McCormick

Demand is high, supply is fixed, prices go up. It’s the nature of the beast, rightly or wrongly.

. Respectfully disagree. Madueke seems very injury prone and leans too heavily on his athleticism (although I do really like him too). Sinisterra looks, to me, to have the superior footballing iq; like a young Stirling but strikes the ball with more authority.

25 million apparently! Outrageous stuff.

They’ll just move Harrison to the right.

Ah, the Belgian Havertz. Honestly, they’re attempting amazing moves in the market; could end up being better in the long-run after their high profile sales. If I hadn’t made it clear yet ( ) I massively rate Sinesterra. Imo he’s already very close if not better than Raphinha in terms of ability. He’ll be a 100m player in a few years.

He’s fantastic and has everything to become one of the world’s best players. Different positions but I’d prefer him to Diaby if I’m being honest.

I would . Stunning signing for them imo. Most teams should be saying that. They won’t miss Raphinha… he’s that good.

Pin this post if you like but he’s better than Antony.

Christ that’s a fantastic piece of business for Leeds; genuinely good enough to be a top 6 player. Not sure how they’ve managed to pull this off.

He’s not an out and out dm though nor is he any more defensive minded than Tielemans is. I do agree though that a defensive cm would be nice but Haidara is far from that.

Haidara over Tielemens? No way. I like Haidara a lot but he’s several levels in quality below Youri imo.

People not rating Tielemens now? Yikes. Either way, he isn’t coming here (unfortunately).

Broja has all the tools to become a top striker. Would be a fine understudy to Wilson and, for similar money, is more PL-ready than Ekitike.

Yeah, not saying people are lying but I’ve bought several things from Castore for gym and boxing or whatever and the material they use is leagues above Nike and Adidas. Haven’t bought any of their NUFC stuff though so who knows…

Nature of the beast when you’re a free transfer though. Can’t see anyone offering more than 100k though, unless Everton are truly desperate.

Lingard would be fine on a free so long as he isn’t going for silly wages. He’s basically a budget Paqueta, so we’ll have more money to splurge on an RW and a Striker.

Where is all this talk for Tielemens coming from? Assumed he was off to Arsenal?

Shame we’re not even linked though

Gallagher is a very good player. He may not be as technically gifted as Bruno (not many are tbf) but he’s a lot better physically and very well-rounded. In the right system he’d flourish; guy’s got all the tools to be a top player imo.

Completely agree. Think he’d be a very good signing, even at 30m.

I will say though, this is based off YouTube videos and what my Bayern friend has told me so I’m by no means an authority on the kid

Not a massive fan of his. Looks slow and lazy in the press; doesn’t really have the athletic gifts you’d expect of a young a Nigerian striker. Seems decent technically though.

If true, it’s unusual for Romano to sky it over from the 6 yard line like that.

I still maintain that we should be pulling out all the stops to get him in, wage structure be damned. If he goes to Man Utd, fine. If he goes to Brentford, that’s really canny of him but really we should theoretically be able to blow the other reported competitors out of the water. He’ll be going to Manchester imo.

I suppose it can’t be helped (FFP, sponsorship income etc.) but we’re operating in similar markets. Most teams in our bracket can spend 100m a season and 30m per player reasonably easily; making ground and indeed surpassing these teams requires going beyond that. This idea we have of boxing smart in the market and employing a strict wage structure is sensible stuff in theory but it negates any potential advantages we have (our advantage obviously being a team with very moneyed backers). Buying young promising players from Europe and bedding them in isn’t some unique model that will differentiate ourselves from our competition, as most teams are doing this and have years upon years of foundation-work laid down. Ironically, we have a slight competitive disadvantage there. The only persistently proven model for big success in the PL is giving a good manager as much money to spend as possible. Anyway, I don’t want to sound miserable and ungrateful. I’m delighted we’re in the conversation nowadays! I just think we need to go further if we want to realize our lofty ambitions (either way I’m just happy we’re at least trying now).