TRon

Nice take. I'm sold, get him in.

That's the one I can't get my head around. He does seem like a bit of a dickhead.

I'm assuming he's based it on Pep being a big fan. There must be some leak from their end.

That's all there is to it.

There's nothing really wrong with it tbh. Tino is sensational, it's not a surprise if Pep wants him. City might well have put the feelers out to see if we could be tempted to do a deal, because let's face it, everyone has a price, you just have to go to eye-watering levels if you want to sway a club who don't want to sell. Romano's said we won't budge on a price, and if it's around £100m then it's effectively telling them to fuck off and stop wasting our time.

I'm sure he could for £100m or so.

It's essential we are qualifying for back to back CL campaigns to be taken seriously as a big club. Other teams have qualified after a fantastic season, but they quickly get forgotten about if they don't follow that up. It has to be worth spending big this time to ensure it, even if we do end up spending tomorrow's money today. Especially with Man City looking likely to take the PL to the cleaners for their restrictive practices.

Same here but you can't really argue it's not worked for us. Look at what we spent on Burn, Targett, Trippier and Chris Wood in that first season. All overspending really, but in the long term it definitely paid off, even if it didn't reflect in the balance sheets.

They are perfectly entitled to spend their money on their own league rather than European teams tbh, whether it will be a success or not is not really for us to worry about. I just wish they would stop chucking money at PL players which seems to be benefitting all our rivals far more than us.

You certainly wouldn't fancy coming up against it.

Is he a really small 18 year old or something? It doesn't seem that young, would it not be worthwhile giving him a squad place and letting him loose in some cup games for us?

I"m assuming most on here watched the CL final. That was a masterclass in passing football but done to a purpose. PSG were great at retaining the ball at the back and evading the press, then launching devastating counter attacks. They also had players with enough craft and ability to hold the ball when trying to break down a packed defence. That's what we should be aiming for, not tiki taki football for the sake of it.

No one likes selling a star player, but in a scenario like this I would be on board. Just look at what Villa achieved after selling Grealish, or Liverpool after Coutinho.

Quite a statement that. But I can see why, I am always really worried about him when we play Brighton.

For that I reckon we need to look outside the English market, or our PL proven strategy. Those players cost a fortune, we'd be better paying big money for top talent on the continent or South America.

Aye. For their bench.

Nowt to stop them buying both tbf.

Howe not allowed to bid for £120m winger who already has one.

Think he's got a much higher ceiling than Murphy tbh.

Same. Said Levy would have no problem getting rid of him, he got rid of Mourinho specifically so he wouldn't be able to claim he'd been a success because he'd won a cup.

Me too, I think there's a very exciting player there. Maybe lacks a bit of guile, but we aren't going to get the really elite players when cartel clubs can buy them all. Would love for us to buy Lamine Yamal but let's get real here.

We generally have a good idea of what we are looking for, and also have to factor in which players we can that won't be on the radar of cartel clubs. The really top players are going to get poached by the cartel, so you can understand why we think we have a better chance with this calibre of player instead.

Well we know we've got one because they sold him to us.