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The game will go ahead as normal IMO. Would be very surprised if it didn’t.

Farewell sweet prince…

Think it shows up the lad giving him the information more TBH. Not sure what the lads done wrong. Given some quite detailed information. Asked a few questions then said he’ll trust him and pass it on. Hardly said it was nailed on or 100%. You do realise the yellow ticker on Sky works in exactly the same way? If you doubt me read the Secret Footballer’s book as he explains how easily it is to get a story out on SSN.

Think it’s pretty clear it will be this if he signs… “You to me are everything you make the Geordies want to sing, Marc Guehi, Marc Guehi”

Watching some YT and he looks great defending on the grass. Then when he wins it looks very composed. Long term should partner up well with Botman if we get him.

Bit more info here before the deal was on the cards…

Looks very lightweight compared to the Turkish lad. Not as quick either.

Does feel like every day they are signing a player for £20m+ from all over the world.

It doesn’t help that Chelsea halve a 20% clause.

This and this… So that’s EH staying…

Disagree. Last year of contract so unless we plan to extend this is the summer to sell him. Tonali, Hall, Miley and at a push Willock can cover him along with one or two from our shadow squad. We’ve no European football this year either.

Yes but buying them THIS window would likely mean losing one of our best players next summer so we’d be worse off… If you had the choice of Guehi this window and lose one of Bruno, Isak, Gordon next window or see this window out with what we have at CB and look again next window and keep all our purples which option would you take? I’d just stick with Burn and Kraft for 3-5 months until our injuries clear up then get a purple CB next accounting window personally. Obviously if we sell Trippier, Almiron, Wilson, Longstaff and Fraser this window the hopefully that gives us room to do both along with a RW purple.

You can discuss things and still enjoy the ride. I know I do. Find it quite educating the discussions. Think a lot of fans would benefit from it also when they expect us to spend £200m this window. I’ll admit I was under the impression originally we could buy similar to our Trippier/Targett/Burn/Bruno window which would be around £70m in total fees approximately.

I don’t pretend to understand PSR but these posts are a reality check of the situation as it stands. The Guehi deal makes no sense to me. We are buying him at his highest stock price if the reported figures are close. Let’s find the next Guehi and keep hold of all our purples next summer. If he’s available for £45m then you might have a dilemma if its the player you REALLY want but it sounds like its going to be closer to £65m I really don’t get it. Lets see how it plays out over the next two weeks as you’d think they like a purple for Southampton if not the Sela Cup.

Yep. I said when the news broke there was something fishy about the wording. Ornstein I feel pipes up when deal is getting rubber stamped with Romano following closely behind. The tweet read like a sales pitch to alert clubs.

Yeah I’m basing my Tomori judgement on the games against us. Thought he was great. Also basing my judgement of Guehi on the games against us and the Euros. Thought he was very hit and miss after a very good first game. Thiaw only saw the once against us and remember very little about him TBH. Will definitely leave this one to the experts. With PSR a thing we can’t just discount the size of the fee not being important though. Hence I don’t want us to be getting our pants taken down by Palace off the back of a tournament. As he was going for less when he had 3yrs on his contract.

Seem to recall it being part of a fan charter. Possibly the home strip only. Think the government got involved at one point. In the years I bought replica strips from early 90’s to mid 00’s all the strips lasted 2yrs.

How much for Tomori?

I agree. I’d be tempted to buy one if I knew the club would keep it for two years. Used to be the law actually so not sure apart from greed what changed things.

You’ll probably be on the same train they are all travelling in on 😬😆