01 Sep 2026 16:54:45
Liverpool will submit another offer for Minteh this evening, I’m told.
Circa £75-80m.
Crazy stupid if you ask me ????
01 Sep 2026 17:17:55
Nope, not going to happen, my mate. ?
01 Sep 2026 17:18:38
Minteh will transform the team. His work rate on and off the ball is insane - he is so perfectly suited to Andoni ball. You been on Twitter again?
01 Sep 2026 17:38:08
Brighton have signed Chema and the Millwall winger. Minteh is coming.
01 Sep 2026 17:48:41
Minteh ain’t doing naff all. He’s injured and will need a pre season of his own.
It’d be a pointless signing when we could just revisit it in the winter window.
01 Sep 2026 17:49:11
Swampdonkey, Are you actually Jordan Peterson behind that account?
01 Sep 2026 17:56:01
I think Minteh has had a pre-season, but he’s going to take time to get up to speed.
Any signing would also take time. Barcola will take time to get up to speed.
Making signings on deadline day is generally foolish. Get your business done early and let your manager cook.
01 Sep 2026 17:57:12
Jordan Pickford more like.
01 Sep 2026 17:57:58
It's fine, Gakpo staying is like a new signing! He will play right wing with Munoz, Chiesa and Frimpong covering; Barcola, Rio covering left side and Ekitike and Wirtz can play from left. Szob can and should play on the right defence for now.
The questions will be center of the park. Can Nyoni step up and be the warrior we need in midfield? Kirkez still deserves a chance at left back. No way we're ever replacing him. It's up to the manager now to get a tune out of the team. No excuses.
01 Sep 2026 18:07:59
My main concern is right back, I just hope Gomez comes back quickly and stays fit.
I had just heard that we put a late plan offer for Gusto... so perhaps a late plan deal for a RB is on the cards if anything at all.
01 Sep 2026 18:19:38
Doms going to have to get used to the idea of being the new Trent. No way he has any clause saying where he should play. 300 a week means do your job.
01 Sep 2026 18:37:20
How are we in a situation already where Dom has to play right back?
Our midfield is not great but Dom is probably the best one of them and we’re shunting him out to right back again?
Gomez will not stay fit when he comes back to be relied upon - history tells us this.
01 Sep 2026 18:50:22
Szoboszlai can’t play in a midfield two. His best position in an Iraola team is right wing or right back.
01 Sep 2026 18:52:16
Dom is not a CM. He lacks discipline amongst other things. He should be on the right or rotating with Wirtz.
01 Sep 2026 19:00:06
As much as I would love a rb and a cm. I’ve felt from the Barcola signing being announced that we were done this window. I hate deadline day. It was always fun when we had our business done and I was watching other clubs sign players in a panic. Not so much fun when you actually feel like you need to do business.
Anyway onwards and upwards. We have signed very good to excellent players this window and with Iraola we have a good coach. We have also seen Szoboszlai signed a contract extension. Keeping Cody is good imo also. So it’s not all doom and gloom.
There’s no pfk or Jovanovic either, so there’s another plus.
01 Sep 2026 19:01:11
I think with a new gaffer it's totally fine to make the signings needed or move people on after preseason and all the way to the January window.
I'd rather identify what he needs that tell him what he has.
01 Sep 2026 19:12:10
I don’t think you can see Dom isn’t a CM.
He could definitely play in a midfield 3 if he has licence to push on.
I don’t think he is working now in this current midfield 2.
But AI’s job is to get a system that gets the best out of his players and gets results - there needs to be some pragmatism.
Either coach the players to learn the system better, or change the system.
Failing that, change the players, but that isn’t his job, and Dom isn’t being sold.
So he needs to find a solution with the players he has.
I don’t think the answer is to move him to right back.
01 Sep 2026 19:21:10
Swamp, Szobo can't play in the no. 10 either cos he is nowhere near as creative as Wirtz.
As for Minteh transforming our team, that's not gonna happen with a player who has scored less goals (9 in 66 for BHA) than Darwin did in his first season (15).
That's not a thing, I'm sorry.
Also, what is this obsession with signing a currently injured player? Bonkers this.
01 Sep 2026 20:05:41
Oli, Salah more than doubled his goal output from his last season with Roma in his first season with us, so why is it so unexpected that a player will put up better numbers in a different team?
He's also young, and put up big numbers when he was on loan at Feyenoord.
01 Sep 2026 20:51:36
Rugby, that same Eredivisie that people don't rate when it suits them? Slot and Gakpo were being berated for coming from that same league when it was convenient for them. Keep in mind, I'm not doing that here.
Secondly, and this is the simple part. Comparing Minteh to Salah or Mane is just blasphemy at this point.
That is cos Salah was levels above Minteh at Roma.
So was Mane at Southampton to the point that Utd. wanted him before we took him as our second signing the year after. You do know that Mane was our record signing that season surpassing Andy Carroll's fee, right? Exactly.
This is not rocket science, my man. It is that simple.