madras

+ 10million for having the richest owners + 8million relegation desperation premium.

I partially agree but I don't think it would've stopped sellers trying it on. As I've said ,I think our league position adds a variable where sellers can hang out for that bit more. It's also made worse by being played out in public.

It's where Longstaff the Taller should be.

They are also used to over paying, remember the story of themsigning Fred? Like us with Luque but bigger numbers.

Do you think a DoF would have been able to persuade Lille to let Botman go for less ? We are being held by everyone knowing we can spend and the desperation of our league position. FWIW had we been mid table I reckon Botman would be here already at a lower price than we've offered

Just about half my life time away.

Some skill sets are more transferable than others.

I was thinking about this earlier. Could there be a chance we deliberately get ourselves linked to players we aren't actually after so clubs of players we are after think we have more options and don't try to rip us off so much ?

To be fair his point wasn't that calling the game off was wrong.

Ah didn't realise. Took so little interest in the cup. Bigger matters are at hand.

I'd play Gayle up front before ASM. At least he's got it out of his system before it really costs us.

Relegation battle ? You make it sound like he'll be in a trench. He'll be playing football and while it can get you down if your getting beat every week he can look at what's going on (signing we've made/signings to come) and wonder if he wants to be part of that. In a place like this it could even be fun.

Yeah but as upstanding English men they are complicit as they sell weapons to the Saudi's and are complicit in all the wrong doings of their country.

What ?

How do you know they don't?

No. In the 29th minute.

Scandos with their smorrebrod man, lush.

It's just a postponement, like any other.

Not a chance.

And the first signing is a player who is bloody good at both aspects.

High risk ? In what sense ?

Probably, there's another one who I didn't even know followed football (I'd worked with him for about 5yrs at that time) till hes giving it 2-1s with his fingers the day after their first.

Known them over 30yrs. Good lads. Those that go to matches have to work together to get time off for games. Start of the season we synchronise our diaries, "I'll work that for you if you work that for me" type stuff. I got to Metz and an FA cup final cos Mackems worked for me. I worked for one of them for their Man City Final.

I was a bit conflicted at first until the Premier league tried to stitch us up, it was the two mackem season ticket holders at work who were full of "fuck that, enjoy it, I would, it'll be great"

Is he ? I thought he was working for the police service but not a Copper himself.