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You reckon Thomas has taken a big back hander from the German Football Federation to keep us a total irrelevance at the highest level? How else can you explain Henderson starting, Curtis Jones at RB and James at LB?

Do people on here think he's actually still in charge of negotiating transfers and contracts? Would there not be a chance of conflict of interests given he must have some other job in mind if he's leaving at the end of the month.

A 10 semi replaces a the need for a CM. I would be content with Ross Barkley or Doucoure type singing for free or peanuts. Id love Ederson, JP, Elanga and Guehi. Thats a squad that can get to the QFs of the CL and get 75 points in the league. With a bit of luck that side can challenge for a title 80-85 points.

Agree. People are quick to rebrand him as a LB because he performed well there, but given a run at RB he would be even better in that position.

Cant see loan signings and Eddie Howe fitting together. No need to waste Eddie's ability to improve players on someone we aren't going to keep.

Have we shown any real interest in Madueke? Left footed right winger who can also play on the left where Chelsea have shoved him with Neto on the right. If Gittens comes in he'll probably get less game time. Rather Madueke than Elanga, he's probably cheaper as well.

Big fee for Tino comes in and accept it would we keep Tripps for another season, and buy another up and coming to boost PSR funds and use the season for the newcomer to settle in and sort, or is Tripps beyond another season.

Whenever Maignan gets mentioned I always think of that biblical save at the Gallowgate from Bruno’s shot. One of the best saves I’ve seen in person probably.

Where would he fit in a Howe formation? He's got plenty of quality, but lacks in so many other metrics. As a #10 is the only position I could see him working.

Nit in terms of money I wouldn't have though, no. Getting multiple deals done, however. Including trying to shift players. Different story.

You're being silly.

Give me: Bayern (a) Chelsea (h) Slavia Prague (a) Marseille (h) Villareal (h) Club Brugges (a) Union SG (a) Copenhagen (h) 19 points and straight into the last 16. 12 points would almost guarantee a play off round.

Dont think it matters much in regards to PSR if we buy now (after july) or in January.

If recency bias means the last two seasons then sure.

I think if we're realistic about it then we're going to have to shift a few big names for a few big fees if we're going to catch up. Everyone on here wants to keep on adding to the group and none of us want to see Isak or Tonali move on as we all enjoy watching them play. However, as we're seeing this summer PSR is allowing the clubs we're trying to catch to simply buy their way back into the picture and that's not something we can compete with. We've caught them up on the pitch but we've gone 3 windows without really strengthening and now we have the chance to spend and close the gap we find out the rest of them can match us. Don't want to lose Tino, I think he's class but IF we did shift him for a monstrous fee of £90m (or whatever, don't think he's worth that but no harm in asking for a number like that if we've accepted it's happening) then we could use every single penny of it and that would turbocharge our ability to get another 5 players of similar level. Spurs did it with Bale and Kane, Liverpool flipped Coutinho, Villa with Grealish, it's not unprecedented. We're getting to the point where our first raft of signings (Pope, Tripps, Burn etc) will also need to be replaced soon, this is on top of the shite that's still clogging the squad up. I'd hate it but we may need to bite the bullet eventually with our favourite players

Why do this? Now there are 50 posts wasted on merits. Use realistic transfer thread instead

Called it. I can totally see him signing a 6 year deal on mega bucks at Chelsea mind.

Grealish on loan? I think he could revive his form-career under Howe, and we could do something like half of his salary + 6-8m loan fee which covers his another half of salary for City. that way it doest blow our salaries within other players. wouldnt do a permanent deal as not sure how ambitious he is long term. feels a bit like he gave up after their treble win, like won it all, what else there is to fight for... but short term, in a WC year he might give his all...

Yeah ticks all the boxes also like that Lamine Camara at Monaco who would also fit well in our midfield 3.

This is recency bias. He's a better RB.

It’s the attitude off the field what counts most

Pretty impossible to avoid glamour ties from pot 1. Least glamorous imo would be psg and Dortmund due to recently playing them, and hardly bad trips!

We definitely need a new CM to replace Willock and Longstaff, but yeah it won't be this summer. Might get a youngster if our funds stretch that far, otherwise it'll probably be January.

One extra reason why need to fucking hurry up and sort out the CEO / DoF nonsense. Isak needs a new deal, Tino will want a new deal, Hall as you said too, then there will be others. It’s not getting players tied down early on that fucks clubs over in future summers.