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Leeds getting promoted is probably our best chance of shifting him - I feel like they'll take a punt on bringing him back. The club needs to tone down their delusions of getting our money back though. That ship sailed when he refused to move last summer. We'll get half our investment back, if...

Plenty of players walk off post knee injury

The way he held the back of his leg straight away wasn't a good sign. Usually a response to a bad knee injury. Not expecting good news but hopefully wrong. Highlights how important it is to sort out this DM situation regardless of whether Rodri will be out or not. Get shot of Phillips and sign...

Too much chopping and changing of players for me this season. I recognise some of this out of Pep's hands with injuries / suspensions, but I think the players are always going to struggle when there's no consistency in the line up. In our treble run last year, you knew who would be playing and...

I thought it was a poor career decision from the start, but at least you got the sense he would get decent game time in the top flight. This Sheffield team is truly awful though and I didn't think they would be this bad. He's never going to be able to show his ability and develop as a...

The problem with this situation is, I think Pep will player an academy player or someone out of position to cover - it's what he did last season.

Stones was a regular starter before he had his dodgy period where he had a torrid time with injuries and issues in his personal life. It looked like he had one foot out the door, but that's not because he wasn't good enough - he had shown a world class level already and won multiple titles with...

Don't think that should come as a massive surprise. He's always got his head down and put his all in for the club, even when it's been clear he has favoured a move away. I expect if there is one it will be also less than his actual market value - probably similar to what we would sell him for...

Shifting Phillips and getting in another a versatile midfielder that can play 8 or 6 would complete this window for me. Another RW (Doku) would be the icing on the cake, but I feel like getting the midfield right is the difference maker for this season.

If he doesn't agree to go anywhere else but Barca, we're stuck with him for the season. Pep clearly wants nothing to do with him, so if he's decided it's Barca or bust, we're going to go with the former just to get him out the way and his wages off the books. Lets just hope he has a top season...

A waste for a player of his quality - suits us though! HERE COMES THE MONEY

Not hugely surprising given how many changes were made. Take Dias and Stones out of that backline and I think one of our defenders will always have some mistakes in them. I do think we'll see Akjani firmly become the back up option this season though. I like him and with the amount of games we...

Wouldn't be ideal selling to Liverpool, but at the same time, he's a non-entity for us at the moment, taking up a squad spot in an important position whilst collecting big wages that can be better spent elsewhere. Our issue is finding a club where Phillips would agree to go to. If Liverpool's...

The funniest thing to do at this point would be to swoop in for Lavia and leave one of them with nothing.

If we sign Paqueta and keep Bernardo, I don't think we have the space for another winger. Bernardo, Foden, KDB, Rodri, Paqueta, Alvarez, Haaland, Kovacic, Grealish - 9 senior players for 6 positions essentially. Phillips makes it 10, but I'm not convinced he's going to be here past the...

Kane on a free, play him as second striker behind Haaland and shift KDB out to RW spaffing crosses into the pair of them all game. Tasty prospect. The level of piss boiling would be immense.

Edson Alvarez to West Ham more or less confirms that door now closed for Phillips. Think we will end up stuck with him this season. Down to him to make a case for playing, I just can't see it at this stage and I think that's going to be to our detriment as a proper back up to Rodri is so...

Odd conclusion from that. All the talk of "proper offers" just screams to me that Bernardo and Walker will happily leave if a deal can be reached, despite us wanting to keep them. The issue at the moment is Bayern / Barca not stumping up anything near what it would take for us to sell. There...

You don't sign a number 6 for £45m with intentions for him to be anything other than Rodri's back up - especially when we don't have another natural DM in our squad. If the only other defensive midfielder other than Rodri isn't his back up, what is he? A squad player that never plays (which was...

My biggest issue with Phillips is that it he's meant to be our backup to Rodri, but feels like he's a long way off that to the point I can see there being 2/3 other players starting ahead of him when we play a game of any importance. So what's the point in Phillips? Rodri played 56 games last...