Summer transfer, gossip and speculation thread

[footyskillz]

Balanced squad isn't bruce motivation it's bodies in squad

He still has to play the new guys. He basically admitted that's the only way the clubs will let them go the other day. If we get another forward is he going to play 2 up front?

(Oh I think he'll play them all too apart from gk maybe he can go cup matches. He may even play some in out of position I mean I El ghazi a left  back /centre back option as desperately trying to find out as thought he was a winger and having seen a post here saying he can play in defence)

Sorry I mean to explain that Bruce will sign players so he has enough of them for a competitive but unbalanced squad

[sickbeggar]

Well i'm presuming (hoping), elmo will move back to right-back,  with Axel in the middle once the new faces have arrived. I can't imagine him not playing Kodjia up front so if abraham arrives i make that two up front with adomah probably most likely to be binned

[DB]

Just get a proven CB please

[VinnieChase84]

                  Nyland
Elmo, Chester, Axel/Huth, Targett
                Hourihane
       McGinn.             Jack
Bolasie.                           Kodjia/Ghazi
                   Abraham

[dicedlam]

                  Nyland
Elmo, Chester, Axel/Huth, Targett
                Hourihane
       McGinn.             Jack
Bolasie.                           Kodjia/Ghazi
                   Abraham

Hourihane a defensive midfielder?

[cdbearsfan]

A friend tells me there is a restriction on how many loan players we are allowed on the pitch at any one time. Is that right or is he talking bollocks?

Because if Nyland gets injured or suspended we could have Moreira, Tuanzebe, Targett, Bolasie, El Ghiza and Abrahams.

I'm hoping we can still loan a centre half.

[sirlordbaltimore]

A friend tells me there is a restriction on how many loan players we are allowed on the pitch at any one time. Is that right or is he talking bollocks?

Because if Nyland gets injured or suspended we could have Moreira, Tuanzebe, Targett, Bolasie, El Ghiza and Abrahams.

I'm hoping we can still loan a centre half.

You can have 8 loan players, with 5 maximum in any match day squad

[OCD]

A friend tells me there is a restriction on how many loan players we are allowed on the pitch at any one time. Is that right or is he talking bollocks?

Because if Nyland gets injured or suspended we could have Moreira, Tuanzebe, Targett, Bolasie, El Ghiza and Abrahams.

I'm hoping we can still loan a centre half.

You can have 8 loan players, with 5 maximum in any match day squad

If you go back a page, I couldn't find anything on the EFL website about 8 or 9 loan players. The only restriction seems to be 5 loan players amongst the listed 18 in the matchday squad.

[Des Little]

This 'how many loans' question is rapidly becoming the new Barry penalty debate.

[Duncan Shaw]

So is Bolasie signing today do we think?  The telly pics last night showed him high fiving and autographing for people, so I'm presuming so.

[Chris_Jephcott]

When Bruce said that we’re getting 2 more loan players in, I assume he meant Bolasie and Abraham?

I would have sincerely liked to have thought that Targett would have been one of these two, as that’s where our weakness is at the moment.

To be honest, that’s where we’ll come undone this season. Our team has goals in it, but also the ability to ship goals too...

[paul_e]

A friend tells me there is a restriction on how many loan players we are allowed on the pitch at any one time. Is that right or is he talking bollocks?

Because if Nyland gets injured or suspended we could have Moreira, Tuanzebe, Targett, Bolasie, El Ghiza and Abrahams.

I'm hoping we can still loan a centre half.

He's nearly right, you can have 5 in the 18.

[Chris_Jephcott]

If we can sign El Ghazi on a permanent in January, then that would reduce the loan amount by 1 for the rest of the season...

[Marlon From Bearwood]

Someone on Twitter reckons loans from abroad don’t count

[itmustbe_it is!]

Someone on Twitter reckons loans from abroad don’t count

Thats not how I read the regulations, they do tlak about Standard Loans, International Loans and Emergency Goalkeeper Loans but the regulation about 5 in the matchday squad just refers to Temporary Loan Transfers , ie all of the above.