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Communication is shite though, when Howe is not at the club it's like radio silence, At the bare minimum Mitchell should have sent out a business as usual message

Imagine having two Harvey's in your team. 😂

Stansfield feels like a competition winner.

Isn't that because of PSR and overspending though? As opposed to a slow process? I kind of get the slow thing when it comes to CEOs etc, they do take their time.

We're less aware of how long other clubs take to do deals because we're not constantly checking forums/social media to find out what they're up to. I don’t think we actually particularly slowly in the transfer market.

While I agree, a lot of that is PSR. It feels even now, we're trying overly hard to squeeze every penny out of deals for that very reason. Problem is, if you shop for PL proven, you're going to pay a premium.

If he has turned us down, I’d be amazed if we don’t now overpay for Elanga.

Just to play devils advocate, apart from a 2 director of footballs, one was a turncoat, the other just not the right fit, they've barely got a decision wrong in my mind.

England 1 - 0 Europe

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Lovely cool finish. Sign the fucker up.

Brilliant finish that.

We probably will, but I definitely understand the scepticism towards how we operate at board level. It’s getting on for two years since we made a first team signing.

Barcode top in stands!

I wonder if we’d be interested in him.

We've not missed out on any player because we've acted slowly, as far as im aware? Any player who's gone elsewhere has been because of more obvious reasons. As far as time goes, why does it make any difference when we sign players, until the 7th of July arrives? Even some of our better players won't even return to training on that date. Also this idea that we negotiate slowly isnt true, Liverpool Kerkez deals took weeks, even though we knew it was happening. Wirtz had like 4 bids rejected. Man Utd still haven't agreed a fee for Mbeumo, despite him making it clear he was moving there 3 weeks ago. Chelsea have been trying to sign that Gittensn for ages. Im sure Arsenal fans will be going wild at the fact they haven't signed a striker too. I suspect we are caught in a bubble, to which everything feels frustratingly slow and I absolutely feel it too. If by the week the players come back to training we haven't got one through the door AND another one looking likely, I'll be incredibly frustrated like everyone else but not yet. We've made numerous opening bids for players this week. I think the whole point of that is specifically to get a couple done before pre season.

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Elliot is SO composed in the box. Always picks out the corner.

Get in. Harvey Elliott at it again

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Absolutely hate Chelsea and this whole PSR thing is a fucking farce

That seems to be from a quite shitty source.

Howe has squeezed everything out of our players and masked their deficiencies. We have been lucky that teams such as Chelsea, Spurs and Man Utd have been below par since our ascension. A poor season could result in lower bids from clubs, next summer, to unsettle our ambitious players such as Isak and Tonali. We have to keep evolving in the transfer market and tactically to compete until our revenues enable us to offer elite wages. Bournemouth took calculated risks(with little outlay) on highly rated youngsters such as Kerkez and Huijsen who integrated into their first team almost immediately. We have got to do the same if we can. We can’t compete with Chelsea, Spurs (Maddison went there instead) and Man Utd for players but we can blow Brighton, Bournemouth and Brentford out of the water for talent - we should be doing a ‘Chelsea’ on these clubs’ targets.

It's still early like