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Fearing midfield or striker will be running on empty by christmas.

And the other 12 teams haven't strengthened. Yet

Hard to say that if we didn't know what the original asking price was. It may have been premium to you, but that may have still been the lower end of what the other club originally asked for. Or in some cases, perhaps having failed to bring the price down, they just opted to go for it. Does that then mean they should never have tried to negotiate?!

It’s only really Arsenal and Villa who are quiet in the area we’ll be competing in this season. At least half the league aren’t relevant to us.

I just think there is some understandable scepticism after last summer. I still think we will get 3 in personally.

Dont disagree with that, but we have payed premium fees for players late in the window also.

Well if we haven't learnt from that then we'll get what we deserve. Howe also did say that they did have other options but they weren't widely reported at the time.

I'm sure we'll pivot at some point if things aren't progressing, but it's still early days. Usually negotiations wouldn't even start if the gap in valuations is too big, and the sellers are not open to any discussions. I think this was likely the case with Mbeumo.

You’ve just named the teams with all the PSR headroom. Everyone else is quiet.

Considering we have apparently been planning this window for nearly a year, surely none of what is happening is coming as a surprise to the club.

Selling clubs absolutely start with their highest price early on and you negotiate them down from there. Especially if there is no other interest at that starting price as the window rolls on. That is standard man.

It depends on many factors but if we are sitting around waiting for prices to drop them we are a bit naive.

I don’t think we really pivot tbh, as seen with Guehi last summer.

Well you are suggestion early deals means premium. I dont agree with that. The players we are after, why does it matters if we know them or not? The point was maybe one player through the door for pre season is quite poor, which I still stand by.

Don't worry we'll let Palace have him for £40m, coz no PL experience. Then in two years when he's been brilliant we'll sign him from Palace for £80m, coz PL experience 😀

Do valuations go down the longer you wait though. Any quality player (the type we will be after) will have other suitors so is it not a case of pay up or move along?

Brighton, Chelsea, Liverpool, Man City, Man Utd and Tottenham have all strengthened in some way.

Ok

Kind of..

If you don't know what players we are after then why are there such expectations on when we should have business done by? And what are these smart deals you think we should have done? Also, how do you suggest we force other clubs to accept our valuations without any drawn out negotiations?

I never said get them on the last day though did I?

Dont see West Ham as a rival.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/566666/premier-league-clubs-by-revenue/ 23/24 Season was Breakaway 6 miles ahead, then... Newcastle 320 Villa 272 West Ham 271 Then bit of a gap again to the rest.

Bournemouths defence is getting hammered this window

I was thinking the same last night with a massive hard on