Wirtz would be awesome but maybe block minutes for Szbo, I think De Bruyne would be great rotation option for 2 years.
{Ed001's Note - we are not signing him.}
1.) 17 May 2025 17:42:05
Ahh no worries man. Cheers for reply. Enjoy the sun bud ?.
{Ed001's Note - cheers mate, you too.}
2.) 17 May 2025 18:05:20
It’s not going to happen, but if it did, there’s Gary mcalister vibes about it. Think he’d be great giving the midfielders 20 minutes at the end of the game. He is after all a premier league all time best 11 in my view.
3.) 17 May 2025 18:14:06
Nothing like MacAlister, Gary Mac played a full 38 game season before he joined us and didn’t look his age out on the pitch, his fitness levels were fantastic for his age and he had no injury issues, the same can’t be said for De Bruyne.
4.) 17 May 2025 18:45:12
If he accepted a massive wage drop and was happy to be on bench/ occasionally starting. I would take him for a year. But it’s not going to happen. He’s not got legs to be a starter every week in prem.
5.) 17 May 2025 18:53:43
KDB is better than Szobo even at this stage in his career. I’d sign him in an instant if we could.
6.) 17 May 2025 21:10:18
He looked absolutely finished today, move on. De Bruyne js rinsed. There’s nothing left in the tank.
7.) 17 May 2025 21:10:53
I agree frode. The guy oozes class and can't believe so many wouldn't take him at the club. Doesn't look likes it's happening tho.
8.) 17 May 2025 21:25:04
De bruyne couldn't lace Gary’s macs boots.
{Ed025's Note - De Bruyne was and in fact still is 100 times better than Gary Mc ever was L29....lay off the drugs mate..
9.) 17 May 2025 22:13:33
Wonderful player gary mac, we should've bought him 10 years before we did.
10.) 17 May 2025 22:40:04
Ask yourself why City aren’t trying to keep him.
11.) 18 May 2025 01:57:34
Are there any other old and knackered players that the third-placed team could offer the Champions for 300k a week?
Transfer window is looking desperate before it’s even open.
12.) 18 May 2025 07:51:16
I think the reason city aren’t keeping de bruyne is because of too many injuries, pace has massively gone, they have silva who is 30, gundigan 33 so the midfield age is quite high, oh and the 400k a week.
13.) 17 May 2025 23:36:15
De bruyne is NOT currently no where near Szoboszlai.
14.) 18 May 2025 13:04:36
I'm pretty damn certain that slot himself would prefer szoboszlai over the current de bruyne every day of the week. And anyway, I really do believe that we're trying to go for wirtz, so maybe szoboszlai will move to one of the pivot positions and that's our midfield sorted for next year.
06 May 2025 20:19:11
Hi Ed,
Geertruida rumours picked up today. Haven't seen him play but on paper the move makes sense. Versatile option who could back up Bradkey and who knows Slot well.
Do you know if there is any truth in the rumours? And if you've seen any of him do you think he would be a good signing?
Cheers.
{Ed001's Note - it would have made more sense last summer, when he moved to RBL. This season he has struggled I believe, so it is possible he could be available but I haven't heard anything sorry.}
1.) 06 May 2025 20:55:56
No worries man thanks for the reply!
2.) 06 May 2025 22:57:53
Well, he's still having his inside leg taken in Signature Bespoke. It's taking a while as he dresses to the right. Looks like he'll need the long shorts.
02 May 2025 17:59:08
Ed001 or Macca is either of you are about.
Do you expect us to go back in for Osimhen in the summer? See reports we were very close in January as Macca had alluded to.
{Ed001's Note - I am sure we will revisit it yes.}
1.) 02 May 2025 18:12:51
Cheers for reply mate ? don't know much about him but would seem an upgrade on what we have atm.
2.) 02 May 2025 18:41:15
145 goals in 260 professional games suggests he is a pretty decent player. There are attitude questions but he was treated pretty crappily by Napoli hence the reason he forced his way out. Story goes that his wage demands aren’t as extreme as has been reported. I’d give him a go, he’s got to be a better option than Jota/ Nunez again, he could replace both those players TBH.
3.) 02 May 2025 19:41:17
Ed001 so are those rumours that we very nearly signed him in January true? Took it with quite the pinch of salt when I heard it.
{Ed001's Note - I don't know about nearly signing him, we did try and get a deal done, yes.}
4.) 02 May 2025 20:05:25
Napoli treated him poorly, they even posted racist/ racially insensitive stuff about him on their own social media. Most of the attitude problems seem to be people moaning he wants to leave Napoli and wants to earn as much as possible. Don’t blame the lad.
I’d have him in a heart beat think he’d take us to the next level.
5.) 02 May 2025 20:14:36
He’s very average, same level as Darwin tbh.
6.) 02 May 2025 20:42:36
He’s the IDEAL United signing. A very expensive problem.
7.) 02 May 2025 20:52:20
It would not be hard to improve on Jota, for whom we'd likely get 40m. All you'd have to do it stay fit.
8.) 02 May 2025 20:53:25
He wants £400k a week and a very large signing on fee and his agent also wants a very large payment too.
He was happy to throw away a year of his career in a farmers league over his stupid wage demands. Don’t want that mercenary anywhere near the club, though thankfully his wage demands will be end of any interest.
9.) 02 May 2025 21:21:49
@victor that's my gut feeling as well. I can't speak of how good he is because I haven't seen him play but I did think it was strange hiw he went to Turkey when he had his pick of top clubs.
But if its true Napoli treated him poorly then I'm maybe wrong. I'll back the lad if he signs.
10.) 02 May 2025 21:23:04
He would score a bundle of goals with us. I don't think the club would bring him in on 400k a week, and nor should they. It's an obscene amount to look for, earn it. Like Salah, VVD, Robbo, Ali etc. Earn you're high wage by working hard.
11.) 02 May 2025 22:04:21
Any top striker is going to be wanting north of 250k a week. Gyokeres, Isak, Osimhen, Alvarez.
12.) 02 May 2025 22:13:16
A lot of good players have tried that same farmers leagues during their careers. Not saying i want him but he's a better option than this seasons versions of Nunez/ Jota. I just want improvement in the areas we choose to strengthen. He knows where the goal is and we wouldn't be bringing him in on anything near 400k a week. i'd rather isak/ cunha but doesn't look like either are on the cards and we need a real No.9 this year.
13.) 02 May 2025 23:47:29
Huh, interesting. Cheers Ed.
{Ed001's Note - very welcome mate.}
14.) 03 May 2025 03:18:18
There's no ifs about it. Napoli treated him poorly. Posting the racist video about him and doubling down on it just proves it. I'm a bit hesitant about his rumoured wage demands though but his attitude while playing in Turkiye has been good. He still gives his all and puts in effort despite playing in a supposed farmer's league. He could have taken it easy there and just gone through the motions so the fact that he still worked hard over there is a green flag in my book.
15.) 03 May 2025 06:53:43
How’s he like Darwin? He scores loads of goals! Love how people hear a rumour about attitude and then right him off! How did that work out for Mane? Some people need to stop reading stuff and then palming it off as their own knowledge.
16.) 03 May 2025 07:29:23
Another oportunistic / 'clever' signing by ted hughes and co?
17.) 03 May 2025 07:29:54
Darwin scored loads of goals in Portugal.
He’s just not that good, his control is average and that counts for a lot in the premier league.
His decisions are average too, very much like Darwin.
His finishing is nothing special.
He’d be a colossal gamble and I think there is much better options.
18.) 03 May 2025 07:35:01
I think he is a similar player as Darwin as far as the function that he would play in the team goes, he is a pure 9 and a finisher whose job is purely to get in behind and stretch the back line or get on the end of crosses. The assumption getting a striker like him in is that you have everything set up behind him to create lots of chances for him to score. I'm not so down about his finishing as some on here, I think he actually does very well with very few chances, look at the goals he has scored for Napoli and you see a lot of first time finishes hit with power, even at difficult angles. Plus he is probably even faster than Darwin, his pace is absolutely frightening, he is very smart in the runs he makes and positions he takes up to make defenders think they have enough of a head start on him, and he is absolutely elite in the air despite only being 6'1, some of the jumps you see him make in either box are insane, he has a ridiculous vertical jump. He is one of the fastest forwards I have ever seen, to be honest.
If we go for him it would be an interesting choice given Trent is likely leaving, we need to find a solution to make up for the creativity Trent provides to supply the front line.
Osimhen has decent linkup play with his back to goal but he isn't at all the kind to drop deep in build up. Also he loves to receive the ball or run through the right sided channel that mo and Conor use. The kinds of goals he scores are 95% plus in the box, he doesn't have the variety of an isak, he is very much a classic striker and a predator in the box. If we go for him it would be as an upgrade on Darwin rather than as a change of direction in the sort of 9 we want.
19.) 03 May 2025 08:13:19
@Ron, spot on, players can flatter to deceive in “lesser” leagues for want of a better word. A player can have an excellent touch and control in a slow paced league or in a league where players have space and time, but without the capability to lift their game when the pace is faster, marking is tighter and the space is closed down very, very quickly the same player can look very irdinary because their technique goes out the window.
20.) 03 May 2025 11:44:21
@Victor can you confirm what the player and the player’s agent want in terms of signing-on and agent percentage fees respectively? Can you let us know your source because, at present, to someone not ITK it sounds a bit like unsubstantiated, vague guesswork.
21.) 03 May 2025 12:10:08
WDW, I’m expecting great things in response to this question….
22.) 03 May 2025 13:08:50
If a striker plays in the lesser leagues, it’s then imperative that they have CL/ international pedigree, you’re saying? Does someone like Jonathan David have that, because he’s 25, on a free, and scores a rubbish ton for his country and Lille?
23.) 03 May 2025 14:35:00
Remember, that Osimehn would have to play AFCON. Not ideal losing 2/ 3s of your first choice forward line in the middle of a season.
In order of preference for me:
1. Isak
2. Alvarez
3. Cunha
After that we're down to Ekitike, Dhuran, Sesko, Delap and Osimehn who would be riskier buys for different reasons. Not sure on Gyokeres myself.
24.) 03 May 2025 15:27:49
Jonathan David has been pretty much dismissed by folks on this site Mr Scrabble. I certainly wouldn’t be averse to giving him a try on a free. He can’t be any worse than £70m Nunez and £40m Jota have been this season.
25.) 03 May 2025 16:36:21
Alvarez is not coming to England again. Isak is too much and may get CL at Newcastle, and Cunha is quite far advanced with Man U. I agree that David may be a step below, but I’m struggling to see any of the usual suspects coming. It’ll be someone off radar perhaps. Mbeumo and Osimhen are AFCON-bound.
26.) 03 May 2025 22:40:59
Darwin scored loads of goals in Portugal in one season.
Either Darwin over performed that one season and has underperformed the rest or he’s just at his level and had one good season like many other strikers have.
27.) 04 May 2025 07:05:09
To be fair to Darwin the season before he exploded he showed all the attributes of being on the cusp of a breakout season, the same as he did last year under klopp. At almeria it was the same. He hasn't been what we expected but it annoys me a bit that people on here call him crap, in many aspects he has elite and singular qualities, it's just the mental and emotional side of the game that he is really lacking in terms of composure and maturity. He is also not the most adaptable of players, he was bought to play one way and not another.
Also I think jk makes a valid point about the misplaced comparison between osimhen and Darwin, osimhen has been steadily realising the promise he has shown even as a 17 year old at the youth world cup, and has maintained that level for a number of years now. He is frightening on an athletic level, is a killer in the box, the vast majority of his shots and goals are high quality chances and is one of the best at attacking the ball in the air.
23 Feb 2025 21:33:17
Maybe I'm reading too much into it but I thought it was telling that Slot didn't trust to bring on Jota or Darwin today. Both will be gone in the summer I would imagine.
Maybe doak takes one of their places and we sign a cf for the other place.
1.) 23 Feb 2025 21:46:07
I agree that both will be gone in the summer. Interesting to see who comes in as replacements. Lot of people fancy Cunha but have to say haven’t seen much of him.
2.) 23 Feb 2025 21:48:46
Mbeumo is a possibility if Mo doesn’t stay, with Cunha looking likely because of his buy out clause. I think Mo will stay, but if he didn’t a front five including those two Diaz and Cody, and Jota would still be very strong.
3.) 23 Feb 2025 22:06:57
Personally my shopping list would be
Lewis Hall
Cunha
Baleba
That would be an amazing window for me. I haven't mentioned Isak as he think he’s out of reach financially, can’t see us spending over 100 m on a single player. However, if he wasn’t I’d take him over cunha. M’beumo would also be a good addition.
Two signings that might be punts, tatty castellanos could work in the pl, as could guirassy.
I do think we will sign three players in these positions regardless.
4.) 23 Feb 2025 22:24:18
I can see Mo staying, both Jota and Nunez both going (£100-£130m depending on if Saudi are interested in either or both), I would like to see Doak given a chance (along with Danns) but likely both of them probably in the cups and as subs.
I'm on the fence about Diaz. I would like to see him sign a new contract (as I believe he is contracted until 2027) but if he doesn't I could see him going too.
That would be quite some shake up, losing 3 of our front 6, with Chiesa also not yet having established his place. I think it's more likely that 2 go, and Diaz stays (even if he doesn't sign an extension) .
I could see us bringing in 2 non-academy players. Cunha looks most likely - PL ready and with a realistic buy out clause. Mbeumo is one I have always liked as well, also PL proven and still a decent age - 25. From overseas, I still hold out hope that Bakayoko could develop into a player. Left footed right winger (so one for the future to alternate with Mo and Doak) and known to Slot.
No insider info, just my view.
5.) 23 Feb 2025 23:55:52
I think it was simply that the game situation didn’t call for a Nunez or Jota. The 2 10s was working and allowed us to close the gaps in midfield and force City out wide to their 2 skillful wingers with no end product.
It was amazing that Doku had Trent on toast from minute one but still managed to not create a single chance of note. That’s an impressive lack of end product.
Savinho was just as bad on the other side.
It looked like our gameplan was to allow them to have the ball knowing that if we could isolate their centre backs against Mo and Diaz on the break with Szob and Curtis supporting them we could have some joy and we did. Having the 2 10s allowed Grav and Macca to stay back so we never had to over commit.
Listening to Slot afterwards though it sounds like it wasn’t so much the gameplan but just that City controlled the ball so we had to defend them and take our chances to break when they came.
Whatever it was it was an extremely comfortable afternoon.
6.) 24 Feb 2025 00:43:51
I really don't get the infatuation with Doak. I get that his is pacey but have seen no real end product from him and he is very small.
7.) 24 Feb 2025 02:26:40
Doak torched gvardiol in an international game and scored earlier this year, also been key for Middlesbrough this season before injury apparently.
Doku is such a nothing player, he's adama traore the second coming.
8.) 24 Feb 2025 05:45:45
You keep thinking that @RLL. Nunez had a kick up the backside from the manager - it would seem he didn’t put in enough on the training ground to get any game time.
9.) 24 Feb 2025 09:30:05
Was that also the reason why Jota was sat on the bench next to Nunez throughout the game, WDW?
I personally agree with RLL but hey, you're still open to have your own opinion on things.
10.) 24 Feb 2025 09:55:18
I don't think it was anything to do with trust. Just game management. Why bring on a striker when you are 2-0 up and defending a lead? It was a deliberate tactic to play with 2 10s rather than a striker.
If Gakpo is fit enough to start on Wednesday I suspect Slot will revert back to Salah, Diaz, Gakpo but if Gakpo is not fit enough to start it's possible that with the game won he was resting Jota with a start for him on Wednesday in mind.
11.) 24 Feb 2025 11:07:39
Agree with RobboLL - it was purely a game strategy thing. City away, so we played 2 10’s to block them playing through the midfield, and two pacy wingers to counterattack. Going 2 nil up meant we didn’t need to bring on a striker and so Endo came on to manage the game to the end (which he did excellently, dropping into a back 5 at times to give extra protection if the wingers beat one of our fullbacks) .
There will be other games where a Jota or Nunez are used, although I suspect Nunez may well have blotted his copy book too many times now with Aston Villa, which may prove to be the final straw (as much as I still love the guy for his enthusiasm) .
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19 May 2025 13:38:15
Hi Ed, with the rumours of Kerkez picking up I wondered if you knew who this was to replace? Tsimi or Robbo? And has there been interest in either of these two?
I had hoped we would go for Hato, do you think if Kerkez signs that will be our only addition at LB.
Cheers.
{Ed001's Note - looks to be Tsimi right now, it is unlikely an offer would come in to make it worth selling Robbo.}
1.) 19 May 2025 14:14:51
I think Hato is more of a Huijsen alternative than a Kerkez alternative. He's playing LB because he's young, but he's very much a CB. He'd be perfect if we decide we need to replace Quansah or Gomez.
2.) 19 May 2025 14:17:28
Thanks mate. Personally I hope you are right, it will be a sad day when Robbo leaves.
3.) 19 May 2025 15:35:09
Robbos agent is trents infamous brother. Robbo deserves a spell at celtic. Be a great way to end his career. Some club celtic is especially for a scot.
4.) 19 May 2025 16:52:27
So it's Trent's brother that is the next whipping boy now. Good grief.
28 Feb 2025 23:14:38
Hi Ed.
Nobody in the world can replace salah for us right now. but who do you think would be a good signing when he leaves in the summer?
If he was available at a decent price I'd like Bowen but maybe someone like kubo more attainable. Interested to know your thoughts.
Cheers.
{Ed001's Note - to be honest, the best signing would be Salah for a couple more years. Otherwise you are looking at a huge drop off in quality. Maybe someone like Mbeumo could make do with. There just isn't an outstanding candidate out there.}
1.) 01 Mar 2025 00:51:02
Kubo has plateaued over the last couple of years unfortunately.
2.) 01 Mar 2025 07:05:02
And the two strings BR?
3.) 01 Mar 2025 08:45:17
It's Mbeumo or Bakayoko for me.
Bowen would have been nice but for his age.
4.) 01 Mar 2025 10:24:51
Nigerred sorry, I do not rate any of those guys you mentioned respectfully. Might as well give Salah whatever he wants (which I am against, btw) to keep him if those were the options out there. Just my opinion.
13 Jul 2025 10:34:29
I'd be disappointed if Robbo left, especially to Saudi. Hendo's move there hasn't worked out too well for him, surely would put the likes of Robbo off?
09 Jul 2025 22:25:31
Cheers MK and Ed.
Seems like he may be a decent shout then. I had thought Osimhen would be pretty clinical in our system but that that's not going to happen now.
If I had to guess I would say we will end up someone like Stassin until Isak becomes available next season. Personally I prefer that than paying big money for ekitike.
09 Jul 2025 13:28:59
@MK how do you rate Ferran Torres for our squad? I can only remember seeing him at city and did think then he had something about him. Is he primarily a striker or LW now?
{Ed077's Note - I'm not MK but he'd a make a decent Chiesa replacement but would, in all likelihood, be way too expensive for that
29 Jun 2025 22:54:19
Bad move for Pedro I think.
19 Jun 2025 23:22:07
Haven't watched much of Palace but Guehi impressed me at the euros last year, thought he was England's best player. I'm irish and I would rarely compliment any English players performance!
Hes a certain upgrade on Quansah imo and I would be very pleased with the signing around the 40mil mark.
13 Jul 2025 10:38:12
Robbie Fowler?
12 Jul 2025 19:39:57
Didn't watch him last season but the season before I saw him a few ganes and he was absolutely outstanding. Would love him to sign.
06 Jul 2025 21:15:03
Proper Donegal lad so he is. Fair play to him, they don't make many footballers with his genuine humility much any more.
{Ed025's Note - the guy is an absolute diamond Bmena..
29 Jun 2025 23:07:30
He's had a hard rap on here, including from ed01, who is usually spot on. but I like the signing of Guehi if it goes through and if we can also resign Konate. Massive massive upgrade on Quansah and still with room to improve.
24 year old club captain with more than 100 games in the prem and more than 20nat international level. Not to be sniffed at. Added to that he seems like a good lad with who doesn't bother with the social media circus. I'll take him at LFC any day of the week.
26 Jun 2025 20:03:52
Kabak and Rhys Williams were very very poor from memory. but Philips always looked the part. I felt Klopp's decision to continue to play the high line really cost us ultimately.