Tosun open to Besiktas return

Besiktas will take him on loan, then not buy in the summer, seen it too many times with Turkish clubs, always want players onloan, with no cash apart from a loan fee.

If Tosun goes out onloan, kiss goodbye to any chance of a transfer fee, would rather keep the player instead.

Hope and believe we get a better striker in now. We cant challenge the top four with just on striker who deliver goals.

Tosun never delivered and should never been bought at all.

And PS, don't let him board the plane until the cheque has cleared.

Yes, Kristian, if I had a balding problem and was a premier league footballer I think I'd have a transplant than go down the boot polish route like Tosun

Such integral squad members who have contributed so much to this team.

Club Legends the lot of them.

A few months back there was an expectation that we'd have fans back in stadiums. That hasn't happened, which means the financial losses all clubs have experience this past year and worse and will continue to deteriorate. Consequently, I think we are happy to offload any wages we can especially those players who are higher earners and minimal contributors. In terms of the squad make-up, Brands said he ideally wants 3 goalies, 8 defenders, 7 or 8 mids, and six attacking players. "Attacking" being the key word as opposed to "strikers." By my reckoning, DCL, Rich, Gordon, Bernard, James, Sig, Tosun, would all fall into the "attacking" category. With Allan, Docoure, Davies, Gomez, Delph, Onyango, Iwobi, Gbmain falling into the midfielder category. So if we offload Tosun and Bernard, we are one short for "attackers". But the plan (hope) is we can manage as we are for six months and get someone actually good in the summer. As opposed to paying a dead beat for six more months or signing some overpriced castoff in this window

Bullseye Moment again, Look what we could have had!

DCL has not played through injury and will likely hit a goal drought at some stage, whilst Richi has stunk the place out going forward this season.

I don't know if Brands and Carlo have any irons in the fire but we have looked a bit blunt on several occasions in the league lately (Wolves aside) and fresh impetus might just swing a top five finish in our favour.

Looking forward to us playing on the front foot on the weekend. Surely?? Digne as a left back being picked out by James from the right. Cross for Dom, GOAL. Attack, Carlo... you're killing me.

Bloody typical, but let's hope that there's no sanctions, against Everton. This is related to the Navalny detention, on his return to Russia.

Interesting to see how this one plays out.

I can't see all those Chelsea-loving Tories doing that.

Would we be foolish enough to bring no one in? YES!!!

There's a comedy tap in to an open goal.

I hope Everton aren't impacted but no doubt the Panorama BBC Team will dig deep and God forbid.

If the businesses are legitimate and the books are clean and tidy, then, who knows what could become of this.

And the same BBC, giving the RS, the nice one for beating Spurs. Spurs forgot how to mark the runners and got mugged.

Now for a massive game v The Toon, a must win.

Hopefully the club won't get penalised, but potentially, it opens a global can of worms in to trade and commerce, into and out of the UK.. and for ex Soviet Union countries and Russian business men in the UK.

Fekkn typical EFC, luck.

He was a mistake buy by Allardyce, even when Allardyce bought him, he realised he was a dud a rarely played him.

Gordon, when given a chance has failed to step up - he has talent, but is far away from making a serious impact in the Premier League.

Bernard, goes missing from games. He would've been useless at Leicester, weak, not particularly quick, no goal threat. A bit of skill here and there, but that's it.

Bolasie? the answer to our problem. Pretty useless and ineffective, then he got injured. There's a reason we have struggled to give him away.

But yeah, all these players would have had us playing like 1970 Brazil against a feeble Leicester team.

Leicester fans must go to bed thinking: if only we had Tosun and Bernard in our team.

It's got the making of a 007 mission. Let's hope Everton, are not impacted.

Jim, bet you're sad things didn't work out for Bolasie. I remember when you were his biggest fan back in his Palace days...

This must have been the reason Moshiri sold his shares in USM to bring him under 10% threshold, which counts as for the purposes of the deadman walking that is FFP, 'official involvement'.

Nothing to see here, or as Moshiri says... whose fiver is it in the end?

We need urgently Doucouré and Allan back. And I believe Iwobi must start on Saturday. I don't know what will happen with the Godfrey/Digne decision but Iwobi must play.

COYB!!!

I will be the first one to hold my hand up that I was more than pleased when we bought Bolasie (even if we paid over the odds) because he was a player that I really thought would change the dynamic of how we played.

Strange thing is at that time in 2016, we already had some lightening fast players like Deulofeu and Lennon, Lukaku, Ross Barkley was no slouch nor Mirallas.

If anything we probably need a change of dynamic to our attack now more than then, we could do with that type of signing now, when you look at our attacking options we are quite slow motion.

Anyway going back to Bolasie, I loved him at Palace, every time we played them he was the one for me that really stood out as the threat, pacy, powerful, really good crosser of the ball.

Shame it never happened for him at Everton.

Bolasie was never a goal scorer but an old fashioned style winger with a bag of tricks who would run down the flank and cross to a target man. He had good chemistry with Rom and he might have proved his critics wrong. As it is, he'll always be a poster ball for the money squandered under Steve Walsh

More club's (especially Everton) should make more use of the loan system. Its a good sensible option to assess a player and how they fit in.

Can't blame clubs that do it. We either don't do business with them or we do. It shifts wages off our books as there are no buyers.

Tuson certainly doesn't suit our style and needs to go. I'm more surprised that Bolasie hasn't made our squad. He's also inconsistent but can be a game changer. The type of player we need, pace, strength, attacking threat.

I'm resigned to no incoming players until the summer. Season 1 assess squad. Then strengthen weakest area which was midfield. Seasons 2 assess squad.

Our weakest area is now the forward / attacking options. I look forward to adding real quality in the summer. A shame really as we have an opportunity to make European qualification.