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Think Fak might kick your head in

Gee whiz! How shit must Jhon Duran be if Chelsea didn't bother going for him!

According the Athletic Howe, Howe and Nickson are picking targets. Solis and Reuben are helping with negotiations. Seems like we've been knocked back by Huijsen, Delap and Pedro now, who I assume were unanimously approved by the three selecting the targets.

I doubt Howe is the one on the phone, but if we look at the players we MIGHT have missed out on this summer. Delap Huijsen Mbeumo Pedro Guehi We didn’t really stand much chance with any of them because we’re outgunned by our competition. Whatever fee or wages we could offer, they can offer more.

People gotta stop starting these threads for players who never make it here.

Yep. In a Nutshell.

Apart from Scalvini link it’s been heavily PL based links, unless you know otherwise this summer ? Last summer we chased a PL based CB all summer without any apparent plan b and the new sporting director thinking our scouting wasn’t fit for purpose ?

Mitchell stealing a living

Played in japan last year The J-League side made it 6-1 after the break before 13-year-old substitute Ethan Fullen and Oliver Brest reduced the deficit in the match that eventually ended 7-3.

I hope so but I can't for the life of me understand how the club could expect to get him if they weren't willing to go the extra lengths to get their number 1 option.

And Ryder asking if we would go after a player like Shearer. Star players basically.

This is exactly the issue - who's picking the targets? Who's negotiating the deals? Is Mitchell's list the same as Howe's? Who's speaking to agents? They've had fucking months to prepare for this summer and nothing has happened at all. Eddie Howe is a brilliant football manager and he's more than done his bit over the last 10 months, expecting him to be on the phone tying up deals when he's on his holidays is ridiculous, there has to be a system in place where other people step up and execute basic transfer/scouting shit? Putting all of this on Howe isn't fair imo, he has to take a step back and ask others to step in and help out a bit. Surely?

Was referring to buying players from the likes of Man City, Liverpool and Arsenal. As oppose to them thinking they could buy ours. That was the context.

It’s all going swimmingly this summer.

Tweeting about the transfers of 14 year olds is never not weird.

They've got 5-6 for each position already, ridiculous

Kudus is definitely on our list like. Don’t know how close to the top though.

History and common sense tells us that Eddie signs plenty of players from abroad, without PL experience.

It's just my personal preference. If we went down that road and the new players didn't set the world alight I honestly couldn't care less if some numpties on here got mad about it a year down the line. The club have proved capable of picking up great players that would cost 2x and maybe even more if they were already playing the PL. Have some faith, grow some balls and lets go for it! Mbuemo & Pedro are functional players but boring as fuck.

Isn’t is all just a natural part of the process? I don’t think anyone’s “being let down” or “doing a bad job” really… it’s just the nature of the transfer market at the moment and the fact that we’re trying to be competitive for players we really want, but due to PSR predominantly, we’re struggling to compete on wages when one of the traditional big boys get involved. I’m sure we will sign players, but to me it’s pretty clear we’re working through our list in ambition order (i.e. trying to get the ones we’ll have big competition for first). Not the time to panic or point fingers, yet. Maybe in a month.