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25 Jun 2025 16:33:04
Is Nunez to Napoli dependant on them managing to sell their striker first?
13 Jun 2025 09:58:52
Is there a situation where Robertson leaves so he gets first team football and one of beck or chambers becomes back up?
1.) 13 Jun 2025 10:22:31
Robertson will get plenty of first team games.
Slot rotates his FB, 8’s and forwards.
Beck and Chambers are nowhere near his level yet.
2.) 13 Jun 2025 10:29:33
We re signing Wirtz. Fair to say anything is possible.
3.) 13 Jun 2025 10:53:12
Not selling Robbo this summer makes sense as it’s one less thing to do this summer and it provides a bit of consistency in the squad in terms of personnel. Robbo is also part of the leadership team within the squad.
Although if he really wanted to move on I don’t think the club would stand in his way after his contribution to the club.
4.) 13 Jun 2025 11:13:58
He only has 1 year left so I can see us keeping him and letting him go for free next summer.
5.) 13 Jun 2025 11:37:52
That would be my guess Longthing.
Possibly even a 1yr extension if he proves he can still play at the level required even as a back up.
He himself might want to move on though at some stage.
11 Jun 2025 16:08:52
Quansah to leverkusen €50m
1.) 11 Jun 2025 16:15:06
€50 Million?!?! Christ, we've taken Wirtz and Frimpong then pulled their pants down with €50M for Quansah!
2.) 11 Jun 2025 16:18:41
???.
3.) 11 Jun 2025 16:40:01
If that’s true I’ll be amazed
Up the pool.
4.) 11 Jun 2025 16:45:12
Sounds about right to me. €50 million is about £42 million, that's likely the total fee so it's probably something like £30 million initial with £12 million add ons. That's similar to what City paid Lens for that Uzbeki lad in January.
5.) 11 Jun 2025 17:13:43
Yeah, Thunderbird, we're, in the main, not phased by 3 times that for Wirtz, but Quansah, for all that he is not suited to our style of play, can be a decent CB in a more defensive line. He has the physical attributes and he has come up through our youth system, both of which add value.
6.) 11 Jun 2025 18:51:15
Manure want £77 million for Garnacho, Arsenal are keen at that price! Morning papers say LFC is interested in Martinelli! one hopes not! same for "Gordons Gin" also!
7.) 11 Jun 2025 20:11:02
Silly prices for some crap players named there, when compared to them i don't see the amazement in €50m for Quansah.
04 May 2025 09:46:59
Has our interest in Hato cooled?
1.) 04 May 2025 12:40:09
Hope not, maybe an under the radar signing.
2.) 04 May 2025 12:53:00
He’s not really what you’d call under the radar. According to De Telegraaf Chelsea have started negotiations to sign him so given previous recent history he’ll probably go there for a seven year prison sentence.
3.) 04 May 2025 13:43:37
I suspect it's all about priorities. Sounds like we like him, but might not see him as an immediate solution.
Chelsea have Colwill and Cucurella is one of their better players, so not quite sure what they want to do with Hato other than horde young players.
4.) 05 May 2025 10:05:51
In all fairness Viktor, the players that we are going to be linked with are going to be linked with other top clubs as well. It's extremely unlikely that we are going to be linked with a completely unknown player that other clubs would not go for. So to suggest that a player is not coming to us because of links to other clubs is a bit shortsighted.
08 Apr 2025 15:04:47
Any interest in Gittens sounds like he’s going to be leaving Dortmund.
1.) 08 Apr 2025 15:50:20
He seems to have a higher ceiling than Gordon, and we are going to need English players when trent, Elliott and Gomez leave.
2.) 08 Apr 2025 16:19:29
Gittens will not be HG, Vango. He's been in Dortmund since he was 16 and he will be 20/ 21 (birthday in August) by the time he joins another team.
Although he will qualify as U21 for the 25-26 season, after that he will be non-HG, unfortunately.
3.) 08 Apr 2025 16:04:45
Gittens will not count as homegrown player!
4.) 08 Apr 2025 16:33:57
Sorry, he signed for Dortmund on his 17th birthday and he will be signing for his next club a month or so before his 21st. Either way, he won't have spent 3 years between the ages of 16-21 at an English club, which is what you need to qualify as HG.
5.) 08 Apr 2025 16:40:36
He is a very good player with a lot of potential. He has also already been linked to us by a few media outlets, would probably depend on our ability to move someone on (namely Diaz if that is the plan) .
6.) 08 Apr 2025 17:33:20
Zeddicus - Thanks for clearing that up. Looks good from the little i've seen. City's academy has been somewhat of a production line, it seems.
7.) 08 Apr 2025 18:01:01
Looks like he has a high ceiling, definitely shown enough and has the raw materials. But would he hinder Ngumoha? We seem to rate him very highly, I know Ngumoha is 16 but Gittens is only 20 himself. Still in favour of the signing. If Diaz does leave we would be short a wide receiver who just run at the opposition so I would be open to it.
8.) 08 Apr 2025 18:43:16
Tbf we shouldn’t worry too much about HG quota since Slot doesn’t seem to care about using more than around 15-18 players.
9.) 08 Apr 2025 22:40:03
Strong Jadon Sancho vibes, feels like a £80m+ mistake for some poor chump. No thanks.
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15 Jul 2025 13:02:25
With it sounded less likely that either tsimikas or Robertson are going is there a risk we end up with 3 LB?
1.) 15 Jul 2025 13:17:06
We have more than 3 now mate, if you include both Beck and Chambers. At least 2 out of the 5 would need to leave this window, either on loan or permanently.
2.) 15 Jul 2025 13:22:43
I can't see it being a risk SR.
3.) 15 Jul 2025 13:28:46
I can see Beck being sold and chambers going out on loan.
But reports suggest both Robertson and tsimikas don’t want to leave.
4.) 15 Jul 2025 14:29:16
Yes if Robbo or Tsimi don't go there's a risk we end up with three, infact i'd say it'd be near certain.
5.) 15 Jul 2025 14:59:56
That’s over 350k a week on LB wages. Insanity.
02 Jul 2025 12:32:29
both Fabian Otte and Claudio Taffarel are leaving!
Surprised about that, more concern about Ali leaving?
1.) 02 Jul 2025 12:48:24
Wow! That is both a surprise and a concern! Don't go Ali!
2.) 02 Jul 2025 13:09:42
I think you can work out that something is going to give in the current situation. Mamardashvili isn't coming to be backup for the next few years. Either he goes out on loan or we have maybe a year left of Alisson. As the shock changing of the goalkeeper department shows, we clearly aren't privy to the conversations going on behind closed doors.
3.) 02 Jul 2025 13:12:11
Who are Otte and Taffarel?
4.) 02 Jul 2025 13:16:25
Yeah, very worried Alisson will be moved on! Mamardashvili, Woodman and the Hungarian kid is too many GKs.
5.) 02 Jul 2025 13:36:36
Wow, that's interesting.
6.) 02 Jul 2025 13:46:26
Damn and that Alisson doco just coming out. Maybe a farewell/ honouring thing to Ali?
Hope he stays. he's a rock in goals!
7.) 02 Jul 2025 14:29:57
Ali has the extra year available also and has intimated that both he and the club want to evoke the extra year.
01 Jul 2025 12:58:43
With pre-season around the corner, who are people most excited about from the youth and any suprises?
I think Rio will shine and the suprise will be Trent Kone-Doherty.
1.) 01 Jul 2025 13:39:04
I quite like the look of both Rio and Nyoni. But both are still very lightweight and need to bulk up a bit more to be able to survive in the men's level.
2.) 01 Jul 2025 13:41:58
I must admit, I don't watch any of our youngsters, unless they play for the first team. What I've seen of them, I don't think any of them are ready to push for a place in the squad. They all appear lightweight. Just my opinion.
3.) 01 Jul 2025 14:02:53
Chiesa.
4.) 01 Jul 2025 14:23:49
I don't know if you said that as a joke Akira but it is actually not a bad shout. For the first time he will be on a par with everybody else fitness wise!
5.) 01 Jul 2025 14:44:17
Rio is exciting but for me he is still so raw and a long way of the first team. He would benefit from a loan move to a lower league team to get a feel for first team football. He seems very naive in his play which is expected given his age, but his talent and technical ability is there.
6.) 01 Jul 2025 13:58:54
It will be interesting. I'm sure youth will get a chance to shine but with no international football this summer there will be a full squad available pre season so they might need to fight a little harder for it than normal.
I'm sure there will be a couple of surprises but hopefully Rio and Trey can put on a good show and maybe Baj and Danns if they recover from their injuries in time.
7.) 01 Jul 2025 14:05:47
James McConnell.
8.) 01 Jul 2025 14:52:54
I’d like to see Mamardashvilli - not strictly a youth player but hyped and derided in equal measure on these boards so I’d like to see if he shows glimmers of being the heir to Ali.
I’m rather keen to see Wellity Lucky too - we’ve had a few big units at CB who haven’t worked out - who was the chap a few seasons ago who was brick sh1thpuse build at the age of 18 but didn’t work out? I’d like to see if we have struck it Lucky this time.
9.) 01 Jul 2025 14:59:46
Not a joke. We are not able to sell him and do not want to loan him. So best option will be to give him a run and see if can save us 100m this season. That was the plan last year. That should be the plan this year.
Just one bad game should not decide his fate. Back him properly and if it doesn’t work sell him later in window or January.
The striker market is so inflated i would risk going in without one till January. At that time when newcastle are 10th in the league and out of CL we can get Isak much cheaper.
I genuinely think Chiesa should be given backing upfront as our number 9 sharing the load with Jota and danns and if it works its saves us so much money. That is exactly why we took a punt on him.
10.) 01 Jul 2025 15:51:20
I would like to see what Calum Scanlon can do, the very few games he got for Milwall he got very good reviews and ratings. Scored a beauty too.
11.) 01 Jul 2025 16:18:12
Slot seems high on McConnell, personally I think Tyler Morton is the better of the two with the higher ceiling.
Very Gerrard/ Trent like cross from him for the winning goal in England's U21 final v Germany.
I expect Tyler will be sold but I hope they put in a "buy back" clause in any deal.
12.) 01 Jul 2025 16:42:32
Scanlon and Beck esp if we sell robbo and Tsimi.
13.) 01 Jul 2025 17:16:44
Nice to see somone else mention the boy Kone-Doherty. The kid is electric.
14.) 01 Jul 2025 19:34:19
Me too, Ron.
15.) 01 Jul 2025 20:53:51
It's probably a bit early for Nyoni yet, but the clips I saw suggest a tremendous talent. Very few youngsters carry that through to the first team at the top level though, the game is littered with players that shone brightly but briefly before a career in relative obscurity.
Nyoni just oozes class, but he looked a slender lad. I don't know about bulking up, but he definitely needs to be stronger to get close to the first team.
16.) 01 Jul 2025 23:05:18
Chiesa, Jota and Danns, Akira?
I suppose just hoping they will start to perform could work.
Chiesa was not bought to save us £100m.
17.) 02 Jul 2025 00:06:19
Im not sure about Kone-Doherty. He does have skill but he seems to drift in and out of matches. Will be anonymous and then suddenly pop up and do something. he give me Harry wilson vibes but Im hoping that he will kick on and be better than that.
25 Jun 2025 09:54:18
Ed’s what’s your gut saying of our LB situation come September 1st.
{Ed001's Note - my gut is saying 'eat more fibre'. I think that is saying we will have Kerkez and Tsimikas as our left-back duo going into the season. I really can't see Tsimi leaving, though the club would like to move him on.}
1.) 25 Jun 2025 10:17:26
Indeed, Ed lol. Fibre is the way to go and yes, I don't see Tsimikas leaving cos I think he himself said he is happy to stay.
Say regarding the last podcast a day or two ago, was that you in the flesh on the top right corner of the youtube stream?
Or was that AI-generated, lol?
{Ed001's Note - AI could never make anything that gruesome. Oh wait you said the top right? Sorry I thought you were talking about Seamus! Yes mate, that was me, trying hard to find an angle that hid the extra chins....}
2.) 25 Jun 2025 10:28:57
Ed001 where do I go to find the podcasts? Sure it's me being thick but can't seem to find them.
{Ed001's Note - youtube - Football-rumours youtube channel or this last one, as it is all about Frimpong, I embedded within the player profile of Frimpong as well.}
3.) 25 Jun 2025 10:42:37
So do you think that Robbo will go to Athletico Ed?
{Ed001's Note - yes.}
4.) 25 Jun 2025 10:59:23
Don’t see Beck or Chambers having any chance?
{Ed001's Note - Beck will go on loan I expect. Chambers is recovering from injury, I seem to remember it would rule him out of preseason.}
5.) 25 Jun 2025 11:03:23
Would rather Tsimi left. He’s average and on 75k a week, plus we have two young left backs to try out.
{Ed001's Note - 3, you have forgotten Scanlon.}
6.) 25 Jun 2025 11:14:07
Good point Ed001. Even more backup.
7.) 25 Jun 2025 11:43:12
Tsimikas is underrated as a reserve left back. Never really let's us down, his corners are amazing, helped win us 2 carabao cups, played enough games last season to be integral in us winning the league, happy to be a number 2 and looks like he is a positive influence around the club. Can’t remember any other better number 2 at left back we’ve had before. I’d keep him if he’s not blocking a Bradley quality player from coming through.
8.) 25 Jun 2025 12:02:27
Tsimikas does not get any respect on this page. Can anybody here name a better reserve left back in the league?
{Ed077's Note - Maatsen?
9.) 25 Jun 2025 12:23:15
I like Maatsen, Ed077 even since his Dortmund days even tho, he is not the best defensively, where Tsimikas actually excels compare to him, IMO.
Ed01, so that is what you REALLY look like in the flesh? Nice one, man. I'll put it on full screen to judge if you look that good looking in 4k, lol.
And Seamus does look good, as well. Now I can put a face on the comments you make on this forum going forward. Awesome Sauce!
{Ed001's Note - you would be better on lower quality, the blurrier the picture, the better I will look.}
10.) 25 Jun 2025 12:59:21
PB, Tsimikas is fine as a back up. The issue the last 2 years has been Robbo wasn’t good enough to start at times and also missed a few games with that shoulder injury. It put responsibility onto Tsimikas to start a lot of games and his weaknesses were exposed. If Kerkez comes in he is young and ultra fit. He played all 38 games last season. That will hopefully allow Tsimikas to resume his role as a domestic cup rotation option or a late substitute if needed. People loved him when he was just a back up, but he wasn’t good enough to phase out a declining Robbo and that was the issue in my opinion that probably led to people forgetting that he wasn’t never signed to play regularly in important PL and CL games. As a back up, he’s as good as you will get. Top class players don’t often move to play second fiddle and left backs are currently few and far between; so it’s one of the harder positions in the current football market to recruit a good back up, as they know they can go and start elsewhere. Maatsen being the best Ed077 could come up with is proof you don’t get a good LB nowadays to sit on the bench.
{Ed001's Note - Maatsen the Villa left back? If so, he is very good.}
11.) 25 Jun 2025 15:26:26
I like him a lot, Ed01 since his days at Dortmund even tho, he is not as defensively sound as I would like BUT that is mainly due to the way Villa play which is on the front foot.
25 Jun 2025 09:46:37
With the news of James McConnell being used more next summer, should we be moving on Endo?
Seems to be able to play a number of roles, a good leader and doesn’t seem to want to leave.
1.) 25 Jun 2025 10:19:27
TSR, I like McConnel personally and I think he is ready. Endo has said he is staying for now BUT things can change.
If he wants to stay then, Im not against it cos you need experienced heads in the squad and what a resource he could be for you know, McConnel.
2.) 25 Jun 2025 11:28:33
McConnell is primarily an attacking midfielder so for me he is not really a replacement for Endo. If Bajetic recovers well from his injury and has sorted out him mental attitude then he would be the player for me who might result in us moving Endo on.
It would be a shame because I like the guy and he seems to be a great influence on other players around him but there could come a point where we might need his oversees player spot in the squad.
3.) 25 Jun 2025 12:27:31
Really, @Shipley? He played a lot deeper when he played under Klopp. Either way, I think he is really good and hopefully, he gets minutes.
As for Baj, I think his ship has sailed but we shall see. Endo again, not bothered if he stays and if he wants to go then, we should grant him his wish, IMO.
4.) 25 Jun 2025 14:14:16
Always so many If's when people talk about Bajetic, if my aunt had balls she'd be my uncle.
5.) 25 Jun 2025 14:53:10
Yeah @Oli. He was always an attacking midfielder but due to departures and injuries Klopp ended up playing him in the deeper role. He can play there but he is more natural further forward.
The Southern Red's rumour replies
09 Jul 2025 10:05:55
What have you been smoking over there Vango?
24 Jun 2025 12:59:47
I imagine near term outgoings will dictate a lot of what we can go for. Key being Nunez/ Diaz/ elliott.
24 Jun 2025 11:24:09
Haha duly noted, then your comments were very fair!
Up the reds!
24 Jun 2025 09:51:47
I think it’s very unfair to say he is “just not very good” he brings a lot to the game when he is on, can create and does a lot of off the ball work.
He has racked up a significant number of appearances for a club regularly competing at the top and has added goals and assists to back this up. Not to mention having 2 big injuries that unfortunately derailed both a great season from his broken leg and his ankle injury for last season!
Unfortunately his profile that he can’t work on for slots vision is leading him to not have a future here. Whatever happens I wish him all the best and hope he cherishes his time here.
13 Jun 2025 09:59:23
Shame we don’t have a multi party club we can manage him until he’s older.
The Southern Red's banter replies
15 Jul 2025 13:28:46
I can see Beck being sold and chambers going out on loan.
But reports suggest both Robertson and tsimikas don’t want to leave.
02 Jul 2025 21:44:56
When you say recoup via merchandise sales, you merely meaning his name will help boost shirt sales?
01 Jul 2025 12:56:20
Just have to pray wolves are willing to sell your number 1 target Ed!
25 Jun 2025 10:59:23
Don’t see Beck or Chambers having any chance?
{Ed001's Note - Beck will go on loan I expect. Chambers is recovering from injury, I seem to remember it would rule him out of preseason.}
24 Jun 2025 09:53:57
Probably too late for beck, he should have been given a chance a season or 2 back but he has played well for Blackburn and someone correct me if I’m wrong would be HG.