ExiledGeordie

I’d also hazard a guess that Howe thinks he can make Elanga better too and the evidence is there with players he’s improved at the club already.

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.

yes I imagine they’ve got something lined up

😂

Assuming we sign Pedro, Trafford and Elanga, I’m guessing a CB would come from the continent

I can’t even remember, I think I had an email saying my membership would renew automatically, is that right?

The thing is if we’re genuinely interested in him then a) you get a signal from the player that he’s interested and b) if the club is a willing seller and a ball park price then you negotiate. They must have an idea what they’d have to go to to get him? Obviously Parish wouldn’t budge on Guehi last summer but I hope we either offer close to what they actually want or just say “no, sorry that’s too much” and move on”. Im making it out to be far more simplistic but just making a point. If we go after premier league players, if that’s what Howe wants we’re going to have to pay the transfer fees and wages. But it does leave us open to these drawn out situations.

I think we’ve got a decent chance of getting him but Forest aren’t exactly going to just hand him over are they. As someone above has said it’ll probably be 50m+. I’d probably prefer Kudus for that type of money.

Yeah that’s absolutely ridiculous 😂

I think he’d be a great signing too and particularly away from home. I might be wrong I don’t see him as the type of player who can unlock a right defence at home but they’ve clearly done their homework on him so 👍

They must’ve had word he’s keen if they’ve bid?