Martinus

He will get the blame but this is a top 6 squad.

He's going to be another fall guy unfortunately. If we start the season with the squad we have we will drop out of the top 5.

If Diomande ends up at Madrid and block Barcola's exit I think we have to overpay for Rayan. Just my opinion but I'd rather stick with what we have than sign most of the other names mentioned.

We need at least 5 first team ready signings, I think we can be confident that isn't happening so at best we are going to be short and playing for a top 4 place.

We've got plenty of kids and potential now. I'm not against signing more but it shouldn't be instead of proven quality.

I think that Gakpo may be on his way out. If we were to sign two more i think Gakpo ends up being backup to Isak until Ekitike returns or sold..

Yeah we definitely do I agree. Id hope if Akilouche is a target it's in addition to Barcola. Think we need at least two wingers still.

But what wingers exist that are getting the numbers and are realistic targets? Barcola got zero assists In the league last season. The likelihood is anyone we sign will fall into the category of someone we hope is ready to step up.

Good grief. That is absolute madness.

It's not great but we aren't going to solve this by buying more young wingers with 'potential' and that's pretty much the winger market right now. Exactly this.

Mentioned also though they've enquired about Diomande.

Which is what we will need to do now to sign Barcola.

I tend to agree. We don't have to play with wingers. We could easily adapt the system to a 4-3-2-1 for example and play Wirtz and Rogers behind Isak and try and buy better attacking fullbacks for the width. We'd still have Munoz and Rio as tactical options as well. I'm okay with Barcola but we shouldn't be going anywhere near £100 million. Likewise Minteh is £40/50 Mill absolute tops. Not Interested in buying another kid like El Mala, Fernandez-Pardo etc.

I think if we sign Barcola we will sanction Gakpo's exit, hopefully freeing up our ability to sign a left footed winger as well.

He will but at least it's moving to every 4 years and where possible during the summer. I don't think Afcon in isolation is a reason not to sign African players. We should be trying to sign the best players we can. Id rather have Bouaddi than Gomes.

But he has a much better ceiling than Gomes if he is who we are targeting.

City now trying to sign Bouaddi whilst we continue to monitor.

Id take Stones on a free.

Sure, we can only have our opinions. I think Minteh if he is a serious target has a value of between £40-50 Million max. He cost Brighton £33 Million and hasn't done much to suggest his value has increased. I think Brighton would want £70/80 million. Personally I wouldn't pay that, think there is a decent chance we will.

That's fair but reckon they were confident it was a done deal. Maybe but the only other player very loosely linked that is better playing on the right is Minteh and he will be massively overpriced. All other links are for players who prefer playing on the left wing.

And he also outperformed Saka. Arsenals best attacker. It was Diomande but unfortunately there appears to be no backup to him now that transfer isn't possible.

Unless more players leave I reckon we make 3 more signings tops. One winger, one midfielder (but think this is dependent on Jones and/or Mac Allister) and a RB/CB cover.

We are likely going to overspend on players anyway though. If we actually want to sign a left footed winger (no idea if we do but I hope we do) there arent many out there and I'd very much doubt they'd be reasonably priced.

I mean the best available left footed winger we can sign this summer is Salah