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Aren’t round 2 and the knockout stage the same thing ?

I did it yesterday and asked if they knew about Tonali ?. Anyway they said the club have said if ever a tour is ongoing when a new signing arrives at the ground, the tour is to be paused and moved inside so no one can get a photo of him and put it on social media.

A pacy CB, exactly what we need.

We have supposedly scouted the German league heavily so it wouldn’t be a surprise to see a signing from there.

Rumours where that they are waiting for the under 21 tournament to finish

20 million according to Edwards

A top class RW would still be the most important singing we could make this window imo.

Yeah what I mean is if we aren’t discussing players linked in the press at some stage then we don’t have rumour thread. Is there any ever real evidence of interest outside of media speculation?

Only media gossip, but in fairness what else can we go off ?

Based on how bad he was at the World Cup (penalty aside) I wouldn’t to near him.

Shows how far that we have to come still that we may have missed our 2 top targets to teams we beat to finish top 4 last season. Until we can afford to pay the big wages it’s going to be the case.

Easier signing players like Pope and Targett than the ones we want this year in fairness.

He was heavily linked in the first January window post takeover so I can imagine us being interested. Would imagine at that price though that we would be prioritising other positions.

They want 80 million so that’s unlikely

It’s a myth he doesn’t track back mind, maybe not to the standard Howe would demand but he isn’t lazy at all.

No one is talking about paying him huge wages though, I said if we could get him on a good deal

He definitely starts above Miggy or Murphy

Genuine question, how is he finished ?

No

How am I being daft ? He’s got close to 50 goals the last 5 years in a terrible negative palace side. And whose place is he taking ? He’s a better winger than Gordon, Miggy, Maxi, Murphy and Joeltinton so take your pick.

Zaha would be our best wide player by a distance if we signed him imo, and none of those mentioned would get close to the numbers he puts out.

All worse players by quite a distance than Zaha imo.

In that position ? Who ?

No, but you would hope the chance to play champions league and a decent signing on fee would lower that