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I'm not keen on him but I suppose he did thump Van Hecke in training, so I'm warming to the idea.

We went for Isak instead if I remember correctly.

No, I'm generalizing. He'd have improved most top clubs in England last year had he been sold in the summer. Either way, I'm talking about the idea of signing a player with potential for a relatively low fee, who after time to adapt to our system and improve certain aspects can play a role in our team and becomes good enough to start for ESL sides a la Caceido, Mane, Wijnaldum, Mahrez, not to mention all the ESL cast offs like Rice, Palmer, Rogers etc

Shitstain of a human being. Pure cuckold to Perez, Laporta etc.

Romano loves to do the tapping up for the big sides. Absolute parasite.

Whatever we sell him for minus £24m as the remaining amortised value (£40m/5 x 2 seasons of amortisation) is what we would have to spend. So £75m would give us £51m profit (crudely). How we spend it via fees, wages, bonuses comes down to who/how many we want.

I do not want to sell him, I want to build on the foundations we have.

Thought the reports at the time were that we wanted both. Can't really remember though.

Yeah, although not sure if that was the reason. Most reports I've read are that Wilson's injury made us have a rethink of our priorities, combined with us being urged to 'go big' by PIF before signing Isak.

Not going to be able to replace what he does defensively. But surely we could get in a very good RB at half the price who is more the finished product in the offensive part of the game. Dont have to be as young either. No rule that says we have to replace the player like for like. If we also get in a fast RCB we wont miss his speed that much. For sure understand that people dont want to let go of him. But I do think the potential money we could get from a sale could help us build a stronger squad overall, especially in the short term.

Was about to ask. Must’ve passed the test last time we were in for him. How’s his English?

I don’t want him sold. Hypothetically though, if we got as much as say 80m for him. Wouldn’t this more or less mean that we would be able to buy a replacement for say 30-40m and then be able to sign two 40m players on top of that when you consider PSR? Perhaps not if we include wages for the other two players I guess.

The thing is we'll never see a better England squad IMO 2022-2024 so everything is going to be compared against it now.

Wasn't he more or less signed, before he joined Brighton, but we pulled out when Watford started dicking around with the fee? Shame, would have cost around half the price.

Wonder what Howe's thinking behind this is in terms of our no dickheads rule.

Looks like that's just the done thing now. Everyone does it.

Just about to sign a replacement as well apparently.

You joke (I think), but I'm half expecting that to be a popular opinion in time tbh.

A fair point.

We know they want him out because of disciplinary issues. Should help with the fee

He’s far too valuable going into a CL season. Anything less than 90m is a robbery.

I think they're both brilliant tbf

Aye, problem will be agreeing a reasonable fee, no issue with them wanting to sell. That’s what they do.

If the club accepts a bid I doubt he'd flat out turn it down. However, that does not mean anyone from his side is pushing for the move. Seems to me like Man City are hoping for that though, by putting their interest out there when they have not agreed any fee, in order to unsettle him and bring the price down if he then makes a fuss. I very much doubt that will work. They did the same nonsense with MGW at Forest and failed.

Absolute shite