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Wouldn't have happened under Mitchell's watch.

Sell Gordon to Liverpool and bring him in?

I live in France, PSG are on all the time, Barcola when he's picked plays wide left as does Kvarakvaratskhelia which is why he's often on the bench and presumably not that happy.He would be an upgrade on Gordon and Barnes but he's not signing for anyone to play on the right wing.

...and yet if you do make the CL, you still probably won't be able to invest enough to build a squad capable of competing in Europe and finishing top 4/5 domestically so at best it's one season in, one season out. The more I think of it the more I think Eddie is working absolute miracles. To have gone 4th, 7th, 5th while being the 10th biggest spenders in that time (12th in the past two seasons) is remarkable.

I mean in the knockouts they were the best team, they struggled to make it out of the league format though.

And somehow managed to still finish 5th. It’s an amazing achievement when you at what the teams around have spent in comparison.

Got an unexpected nod that a “major” signing is expected by the end of this mini transfer. Got a separate message that failure to qualify for the CL would have forced the sale of a top player. Both player ambition and the need to freshen up the squad. PSR has to change, the implications for the likes of us, Villa, Forest or any club wanting to really go for it and have the money for it seem to get more desperate every year. Fail to make the CL and you risk your whole longer term strategy going up the wall and a new cycle begins. Sky 6 excluded. It’s crazy that we’ve gone 3 windows without a signing.

Yeah they are, fiver cheaper than club shop and JD which I assume is the donation to the foundation

Not sure we need upgrade on Nick Pope this window, he's still a decent GK.

This an FM type situation where the teams asks for a friendly as part of the deal ?

We do, I don’t see us going for that this window though. Certainly the links to players so far suggest the opposite.

When people say they want someone more “technical” than Mbeumo I assume they are talking about guys like Barcola.

I get that and you’re probably right but we need much better technical quality. Surely Eddie knows that

He goes by people and makes things happen down either side. Much more technical and better dribbler than our current wingers.

Think Joan’s Given Shay a deFlowering

I like how they’ve started adding “I’m told” and stuff like that as if it means they don’t have any role in establishing the actual truth.

At this point I just want the manager to get who he wants. I think Elanga will always cause problems with his pace and directness, and likely looks even better in our team. Quite relaxed with whatever direction we go with.

Calm down Luke, it's just bantz.

That'll be a new team bus then.

“I don’t know the answer but will present something vague as insightful and knowledgeable in the hope that readers haven’t figured out my grift”.

“Lots of moving parts” is the most useless phrase ever

Out new?

I'd be happy with Elanga. I think he's more consistent than Barnes. Will probably do more for us over the course of a season. I know they're not playing in the same position, point is that we're kind of happy with the Barnes signing, and we paid around 40m for him. I wonder how much Elanga would cost after this season, though? Didn't we apparently get a 50m bid rejected before this season, which was his best so far?

He’s as Howe-coded a winger as you can get. He’d be class for us imo.