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Disagree with a couple of views there. James hasnt had much of a chance yet to prove his attacking credentials. He has played 2 professional games. His deliveries also looked fairly good. Byrne was solid defensively last season when needed, and handled Man City really well. He clearly prefers...

Interesting to see a fair few Pompey fans on Twitter bricking it about losing Matt Clarke to us, given the Cook connection.

If they'd waited til the end of the season, there's no guarantee they'd get him and Burn's bargaining power in wages would be much greater - bidding war, including with Latics involved. This way Brighton have made an investment when they have better bargaining power.

Premier league quality or not, its clear what Brighton get out of it. They are buying a centre half for 4 or 5 million, who will be worth at least that in a year's time, perhaps considerably more. If you cut out the football and view it as a pure investment, then it makes perfect sense. If they...

I read it on other boards, a player goes and suddenly he's shit, he's got all these weaknesses we were ignoring until 5 minutes before the news broke. We hate him. His attitude is wrong etc etc. Sounds just like a lot of sulking to me.

2 things: 1) lets not have any of this, "Burn is really bad at..." etc. He's been a cracking player for us and has very few weaknesses in his game for this level. He'll be a big miss. 2) but if we're in a situation where we seriously risk losing him at the end of the season, then bringing in...

What Connolly offers is the ability to cover multiple positions on the bench, which gives us the option of putting an additional game changing sub on the bench. Alex Bruce was on the bench for us 37 times last year, and only came off it twice for a combined total of 40 minutes. What a waste of...

Cole and Colclough will be hot property for league one teams as the window gets close to closing. Biggest issue will probably be their wages.

Pennington is an interesting one. Was young player of the season at Coventry under Mowbray, who clearly liked him. Then it seems he really struggled at Leeds. Wouldnt surprise me if he ends up at Blackburn, but I definitely wouldnt write him off. Sounds like a bad loan at an overly-demanding...

The Lang situation is unfortunate. I'd guess if there wasnt the uncertainty of the takeover there'd be a clear sense of what we can and can't offer new players. But, as it is, any money that goes to signing new contracts stops us from strengthening now. It's a shame because he clearly has...

We need a left back, additional cover at centre back and either a striker or bringing cole, lang or gelhardt into the fold. We also need to decide on Gibson. Equally key, we need to get rid of anyone who doesn't want to be there. All doable by saturday, and the only urgent thing is getting the...

Takeover or no takeover, our way to survive at this level is to exploit the silly money being spent by premier league or championship clubs with parachute payments. To do that, we need to find a way to sign youngish lads and give them game time. That's clearly not possible yet, but i'd hope...

That account talking about the 650k sale doesnt look reliable to me. I'd guess much less, but still more than we got for him. I'm certainly happy overall but that doesnt take away the need for us to improve further. But I trust we've learned our lessons. Fingers crossed I'm right.

Yep, agree. Decent on the ball, can cope physically, reasonably mobile. He's another who may go on to have a big move, but before that he needs regular games and to grow in confidence. good luck to him.

I'd much rather we went for a lad who has excelled recently, even if that's in a lesser league, than one who was supposedly excellent an age ago and hasnt done anything to justify the hype. For example, the left back Bolton had on loan from Everton last year was considered a real highlight in a...

Mmmmh, i hope he's good but im a bit worried by this. From what ive read, Bournemouth fans are not impressed by him, saying he's not impressed against lower league teams. It seems he's on such a good contract that they do not think they could sell him. Yet, they don't see him as good enough as a...

Firstly, I'd guess the McClean sell-on was 15-20% of profit - in which case it'd be roughly 3.5 million profit, so more like 500k-700k. Still worth having. Secondly, in this day and age with sell-ons, selling players who might "come back and bite us" is actually good business sense. If Cole and...

agreed

If you look what we need in the team, we are crying out for a player that can hurt teams. Yanic would have offered that with his pace and directness. Having said that, he wasnt great in tight games. Callum would offer that with his tricks and intensity if he's on his game. Although very...

On the matter of left backs, don't write off Naismith. In 2014-15 Cook's Chesterfield had Clucas at left wingback and Darikwa at right wingback. Both had been attacking players before (Darikwa a winger, Clucas a centre forward). Both went on to win big moves. Byrne has excelled as a right back...