TRC

Still nothing from Fab, Ornstein, Hope, Edwards or Waugh.

Looks legit to me

I think its time we put in bids for Origi, Renato and anyone else Milan are after even if we don't want them. Back off Botman or we will just inflate every targets price.

All about bringing the reputation of the club up. Eriksen does this.

I'd be all over this deal

2/1 now

Howe has worked with him before so will know about his character

I thought quite highly of him, but Watford fans don't seem impressed. Lack of IQ, end product and didn't give a shit all season apparently.

I feel like Sarr is the easiest and most obvious solution to RW, unless we take Cornet

Ah gutted! Poor Luke

Edwards first again?

Brandt is a classy player, would be all over that

Rabiot is well know for being a consistent under performer. Not what we need.

Hes would probably start in cm for us

Just go through the French u21 team and buy as many as we can tbh.

Seems odd for 360 to quote a Burnsie type?

Regarding sources I will add in any glaringly obvious ones I have missed, otherwise I will leave it to the mods. Bailey and Edwards seem to be the most divisive so far. Bird tier 3 then?

These accounts have a following, so I think its worth mentioning, not everyone will know they are bullshitters unless you are on twitter enough. Mouth has 18k followers and Casey 10k they get enough traction to warn people imo.

As there are a lot of links at the moment, there doesn't seem to be a solid guide online for transfer reliability I've put the framework together for a source reliability. Source can be journalist specific or the outlet itself. If mods can clean this up as more suggestions are made, and not everyone will agree, that would be great. Tier 1 - Excellent Source - Fabrizio Romano, David Ornstein (Athletic) Tier 2 - Good Source - Pete Graves (Sky), Luke Edwards (Telegraph), Chris Waugh (Athletic), Craig Hope (Daily Mail), Di Marzo (Sky Italia), Lee Ryder (Chronicle), Keith Downie (Sky) Tier 3 - Average Source - Mark Douglas (inews), Simon Bird (Mirror) Tier 4 - Bad Source - Graeme Bailey (90min) Tier 5 - Avoid - Mouth of the Tyne, Sean Casey

I think its safe to say the Italian press are wrong, 55m is way too much.

All the talk is its Botman holding the deal up not Lille?

Agreed.

He may be a tap in merchant, but he's pretty reliable?

Romano credited Edwards with Targett but fair enough if it was the Mail. We should have a sticky for these rumours and who is reliable, didnt need it under Ashley but we get so many links these days its hard to weed out. Tier 1 - If linked its concrete - Romano, Ornstein? Tier 2 - Credible - Hope? Waugh? Edwards. Graves Tier 3 - Occasionally right - Kaveh Tier 4 - Media Bullshitters - Sky Italia, The Sun etc Tier 5 - Twitter ITKS - Burnsie etc