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The question is which season, surely?

With the exception of Gary Dicker are there any U23s who are older than 21? I didn't think there were. I was purely relating to players that could be drafted into the squad that wouldn't actually take up a place. I assume that Roberts and Richards have been ear-marked for minutes this...

But the problem is he also needs to accept <£70k pw

Yep. But I still think the squad is incredibly light. I suspect our U21s will be getting a lot more minutes than in previous seasons.

Maybe not.

Now that would be funny.

On the 25 man squad thread, we currently have 21 over 21s available. Including Locadia and Baluta. This is a very light squad indeed.

I can't find the quote, but someone suggested the other day, that his contract extension was being held off, until the end of the window, to compensate for the no striker meltdown.

I agree with all you say, but it still neglects the fact that when we have injuries/suspensions and we need someone to come off the bench, there is literally no one to turn too. You may not rate the other options, but surely if you need a goal in the last 15 minutes, you might chance your arm...

Yeah I totally agree with this, and I trust Potter to change our attacking play to increase the quality of our goal opportunities. I strongly suspect that the need for a new striker is actually lower than many people think. Lamptey and Cucurella may well be the answer, rather than Nunez or...

This is a bit misleading though isn't it? Trossard/Maupay were definitely forwards against Everton with Connolly/Welbeck/ Zeqiri on the bench. If we were only playing one forward, then that bench is complete overkill, surely? As it stands we have Trossard/Maupay/Connolly/Welbeck for our...

Me too. I just suspect that the decisions made have been more to do with our financial position than our top 10 ambition ( which I'm fine with).

I assumed this was a reference to Connolly, but I see you are referencing him later (I assume). I don't think it's fair to label Maupay as someone who misses sitters regularly. He's a Premier League striker with 20 goals to his name. His goals to shot ratio is well within acceptable levels and...

Entirely possible, although we have been thinking that for a number of seasons now. However outside of whether the club are happy, in the event of Welbeck doing his hamstring and Maupay getting sent off for calling Moss a **** again, are you happy with our options?

I wouldn't go that far, but they do appear to be gambling on Maupay's exceptional fitness record.

I don't doubt for a second that they have been busting a gut to get someone in. However the same people struggling to finalise the deals, are sanctioning loan moves for Zeqiri and the new fella and the sale of Tau/Andone/Jahanbaksh. I don't think the possibility of a red card for Maupay and a...

To be honest I was happy to accept that we wouldn't be getting a striker in. I was pretty happy with the squad too. But then Zeqiri/Tau/Andone were removed from the equation and all of a sudden we look considerably lighter than we were. I'm as much of a licker as anyone, but I have to say I'm...

Well the first team may not be that much weaker, but the squad is significantly shallower. There was a decent argument last season, that in the event of injuries we could perm a front 3 from ( Maupay/Trossard/Welbeck/Connolly/Zeqiri/Groß/Jahanbaksh/Tau) Now we are down to 3 from...

I have to say I'm a little surprised that TB went on the record as saying top 10 was possible this season, when the squad was destined to be weakened from last season. I still believe we will have a better season (points wise) than last season, but that won't be anything to do with recruitment...

As long as there are no more First 25 outs, then I'm ok with that. Striker would have been nice, but let's be honest, it hasn't looked likely for well over a week. Nothing was going to change today.