Surely Chelsea wouldn't let us have Colwill permanently, unless it was for a steep fee? I would imagine that would be a loan. I would be ok with that if it meant, for example, we could splash the cash on Doucoure, who by all accounts sounds like he'll fill a role we really need filling.

The beatings will stop when morale improves.

We have done well with Chelsea loaners (not sure we can call them Chelski any more) with only Bamford not improving during his time with us & even he eventually admitted that at that time his head wasn't in the right place.

Remy was a disaster, and Bats 2nd spell was equally as bad.

Hey everyone. Apologies for not posting for a while. I’ve been out of football for the last year due to travel. I’m back now and heading out with a dear friend of mine at the palace. I’ll see what information I can carefully extract for you guys.

Can’t wait

Blow me down no mention of Ebiowei.

Clearly a super secret project not to be disclosed to scouts from other clubs who no doubt follow Dazzza's its pronouncements.

Mateta is a goal-scoring forward, I think the question is around other parts of his play. Last season he had a goal every 230 minutes and that is pretty much his record throughout his career. If he is our main striker from the start next season I think he'll bag 12-15 goals. Wilf also scores regularly. If we have a solid pairing at the base of the midfield then Olise and Eze might also get more freedom.

If Bentenke or Edouard were to go then I think we might sign another centre-forward/striker, but otherwise I don't think we will. A club our size can't afford to have four senior PL strikers when we only play one.

A central striker doesn't seem to be a priority position for us because of the existing options that we have and also because to get somebody guaranteed to be better than our existing options would be likely to be outside our budget.
The exception to this may have been Nketiah who we had a long standing interest in and who would have been available as an out of contract option had he not recently signed a contract.
Similarly right back doesn't seem a priority position in that we have options in Ward, Clyne and possibly Ferguson.
However, if AWB became available on favourable terms I could still seeing us making a move because he would be an improvement on what we have available.
If an opportunity presents itself in the market, even if not in a priority postion, I could see us pursuing it because you don't know if that opportunity will arise in the future.

the plan at this club seems to follow the MoSCoW managment which seems perfectly reasonable to me.

Last year:
Must haves: defenders, Winger
Should-haves: a new striker,
Could have: new attacking midfielder
Will not have: Full Backs

this year
Must haves: Freshen up midfield/CDM, RB/WB,
Should-haves: CB Cover, Keeper
Could have: attacking Midfielder
Will not have: new striker

seems to me that we dealt with the Attacking/Striker position last summer, now it's fairly low priority, as other positions are more important,

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