The Rebuild

[Trowel]

Interesting

[Cozzie]

All depends on the loan fee and how much of his wages we will have to cover.

[TheRam]

Would love maitland niles here.

Better right back than Patterson

Better CM than garner

[kramer]

I was ready to say meh but he actually appears to have had quite a good season at right back for Lyon.

Strangely, he didn’t play there much when he was in England.

Good squad filler at worst. Competent right back at best. I’m kinda into it despite the mediocre age profile (assuming that Lyon are desperate for cash and he won’t be remotely expensive).

Edit: This was about Maitland-Niles.

[Cozzie]

Can never say no to players like Maitland-Niles.

I'd be in.

[Sir Stealth]

Maitland-Niles takes the rumoured players list up to 85

Maxime Esteve
John Stones
Liam Delap
Aleksandar Mitrovic
Yves Bissouma
Jack Grealish
Trai Hume
Kevin Woltemade
Thierno Barry
Ben Doak
Mohamed Diomande
Matt O’Riley
Tom Fellows
Gustavo Hamer
Elias Jelert
Dan Neil
Georgios Vagiannidis
Calen-Kole Cadamarteri
Vladimir Coufal
Tomas Soucek
Oguz Aydin
Albert Gudmundsson
Angel Gomes
Baris Alper Yilmaz
Christantus Uche
James McAtee
Michail Antonio
Wilfried Ndidi
Hamza Igamane
Reuben Gokah
Sean Longstaff
Fred
Walter Benitez
Evan Ferguson
Adama Bojang
Anthony Caci
Geny Catamo
Nico Tagliafico
Richarlison
Kyle Walker
Kyle Walker-Peters
Kenny Tete
Yuri Alberto
Timothy Weah
Antonio Nusa
Malick Fofana
Lucas Ferreira
Chris Rigg
Omari Hutchinson
Raphael Onyedika
Adam Webster
Jason Knight
Zeki Celik
Angus Gunn
Jaydee Canvot
Wesley
Merlin Rohl
Jack Harrison
Kubo
Douglas Luiz
Edon Zhegrova
Morten Frendrup
Mihailo Ivanovic
John McGinn
Mark Travers
Florentino Luis
Hayden Hackney
Joao Palhinha
Johan Bakayoko
Neil El Aynaoui
Francisco Conceicao
Reuben Gokah
John Dodds
Jacob Ramsey
Ben Chilwell
Samu Lino
Victor Kristiansen
Bilal El Khannouss
Ardon Jashari
Maghnes Akilouche
Adam Aznou
Mika Biereth
Richard Rios
Tyler Dibling
Ainsley Maitland-Niles

[kramer]

Interesting

This reeks of us waiting for City’s desperation to peak so they will eat a maximal chunk of his wages.

Ndiaye and Grealish alone would make for an absurdly pressure-resistant attacking midfield grouping and lots of retention in the final third. Gets even more brutal for opposing teams if we add a pacy dribbler like Fofana.

This is normally the sort of move I’m not into but Grealish is on an entirely different planet from the rest of the squad. I hope it’s true.

[Robioto]

Maitland-Niles and Grealish on loan gets my seal of approval.

They'd both be excellent signings.

The thought of Grealish and Ndiaye in the same side gets me very excited.

[777Kidnappings]

Would love maitland niles here.

Better right back than Patterson

Better CM than garner

You could be describing Stephen hawking

[Trowel]

I think at this stage Moyes is best off looking at T-shaped players who can cover multiple positions, so AMN would definitely fit that brief, particularly with Prem experience.

[kramer]

You could be describing Stephen hawking

Nah.

For all of his faults, Garner being able to jump into the team and offer a boring 6.5/10 at CM is an asset.

Perfect squad midfielder for a side that’s not in Europe (… yet).

[sam of the south]

Nah.

For all of his faults, Garner being able to jump into the team and offer a boring 6.5/10 at CM is an asset.

Perfect squad midfielder for a side that’s not in Europe (… yet).

I’d quibble that 0.5 the majority of the time

[kramer]

I’d quibble that 0.5 the majority of the time

I agree he’s mostly just taking up space and not doing anything with the ball but I also see the value in a CM who doesn’t make your whole team fall apart.

We’ve seen too many players, many more highly rated and expensive than Garner, fail to meet that minimum level for me to write him off as a complete nothing.

[Trowel]

Hayden Hackney is linked with a £20m move to Ipswich BTW.

[sam of the south]

Hayden Hackney is linked with a £20m move to Ipswich BTW.

We should be all over that.