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After hearing Webbers comments about Ashley Barnes being asked to help develop the young strikers we have in the squad & needing more experience in the group then I think this points to the new signing potentially being Tom Ince and him being asked to do similar with the young wingers we have as well as adding quality & depth himself. Think this would be a good signing for us tbh

I really hope we keep PLM and Rashica although I accept the latter may be off and the club might want to cash in on him. PLM especially has the ability to completely run games in the Championship and Rashica would terrify full backs at that level.

This is probably nothing but Connor Southwell has liked a tweet from Imad El Hammichi who I googled and it turns out is Mathias Normanns agent. It’s a picture of a pen. I’m going to throw a cat amongst the pigeons here but have we signed Normann permanently? It would fit the narrative from the club of new new incomings.

I reckon this is Webber’s revenge on TalkSPORT for the negative coverage they’ve been giving us recently. Leak a fake story to them which they obviously will run with so their credibility takes a battering when we appoint someone other than Lampard.

Just as an aside, I’ve noticed that there have been a couple of new interesting names that have been added to the Skybet odds list. Edin Terzic who is Dortmund’s technical director and Bo Svensson who’s the current manager of Mainz. Freddie Ljungberg has been added as well but I think we can almost certainly discount that one.

Michael Bailey has ruled out Boa Morte in his latest Athletic article.

Domenico Tedesco is a new name that’s been added to the Skybet odds list this morning. Former Schalke and Spartak Moscow boss.

Rashica has for me been the most impressive new signing so far. Even when he came on yesterday he was running at and beating the Arsenal players and won us a few corners. A fully fit Rashica on one side and Tzolis on the other is quite an exciting prospect tbh, especially against the lesser teams in the league. I believe that when we have a fully fit squad that we’ve got players in the midfield and attacking positions that can really cause serious problems for opposing teams.

Arsenal have some issues in their team so I definitely think they can be beaten tomorrow. Partey and Gabriel are back from injury but Partey hasn’t played since preseason and I don’t think Gabriel had a preseason at all. There’s also doubts over Lokonga and Xhaka is suspended.

I think and hope Normann will start so Farke can stick him on his compatriot Odegaard and mark him out of the game. I’d also hope Kabak will start as I feel he’s best equipped to deal with Aubameyang. Full back selections will have to be spot on as Arsenal will probably go 4-2-3-1 and use Pepe and Saka as the wide options. Their defence is terrible so I’d certainly back our attacking players against their defenders. Also absolutely imperative that we don’t concede early so the crowd gets on their backs and we’ve got a real chance of coming away with at least a point from this game.

Well I seem to be in a minority here but I’m fairly positive after that. If there was ever a game that showed the difference a Premier League quality CDM would make then this was it. If we had such a player and kept Lees-Melou on for longer then I’m confident we would have got at least a point out of this. Williams made a mistake for the goal but defensively I thought he was a step up from Dimi. Over to Webber now. I did notice a plane landed at Norwich from Naples before the game so could be something there.

Looks like it’s gonna be a window when we are glued to SSN and other media outlets on Tuesday looking to see if we are going to be busy. Don’t think that’s happened since McNally.

We can’t sign more than one player from a single Premier League club on loan and we’ve already got Gilmour.

I’m still hoping the report about one of the promoted teams being interested in Mahdi Camara was correct and that the club was us.

https://www.footballcritic.com/top-players/defensive-midfielders This list of central midfielders is interesting. I know most of these players if not all of them are probably out of our reach but does anyone think that there are any attainable targets on here if neither Normann or Carvalho don’t work out? Tyler Adams perhaps. Get that American link up with Sargent in the squad?