I think if Mulgrew plays in a 3 then he has to be central. The wide centre halves can get exposed and left 1 on 1 a bit in that system. He doesnt have the legs for that spot for me anymore.

To be fair I think Sharpe said that before Mowbray said 2 will be coming today. But still it doesnt look like 2 will be signing today unless the fax machine is broke again and someone manages to fix it quick

Some Burnley fan somewhere is generating some rumours and is sat back in absolute stitches at folk losing their minds on here over daft rumours

Great news re Travis. If anyone deserved a new deal it was him. Been impressive since finally cracking the starting 11

The word experience gets used a lot on here of late. I dont care if the CB or GK is experinced, I just want them to be good and better than what we have now. Its that simple really. Improve the team. Apart from Graham, all our experinced players where pretty poor last year and we spent a season crying out for youth.

I think that would be a good move for all parties. Fingers crossed

You have to realise that everything TM says isnt for the fans ears. Some of it is smoke and mirrors imo for other ears. Like sometimes its like he is talking to the owners through the press.# Other times it will be a game of poker trying to push a deal through hinting we have no money etc. Then its trying to squeeze extra cash out of another club by hinting we have a good budget and dont need to sell etc. Im not saying his isnt changing his mind from time to time, but to think everything he says is for us is a bit short sighted

He was let go becasue we were offered good money and TM thought we could do better. Wether we do better only time will tell, but personally I think all the keepers we have been linked with are better than raya

Im inclined to agree. Watched quite a lot of Wigan games and he always impressed. At this stage he isnt as good as hart and forster, but his wages and the finaces involved will reflect that and be far more inline with our structure

If it happens and its always a big if when we are trusting Nixon, I cant imagine TM taking him on loan unless its a loan to buy option also

Walton makes sense and seems to represent our recent transfer plan.Young, english, played for england at all youth levels. He is also a fair unit and a lot more commanding of his area than Raya For whats is worth Wigan have had carson and walton and the wigan fans I speak to would all rather have Walton. He was a lot better than Raya in League one and would surely have been in the team of the year ahead of Raya if loan players werent banned from the vote for some reason. Not the sexy name after all the specualtion, but really taking finance, age etc in the the equation,he could be the best long term option of the lot

I think people use a forum to vent. When the wife and kids dont listen and dont care what you gunna do :). It can get annoying at times, but without different types there would be no discussion. If everyone was happy there would be one post a day saying we are awesome and everyone would just like it and log off

Everyone is a different character and has their own opinion. However i think in general, forums have a larger collection of glass half empty types than the average of a fan base

The modern fan has a championship manager approach to everything where you just buy buy buy to improve. Improvement can often come within with good coaching and players improving. Its not the sexy approach but why employ coaches etc if thats not the aim. A few players improve a bit and a young player or 2 steps up and you can improve a hell of a lot and not spend a penny

The difference between success and failure is so small at times. I to dont think we are to far away from the top 6 with a signing or 2 and a bit of luck. But likewise i dont think we are to far away from a relegation scrap with some poor signings and bad luck

Listen to our fans and all our players are not competent Lets see if he signs, then give him a chance

I think it suits Dack bigtime. He is good enough to play any of the 3 and chage about at will. The question is how would it suit DG. He doesnt have the legs or pace to drift out wide and interchange much

Could be Karl Darlow and the delay was newcastle getting a manager first

I dont think anyone is happy with that approach, but its what happens to everyone except the super rich with transfer windows. Most of the time a ll relevant parties are holding about believing they can get better or more and so on it gos until the deadline arrives and people are forced to react and make a decision Its not ideal, but this is modern football

1 centre half and a new goalie worked out quite well for liverpool. Get the right players and they also improve the players around them

To be fair he was Derbys player of the year the 2 years before Lampard arrived, so it depends which way you look at it. We are not a pull for players, not even in this league, so anybody we sign is going to have some slight question marks over them

He wasnt the starter at Derby last year. Lost his place under lampard as he wanted a sweeper keeper style keeper and he didnt think carson could play that role

Scott Carson, Scott Dann permanent and a full back on loan from a PL club I reckon

Quite an apt saying in this instance. Shows what a good egg TM is that he is laying plans for the long term benefit of this club

There is real compettition for places in certain areas now which is what you want. You need to perform and perform every week or you will lose your place