ChrisMcQuillan

Jesus Christ.

The “widely regarded as one of the best strikers in the world” only added once he was off to Liverpool, of course.

You’re right, I was spiralling. Apologies.

That is quite reassuring after all.

That’s not reassuring at all.

It’s not about the announcement. It’s about the paperwork being submitted. We can announce it next week for all I care.

This isn’t gonna happen, is it?

I don’t think I’d be worried if we hadn’t pulled the plug on Osula.

I mean it’s literally just happened with Guehi.

Genuinely scared now.

Did he actually?

I’m glad you asked.

Christ, can you imagine if they don’t get it done?

Mbappe and Declan Rice are probably the only two of those moves that delivered value, which is astonishing really.

Yeah fair enough. Third most expensive base amount transfer in history, then.

I was going off of this.

Exactly this. Standout players in each team, all just cherry picked by the cartel.

Thought I should probably back this up. Eze - Palace to Arsenal - £60m Norgaard - Brentford to Arsenal - £10m Joao Pedro - Brighton to Chelsea - £55m Delap - Ipswich to Chelsea - £30m Buonanotte - Brighton to Chelsea - Loan Encisco - Brighton to Strasbourg (Chelsea) - £15m Isak - Newcastle to Liverpool - £125m Kerkez - Bournemouth to Liverpool - £40m Guehi - Palace to Liverpool - £35m? Trafford - Burnley to Man City -£31m Ait-Nouri - Wolves to Man City - £31m Mbeumo - Brentford to Man Utd - £65m Cunha - Wolves to Man Utd - £62.5m Kudus - West Ham to Spurs - £55m

I can't think of a transfer window where there's been quite as much asset stripping of the other 14 teams to the Cartel 6 before.

I'd quite like a clip of that.

Didn't realise that.

Feels unlikely that we'll get anyone else in. Four and a half hours until the window closes. It's basically 7.30pm on one of the old deadline days, and at that point, you're giving up hope of anything new coming out of the woodwork.

I'd be fine with that too. Allows for a change of system less reliant on swapping strikers in and out.

Surely we're not going to go with just two strikers again? (If Osula is off to Frankfurt)