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He's class. We are class. Chill out man.

"Pretty poor" Never seem him have a poor game.

Agree with this. Don't agree with this.

Wat

We've come soooooo far man.

Must. Criticise. Someone.

City are unreal. If you are whinging about Dan Burn, you clearly don't get it.

Wonder how long they will keep hold of Bellingham?

Wow, just seen it.

Silverstone looks like a very switched on bloke.

Yeah, I just look at the Man United side and think, jeez they weren't that special.

My overriding thought.... Give me that carabao cup final tommorow and we win. We've come so far just since then.

Cheers mate

Wonder where an "obligation if certain criteria are met" stands with this.

Our recruitment is exceptional like. They waited until they knew Chelsea needed to start balancing the books before moving. They could have easily blinked early in the window and signed someone else. 30m is such good value... again.

Maguire is staying at Man Utd purely for money purposes BTW. The sensible footballing choice would be to play first team for West Ham under a manager who would protect him but West Ham won't pay him that sort of money. I suspect he's holding out for another club, possibly abroad.

Yeah I think this is a likely scenario. See how many games Targett has played by January and then see if we can get 10m+ by the likes of Forest.

Yep this was my point. It's entirely plausible that the club could agree some loyalty settlement, which would give the player a golden handshake on his way out. If this was the case, players like Fraser would have moved on ages ago.

Yeah that's a fair argument, but I think it's more a case of Howe maybe not being as big a fan of Targett as he let's on. There were loads of rumours last summer about us looking elsewhere before we signed him and he's hardly played since. I know Burn forced him out but Howe could have put him back in. Again, I think FFP talks in this scenario. If someone gives us our money back for Targett, we cash in. Lewis Hall is our long term left back and Burn the current one. Targett isn't going to be happy either.

What you are saying here is absolutely bollocks as far as I'm aware. It's absolutely not the case that you have to pay the remaining wages of a player who has say 4 years left on his contract at 100k a week or even come to a compromise. The player might rightly not want to move because he's not going to earn as much elsewhere. On the other hand, most players have a loyalty bonus written into their contract, whereby if they haven't asked to leave or pushed for a move in any way, they are owed a specific amount of money. Apologies if I have completely misread your post.

I absolutely think we are done this window. I'd be astounded if we signed another player.

Burn, Hall, Livramento and Trippier.... Targett will be sold if the correct offer comes in. Especially with FFP breathing down our neck.

Did Edwards mention Hall when he mentioned Cucurella and Tierney?

I can absolutely see Targett moving on, if we secure Hall. There should be loads of PL clubs willing to give us decent wedge too.

I think January signings were possibly off the table anyway, barring some sort of emergency.