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Let’s see if they qualify for the CL.

Possibly, would be a great signing actually. But hard to get Palace to sell and expensive after the season he’s just had.

Signing 2 strikers, a CB and CM I reckon. Or 1 striker and keep Isak.

I don’t think it was about the fee, they just won’t let him go without a replacement.

The club know what we need, hence selling Longstaff. Problem is we haven’t been able to get anyone to sign for us. Biggest thing since the takeover has been a clear connection between what we think the team needs and what the club are trying to do. It’s very much a shared understanding I think. Executing on it is the problem at the moment.

That's not what the latest said, is it? It said the manager likes him but they'd consider offers of 30m. Sounded more like an effort to just sell him for more to me. But who knows.

This is most likely for me, we can't possibly be planning to let Isak go if we aren't signing a top striker. No offence to Yoan.

I would keep it closed post-match as well TBH.

Well whatever, the point is that it’s not the main point and it’s also not worth talking about. I was trying to help you

Nephew isn’t it?

Well it wasn’t a bargain but it was a good signing. I think that’s the type of deal we want to see.

TBF to Froggy the point was mainly about not just judging a manager on results. The bit about Howe was just to anger us.

Worst thing about the window is definitely the good posters being driven crazy. Needs to be communicated right to the top of PIF.

I chose to forgive that obvious needle, he couldn’t resist I guess.

That seems a fair conclusion, just people take it too far and assume it’s Howe ‘demanding control’. We don’t know anything like the level of detail to know exactly what went wrong. Also large amount of fault to the people above them both, which of course is hard to apportion given the situation with Eales.

Man, someone got me to use inquiring when it’s actually enquiring. I apologise, hope nobody at work is reading this.

Has to be monitoring > admiring > inquiring, surely.

Very good

It really doesn’t matter if we pay £10m more now. Pointless worrying about that. We’re past needing good business, we just need business.

Aye, I think we’re now at the point where we need an Isak backup and make him stay. We certainly can’t let him go unless his replacement is genuinely elite.

Not a large portion, but your overall point is right. As Howe himself believes, all you can look after is the input and the output is what it is. If people are just judging results they’re missing a lot.

How about E, F and G?

Seconded. Herp reminds me of Home Newcastle where he says he had to go to London because he couldn’t find a ‘jerb’. Nice touch.

He was retweeting someone else without any verification, that’s his job as a football journalist.

I mean, they won’t sell him at 26 but at 30 they will, so doesn’t seem deed.