Rich

If all he does is report other people’s news at the last minute, why would he bother risking that by posting BS “exclusives” about João Pedro to Newcastle? He’s clearly got the inside track on this one, let’s just hope the information he’s being fed is correct.

He’s a Watford fan.

Odd behaviour for a “tap-in merchant”, you mean?

Another clean sheet today, Preston’s fourth 0-0 in five matches

Is anyone remotely optimistic for this despite that?

Looking forward to it, sure it’ll be class as always.

Multiple journalists have said “there was no second bid” due to it apparently not being submitted in writing. So I think this is just Romano covering his back.

Aye, not sure bidding high on your opener is ever a viable strategy when you appear to be the only buyer.

£17M + £3M to £22M + £3M to £25M + £5M to here wuh gan

Massively underrated.

Ritchie

Let's. Fucking. Go. Guys.

Might be of some relevance that our accepted offer for Ekitike was reported as £25.6M plus around £5M in add-ons. We’re supposedly at £22M plus £3M in add-ons here, and the last jump was apparently a £5M increase in the guaranteed fee. Reckon we’ll see a similar offer to the Ekitike one next and then they’ll accept? I’d lean that way, currently.

That was excruciating

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?