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He’s been separated for ages

No value in Europe is a mad take. A player can have a sensational season in the European market (Akliouche, Diomande) and be worth £50-60m tops. A player who has a sensational season in this league will be worth twice that if he's bought at that price - literally all of our player bought from abroad are worth double what they were bought for minimum. It is the literal definition of value.

Counts for most players. Counts less than money though. Which is the bigger issue.

This way you find out if a players interested before wasting time approaching the club. Once a player indicates he wants to leave then normally the deal gets done.

No they weren't man. You need to let that one go. Man U are a sleeping giant. Liverpool were a sleeping giant. PSG ascension is only possible with the crazy investment they have received - that's not a sleeping giant. You were wrong on that point man.

The London factor counts more for foreign players. It's a cosmopolitan city with far more options for a foreign player. Newcastle is pretty good as well tbf, but they don't necessarily know that as we aren't as well known. Plus Chelsea will pay more so there's not really much we can do about that.

Nico Williams > Barca.

😁 Haha, yeah, that clearly turned out wrong didn’t it. But in my defence, literally that day I had seen them both together and they certainly still looked together.

Obscure is Mahrez from Le Havre for less than a million. Obscure is not a £15m signing from Juventus, having played in Serie A for Roma too. Capped at every youth level for Netherlands. That is not obscure. Huijsen was seen as a coup from the start due to his reputation. Obscure means little known. Minteh was far more obscure and even then, I don't think that's the right word. Within the game at least, Minteh had a big reputation which is why the fee was decent and he went on-loan to a fairly big club.

Some might say it's like a new signing.

Ooooft it was comical ali levels of denial that

You hope, but it's always the same, I'd love our fans on social media to start one of them viral things off, a bit like the Colos party or Nick Pope thing, only this time its Newcastle are signing Saka, or were signing Cole Palmer, etc.

But that sort of reinforces my original point that PSG were one of the biggest clubs in the world. Maybe in the doldrums but being the club of the biggest city in France they always had the potential to be big hitters. They were sleeping giants and Qatar recognised that.

Could he buy i into the team ethic and workrate that is expected in a Howe team? Can he understand detailed instructions in team shape and carry them out to the letter? He might have skills but that is not the be all and end all of what is required to work for our team

Wonder if PIF fancy buying it off us.

Elanga is a souped up version of Murphy and has the added bonus of being able to play both wings. I'm not sure why we wouldn't want that but there's no bad pick out of the 3 names mentioned.

Yeo - Some of my good mates thought they’d us! Tripps was bang out of form and the number of times I heard in the build up about how Jack Clarke was going to torture him was mental! Did he even play? Ha ha!

If you're going to get stuck into SP at least do it about his insistence that Trippier's marriage was fine.

Yeah, but we are looking for players to improve the first xi. Buying relatively cheap players with potential for the youth team/to loan out (such as kinteh and corduroy) is fine and I'm sure we will continue to do that, but people seem to want us to buy first team ready players for pennies. In order to improve on our current first xi we are going to have to spend big, whether it's domestically or from Europe.

Not when the gulf in talent is that large Elanga is a speed merchant that's it, ability matters and that supersedes that every time (not to mention Kudus is no slouch either) Kudus is also far more versatile and can play across the line at a good level

Liverpool's 3 best players were linked with sales last season and 1 obviously left. Konate and Saliba are on the Madrid rumour list too

Kudus is two footed, has bags of pace, end product and decent work rate. And is more tactically flexible. If we are after both of them - it's because they share a lot of similar traits. Kudus was inconsistent last year. But his first season was better than Elanga's last season.,

As has been pointed out before, doubling his wages will technically cost us nothing because of the reduction in amortisation cost of his transfer fee. There would be the risk of potential inflationary effect on other player's wage demands, but we could easily afford to pay him £300k per week.

Just an attempt to unsettle innit.

Best player and best player for a Howe team are different things though