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Well yeah, obviously if he goes to West Ham - which I still don't accept btw - then he's clearly shit. Fuck @Flip as well for leading us down the garden path.

Be still my beating heart....

I refuse to accept it. Paqueta isn't signing for West Ham, this is clearly a Martin Samuels jealousy inspired story released to piss on our chips.

Ouch!

Well yeah. So £60m is astronomical for the big boys? Piss off.

Paqueta going to that rotten excuse for a football club would take some of the enjoyment off the Isak deal off a bit like, not gonna lie. We have to bring him here as well.

Isak is 22 not 42 though. Big difference.

Nice of them to fix the fee for us. Now let's get him in as well.

Well I know there was a lot of journalists kept banging on about how we were deluded to think we would be going after this type of blue chip signing with our limited budget, but turns out the ones who thought that we would find the money for the really top talents were right. FFP is obviously a big factor, but when you can land your top targets then it's not really a consideration as we can buy the players we REALLY want right now instead of a year down the line.

Hope so tbh, he still looks like a really good prospect. But realistically I can't see us signing both.

Depends really though, strikers are the most precious commodities to buy, getting a world class one can cost an absolute fortune. Is he world class? By all accounts he's the next big thing so yeah...I'm happy.

WTF? I go away to have lunch and in the space of one hour the whole world turns upside down.

It just seems odd that this one was contradicted when you would have thought with his Watford connections this would be the most iron clad. Just seems like something odd is going on here, and I doubt it's from our side. I still think it will get done, just someone is playing games from the Watford end by the looks of it.

Apparently his manager doesn't fancy him that much, he's had a great start to this season, but not done so well in prior campaigns.

He also said it was a done deal, that's turned out to have been jumping the gun. If he's friends with the Watford owners, they've done him no favours there if they've gone back on that to try and get a few extra quid by dragging Everton in.

It's more of a reflection of where Everton are than the player tbh. You couldn't blame him for taking more money if it's a significant amount, but you would have to look at how desperate Everton must be to offer more than he's already agreed to just to get a signing over the line, especially one which they've done no work for in negotiating a price. They really have turned into a shithouse of a club, with a crap manager and obviously poor recruitment process.

Wind your necks in. This is a professional jounalist.

£25m and I would reluctantly part ways.

He did his job, we avoided promotion so we can hardly gripe about losing £25m, but that still isn't going to make him any more useful to us this season, neither does it mean we'll get our money back if we decide to sell. It's a write off basically, we'll need a proper alternative to Wilson if we want to do anything significant this season.

Only way I could see us going back in for Diaby would be if the Pedro deal collapsed. Apparently Diabe wants out now though.

They haven't got much choice after spending £25m on him. They are hardly going to publicly admit they bought a donkey.

Why anybody would waste that many words on someone who just likes to wind fans up is beyond me. I actually remember him from his days as football writer for the Journal and he was actually quite decent back then. I think social media isn't the best platform for him, he should stick to long form articles, preferably about some other club.

That would have been really naive on their part if they thought he was suddenly going to have a problem free season considering his fitness record since he's been here. In which case this hamstring tweak could be a blessing in disguise.

Yeah so realistically we aren't getting even £12m unless a PL side comes in for him, which is unlikely considering he scored 5 goals last season, and other than goals, he doesn't really offer much else. One of those where I guess you just keep him on the books and wheel him out for cup games until his contract runs down.