Karl Coppack

The third one isn't necessarily, I think, going to be a household name, but rather...

well actually what are we going to do here you know like five years ago Sally was away to AFCON well Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain played right wing who's quick and yes nowhere near the same output or nowhere near the same level of player but doesn't completely change how you play so it might not be a sort of household name but yet still somebody can come in and give you that threat you're not going to target Chamberlain are you because he's Chamberlain he's going to do a job for you he's going to be fine he's just not going to be Sally so do you think it's two or three wingers I think

No, no, I think probably given we don't want to, obviously the squad requires surgery, but we don't want to dig everything up again and, you know, start from scratch.

So, you know, the question really is, can Cody Yakpo do a season as backup to Isak?

And I'm not really... I can answer that for you.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

But you fear that maybe that is somewhere they're trying to cut corners.

You can see a world in which that happens, I hope not.

Three wingers and one on complacentially.

And I think in the same way that, for example, being a second-choice goalkeeper at Liverpool is quite unique in the sense that you know you'll get 10 games a season because this guy's going to get injured.

I think we've got to understand, like the point you make with Isak, based on the last three or four seasons, he's unlucky with the Tottenham one because of his impact.

But he's still missed 39 games in the last three seasons.

So you do have to account for a centre-forward playing quite a lot, whoever that is.

So don't think he can get away with Gakpo for a year doing that because you're just going to see loads more of him there than what you want to see.

And this isn't Luis Suarez in 13-14 where, you know, if Iago Aspas has to come in and play Oldham at home in the Cup, that's fine, but you're actually not going to see that much of him.

We're going to see quite a lot of this guy.

Yeah, I think the concern with McAllister is if there's a bit of a change in his body and it's a miles-on-the-clock question, well, he's going to go and play for Argentina, isn't he?

He's going to still start for them at the World Cup, so he's going to the other end of the world, playing loads of minutes, and he's not going to come in fresh and have a full pre-season off.

So I think there's an argument to do something there, and if it's on the table and I'm not

get into this player but if you can do just McAllister for Wharton I think you're getting pretty much what McAllister is in terms of quality of the ball two or three years ago it sorts a bit of your homegrown problem out and you do something there but then Wharton is not necessarily like somebody who's going to buzz around the midfield and solve that problem and I still think that needs solved as well so if you're keeping McAllister you do one I think if you're doing a McAllister for Wharton sort of swap thing which by the way will cost money then I do think you need to do another to just get some legs in there