Douglas Luiz - back home on loan

[KevinGage]

I'm a big fan and want to see him stay.

But to contradict that somewhat: If Emery sees him as a bit part/ first drop sort of option now, I'm not sure without CL football we can justify the outlay re the wages he'll inevitably require.   PSR (and the European variant) seems to only banjax us, weirdly.

We might be better of with a younger project midfielder; someone who can grow with us the way Doug did 2019-2022.

Think we need to target younger players regardless now anyway - and not just the sort of flotsam we punt out on loan to the Olbiyun and Sheff Utd etc.

Players who can actually come into the first team and give us legs in midfield and up top.

A fair chunk of our better players are near 30 or over. We need to get the average age of the side down.

[tomd2103]

You don’t need “great” across the squad. You need players of Doug’s quality to have a strong squad, we should absolutely have him as a medium term replacement for Barkley.

Is he going to be happy with that though Paul?  He looked a shadow of himself when he came on for Forest against us earlier in the season.

[AV82EC]

You don’t need “great” across the squad. You need players of Doug’s quality to have a strong squad, we should absolutely have him as a medium term replacement for Barkley.

Is he going to be happy with that though Paul?  He looked a shadow of himself when he came on for Forest against us earlier in the season.

He was playing in a Sean Dyche team for Gods Sake. That’s enough to put anyone off their caipirinhas.

[Ian.]

You don’t need “great” across the squad. You need players of Doug’s quality to have a strong squad, we should absolutely have him as a medium term replacement for Barkley.

Is he going to be happy with that though Paul?  He looked a shadow of himself when he came on for Forest against us earlier in the season.

He fits us far better than any other team. He’s going to be good signing if we keep him. Ideally I’d like him a bit further forward so he’s a better threat. Squad player or not though, I don’t think he’d struggle like he did at Forest.