Karl Coppack

I think Mente is obviously a good player, but I don't think Mente will be cheap either.

The one that I was thinking of, actually, and I don't want this to happen, but we know that Arne Slott tried to bring Crescentio Somerville in at Feyenoord, and there were links.

At the start of that, I think there's a few question marks from what my West Ham friends tell me about sort of culturally and, you know, in the squad.

Is he the best sort of influence around the boys?

I don't know anything on that.

That's obviously something that they would have to consider.

But he has got a bit of pace about him, has not scored enough goals in the Premier League to justify doing it.

But if you're getting two big ones in and then you need another for whom, well, if they're not playing, we don't have to completely change our style and our setup.

Could that be something to look at?

I'm not sure.

Just on the sort of opportunistic, because you're going to be able to get bone for a cut fee if you want in Somerville as well, I've mentioned, I don't think there'll be anything in that, just as an interesting thing that I remember from a couple of years ago.

The issue is the age and the number of games on the clock, but there is a shout for Matthijs Mane.

It is only one year, isn't it?

But he sort of fits the profile.

we keep saying if we signed De Mande and Barko they will obviously be your first choice front two but we know Mande's got pace about him he is a quick player and you know if he is doing a bit of rotation for Virts and getting the odd game on the wing when one of those are injured one of those need a rest then I'm certain that he could still do it like again it's

It's De Mande in the sense of the number of games he's got and he hasn't quite shown the same levels of scoring as De Mande has but then of course De Mande's playing a much better team so you've got to factor that in.

Minta?

Interested?

Not interested?

Brighton would also be able to post a fairly hefty profit on him even if we feel like we're getting him for a little bit of a cut price because they catch Newcastle at the PSR point where they have to sell within a couple of days and otherwise they were going to get a points deduction.