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You all saying that anything above 5m for that Greek goalkeeper is ridiculous and no way it would be true. Now it turns out to be 20m. Better restrain yourself from these “ridiculous news” at this moment. To be brutally honest, I think the club is not functioning well since Ashworth stopped working in January. The 150k offer is likely to be true.

Yea I kinda agree, we are probably too late to sell Joelinton already. Should have done it last summer.

And that’s why Joelinton should be sold in January

33m is just a fucking standard price for a prospect like Minteh. I guarantee we cannot find such a prospect in other leagues like Minteh that could just cost 33m. WTF is untested? He was playing in champions league last season We better hope Minteh is a bust, or else this is going to be a fucking disaster

I genuinely think Howe prefers Almiron and Murphy to stay because they are willing to run like hell. Natural ability is not top priority. So unless we could find someone who has similar work rate with more gifted ability, very likely we will start Almiron for the coming season again.

You can set the buy back price at around 7-80m. It sounds silly but when the youngster become the second coming of Salah, you would glad that such a clause exist.

The mistake is we should have insert a buy back clause. No matter how high the fee is, we should do that. After the Salah and KDB sales, Chelsea never forgot to insert one. They have learnt their lesson. Probably now Minteh is our lesson.

Why not just a random young kid? It’s hard to put a value on them. This keeper however is fucking easy the whole transfer or PSR issue is handling very unprofessional I would say

If the big clubs are unable to spend $ due to PSR, the lower / poor clubs will be unable to raise funds by selling players. PSR in fact is doing the opposite. The tide is coming.

Because the manager could be wrong, could have bias, and could be dismissed after a bad run. Modern manager has to be able to bring out the best of the players provided to him, and the squad improvement responsibility is assigned to the sporting director. in other words, you can’t put all your eggs into one basket.

Even though I agree that Mitchell should have the final say on transfer, which is the system top clubs are running today, for this summer, I think the club should just stick to Howe’s plan and sign 1-2 key targets, so that Howe can carry out the best of his tactics for the next six months. Yes we still have five weeks. It also means we just have around 30 days left. The new arrival (if any) also takes time to fit in. I don't think Howe would be pleased by what’s going on.

There must be a plan which has Howe’s input, I have explained before. The problem is, now, it appears like, Mitchell comes in and disapprove it. The transfer plan starts from scratch again. Before we start to play the blame game, may be we should think in Howe’s perspective first. seriously if I am Howe, and if the club really fail to bring in a quality CB and RW as per my request (and as originally planned), I would be fucking furious at the end of August.

I wouldn’t say Thiaw is my preferred choice but that’s a sensible choice and fits the club’s current direction. On the other hand we should not drag on too much just for one position. Just close the deal before end of July. I prefer Antonio Silva btw.

It won’t happen. We won’t target those that has no resale value 3-4 seasons later I.E. max age 24

You may say I have taken the bad side to interpret what “reset” means, but if that’s the case, the possibility that Mitchell has disapproved (or at least, stalled) the original targets that have Howe’s approval, is very high. I mean if I am Howe, I would definitely tell the management who I want for the summer as early as possible, so the management can act quickly and secure the target. There must have been a plan in place with Howe’s input already.

To my surprise, it does looks like the club, or the management, didn’t prepare the summer thoroughly. In other words, it seems like Ashworths work since January had not been taken up well by other management / staff

I would compare him with Yoro. Excellent physique, questionable positioning and decisions

Ashworths original plan was not to give Joe a new contract and cash in in Jan. Have that plan materialised, we won’t need to make further sale in June no matter Bruno release clause was triggered or not. We don’t need to gamble our luck in June and hence make urgent sales at deadline. I mean it’s fine to scrap the sales plan in favour of Howe. But the consequence, in hindsight, was the sales of Minteh and Anderson. It’s really fine because under the current PSR we cannot keep all of them. BUT, Howe cannot blame the club for this. The club altered the plan because of him. Or should the club keep Joe, Bruno and Anderson and then get the rumoured 10 points penalty?

We decided not to sell Big Jol, and instead extended his contract, because of Howe. Ashworths original plan was to sell at Jan to meet the PSR requirement. Howe got no right to be upset for selling Anderson imo.

I simply think Schar, Botman, Lacelles and Burn, and in fact Kelly as well, all looks like unable to play over 50% games this season. All are injury prone, or simply too old. If we dont sign a new CB I’m afraid we really need to play youth player for a few games this season. Hall as starting and Targett as backup for LB is fine. It’s the RB position that lack cover (if Trippier is going to mid east)

If that’s real, it just shows how close we are to the PSR red line.

Kubo is a risky gamble. I want one of my favs to wear the black and white shirt, but his play style is just too unique to fit in. Mixed feelings. If Kubo is the one we are targeting then I agree with Howe, we should keep Miggy as cover

yea but I don’t think I ever see one director being hired for “injury management”. re injury management, you can only blame either the medical department, or the manager. And if it’s the former, you don’t need a new director right? Just change the medical staff. You need a new director only because you need him to assert influence on the manager. Hierarchy issue.

I think It’s the appointment of Bunce that looked strange to me, and it might be why Howe acts like that (suspected public media threatening) Mitchell is the sporting director and, most likely, what affects Howe most is the final say on transfer. Just like many has said, all other major clubs would have similar structure. I think Howe knows if he wants to manage top teams in Europe, he has to accept this. Bunce’s position, however, is not something common in other clubs. Although it’s claimed to be solely related to injury management, it is obvious that Bunce has direct influence on the selection of the team. Say like Bruno has played 2 games in 5 days, and from injury prevention point of view, Bunce might suggest Howe NOT to play Bruno in the next game. This won’t be something Howe like to have. And, I don’t know who got the final say on team selection I.E. it’s suggestion, or order? I don’t want the injury crisis to happen again, but Howe might be right to voice out his concerns. The inclusion of Bunce into the structure looks weird to me.

At worst we could play Gordon on the right and Barnes on the left. It isn’t that bad. CB is our top priority, no doubt