Kanj

Seems like from the back end of last season to now, Hall is head and shoulders our best LB. Current form and evidence suggests he’s the starter.

That’s on Bruce! Willems and Maxi was box office.

What did VVD stats look like at Geuhi’s age? Who in football currently has comparable chart to VVD?

People seem to forget the key reason we got 4th was we had one of the best back lines in the PL - GK + back 4 were absolutely brilliant. I'd love to go back to being able to win 1-0 a shit ton of times.

There isn't a single reason why you'd pick Thiaw over Guehi like. Thiaw is what, 20-30m less and a COMPLETE toss up if he's going to adapt? The difference in price is basically made up with the familiarity and consistency Guehi brings.

Get ye'self patched up Cal, we've got a top 4 race on our hands. Our revenge tour for all the injuries; time to blow the doors off these fucking clowns.

You wanted to do that to Miggy

I get that, the issue is you can't just talk about the expense side and say "our revenues don't support the spend" when you don't know what the forecasted revenues are, be it commercial or player sales. So you're missing a massively key input. Now, we had our PSR issue before, fine. But if we're spending now with that in hindsight and likely a ton of learnings, then surely you can assume the club will have a gameplan to make these signings balance?

An unproven 18 year old CB from France was signed by Man United for 62m euros + 8m euros in add-ons...for context.

60m for a proven domestically, full international who was part of a team that lost in the Euro finals and is 24 years old is pretty fair value.

Having watched Olise at the Olympics and thinking further about this kid's potential, I really wish we would have gotten more aggresive on signing him last summer (hindsight I know). But I'm hoping Mitchell's contacts can help us unearth the next Olise type of player in the medium term.

oh shit

Not to mention Gordon. One of the crown jewels of the club.

Genuinely annoying when something like this comes out and we have makeshift accountants trying to think about PSR/FFP. If you want to talk about it, then think about what Eales is probably also working on with Yasir and the PIF crew and that's the revenue offset to pay for this. Either commercial or sales. I try not to get bogged down trying to have deep discussions with the balance sheet kings on here but it's about time people look at both parts of the the ledger then. You can spend if you have a plan for the future. It's OK. Let the professionals work. Just ENJOY some interesting and exciting transfer news ffs.

Big Joe makes every kit look good. Tbh.

Kudus def was a force at RW there last season. Plays the 10, striker and LW too if I recall. I think he can even be an offensive 8 too. I’d break the bank for him. Unreal ball striker.

Really like the way he carries the ball in an aggressive, decisive and confident way. You can’t really coach that. Strikes a ball very well too. Coach him up and develop him — looks a rapid unit too.

Love this type of signing....good age, low fee, potential to develop with the proper coaching.

Can we just all draw the line in the sand and say we're excited he's signed permanently and hopefully his development continues? Is it really worth anyone's time to continue to harp on when Eddie should or shouldn't have brought him into the team?

Eddie's high pressing 3 lions

Miss Big Sven, man

Callum Wilson has been said to be one of our highest paid players, yet he's on 46,000 per week.

Ah yes, those close to Lloyd Kelly would happily disclose what he makes to a website called "capology"

If Barca also get Nico Williams they’ll be box office in La Liga.