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Replacement for JP?

There’s definitely risk there despite him being highly rated.

Spaghetti sacked

I had the gross outlay as £210m (which may be ambitious): Trafford - £30m Forster - Free Guehi - £40m Ederson - £40m Madueke - £50m Joao Pedro - £50m

I agree, but Isak was unfit for decent spells last season, Joelinton too, and Bruno playing almost every minute means he is going to burn out. We force lower half sides into making mistakes and gatecrashing the box as they don't have the quality to play through us. We used to struggle a lot more against sides who could play through us. Injuries and fitness issues forced us to adapt but I imagine Howe still wants to return back to what we're good at.

Proper Brighton move. I can’t stand them.

34m on a bairn from Greece is fairly risky and noncey like.

The LC win was fantastic, but it won’t have translated to much extra money in the coffers. The prize money is a rounding error in the club’s accounts.

No worries, didn’t take it as a dig. You might be right in some cases. But it’s also difficult to tell who exactly has said exactly what. I for one am very excited about JP. I think he would be perfect even if we might have to pay a bit too much. Sometimes it’s just right to “buy it nice or buy it twice”. I’m like that in real life myself.

Some outlets reckoned Arsenal would get Isak for £70m man 😂😂 seems we should be keeping these players warm for the “big teams”

Burnsie 🤯

Really? Some might have done so, not many from what I’ve noticed. Have you noted all this down so you know it’s the same people who have praised every other clubs target and called ours shit? You could be right to a degree tbf. I have been excited about many of our targets and links. But if I don’t rate someone like DCL or Elanga too much then I’m gonna say it. When it comes to other clubs I’ll do the same. I’ve praised some signings and I’ve laughed at some. It’s not exactly uncommon is it? In this particular case I said he “could” be a class signing for them. I’m not saying that he absolutely will be. We’ve been linked to him as well. And if I remember correctly then I said I’d be excited about him despite never seeing him play. Not sure if on here or some other place but yeah.

Didn’t mean him - his agent is actually what I was angling at, maybe always after a deal for him but I agree with you on him. He seems really down to earth.

Think for the prices we'd be quoted from the selling clubs, you'd be looking at an outlay of atleast £250m for all that lot. I'd be stunned if we ever forked out that much in one window, especially under PSR rules. Not forgetting the wages that would need to be added in aswell.

You called Chelsea being interested in a player? Well done, they're not interested in many players these days so great call pal.

Yeah that’s a non starter, this is what Man City do- they plant the seed in the players head then hope they kick up a fuss.

Haha fucking hell, they can’t even be arsed to look up what we paid

Went through Chelsea’s academy, he couldn’t get a game so went to Southampton. Impressed in a team that got relegated and a Champions League club came in for him. That doesn’t sound like someone who’s just desperate for a move.

100%. Used to be the same when I was younger and was CM/FM obsessed and so were my mates. It also helped that the PL wasn’t Europe’s top division at that point, meaning that generally an expensive player from abroad was going to be a likely hit. This is no longer the case, as many clubs (especially Man Utd) can attest to.

Figures being bandied about by various outlets is 32m for him, which is well beyond a joke,

Nominate Vlachodimos going to Olympiakos

At the same time aren’t we his third club in 6 years or so? I may be wrong on that as I can’t be arsed to look up when he joined Southampton from Chelsea.

Not a dig at you Ikon, just feel there's a prevalence now for people wanting relatively unknown players because they're deemed more exciting than players we see in the Prem week in/week out Feels very FM-esque

Trump edit: didn’t get to the end of your comment before answering haha. Yes, agreed. trump.

NO IDEA!