He's gone as a #2, no?

I'd still like Poku and Hall.

I think they're both risky / obscure signings. I'd have gone all out for Rushworth personally.

Just pitch to him that he could live in a flat wasteland or the Ribble Valley for the next 10 months. We'll both finish midtable somewhere.

I hope not, Saka is small enough.

Nah, bunch of soft lads in that changing room. They won't do anything.

In front of a crowd that will tut rather than threaten bodily harm if you miscontrol a ball.

Hence the 'too'. Cantwell, Toth, Poku and Hall. If they want to loan play the PL2 Tombola after that, they can knock themselves out.

Get me Poku and Hall too and I'd be content.

It takes the Dembele deal off the table I reckon.

I bet Nicko's source told him to add that line "Here's your exclusive, Alan, but please add a line that he'll be expensive so the fans get off our backs about not spending money. Talk to you tomorrow".

Or Cantwell, or Cantwell's agent - or anyone in that room, really.

Good song tho.

They seem to go through cycles of selling big and then reinvesting it all. They have an owner that wants to win (and were bought from an owner that wanted to win).

I don't think Dembele is ever going to happen.

We've quickly progressed to the stage of the transfer window where we try to pad the squad out with PL loanees.

Rule of 3. Probably just thrown our hat in the ring having heard he wants a loan - have no chance of getting him.

It's a fairer shout than asking Sigurdsson to play as a LWB.

It's the fact we've repeatedly slashed the wage bill and banked £41m in transfers yet we're getting out bid for a loanee GK by another Championship side. Realistically once Carl Rushworth was linked we should have inked that deal immediately. A proven, young GK - get that deal over the line and give him the #1 shirt from day 1. Instead we're scratching around the bargain bin in the hopes of finding a solution, again.

Pears plays in goal, doesn't make him a GK. Sigurdsson is far too slow to play out wide. He has all the attributes of a #10.

He's a #10.

A good enough shot stopper for who? Everything goes through Pears. This lad reminds me of Wahlstedt - he doesn't like crosses either.

Or he really is radioactive right now and we're his only option.

The only thing about Cantwell is, on his day, he'd be the best player in our XI by quite a distance - he just doesn't have many days and he doesn't solve the pace / positional problems we have.

Sigurdsson is blatantly a #10 too - so we're back to the problem of having 3 #10s all vying for the same spot and the loser being shunted out wide to disappear. I'm not against Cantwell, if the deal is right, but it has to be a bonus signing in addition to a Winger and a GK.