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Well fine but it's still pretty rare.

Except he doesn’t score.

Is this sarcasm because you’ve done one?

I don't think we'll buy a striker in Jan for lots of reasons. Maybe a young loan, but even those stopgap deals don't seem very common in the PL. Usually a loan has some kind of expectation of buying the player later.

Sports journos really are a disgrace

Maybe we were hoping for fake inflated deals from Saudi companies rather than real market ones.

I thought I had been in that arcade before 55 Degrees North was built, but I guess it would’ve been the recreated fake version.

Are people taking the piss about this brick by brick stuff?

Watkins maybe.

TAA being out has postponed my wildcard use I think. I’ll try and limp on a bit until he’s back and we see De Bruyne.

That’s the thing, unless you believe we can do a Brighton-style recruitment of loads or cheap but class lads.

One of those signings, or maybe the value of two, would need to be a Bruno replacement of course.

It was old style pedoing, before it got such a bad name.

Maybe to make up for painting the SOL black and white. You have to sign a mackem.

Are people saying this just to wind me up?

I don’t see anyone buying Longstaff for significant money.

He’s better than Colo by quite a way IMO, and of course Woodgate had everything but could never stay fit. I’d say it’s pretty clear that Schar is the best now. Botman might surpass him in the future.

Best CB we’ve ever had at this point, he can stay as long as he wants.

Can we loan Hall if we don’t sign a LB? Tino the replacement for both sides?

My main question was whether it was really needed. I guess it was hard for the authorities to assess because we haven’t played them for so long.

You would be mad to pay £30m for Longstaff

I’m not sure about that like. Doesn’t matter how many people you have working on a transfer, you can’t know every detail of someone’s personal life.

I’d say he’s the weakest member of the first team now. Not sure he’s even really good enough to be on the bench for a CL team if we’re being totally honest. What people say about the homegrown thing is true, but I would be absolutely fine with selling him if we had a plan for the midfield. Not that I believe anything in the papers about transfers.

Havertz is hilarious, just can’t be bothered to affect a game of football. I’ll never understand that signing.

Called it tie of the round, the cheeky bastard.