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Surprised they went with £25m, maybe it was a legit negotiation. Surely they could have justified parity with Spurs given theirs was originally signed in 2017 (for £35m).

Was anything ever mentioned about the severity of his hammy injury?

Arse kissing is a prerequisite for any self confessed ‘entrepreneur in the middle east’.

If Kai fucking Havertz is worth £70m Maxi has to be worth more than £25m or even £35m being banded around!? Personally I hope he stays and has a fantastic season next year.

If can sneak in and get him for £30m that would be excellent business imo. Even better if Spurs want him and lose him to us because of CL.

He’s an elbow and a wrist away from injuring every major joint.

Yeah that’s a lovely kit.

FFP is our budget, Eales said it earlier this week. This £6m very much comes out of our total transfer spend, still a good idea to allocate some budget to prospects.

Fuck sake ?

Would love to know why they didn’t fancy him for us, he looks like the real deal - certainly when you consider we really wanted Ekitike who was in a similar ‘raw with a huge upside’ category. I assume we can compete with Dortmund on wages. Presumably they thought it was too much of a risk for where we are.

I don’t think it’s a given Nunez becomes a consistent finisher, he snatches at it.

Any manager on the short list with city’s squad would have challenged for the league this season. I don’t think many of them could have done what Howe has done with our squad this year. Should have been Howe.

I’m always going to try and give Man U and ETH pelters and having you on the board probably does bring out some (well natured) antagonism but I maintain you can’t completely disassociate the 2 windows. Like all online discussion the truth lies somewhere in between ‘spending in the summer has no impact whatsoever on the winter’ and ‘Manure have spent over a billion so cry me a river’. The fact that you needed players is also irrelevant. Every team wants more and better players but budgets and FFP exist. As to the ETH speaking highly of us all season: I don’t remember it that way. He was opening slagging us off as time wasters and shit houses.

This kid plus the Hungarian for starters please.

What’s the craic with embedded tweets, are they gone forever?

Ignoring the summer window and pointing to the winter window in isolation is farcical. The reason you didn’t spend in January is Ten Hag spunked it all up the wall in the summer with the second highest net spend in the league. Further to that city didn’t spent in January and won the league while getting to the same number of finals.

Bodes well for the singing section.

If Bruno wants to play further forward we need two DMs.

Aye this has to reflect well on us for signing the Brazilian wonderkids we've been scouting.

Just to unpick my point a little I was referring to the extremely wealthy having the privilege to vote against their own self interest with no meaningful impact on their lives. If Jamie Reuben loses a billion or two off his networth he’s still got more money than he and his entire family could spend in a life time. Good for you if you’ve built a successful business and choose to support your community. The criticism above is around these guys doing charity work while supporting a government which brought about the conditions these charities fight to alleviate and, crucially, they have so much money they could support a fairer government while still being entirely insulated from reality in a cushion of unfathomable wealth.

One of the many privileges of being extremely rich is you can vote against your own financial interests with negligible impact on the comfort of your life (if you believe what’s better for the country may impact you personally). They support the tories on an idealogical level, saying they have to vote Tory for their own best interests is a lazy excuse. The trickle down defence. They invest for their own betterment not some altruistic campaign to improve our city. Why are you angrily defending billionaires against a reasonable point.

For £20m to rotate pretty much like for like with Longstaff it seems like good business and allows us to splash proper money on real quality elsewhere. Anything above £25m and I’d feel the money is better spent elsewhere.

Love reading these now thinking ‘haha Norfolk & Chance’

Post Ashley era so proves your point; the only one which comes to mind is winning the free kick for Shelvey to score in that massive win against Leeds last season. The takeover has been like waking up from a coma as a fan.

I share a season ticket so hope they don’t make things too awkward.