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I’d be surprised if Bowen went for much more than we bought Elanga for.

Yeah, I guess my point is city consistently find players at cheaper prices, it’s not that they are hoovering all the talent up there must be loads of players with buy out clauses that are low. Cherki, Semenyo, Reijnders, Ait Nouri all fairly cheap. They underpaid for Haaland, Akanji in recent years. We claim to pay a premium due to Saudi but they are in the same situation just a lot smarter. We over paid for every player in the summer, I just hope we are smarter going forward. The Elanga one is strange as it’s not like other teams wanted him. We are in a great position this year we need to give Howe all of the tools to succeed, even if it’s a risky loan like Villa did last year.

Always ambiguous with wages I saw 10m a year for Cherki and 7m for Ramsey.

I don’t really know why we don’t go back in to France for signings, it’s so much cheaper and we have done well. Isn’t Nickson really well connected in France too?

In a way I feel sorry for the lad, most people called this when he signed the others had blind optimism and ‘in Howe we trust’

It’s not tha much more, Ramsey is on a decent wedge

Cherki cost less than Ramsey

Poor lads gonna have some hangover tomorrow.

He will have some goals like that yeah but for the most part Brentford have been kings of generating high XG chances

Is that not just a Brentford thing? They would put it on a plate for him. Brentford strikers have always scored a shit tonne

We should only play him away from home tbh

He was part of a low block who counter attacked to a massive target man in a purple patch. its not that difficult, he was never what we needed.

The new rule is a good rule. We just did not take advantage of it

Surely it’s time for Nickson to go? He was appointed by Ashley

Not the best omen. That game finished Kennedy career at the very top

I feel this is something we never really take advantage of.

He was the back up to Toney, was supposed to be the back up to Thiago until he done his acl. He was in a system that farms huge chances to the center forward.

I don’t think that’s always the case, some of the players will have been promised first team, some will have believed they would be the main man. Tosin maybe took the money, at the time the other two were expected starters

Yeah it’s negligent not to get someone in.

He’s reporting what the club have told him. I don’t like Hope but it’s weird to blame him for this

I’d look at some distressed assets. We previously wanted Tosin, Disasi and Badiashile, they have all been playing for a clown club since their move. A loan with option would be a smart play, low risk high reward.

You are going back nearly 3 years with those two signings and Thiaw was an overpay. Thiaw is a great player but we paid 10m over what was originally accepted from Como. Paul Mitchell said our recruitment wasn’t fit for purpose and then left when he couldn’t stamp his authority.

Problem is we need a RB, LB and a CB and I have zero faith in our recruitment team.

Could be a great player but we need some cover asap to keep him fit.

I don’t understand this insistence on young players, we should be looking at a leader 27-28 as we are going to lose Tripper, Schar and Burn will be phased out. It’s not always about sell on value.