Have to think that we're also planning for losing Toffoli at some point, not that he's a key player but it will be a squad place that becomes available.
On a related note, The Athletic projected which Premier League players will likely be lost to AFCON and the Asian Cup. We lose by far the most players (8) of any club, the next most is Brentford with 5.
Can't deregister him until January, so they either register him now and see what happens with any ban or register 24 and leave a space free for either him or a 4th keeper (or Shelvey in extremis) if they are needed.
But if he's able to play in January, you'd think they'd be looking to move him on.
Eight is disingenuous as one was Dennis.
But you could argue four are probably from our first choice XI (Niakhate, Aina, Sangare, Awoniyi) and three (Aurier, Boly, Kouyate) are probably among the matchday squad.
Isn’t there a winter break that incorporates some of it? If their counties get knocked out early we shouldn’t miss them for too long.
Eh? Is a winter break in the EPL a thing? I do recall some debate occasionally rearing its head every now and again before us Ingerlanders go on about it being a terrible idea (it isn't) and that's about it.
Unless there's FUCKING STUPID World tournament or summats that happens to be going on, which isn't really a break at all.
There are no EPL fixtures between 13 and 30 January.
FA cup fourth round on the 27th, though.
We won't be in that!
Dennis to Istanbul Basaksehir on loan has the HWG.
Isn't there are limit on the number of players you can loan out? It must be less than the three teams we've got loaned out, surely?
Just saw a tw@tx linking us with sancho in the summer
Saw that too. I'd like to think our initial thoughts about next summer are simply making sure we remain a Premier League club and take it from there.
I know it's only the socials but you can pick up some definite getting-way-ahead-of-ourselves stuff without looking too hard. Hopefully it's not representative of the wider fanbase because it's the sort of bollocks which ultimately can erode the current feel-good factor by setting daft targets. One fella was suggesting, apparently straight-faced, that the Forest first-choice eleven (post transfer window) is now 'easily top-six'.
I worry these twats could end up being the vocal ones inside the ground, running out of patience at a perceived lack of progress (see: Charlton fans circa early 2000s) and calling for the manager's head.
I've seen a fair bit of 'Cooper has the tools and needs to deliver now', etc recently.
I suspect with Sancho it was more a case of Cooper being able to get one of his former players back on track. Expect more troubled souls to be linked on that basis.
Let's see if he can get a tune out of CHO first.
Won't be a summer transfer (and apologies for the Scum link)
But, hi, I'm the namesake of a famous American golfer.
