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I think most people are saying "surely there are better options?" rather than "there are better options!" aren't they? It's like us saying "surely there are better options than Burn playing left back?". Are you saying the forum shouldn't say that because it's not our job?

Well, clearly But it's hardly our job to speculate who 2nd choice might be. I just hope there is one.

Dunno mate. I wouldn't expect our scouts to be able to do my job either though, so there is that.

It's a bit scary if we're at the point that it's Elanga or nobody. I haven't seen Forest being linked with any wingers so I'm assuming we're far from a deal here.

PIF1: "Not sure on this Howe chap, and now he's won a cup and qualified for the CL he's gonna be hard to get rid of." PIF2: "Just sack him, we own the club" PIF1: "Can we do that?" PIF2: "Yeah, we can do anything" PIF1: "Do you not think that might lead to bad press? Wouldn't it better to completely devalue the club by not signing any players for him, failing in all competitions and then giving us an excuse?" PIF2: "Fair point. Lads, offer Forest less than £60m for Elanga please, new approach."

This is the greatest post in the history of this forum. We need it printing on T-shirts.

this the state of the club right now. we may as well give our CL place up to Villa or Forest

That's not quite how it happened. Ginola wanted more money, so we went after Salako. It got to the point that he was in the ground negotiating but Ginola dropped his demands, so we signed him instead. Ginola was always first choice.

I reckon £200k-£300k a week in wages is a bigger pull than us winning the carabao cup last season.

He's 5cm shorter than Salah. What's our cutoff?

Still think he's better than Elanga. Not fast enough for some though. £50m for Elliott is loads better value than £60m () for Elanga.

It's certainly one of the things stopping us yes

Can tell the window's going well when the forum is reduced to arguing over DCL. I think if the criteria is "not as pointless as Wilson" then the list is endless.

Aren’t most of them a bit shit, palmer aside?

If Eddie can make any player better why don’t we start buying average ones and leave him to his magic?

Last time I looked we qualified for the champions league and villa didn’t. Keep doubling down on your crazy argument though.

Bit disrespectful to our Greek international goalkeeper saying we signed nobody.

Or they watch football

Ok, that’s cool

I’d rather we signed Elliot than Elanga tbf

It would be fine without the noon patch.

What are the drinks like there?

Yeah, that's certainly one

Didn't we have a pretty decent record against everyone last season, other than maybe Brighton?

I mean, it's all about points of view I guess. There's plenty of players I wouldn't want us to sign, and I'll happily talk about it on a football forum.