The Fish

I've no idea how good this kid is or will be, and I don't like the idea of losing good young prospects to other clubs. However, we won't be playing him this season, and we have to put survival above all other longer term concerns this year. We survive and we get the £100m from the tv money, we keep Benitez, we can attract a better standard of player, we can afford to put faith in younger prospects and we can take the cups more seriously. £6m may not buy the player that secures safety, but it could mean we go for a £35m player rather than a £29m player, or it could pay the wages of the striker or the #10 we need. As a one off I've no problem with it, Southampton have done all right selling their youth... If you don't concede, you don't lose, it's even simpler.

That's all well and good, but what if we can't? What if we can't spend £40m on one player?

No it isn't. It's securing a long term future in the Premier League by selling a kid who hasn't featured in Benitez' plans at all, even though we were in the Championship. We need to survive this season, if we bounce back into the Championship we won't keep Rafa, and we'll get less in parachute payments. What's more likely to make a difference to our season, £6m or a teenaged defender that's never kicked a ball in a professional game? He's still on a Youth contract meaning he can leave if he wants and we're just receiving a compensation fee. For all we know we've offered him a professional deal and he prefers to move to one of two clubs who have a history of bringing youth through and who're up the other end of the table.

I want one, I think we need one, but I'm not convinced we'll get one. How much will a 20 goal a season cost us? £40m? Can't see that happening.

Forest fans on Murphy http://www.forestforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=46044 Nonplussed is the probably the best way to describe their overall reaction to the rumours, which quickly pivot to "kind of makes sense", and "should provide us with X that was missing"

To be fair £6m is worth more to us now than a 15yr old kid who's not even started a reserve game (so I'm told). It's good to see the academy has produced someone of quality, but right now, this season, we would benefit more from the £6m than a teenager.

Do you sit or stand to wipe your arse? Does that Airwaves advert annoy you? Describe your escalator behaviour?

Plus his injury record isn't great. and he's a selfish player. and he's got a bellend goal celebration.

Familiarity and all that.

Slimani is no better than Mitro.

I genuinely cannot look at that photograph without laughing.

This is what I'm hoping. He's a more defensive fullback than Yedlin so may be used in the same way Anita was?

Couldn't it also be that he's buying the players he needs for this season, knowing that because we've less money than most clubs (thanks to missing out on the 15/16 tv money) and because this is the first window where fees have really gone nuts, we can't afford to buy the kind of player we'd need for a top half finish. Sigurdsson having a £50m price tag is mental. And we'd need a few players of his caliber to get where Benitez ultimately wants us? So, while we're taking a small step this year, Benitez's aim is still to take this club back up where he think it belongs eventually?

Really? Class, Jamall just doesn't give a fuck.

Ah nerts.

Plus he had a sister who died "mysteriously", which is pretty likely to mean "at the hands of his brother".

Not any more, he'd quit the King's Guard. That was part an awareness that he'd need money or powerful friends to escape the Lannister's wrath, and part of an ongoing theme of the redemption of Cripples, Bastards and Broken things when faced with genuine evil/setbacks.

I think it boils down to "I like comic book movies and you're wrong for not liking them".

Water off a fish's back to be honest. Mostly I just type out the big posts because I want to have an opinion and until I write it out I've no idea what it will be

Killed the butcher's boy, makes reference to murdering women before, and that's aside from likely killing lots and lots of men. The way he casually knocked that man with the cart to the ground and was going to kill him suggests he's done similar before and thought nothing of it. I'm pretty sure he's done worse in the books too. So while in comparison to Joffrey and Ramsey he's a saint, he's still a terrible person.

Aye, he's had two swings at the Premier League and whiffed both times. Not an exciting link and that's for sure. I'm assuming Yedlin will be 1st choice right back and Manquillo will be used when Yedlin's injured/tired/suspended? If it happens, that is. Gamez can play both flanks can't he?

"Worst place in the world" or something like that. If I was Sheeran, I would have wanted a big death. I'm sure I read/heard that some kid off youtube that did impressions of GoT characters was offed in the scene where the Hound comes across 4 men sitting around a fire. The one where he swings the axe up into a bloke's cock and balls? This guy http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/game-of-thrones-steve-love-cameo-1.3632639

Rumours we're after Manquillo. He of the uninspiring Liverpool and Sunderland seasons...