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Our weird transfer dealings with Forest give us a pretty good indication of it. We’re pretty much fucked on wages when the new rulings kick in too. Our revenue just isn’t good enough.

still not the case. We were willing to cause ourselves future problems next summer because we wanted Guehi so much.

nope

Water is wet

Anyone who went to Saudi for money probably isn't the right fit for us tbf.

Even better if you put Saka on the right wing and Alphonso Davies at left back. We can't though can we

Got a 2 week break now, so even if he's out for 6 weeks it will only feel like 4.

Agreed. Ridiculous fee.

Yep, £55m is the figure I've heard for Guehi. Everything else was incentives/add-ons.

Even with signing Guehi we'd have to cash in on someone next year. This place is gonna go mental next year when we're trying to sign a new CB, RW AND striker. We don't need expensive transfers, we need improvements on squad players, IMO. We saw last season with the injuries to key players just how poor the options were coming in. We're already seeing that now after 1 game where we've had to rely on Krafth for 3 games. So let's say hypothetically Guehi comes in. He'll start right? So Schar down to the bench? What happens next season? Looks like we probably need a replacement for Schar, right? So we're a year behind where we could be by bringing in a young player to learn from him now. The way we're leaving things right now, we need a new starting RCB next summer and a backup.

Not sure why people keep claiming there's £70m to spend. We were never gonna spend that on Guehi. Not even close.

I think if you ignore the away form, it was pretty good. We were fucking horrible to watch in most away games like Obviously there's context.

Get through the Spurs game with Krafth and at least we get Schar back against Wolves. Plus it's an extra two weeks for Wilson to recover. Regroup after the weekend and pray we don't get injuries to Isak/Bruno/Joelinton/Tonali.

Whilst he's clearly not the answer, and on far too much money, he's got more talent in his little toe than Murphy will ever dream of having.

Probably not enough time to divert those funds now though.

Signing nobody at all seems to be the biggest of the risks. Can't play £60m of banknotes at RCB can we?

We don't need a 20 year old CB to be better than Schar and Botman. We need them to be better than Krafth, with the potential to become as good as Schar.

I'm being fairly tongue in cheek you know I'll be fine once the window shuts. FFP/PSR and our weird strategy in the transfer market has put a fairly negative slant on things for me, but I can stop worrying about that for another year tomorrow and start enjoying football again (until VAR kicks in).

We're proper fucked next summer when Guehi goes to Liverpool. The pool of centre backs we can sign who can improve us goes from one to zero.

Brave really, people aren’t allowed to say what they think these days so it’s very refreshing.

Ramsdale gone yet?

We’ll be absolutely fine when Willock, Wilson, Miley, Botman and Lascelles return. Last season’s injuries won’t happen again.