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The club and I have very different definitions of the word “expedited”. Very slow to replace Eales.

I hope you’re right. From the outside looking in it seems to me that there are off-field issues which are preventing us from moving with the required speed and decisiveness.

Feels to me like we’re not shopping with any serious intent.

Kings of the nonce transfers tbf

Knowing what you know, do you think there is any prospect we see a repeat of last summer? Just linked to PL names but no tangible progress?

Bruce will be straight onto his lawyers

Sneak preview of originals this year too

Jonas!

Thank you, lord thank you. It’s as jarring as when Americans say “I could care less”.

All part of the plan to convince them to buy Pedro so we can nab Madueke on the cheap, cracking use of smokescreens, stalking horses and stupid journalists. On a serious note yeh it is a bit gutting but what can one do if those are his and his former club’s preferences? If you give me the choice I put my future development in Howe’s hands every time. Hope he enjoys his trips to the West End and 02 arena.

All I see is a sense of drift at the top, and yet another window of nothing happening.

I bet you won’t be done

Difficult to know for sure, but is he? Is he the one in charge of deciding wages / transfer fee? Genuine question. We seem uniquely transfer constipated.

Wonder what he makes of the same squad 1 week before pre-season.

I think anyone with a meaningful choice takes Turin over Nottingham, despite its “lace quarter”.

So a green and white hooped away kit for a team that plays in green and white.

I love the word twatful and will henceforth be stealing that

Jesus wept man

Charnley communicative? Pull the other one

Ultimately I think and hope you are right. I accept that they may be waiting for prices to come down, but I also accept the clock ticks each day

I’m not sure the comparison works, it’s too simple. The club has had a long time to identify targets and to do the research necessary to consider whether they’d be interested in joining and at what wages, and it has been open to the club to ask agents about asking prices. As soon as an expensive target (apple) is off the table, you move to the next one. You don’t really need that degree of research, discussion and strategy about your apples. You also don’t buy apples to complement the pre-existing set of apples you already have at home, you normally buy them because you want / need new apples. Im ok with price haggling at this stage but my concern is that it continues so far into pre season that we’re deprived of the impact of new players in the squad because it takes Howe a while to trust and involve new players. It doesn’t help that we’re seeing a second consecutive summer of boardroom uncertainty and confusion as to who is in charge of getting players through the door. Coupled with what seems to me to be a bit of drift (eales still in post, Mitchell still in post where doesn’t appear to be a reason for it, no replacements for star key and ghodoussi) at boardroom level and there’s plenty room for chin scratching now.

I think people's point is that surely we now have PSR headroom?! We've been inactive for 2 years. We have been told by Eddie that we have PSR headroom. The squad is badly under-prepared for the campaign ahead, and the campaign starts on July 7th.

I think Isak is quite rightly exercising some leverage to get the club to sign players. It’s totally in our gift to show him we’re seriously ambitious

He was good enough for it in the season just gone, although I do agree we need another…

Orange numbers would make it great, but will be white I imagine. Otherwise looks crapper than original.