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Here's one Saudi move I hope happens.

Ooh, good shout. I for one will not miss Midlandsboro.

Luton, Sheffield United and Everton to go down. Free money for you, right there.

I'd tell them to fuck off, he's got so much potential, more than his older brother, so word has it.

Newcastle are an absolutely insignificant investment for them in financial terms. On top of that they’ve clearly realised the limits of what they can do in an established league with ffp. So they have created their own set up where they can spend as much as they want. it’s all pretty distasteful tbh and absolutely no threat long term unless you see yourselves spending hundreds of hours online talking about Al-Nassr or whoever. Maybe it’ll be good and we’ll have a more humble, competitive premier league as a result. I had plenty of years getting huge amounts of pleasure from English football before Sky hijacked it.

My main thought watching that Bruce video was “who the fuck says ‘The Spurs’?”

They have literally endless money, and as a result they know the price of everything and the value of nothing. it’s just fluff, change down the back of the sofa for them.

"You'll never sing that you'll never sing that Champions of the 2023 Premier League Summer Series brought to you with Cleveland Clinic! You'll never sing that"

I feel it is totally appropriate.

Philogene is the big win from this pre-season so far for us, I think. He's looked transformed under Emery.

Chelsea seem to buy a midfielder every other day.

To be fair to Carpethead, he apparently put a lot of work into signing Boubacar Kamara, who is an excellent player.

How long did he have left on his contract? Not paid much attention to this thread but £23m seems insanely cheap.

Ah! Ever the drama queen!

This has been bothering me a bit for a while, but I've managed to keep a lid on it as, well, I am an outsider and what not. Anyway, can we change the title of this thread to "Other clubs' transfers" rather than the grammatically incorrect current title?

If Unai says it makes sense, it makes sense.

I said this the other day, and I will say it once more, so I can claim my ITK crown, but we are still very interested in Johnson. We won't pay 50m though.

Fundamentally, they're not going to be taking part in any European competitions any time soon unless they comply with FFP, and the only reason anyone is even talking about what they are doing is the insane "endless supply of money", FFP-immune batshit levels of spending they're engaging in. You can have one, but you can't have them both. European clubs are not stupid, they or UEFA - turkeys don't vote for christmas. Add to that, as a consumer spectacle, it will have zero value in Europe, no matter who they buy.

Carpethead putting together an impressive run of shit results already I see. He’ll start taking it out on random players and spouting meaningless managerial cliches soon. it will develop a tight spirit at Al-Etihad or whatever they’re called though. Players and fans all united in hating him.

It really is the most terrible shame.

Wow. Imagine going out and spending £45m on McTominay. The only thing that makes me think Everton won't do that is they won't have the money.

But if they ever get into a position to really directly compete - in terms of play in the same competitions - with European teams, they will have to play along with some measure of FFP, which makes paying Mbappé 300 billion dollars a day look somewhat questionable. This is all a bit Kerry Packer.

If we tried to spend 40m on Connor Gallagher, I would be distraught. That's the price we're paying for Diaby, who at least has one identifiable thing he does on the pitch.

When we were kids playing football, even though we were all Villa fans (and to Blues fans TF was a very very big deal when we were growing up) we used to try to recreate famous goals (like Phoenix from the Flames on Fantasy Football). The one we struggled to nail was Francis’s European Cup final goal, not just the goal but the gambol after.

Jesus Christ. it’s a fucking pre season friendly. Not only that it’s a very early one. Amazed at the amount of bed shitting going on. Players who have never played with their new teams before. It takes a while.