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we absolutely can’t play the same football with Wilson as we do with Isak. Wilson’s overall game was woeful last year. His performance at home to Dortmund (even if we discount missing an absolute sitter) was horrible.

The latest rumour is that Eddie Howe is signing off the signing of a 5”9 striker in Jonathan David? No chance.

Kadioglu represented by the agency group of Howe and his nephew so he’ll definitely be on the list. We love buying players from them.

We have Steve Harper mate.

He’ll sign a new deal in the next 6 months. Deserves one anyway.

Close shave but think there will be some big celebrations over how they’ve done. This was always going to be the toughest period to hit PSR for and we’ve done it without losing any of our star players. We have some of the best talent in the world and we likely have a really good budget for this summer. Exciting times.

Having a third choice keeper with as much experience as this lad is no bad thing. Flog him next year or year after.

I meant Madueke’s price when he moved from PSV to Chelsea. in answer to the other question re Lyon offering 40m for Minteh, surely no one believes that true. Since when do Lyon drop that sort of cash?

Minteh’s real value is probably equivalent to Madueke who went for 28.5m. So it’s a straight swap, you probably overpay for DCL by about 10-12m. That’s the price we may have to take to not breach PSR. I know loads don’t like DCL but Howe clearly does and clearly has a plan for how to use him.

Would people be happy with a window that looked like the below? IN Kelly Trafford DCL Neto/Raphinha Diomande Archie Gray OUT Dubs Wilson Almiron longstaff Minteh (with buy back) got to look at the DCL and Minteh business in the context of entire window.

It’s not a makeweight though- not in its traditional sense. It’s a PSR workaround that allows to sell Minteh for 10-15m more than we’d get from anyone else. Can maybe realise 30m profit this year based on that sale. Throw in a buy back clause and a sell on and we’re ok.

I think this is exactly where the Minteh rumours have come from. Everyone knew there wasn’t really a market to sell him for £40m but now that’s been established. So we buy DCL for an inflated price and sell Minteh for an inflated price. Throw in a buy back and it solves PSR issues for us for the season. Buy back Minteh for 60m if he fires in the prem and if he doesn’t, we’ve lost nothing. Probably a sell on clause too.

Is Lewis Dobbin worth buying? let’s just find a club (let’s call them Man City) who similarly want to get round the system and sell them average youth players in exchange for their average youth players. None of them ever have to play a game, we can farm them out on loan and then sell them.

Called this weeks ago. Dodgy swap deals a way to get around PSR. villa also sold Cameron Archer to Sheff U for 18m with an automatic 14m buy back a year later. Effectively a 4m loan but villa bank 18m as sale and then spread 14m over 5 years when they buy back. Meanwhile we twiddle our thumbs and don’t do anything to work around these stupid rules.

yes but they went silly with it. 70m for Arthur and 60m for Pjanic.