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..... and relax. Here we go... nearly

Or if we want someone more of an attacking mid. Nico Paz of Como. Hes 20.

Moise Kean is more a legit striker but he has a release clause of 44m. Just leaving this here because hes one we've been linked with.

Is the exact thing we are desperate to avoid. Imagine paying 30m for someone who turns out to be Lloyd Kelly. This place would be furious.

Not more than a CB or RW. At least we have one world class striker.

Im not annoyed at all. Reet. Let this thread die. Who's next?

Morals.

We've likely dozens of targets in every position. If Huijsen was a dream signing, we'd have quickly moved on when Madrid called. You can either love the ambition or can be critical of them for missing out on targets.

Who said we have 4 targets like?

Waffle. You spend all day every day criticising the club you support, regardless of facts, and when someone asks you to give an alternative solution, you say "not my job". You've whinged every day since the takeover and we've had incredible success. You whinged about Howes tactics and were wrong, you've whinged about the clubs signings and are were wrong, you've whinged about PIF and are wrong. Clearly we dont agree... pal.

WUM?

It's also not our job to criticise the club because of bullshit theories and opinions but its happening all the time.

Even without PSR, with Chelsea at the table he'd have waited for them because even without PSR we want to be a club that run correctly, that means have a sensible wage structure. If you really want to criticise the club, ask why they are pursuing someone who has been hinting at wanting a move to London. That would be a more fair arguement in my mind... but we dont know what hes said to us in private.

Its not an issue whatsoever. It again comes back to our lack of activity in the 3 previous windows leading some to the false idea that we will immediately sign players early in the window without any issues.

Hes a high enough priority for them to pay 50m+. It's very easy for Chelsea to tell his agent that they are interested and that if he waits for them they will offer him a better contract. Meanwhile his agent is also negotiating with us. It happens all the time.

Of course he could. He could say he hasn't made his decision yet. Time hasn't been an issue. It's the money and pull of the cartel.

Feels very West Ham. Potentially the mackems?

Another player we've missed out on. PIF clearly not interested.

Even though we have priority positions, I do feel like our strategy is more something like... "For the price, is this person a quality long term investment?" I don't think we have issues going foreign, but they need to be as guaranteed as possible for us to do it. It will be very much known European talent that other clubs like Chelsea have passed on for whatever reason.

Totally agree. We also tend to sign better players than we are linked with. I remember a time when most of us would have taken Lingard and Tarkowski.

Kluivert.

I'd say Miracle is the wrong word. Eddie Howe is an outstanding coach, so its not "Miracle" he took us back into the CL and won a trophy. The year previous was the outlier because we had terrible injuries.

I really struggle with you TCD. Sometimes I like what you say but there's times like this when I feel its utter waffle. "No evidence" we werent strongly interested in the 4 players you mentioned either then. Again we are back to this thing where you pick and choose which things to believe and then dismiss others perceptions of the situation. "Not a good look?" To whom? Internet bellends like us? You do realise this is all horseshit right? To the wider viewing public we ain't no laughing stiock, in fact we've been roundly praised for our transfer business. We didn't sign Elanga or Trafford last year because of PSR constraints. We nearly did but decided it wasn't smart, given the costs. (Again, that's my perception, I might be wrong, no problem). If you mean how long it takes to negotiate a fee, we'll i entirely disagree, all clubs take their time because they try to save money, rather than to get deals done super quick to appease impatient fans. Think about how ridiculous that is by the way? "I want you to pay x millions more to get the deal done now, oh but by the way when we are skint in the next two years I'll be back to criticise you for that and tell you its 'not a good look'". We aren't that important.

Ive got absolutely no issue with anyone saying that we need 4+ players. I think that's fair. We've got aging players, the squad needs a refresh and we've got much bigger commitments this season. It's the cry arsing about the player they want, not signing when they want them and for the price they think they are valued at. "Another window of this bullshit". Fuck off you entitled little bellends. This is the best its ever been for me and I went to my first game in 1994.

And Lloyd Kelly, who's the best piece of business we've done this century.