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Almiron FGS and Newcastle -2.5 @40/1 Cannot think of a more nailed on bet this weekend.

An absolutely massive midfield destroyer is always fun like. West Ham do some great business on paper.

Beradi's numbers are essentially impossible to achieve by being shite like He got 15 goals and 14 assists last season, and has gotten 20+ goal involvements each season the past 3 year (fair few pennas I think). It's like people calling Inzaghi shite becuase he was infamously poor on the ball. I really enjoy Milanista's posts, he seems really well informed, but I don't think he's an internationally renowned scout or anything.

The main thing for me was how relatively easy we made it look to nulify most of the league. I don't think it was luck and I don't think it's something managers can just counter next season. Most teams aren't good enough on the ball to effectively play against well organised pressing.

Man City, Spurs, Liverpool, Chelsea are all way beyond us. Man Utd and Arsenal should be but both have it in them to cock it up. West Ham are the best of the rest and everything going well should be finishing above us - great squad and manager who seems to get it right for the most part. Leicester, Wolves, Brighton, Palace and Villa have strong squads and good managers (except Gerrard who is unproven) but none of them seem to fully click. We can finish above any of them

Aye I doubt the likes of Hope are just making stuff up. If we go in for Maddison again he looks stupid, he's obviously going off of something. It all just seems weird.

I can believe them when they say a bid has went in or has been rejected, but I don't see how Hope would have any idea about any 'budget', or how much we value a player. It seems pretty unlikely those things would be properly discussed with anyone outside of the club's transfer circle.

We should buy Paqueta for 40 million, and them offer him to Leicester in a swap deal for Maddison.

That tweet is a bit weird then

An FFP budget* makes no sense anyway, as different players will effect it in different ways. A 32 year old will have a greater impact than a 20 year old for example, as any money you put into the 32yr old is essentially dead, the 20 year old could be sold in 2 years time for a percentage of whatever they were bought for (either above or below 100%). The odds our owners and their accountants have just went "40 million, aye?" seem canny low. *well you could budget for it, but it would be an incredible complex algorithm, not a single figure.

He tweeted that yesterday. So he's apparently been made aware of this 40m budget within the last 24 hours.

Does Craig Hope post on here?

Can some braniac hoy up a quick list of all the (close to) verified bids, and how much, we've put in this summer?

This is better content tbf

Pete Graves works for Sky and it's pretty obvious he's had no clue what's going on for donkeys.

If 40m is our budget then it seems highly unlikely we would have bid for Maddison like. Not because it would blow it. But because it's obviously a waste of time. And in spite of what a few in this thread are praying for, we're not just wasting our time putting in pointless bids

Seen him in Tesco, said areet. He just held two fingers under my nose and said "smell your fatha".

Leiceter want £60m. We offer £35m. Rejected. Word comes out they will accept £50m up front. We offer £40m. Rejected. Player puts in a transfer request. We offer £45-50m structured deal. Accepted. Maybe that's it, maybe it's not, nee cunt knows

It probably doesn't matter what the initial bid was, the point of an opening bid is to let someone know you're wanting to enter negotiations. Your initial bid should pretty much never be accepted.

Can you not hire decent WUMs on the internet? Pay OkieDoke to come back or something.

Even if we are willing to pay £50m we're not going to go out and brief the journalists about it.

I don't expect it no, we're a bit of a wildcard so it's hard to say how we'll do, it could go either way.

Well no because, as I've said, since Christmas every indicator is that Howe is getting more out of our squad than Rodgers is out of theres. For some reason you keep mentioning there superior squad as if it's the only thing that matters.

100% £50m is a massive fee. If Leicester want silly money (which some teams have paid them in the past) then that's on them, but it doesn't mean we need to follow.

This means nowt though as Leicester are regressing. Maybe they can turn it around, maybe they can't? Just as much of a chance that we continue as we are or falter. It would hardly be some huge suprise if we finish above Leiceter like. Despite their obviously superior squad.