Hope we manage to get the Liverpool lad done in time, for some strange reason he's the one of today's signings I'm most excited about. We've gone from having a 34 year old spearheading the attack to potentially having two outstanding young talents with a combined age of 35 providing much of our threat. Much more like it.

Yep, did more for us than anyone in the promotion season other than Dack.

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Thanks, hope he comes in if he's as good as everyone says and will be a fairly regular starter. If he doesn't get any game time, don't see the point.

So......is he out of contract in the summer then? ? I know all that, but if he does particularly well presumably he'll attract a great deal of interest as a free agent and we might miss out.

Definitely.

Sorry, I don't make a habit of watching Liverpool's Carabao Cup games or under 23 matches. Must try harder I suppose. He wasn't a name on anyone's lips yesterday though unless I missed it.........

Must admit, I assumed Douglas was going to be a permanent signing. Disappointed it's a loan as if he does well we'll probably be priced out of a permanent move for him and we'll be back to square one again. Not if he helps us get promoted though.

Because when transfer windows come round, no-one ever suggests we sign a particular player but as soon as we are linked with them, no matter how obscure the player is, all of a sudden everyone knows their life history, inside leg measurement and solemnly declares they are the greatest keeper/defender/midfielder/attacker ever to lace up a pair of boots and we absolutely must have them! ?

Not sure, I seem to remember in the back of my mind something along those lines being suggested quite a while ago.

OK, take your word for it. People seem to be having kittens at the thought of 18 year old Dolan playing too much let alone a 17 year old. If they're good enough, they're old enough in my book.

Exactly. I flagged that up the other night. That's probably the crux of it, potentially you could be funding a Championship Club to replace you in the Premier League.

Won't get much football here at age 17 though I wouldn't have thought.

You can see the Premier League Clubs' point of view on that really. It's one thing bailing Clubs out because of enforced BCD due to the virus, it's another thing entirely if they're in difficulty due to rank bad management or if the respective owners can afford to fund them. Hasn't there been a suggestion in the past of targeted assistance based on proof of income and expenditure etc? Is that still on offer?

Cheers, If he's that sort of player in terms of character, sounds like just what we need. He'll have a job disrupting the cushy atmosphere at the Ewood Park Holiday camp though. (Est 2010)

Noticed yesterday that the EFL put out a joint statement yesterday rejecting the offer of £50m to L1 and L2 Clubs firstly because it wasn't enough but primarily because they would only entertain an offer which included all its members ie Championship Clubs as well. Sensible approach to take but L1 and L2 Clubs must be fairly confident of a better offer being quickly forthcoming given how desperate they appeared to be to accept the original proposals the other day.

Doubt he'll be chucked in tomorrow then but you never know.

Is Douglas "match fit"?

Think that's a good shout on Wenger but he's probably in too cushy a job where he is now. Southgate is just a smooth talking PR man like Woy and Sven before him but again, at least the other two despite the fact they were poor with England can point to an overall CV with some success on it. It's the Brian Clough syndrome agai 40 odd years on. Don't appoint the best man for the job, just appoint someone who'll say all the right things and never upset anyone

Depending on when he's back and if he comes back fit and firing straightaway. I would rather have brought in a striker on loan until January than another midfielder but hopefully Armstrong stays fit and it doesn't matter.

Hope she's not joining the medical team, they'll all be spending more time in the treatment room than Corry Evans.

Can't see anything wrong with what Mercer said at all. He did predict that there would be a firesale to cover gaps in the finances and none of us would have really been that surprised had that occurred. However, remarkably really in the current climate, the owners appear to have allowed him to retain the crown jewels, and stockpile yet more players despite the fact that seemingly no-one wants our overpaid dross like Evans and Bennett and we're still having to pay Mulgrew £1m p.a. to do nothing. So yes, I'd agree with Merce that there's no excuse whatsoever for the manager and a repeat of the last two dismal campaigns simply wouldn't be acceptable.

What's the point in wasting money on a 3rd keeper? What's the point in signing Trybull and lining him up alongside the likes of Buckley Davenport as another midfielder we never or hardly ever use? Has Douglas been confirmed? If he has then that's hopefully the one addition we really need. The other two I can't see the point of at all but IF the senior signings Kaminski, Ayala and Douglas turn out well then it'll be a very good window, certainly the best since we've been promoted, not that that's much of a bar to beat and it's certainly not before time either.

STILL need a LB and talk of yet another keeper is insanity for me. You have to laugh at this forum at times, a couple of weeks ago everyone decided the Greek lad was the next coming of Gordon Banks and a massive feather in the cap of the European scouting network. Now we've probably discovered he's crap and going to be 3rd choice! Don't understand why we'd be in for a CM either, If we had room for cover I'd much rather we brought in a half decent striker in case of an injury to Armstrong. Potentially disconcerting end to what previously had looked a promising window. We seem to be reverting back to signing anyone for the sake of it because we've missed out on our targets rather than bringing in players in the positions we actually need. Talk about bringing someone in so we can leave our best player so far this season, Dolan, out is equally crackers. Let's see what transpires but I'm actually getting more concerned than I was a day or too ago rather than the other way round.

It's all right, one of our 8 keepers would save the penalty. ?