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Should make it clear, Bordeaux aren’t in trouble because Barca owe them transfer money, but the juxtaposition is striking.

That why they got him back too?

Fucking hell.

Lest we forget, Richarlison is banned for the first game of our season because he picked up and threw back a flare when playing for Everton back on May 1st. There were still five games left and they were threatened by relegation. Burnley not happy about it.

Worth adding, the ref was absolutely spot on.

WTF

There a head-to-head N-O league?

When we were linked a week or two ago we were guessing £50-60M. The thinking was that they needed to sell somebody and Tielemans was the most likely but he only had one year left and so would probably go for £30M or so. Given that Tielemans is still there Maddison seems very available. Fofana going for a large fee could scupper the deal I guess. At the time, there was talk of Spurs being in for one of Maddison, Paqueta or Zaniolo. A lively debate, but a fair few were preferring Maddison if only for the HG stuff.

After slogging through “More Transfer Rumours” yesterday I woke up, saw this thread, and clicked on expecting to see wall-to-wall excitement and happiness. It’s absolutely insane to me that anyone is negative about this. The single reason to be sceptical is if you think it’s a derisory opening bid and there’s no intention of following through, you’re just (Ashley-style) pretending. Here’s a newsflash. Ashley doesn’t own you any more. You really, really do have infinite money. You’re not going to spend it all at once (you can’t, FFP etc) but you’re going to spend it all eventually because as we’ve seen with Man City, Chelsea- and even Liverpool and Man U - sooner or later it sticks. He’s really bloody good, and yes, he’s better at what he does than anybody you have, so buying him is a positive. If you pay 60M, whatever. You’re not going bankrupt, you’re not getting relegated. Sure, you can wonder about whether you can spend that money better elsewhere, but that’s a conversation you have weeks ago. At this point, what exactly are you afraid of?

Brighton and Liverpool with 9 and Wolves with 8. I was surprised. Still a few weeks to go I guess.

Someone noticed that two Chelsea loanees were up against each other today. I checked on Transfermarkt and two PL clubs seem to have 9 players on loan right now, one club has 8. Without looking, name the three!

How far up do you think they should be?

At least you’re on this list. It could be worse:

I just slogged through it all . Amazing what you’ll do to pass the time when you’re laid up sick.

What’s the situation with the salary cap? Are you going to be able to square the circle?

So it’s either money or friendship? I suspect Champions League might play a part too.

I think his agent’s been touting him about for ages.

Rumour is that Spurs are after Zaniolo, and if that doesn’t work out then they’ll be in the race for Paqueta.

In cheerier news:

The problem isn’t how they get the money, the problem is the salary cap imposed by the Spanish league.

Naah, there’s a rich history of adopted negative epithets and turning them round. Spurs and “yid” is just one example.

Really like Rodon. Obvs if he does well that’s probably the last we’ll see of him, which is a bit sad.

Based on their old kit, obviously.