Rich

How lacking in personality and leadership is the Arsenal squad though man? They’re like fucking mutes.

He’s class, like. Smith-Rowe seems sound as well.

Oh no

The first bid was £20M plus £3M add-ons, according to an earlier Tweet of his? That's a dinky increase if his numbers are accurate, which perhaps points to a bit of confidence on our side. You'd be surprised to see them accept such a small amount extra, perhaps it's one more bid then done? Not sure we've made three public bids all summer, though!

Who da fook is Simon Stone?

What if replace him with Paqueta, who multiple people have said is even better than Bruno?

Does a day go by where you don't argue with people across multiple threads?

He says he'll release the information before Man City . It's going to be something non-transfer related, innit?

Super Scott, you used to love Super Scott.

Still not back in training, and Howe had made more post-match comments on him that I wasn't aware of: “He got a dead leg last week to his hamstring. We felt it was just a knock, but we had a scan and it showed very, very subtle damage to the muscle. “We’re treating it like a very small muscle strain, but we’re hoping he will be back soon.”

Reckon he just stuck him there with Eriksen and Bruno alongside at the weekend to highlight how weak that area is then?

Lucky you've hired a manager that wouldn't make him shoulder all that responsibility then, eh?

Because he's spoken to the agent handling the deal? I think 99% of what Romano gets comes from agents, they use him for their own ends.

But that's precisely what The Times said is happening/would happen, isn't it?

This was never officially confirmed, as far as I could tell, but it would be unlike Romano to post that without being certain.

Less than three.

Let's see. Looks very much like a Sissoko/Wijnaldum situation to me. He's also got less than three years left on his deal. If he doesn't sign a new one, his valuation is only going down from here.

Haven't seen enough Adam P on here this week, but he's now venturing into the realms of ITK:

Not to make this all about FFP again, but even if the Swiss Ramble stuff was 100% bang-on it doesn't mean there's "only" £41M left to spend in this window.

Gallagher on a permanent, Pulisic or CHO on loan to buy, and João Pedro on a permanent would be a mint end to the window, mind.

Darth Edwards speaks:

A little roundup of the strongest recent links or older bids we know definitely happened for players that still haven't moved, sorted in order of current probability of happening: CM/AM: Gallagher, Paqueta, Maddison RW/LW: Pulisic, Hudson-Odoi, Harrison, Barnes, Gordon ST: João Pedro, Ramos, Broja Anything missed? If we get one from each pool, we're laughing.

Looks like Aubameyang to Chelsea is on and fairly imminent. Should speed things up on Broja.

This is sort of where I'm at now like . Feels like it will be soon™. Still three in before the window shuts, I reckon.