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I don’t think they’re idiots. However the window clearly hasn’t gone to plan. Howe has said as much. We need to limit the chances of scrambling round to meet the PSR deadline again at the very least.

Yep, that’s the way I see. Not signing him now, given there’s seemingly no other option, is worse than signing him for this ridiculous fee. Regardless of what happens in the remaining days, they need to be asking themselves some serious questions so that a window like this doesn’t happen again.

I think people have a right to be a little annoyed. Shearer is saying as much on his podcast. I mean, things may change, but it’s been a poor summer so far.

We’ve been after him for months.

Going years and years without getting a right winger in is a bit weird. It’s not like there’s a shortage of them. The two mentioned in the past few posts here would be good enough.

I’m not ‘writing him off’! 😂

Believe it or not, I’ve seen him play for Bournemouth before. He was a fairly average player at a lower midtable team. He’s not been brought in as a starter either.

Very poor for the most part. If you want to be at the right end of the league, you can’t be carrying so many average/poor players by PL standard. Longstaff, Murphy, Kelly and the CBs. All should, and hopefully will be soon, on the fringes of the squad. There’s no excuse not to play both Gordon and Barnes.

Have we had a mention yet? 🤣

I don’t think that was the point being made.

If you know how to do that, let me know. Better still, if you can make me J7 yourself, i’ll be happy 😂

Do I need to change my user name?

Apart from when he overhit the ball across his own box and gave away a dangerous free kick.

Is it? We know we’ve been talking about £60-65m for Guehi, and this is £85m (€100m). Who’s to say we don’t have £100m plus to spend?

What like?

My thoughts exactly. It’s no Football Manager. Unless we’re completely clueless, you don’t open discussions with a club unless there’s been indications from the club/agent that there’s a chance of a deal.

Get them both.

Don’t understand the logic of this comment, other than being something plucked out of thin air to moan about.

We’ve got Burn and Krafth at the back, most of our centre backs are over 30 and two have ACL injuries. Not sure I’d be turning up my nose at Disasi based on one season at a shambolic club, who still finished ahead of us. That said, I’d rather the boy from Leverkusen.

Ornstein is pretty reliable.

Time will tell. Villa sold at least one saleable asset from their first team btw. It will happen eventually and may be for the greater good.

I’d agree with that. No Europe next season and we’ll probably need a rebuild with players moving on. We’ve talked about trading, but we’ve barely sold anyone. We’ve missed the sweet spot for selling Almiron and Wilson for example, and have ended up having to offload Minteh.

What a load of shite.

Obviously we can only really judge at the end of the window, but I do find it a bit odd that we’d be able to attract someone of the pedigree of Mitchell, then seemingly draw a blank on signing first team players when we have two obvious gaps. I do wonder if there’s more going on behind the scenes than we know about with this reported power play by Howe and the ‘final say’ stuff. That said, I’m purely speculating. Let’s hope we’re just not hearing about who we’re after.

Exactly. We can’t just tread water and make do until Botman is back. He might not be the player he was, or it might take him a while to get back to full fitness. I think it’s pretty important we qualify for Europe this season to keep hold of the likes of Gordon/Isak/Bruno.