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Absolutely mental, that. Fucking hell.

I can see why Eddie would want Guehi and Mbeumo over trying to bring someone in from a different league, we are very clearly looking for players to come in as first choice in those positions and those two are about as sure a thing as you can get in terms of hitting the ground running. Positions like backup striker or another midfield option is where I’d like to see us looking to unearth gems from abroad that maybe carry a bit more risk but will come cheaper than buying established PL talent.

Not on the face of it, but you'd be amazed if not indirectly given it's a club that has been bought by, re-named and moved MK Dons style to the new white elephant city.

PIF owned ?

Southend 1-0 Oldham.

Apparently Leon Bailey to Neom SC for 25 million

100%. Used to live there and it is a total shithole. Shit club, shit fans and a city full of freaks and weirdos.

Just read about it after your post. Without knowing all the context, it seems wild to collectively punish the entire PL for it.

To put Mbeumo's goals into context, quite a few were penalties. Which he probably won't have here. I really like him but would love to see what that money gets you on the continent.

Nobody likes smarmy comments bro. Not cool.

In each position

@54 time for your transfer tracker?

Mbeumo joined Brentford from Ligue 2 for pennies when they were in the Championship mind. He's a class act but it's taken a long time for him to reach this level. I think there's clearly a middle ground between us blowing all of our money on peak age players and recruiting at a much lower price point with what are effectively spread bets. There's of course many players these clubs sign that don't turn into CL level players. At the end of the day while we can say 'trust the scouts' every club now has data and scouts and knows which players are available - but clubs operate in different pools and have different targets. They also have different propensities for risk, particularly if CL qualification is a factor to take into any recruitment model. Paying slightly more and getting them once they've proven themselves is not a bad policy for a club that wants to compete for CL places, IMO. Liverpool basically built their success on doing that.

Can Mbuemo actually play as an out and out striker? I saw this argument in favour of Gordon as well a couple of seasons ago, but in reality Gordon is no sort of striker.

Calm down son, we’re not signing Grealish and if we sign DCL it’ll be for nothing and will make sense even if he’s on decent wages

Hope and pray Jack Grealish isn't the new Calvert-Lewin of the summer, or worse still the pair of them.

Don't be daft like, Onana would be an absolute beast in an Eddie team. He's not my kind of player at all but he's a very effective PL player.

he wouldn't ,Awful signing

I don’t know neither of them It’s a no for me for Mbuemo and Guehi. Just feel spending that extravagantly will just lead us back to where we are now in a few years. Especially due to their wage demands. Nothing particularly critical of the players individually. Mbuemo I’ve talked about and been a fan of for years since he joined Brentford but ultimately that is when we should’ve been buying him. Guehi I’m more doubtful of but fully understand and respect our current scouting team when judging him. I’ve just not been impressed the handful of games I’ve seen him play.

Disaster for him.

I agree to an extent. At the same time we will be playing CL and there will be tons of games. Won’t matter if we have quality if we don’t have the ability to rotate.

He’d need to tick every box in our recruitment policy for that price, similar to Gordon, Tonali and Isak.

Im the same. The league is so tight now that getting ahead means bringing in top quality. Buying average to good players won’t help us push on.

Charade surely gets unwound once Ronaldo calls it a day? It definitely doesn't survive post world cup right?