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If Blackburn and Gaughan are both reporting Marmoush and Ederson makes it look like a brief. It will be interesting to see if we will offer enough to persuade their respective clubs to part with their prize assets.

In the article linking us with Luiz we are also linked with Wharton, Eze and Gordon. Haven’t seen any previous links to Gordon

It is a little odd that there’s not many credible links to anyone at the moment. We’ve briefed we’re not interested in Guimaraes and Zubimendi but other than Bah there’s not much links. Hopefully it means we’re working away in the background. We were better in attack against Leicester but we...

I’d say it’s a mix of a brief and speculation. The outgoings seems like a brief, as do the snippets about Echeverri and Bah. The names linked are those in the media so speculation. No one knows for sure who we may target in January.

We’re seeing the cumulative effects of the loss of Alvarez, Mahrez and prime Gundogan plus KDB’s ageing and Foden’s loss of form means we have so few goals outside of Haaland.

An ok performance going forward but defensively shaky. The difference a proper 6 to play beside Kovacic and another centre back would make would be enormous. Great cameo from McAtee

Hope we can put out a decent defence. Really really need to get at them early and take our chances. Can’t afford to give them belief, would be great if Erling could end his recent drought. We need a win by any means tomorrow.

The rot will continue until start scoring again. We play high risk football but we’re not scoring enough. Its putting huge pressure on a defence that can’t cope. We’ve sold Mahrez and Alvarez and a 34 year old Gundogan is not able to score at the rate of a 32 year old Gundogan plus KDB seems...

Very frustrating one, well on top, miss chances for a second then Everton score and we don’t get going again for the rest of the half. Then started like a train second half and get the penalty (why no second yellow it was as clear a yellow as could be). Once the penalty was saved we looked shot...

No idea how this one goes, Everton are in decent form but based more on defensive solidity than anything else. It would be great to get at them early, hopefully a decent atmosphere. If nothing else at least we can’t batter them and have Cahill pinch the points and do that annoying boxing thing...

Every report on Kudus to City seems to refer back to Fichajes so it’s nonsense built on crap.

Fichajes are without doubt the worst possible source, literally make stuff up.

You can buy potential in January but very hard to get top quality. Unfortunately if we stick with our current squad we’ve no chance at all of finishing in the top 4

Would be great but I’m always cynical about any player linked to us when they’re in contract negotiations.

The injury crisis is largely why the wheels have come off so spectacularly but a huge contributor to our injury crisis is poor recruitment. We must have been aware of Stones and Ake’s injury issues and Walker slowing down but we didn’t bring anyone in. Our midfield was ageing and injury prone...

I think you might be right, it’s a pity to miss out on those two but anyone we sign has to bit long term or be a loan player that is hungry to play for us. We desperately need legs in midfield do Luiz could be a reasonable stop gap but Italian clubs are awful to deal with.

Don’t think it’s a case of honouring it as much as Valladolid could be entitled to keep him if there’s a valid season long deal with him. Not much we can do unless we pay them to cancel it.

I think we can sign him but I think Valladolid would be entitled to keep him for the season unless we effectively paid them to cancel the loan as he’s on a season long loan there.

Chances are even if we sign him the loan deal he’s currently on will mean he has to stay in Spain.

If we’re briefing he’s not a target then he’s knocked us back