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A fish out of water for about 35 minutes.

Bring her home.

Young Shola is a fantastic prospect

Demba Ba was a fantastic upgrade tbf

I honestly don’t think AC9’s career would have panned out the same way had he stayed with us. He was playing for the shirt and unplayable due to his physical attributes. Could have become a club legend imo. Shame that Ashley pushed him out.

He would still choose us, we aren’t missing out on targets by having to wait until July imo.

Well, IF they aren't doing anything. But people need to accept that might be the case. And it might not get better for the rest of the window. Or it will and some of us will owe the club an apology.

yes watching Shola was a privilege.

Going to be a lot of disappointment when July 1st rolls around and the club still aren’t doing anything.

Think it’s more to do with the June PSR period tbh. I just don’t think they want to go yet until July 1st. Rightly or wrongly

I get the idea of wanting committed players etc, but on the other side of the coin, if high potential players are available for 12 mill who we can likely fleece for a lot more (ie 50 mill) a year later, we should be pushing for them. We can't lament the injustice of PSR while refusing to go after players like that that we can massively profit from.

People had exactly the same attitude about the European Cup once upon a time. Same also goes for the actual World Cup. The sport has become the undisputed global game ever since Rous and the old colonial attitudes were booted out because FIFA have continually pushed its global appeal and spread. Hard to separate that reality from the level of corruption that has developed over the same time but it's absolutely true. A Club World Cup once every four years in principle is anything but a shit idea imo. Far more palatable to me than an expanded and bloated CL calendar or money-spinning friendlies between clubs from the same league that are already now the norm anyway.

Will be back in the Irish league by 22.

We weren’t in for Huijsen because he wanted a release clause so he could piss off after a year. Other than the financial upside of that, we don’t want players like that.

The Newcastle pull.

In hindsight the best sale we’ve ever done, right at the peak of his value. 35m in 2011 is the equivalent of a 80-90m sale today, perhaps even more. It was a British transfer record at the time so perhaps it’s more like 100m. The best thing Dalglish ever did for us, including his two year managerial reign

It's kinda obvious the club thought they had Guehi in the bag and thus passed on everyone else last summer. I think Parish and his demands really caught us off guard. I think in the past we have been diverse in our targets as well, I know this drought we are currently enduring has people fucked up but if you step back our work in the market has been second to none. We can't be critical yet imo, obviously if our business is looking like the gobi once the window closes that will be another story.

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Lacroix and Diomande at the back is FIFA/FM-tastic.

Yeap. Problem is we've seen it with Huijsen (and arguably others) already. If we're leaning towards a strong preference for well established top level players, and showing little interest in investing in prospects too, it's a high risk strategy imo. One that eventually will come back to bite us. Diversification (mix of established players and up and comers) of transfer targets is key imo, and I'm not seeing much evidence of Eddie wanting to do that. If this window ends and I was wrong, wonderful, I'll hold my hands up.

There's a reason Brighton were desperate to cash in on him when his rep was high. They kept playing him to build and maintain that rep. They had no intention of him becoming a proper first teamer, but hoped to cash in. Nope.

I would back Eddie to get the best out of him, but his drop off has been huge.

I'm just worried we're being very rigid with who we're targeting and why. I think our transfer approach may actually be very imperfect, to put it politely, and some fans seem unable to bear the thought/reality of that.

This is a great litmus test for how we scout mind, if he goes to Palace and tears it up we've dropped the ball. We know it's a position we are targeting and we know it's an age profile and budget we could work in. The fact we obviously aren't in for him means we have someone in mind we deem a better fit.

Tbf, if Diomande was a top target for us then we would get him imo. He wouldn’t be choosing Palace over us.