The Rebuild

[777Kidnappings]

Unpopular opinion, but we let players leave without a backup plan in place. For sheer numbers I’d have Doucoure on the phone.

On 130k a week? Absolutely not. Think that's when it becomes a disaster when we are committing to ridiculous contracts for substandard players

[Bluedylan1]

It's July 31st, not August 31st. We don't need to be calling Doucoure.

Yes it looks like we're going to be short at the start of the season, which isn't ideal, but we've still got a month to get the remaining 5/6 players in.

[Kerryblueboy]

No way should we do that we shouldn’t have re signed Keane either someone needs sacking from the recruitment department here when the manager so publicly calls them out

[Shogun]

It's July 31st, not August 31st. We don't need to be calling Doucoure.

Yes it looks like we're going to be short at the start of the season, which isn't ideal, but we've still got a month to get the remaining 5/6 players in.

5/6 would leave us pretty short still. Considering we've got 5 loan slots then that should be the bare minimum we achieve by the end of the window. You wonder what those loans will look like as well. If it's Grealish then well worth the wait, if it's Harrison then I wouldn't want to be Everton's social media admin at the start of September.

I suppose we have a half-decent XI to get through the month of August praying to all the imaginary gods that our players stay fit.

[TheRam]

Think there's a chance it will be even less. There's nothing really to suggest these 3 will be significantly better and if west ham, utd and spurs do all do better them points will have to come from somewhere. Plus if bottom go down on 20 instead of 13 like last season them points also need to come from somewhere else

Wouldn't be surprised if none of them broke 30 again

I think the business sunderland have done probably suggests they have a good chance of getting more than 30 points.

Would back Leeds to as well.

It’s daft the way they’re being written off whilst we struggle to get a match day squad together.

[Kerryblueboy]

Leeds will beat us first game of the season if last night’s team was playing it was West Ham b and they ran rings around us this arrogance that we will be ok is very hard to understand

[Granite]

Yep, I’ve already put a tenner on Leeds at 2.5/1, the rat that I am. Free money, imo.

[Granite]

No way should we do that we shouldn’t have re signed Keane either someone needs sacking from the recruitment department here when the manager so publicly calls them out

I think we’re seeing exactly why we signed Keane.

[777Kidnappings]

Yep, I’ve already put a tenner on Leeds at 2.5/1, the rat that I am. Free money, imo.

How much "free money" do you want..... just 15 quid please

[blueToffee]

I think the business sunderland have done probably suggests they have a good chance of getting more than 30 points.

Would back Leeds to as well.

It’s daft the way they’re being written off whilst we struggle to get a match day squad together.

Yeah, I'd be amazed if some of the promoted teams didn't break 30 pts. We've got used to a super low bar of late, albeit I'd be surprised if they significantly break 35 pts or so. You can't keep counting on the teams coming up to be completely useless though.

I'd hope with recruitment we'd still be able to be decently clear of that, but a bad start with a bare bones squad and unfamiliar home ground (although our home form was already kinda poor of late) would still likely make for an unnecessarily uncomfortable season.

That said, not all doom and gloom as I think the blips of Man United and Spurs will be filled by other teams who are also struggling in the transfer market (Brentford maybe, Wolves, West Ham) so I suspect we'd have company if we can't bring in enough good players.

[777Kidnappings]

Burnley came up last time playing great football spent 100m and ended up with 24pts.

3 favorites to be relegated by some way and rightly so. Leeds are a fantastic bet. No clue why the bookies think they only have a 40% chance of going down

[Brownie]

Luiz to Forest gathering pace

[kramer]

Not particularly interested in anyone willing to go to Forest after the Gibbs-White weirdness.

[Silas]

We'll be fine but it's really frustrating that we are going to be leaving it late to get a decent squad together. It's a missed opportunity but I'm not worried about relegation tbh

[AjaxAndy]

Burnley came up last time playing great football spent 100m and ended up with 24pts.

3 favorites to be relegated by some way and rightly so. Leeds are a fantastic bet. No clue why the bookies think they only have a 40% chance of going down

Yep, and just look at Farke... So married to his principles that he has absolutely tanked at Premier League level twice, so anyone thinking they'll do alright this season seem to miss this part out because it's convenient to do so.

Burnley will try be defensively solid but they're up against better opposition and it won't be as successful, they also have not much going forward. Expect them to struggle horrendously.

Sunderland have bought a lot of players, but they were MILES behind Burnley and Leeds in the Championship, so even if some click they're starting from so far back to anyone else it's hard to see them getting a decent number of points.

Our squad is a concern as it stands, but people need to stop over hyping the promoted teams to help aid the panic levels some seem to revel in.