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that could be a red if VAR ref think it’s intentional

Murphy starting. What a big club we are now. I am fine with the Anderson sales because we have enough cover for that position. Minteh now looks like our best RW if we have kept him. He should be starting today. Absolutely horrendous. Go watch Brightons replay and judge yourself

the question should be what the fuck the club was doing since January? in fact I wonder whether Howe has been consulted for this transfer. we sold a starting RW to Brighton who is MOM the first half, creating a great assist. No matter what you say 35m euro is fucking idiotic price. and we are starting Murphy. Jesus

Nah, keep this open. One of the worst decision made ever, rightly to be remembered as a lesson to be learnt

What a great start

yea do it, if that’s worth your time and effort.

Just wonder what’s the basis or source that you can confirm those are not true? Say is there a better source of info that shows Targetts real salary?

Ah I just think the 27-8m figure sounds reasonable and then suddenly an insane figure pops out and the rest is history. No club would entertain that quoted price for a fringe player

Some here suggested Madueke would be available around 27-28m. Next

this is exactly where I am at. Don’t just say “trust the club/management” easily like the problem doesn’t exists.

There are two risks involved 1. Whether he worths the price 2. Even if he is fucking brilliant, the team as a whole has to perform magnificently and get a top 6 finish minimum

It obviously depends on our end of season league position I genuinely think there is no buffer left and if we are unable to qualify for Europe, Howe must be sacked, and we would undergo a lot of squad restructuring to reset the PSR calculations

Jesus. We better end up Top 4 finish or we need to sell all the purple patches and start from scratch again

That is exactly why a director of football should be in place to stop this nonsense which may leads to disastrous firesale next Jun

They are asking 70m pounds + add ons As I said this is fuckin insane

I don’t think we have genuine interest on him anyway.

I just think even if we failed a top 6 finish this season, and need to sell all the purple patches, we should continue to have patience and let the club to reinvest our next generations. As long as the club is ambitious and challenging, we would be fine. I expect us to finish 6th btw.

Anyone genuinely support the idea to meet Palace asking price? 70m pounds + add ons. I am speechless, if there’s any

Aye. The original plan was to sell Joelinton.

I won’t lose my mind for that. I don’t think Almiron is far better than Murphy. Both should be replaced.

I find it odd as well. I like him but reading comments like 1. He is a good player 2. Frustrating 3. Unproductive 4. Lack of natural football ability 5. He worths more than 10m even he is 30 years old with no resale value doesn’t make sense to me, they all don’t add up

I would do the deal to be honest. It’s fucking low but that’s the only offer we got, which shows how “attractive” Almiron is to other clubs in other words, we should prepare to have Almiron at our club till his contract expires

they need time to find and access targets right? Just less than 60 days on broad and you expect him to do a magic? What I see is everyone including you and, likely Howe, are putting pressure on the club to “ah I don’t care fuck it sign a marque star and all would be fine” without considering the consequence. take a look at the transfer record table, and think whether those transfers are hit or miss. And then think again those big clubs made those transfers back at the days with no FFP and PSR limit, while we just forced to sell two youngster or face point deductions just leave the table please.

They are a bit lucky on that deal. I don’t think he really performs up to his price, but fair enough.

That’s Mitchell and the scouts job. They are hired / paid for that. If I can name you a player, he must be on the hot list of all the big clubs already, just like Yoro last year. The scouts job is to find them before they got famous to the level that even you and me know them