ExiledGeordie

I think we’ll have to go close to 60m, anything more and we should walk away. The Greek fella is hardly going to just hand him over though is he.

He’ll just straight bar them away in terms of “we’re not selling” so I don’t see an issue. Even if Howe and the club are fairly sure we might only have one season left with him he’ll be vital for the CL, re-qualifying for the CL and all round profile. I fully expect one of the continents big guns to come in for him next summer but there’s no way I see him leaving this summer. The potential transfer fee kills off most teams anyway.

I hope we get Trafford and Elanga and then use the continent for anything else.

So they’re going with Pedro, Jackson and Delap next season? They’ll probably spend another 60-70m on another striker before the end of the window 😂

I don’t think he was ever that keen on coming here, let’s all move on 👍 Fuck Chelsea too, awful shit stain of a club

Good points

I do agree with the points that we open ourselves up to drawn out transfer sagas and paying inflated fees with the type of targets we seem to be aiming at. That said I think we’ll see movement next week and you’d hope the club will quickly move into other targets if the selling club won’t budge on price and we won’t go any higher.

The PSR deadline is the 30th, it’s not even July yet. If we haven’t signed anyone by mid July that’s definitely a major concern. An unmitigated disaster would be signing nobody at all this summer. It isn’t one yet.

Chelsea will say here’s £££££££ Pedro. He’ll opt for the wage packet and London. Stand to be proved wrong but target please…..

He’s going to go to Chelsea, move on to the next target

If Chelsea show even the slightest interest in him he’s going to go there it seems.

So does this lad start if he comes in then? I guess it depends what formation we play doesn’t it. Hes certainly give us a bonafide striking option when resting Isak and be able to play him as a target man with Isak in games.

So does he come in as Popes understudy initially then?

Thinking about it he makes perfect sense in terms of more of a target man and different looks formation wise. But also if we’ve played CL then have an away game or home match a few days later start this lad and we’re still looking good.

My only concern with the Elanga transfer and possibly the Pedro and Trafford deals is for them to turn into a Guehi situation where we’re only offering X and the selling club won’t budge. I hope we have some alternative options or are pretty sure we know what it’ll take to get these players if that’s who we want.