Emjay, thanks for the post. Yes I remember us championing Murphy. What makes him a smart buy for me is that his assets are things I don't think you can teach and perhaps the lesser parts of his game you can train. As others have said, a player likely to do well and stay with us if we're back in the champ.
I'm certainly no expert on keepers! Yes the Johnstone rumours seemed to have something to them. I wonder what the thinking would be if it were a loan though? Perhaps he is due to renew his contract at United, but I thought that he only had a year left to go? Maybe it's a case of all parties keeping their options open down the line? The was a tabloid/clickbait website saying that Fulham were after him also.
I wonder if one of the loans (if WOL are even right on that front) might be Snodgrass after all, with a view of playing him as a no.10? Though I'm being hyperbolic about tabloid hyperbole there.
I'm not sure about signing Ginge mate. If we are going to add in that department, I would rather us look for a young "project", someone who will be ready to replace Sol when he starts to wind down. Though we have one or two English lads who fit that perhaps even at DVP level anyway? That said, maybe Neil will intend to play a lot of three at the back in parts of games so you could be onto something.