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31 Dec 2025 17:28:17
Apprently talks are close to a conclusion on Gil Vicente striker - Pablo. 10 goals in 13 games. Only 21.
Jorge Mendes involved hopefully he can bring in Ruben Neves as well.
1.) 01 Jan 2026 09:57:26
Had a quick look. He’s busy. Reasonably powerful and decent pace. Seems very right footed, which will be easier to defend in the PL. Looks to have the habit of being in the right place at the right time for efforts on goal. Didn’t look exceptional to me, but he’s only 21. I can’t see him being the immediate answer for this season, but what do I know?
2.) 01 Jan 2026 13:33:38
I bet he sits on the bench whilst paq or bowen play upfront
3.) 01 Jan 2026 15:23:26
I’m not going to put a downer on this, as it is refreshing to get a deal over the line quickly for a change and not announcing to the world beforehand that we are interested. Like Markro I looked at some YouTube footage but the clips I saw, he looked like he was good at getting in the right place at the right time but he hardly ever seemed to get the ball in the net most efforts were saved or missed
4.) 01 Jan 2026 16:25:25
Only thing I know about him is that he's injured and has been since the 27th November.
5.) 01 Jan 2026 17:00:37
I bet he plays traore on the right and Bowen as a striker to start with
6.) 01 Jan 2026 17:02:52
@Hammer D, not sure what video you watched but his stats would suggest he is very clinical, 0.38 goals for every shot. Which isn't sustainable for comparison harlands is 0.25
His defensive stats are very good also, looks aggresive and works hard.
@billy, he played 2 games end of December and scored in both doesn't seem injured?
Apparently we are in for taty castellanos and traore is meant to have been agreed but fulham might hold on to him until after afcon.
Just shows we can move quickly when sullivan wants to. Maybe if we signed fernandes and magassa at the start of the summer window we might not be in as much of a mess as we are now.
7.) 01 Jan 2026 17:33:19
Ahh I've just done a deeper dive. Seems he came back from injury on the 20th December, played 32 minutes, scored and is now injured again.
8.) 01 Jan 2026 18:01:58
No you are right @ironAl I was looking a completely the wrong thing I was looking at something linked to Gil Vincent’s not the actual player ???
Always read the label
I have seen the footage he doesn’t look too bad but we will see ?
9.) 01 Jan 2026 19:38:12
Billy he is meant to be having a medical today so doubt that would happen if he is injured
10.) 02 Jan 2026 15:56:43
@Hammer-D Andy Carroll, Kieron Dyer, Niklaus Fullkrug all had medicals as well. Apparently. ?
11.) 02 Jan 2026 19:31:12
True mate ?
12.) 04 Jan 2026 18:03:26
I've heard we are interested in HOUDINI not from Liga but la la land
30 Dec 2025 18:06:24
Apparently we are after Eddie Nketiah.
We need at least 2 strikers, out of all the domestic based strikers we've been linked to he has the most experience in the prem and good age at 26.
Then we take a gamble on foreign based player like Durosinmi
1.) 30 Dec 2025 21:05:39
Like Nketiah, we should have had him Arsenal ???⚒⚒⚒⚒
2.) 31 Dec 2025 13:08:23
just blown his hamstring
3.) 31 Dec 2025 13:09:42
just injured his hamstring
4.) 31 Dec 2025 14:41:28
Nailed on to get a 5 year deal.if he's injured then
30 Aug 2025 23:50:37
Emerson to Marseille 1m euros total. Terrible business once again.
1.) 31 Aug 2025 11:01:06
We discussed yesterday, another ridiculous deal
25 May 2025 14:56:29
Jwp starting again while Paqueta, Kudus and Guilherme all on the bench.
Against Ipswich.
1.) 25 May 2025 16:56:14
JWP scored ?
2.) 25 May 2025 17:58:04
Fabianski would have put that away.
Invited pressure most the game with that line up. Fortunately moments of quality from Bowen and Kudus seen them off.
3.) 25 May 2025 19:52:02
Bowen was outstanding today. Ran his socks off, assisted, scored and so on and so on.
Tuchel is an idiot.
4.) 25 May 2025 20:24:49
Agree but pleased, don’t like any of ours on International duties, to many injuries picked up.⚒⚒⚒⚒
5.) 28 May 2025 18:48:26
Dean Ashton springs to mind.
02 Feb 2025 09:31:15
Sky reporting Ferguson on a straight loan, so if he does really well we will price ourselves out of a move in the summer, on the other hand commiting 40m to a player that has struggled with injury and scored something like 1 goal in 18 months is too much risk.
Probably left it too late to solve our lack of pace in midfield and 3cb situation although if it gets towards the end of the season and we have little to play for Casey should he given a chance.
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03 Jan 2026 16:38:25
Soft pen. Then soucek not getting a pen for what paqueta done last week. Poor offciating as usual.
1.) 03 Jan 2026 17:00:57
No heart, no fight, no chance.
03 Jan 2026 16:28:42
Awful. We look awful without Paqueta and todibo. Kilman awful everyweek. Bowen having a poor game
07 Dec 2025 14:57:33
Robbed of 2 points, at least we might get a PGMOL apology.
1.) 07 Dec 2025 15:19:23
Whats PGMOL?
2.) 07 Dec 2025 15:53:34
An apology, why? If the ball is deflected on to the arm from the body it’s accidental.
3.) 07 Dec 2025 18:41:42
I feel like I've seen soo many goals disallowed for handballs in the build up accidental or not, they gained a clear advantage,
Apparently the rule is a lot stricter for attackers, i remember a few going against us similar. Remember when bowen running through the player went to tackle nd it deflected up to his arm we went on to score but got it pulled back. His arm was even across his body.
4.) 07 Dec 2025 18:49:55
Have a read here, in short it says accidental or not any player handles it in the build up to a goal the goal should be chalked off. That also applies to if it hits any part of the body then the hand.
It's different for defenders.
07 Dec 2025 11:48:21
3 at the back today,
In
Kilman
Paq.
Rodriguez
Summerville
Out
Soucek
Magassa
Potts
Wilson
24 Oct 2025 18:58:58
Irving and soucek starting again. Worrying.
1.) 24 Oct 2025 22:14:16
Yeah I don't get the thinking
20 Jan 2026 21:42:42
Shame, i think that's the type of player we are missing in midfield.
20 Jan 2026 17:13:32
I thought he was going Marsielle?
19 Jan 2026 16:47:31
Its a sulli special. Loan with an option to buy for 1m.
Worth a punt really not much risk. Ones got to come off eventually?
19 Jan 2026 16:44:19
Was going to say we should be looking at Hackney again but didn't think boro would sell in the position they are in, he would add something to our midfield for sure and if we went down we would have arguably one of the best midfielders in the championship. Is this something we are actually considering or someone you think we should get?
12 Jan 2026 18:15:51
Need an obligation to buy so they can't send him back.
20 Jan 2026 13:03:26
Paqueta wants to go fair enough, i don't think he has/would refuse to play if he stayed. Personally i think its Sulli trying to justify selling him, would it surprise you if he waited right until the end of the window to sell him so there isn't time to spend the money?
19 Jan 2026 10:31:05
If you're interested in the stats take a look on fbref.com
You can see a lot more indepth details of the type of passes he makes, if you look throughout his career you can see, he can't tackle, can't carry the ball, rarely passes the ball forward and 90% of his chance creation is from set pieces.
Basically he's good at set pieces, but the rest of his game is pretty limited.
18 Jan 2026 19:29:49
Look into the stats deeper, he rarely plays the ball forward and he rarely creates from open play its all set pieces. As well as his progession stats being bad his defensive stats are terrible.
Then watching him he doesn't even try take it on the half turn, plays it straight back to Kilman time and time again putting the team underpresser with his backward passing. Defensively he can't get close to players, they run past him likes he's not even there again putting pressure on the defence.
Rodriguez has achieved and played in better teams than jwp he's simply a better footballer just at the end of his career, if we need to see out a lead he's a better option than jwp.
I did read earlier that jwp called Nuno baldy at forest.
For me i'd much rather have seen earthy, kante, fearon, orford, ahead of jwp on the bench.
17 Jan 2026 17:31:42
Was never in doubt. Need some signings in, players looked knackered in the second half game could have got away from us.
15 Jan 2026 09:45:00
Think Sulli has given up, or he's waiting to see what happens in the spurs game.
If he had a clue we would be signing a blend of players that can help us now and players that would stay and do a season in the championship.
Its probably too late, the boards indecision is lowering our chance of staying up and will make it harder in the summer to rebuild. With the amount of players that will go I've no faith sullivan will oversee a successful rebuild, just as they wasted the Rice money they'll waste the money they get from all the player sales in the summer.