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Better have a few Stewarts to keep the crowd in check then.

Pretty sure that's not what the proverb said

If De Jong can stay fit I think he could do a decent job for us there, I like his style of play and he seems an intelligent player with a good eye for a pass. As long as we have some pace around him to do the running I think that could work out.

Possibly but you'd like to think that even our hierarchy know that it's a bit different for keepers. I wasn't really commenting on the details of the deals though, just seems strange to choose two deals which would be fairly low cost and low risk (in this day and age) on which to make a point about our transfer strategy or funds.

Lads, someone paid us for Alan Pardew. That there shows that anything is possible.

Aye, strange examples to choose. If we can't even afford a free transfer then we're certainly knacked.

They could ban intra-division loans and limit the number of players you're allowed to have out on loan at any one time.

Fucking hell, are they scoring too many goals or something?

Think we'd go for both this guy and Merino? That'd leave us with 6 CMs for 2 positions unless we can mug someone into taking Diame or Colback.

We do need a midfield destroyer though, that's been our achilles heel for a while.

Feels like we've lined up a deal with Dortmund, flown him over, given him a medical and agreed terms in about 3 hours Quite excited about this kid. Know nothing much about him but he's young, plays in a position we're desperate to strengthen, seems like he'll fit into the team nicely and by all accounts has a lot of potential. Good signing if we can pull it off imo.

According to wiki he's only 21 and signed a 5 year deal with Dortmund last year so they probably see him as one for the future. Likely they just want him to go out and get some experience.

If I was as shit at my job as he is I would basically never say or do anything ever. In fact I would staple my mouth shut, destroy my keyboard and amputate my pen holding fingers. Then join a seminary. In the desert. On fire. I pitta the fool.

Jesus, these puns are so bad they're downright Athensive.

I reckon we're under instructions to trim the squad before we can sign anyone else. We've got far more than a 25 man squad can handle at the moment and all that deadwood is going to be sucking up wages whether we play them or not.

This is what it says on the Chronicle site... What did we do in the loan negotiations to piss them off so bad?

One for the braindead twitter lies thread I reckon.

I'm not sure the Blackadder gif can really convey sarcasm

It's pretty standard for players to get about 10% of the transfer fee too iirc although I don't know if that would apply in this case. £600k is a lot of money to a 16 year old kid just starting out.

Anyone get the feeling we actually are skint? It's possible we're not spending money until we actually have it in the bank even if it's guaranteed in which case we'll have likely had, what, about £30m - £40m from the PL money so far.

Aye. I don't like the fact he seems to need to say this shit in private. Sounds like promises either aren't being kept or he's having to push very hard to get them to keep them.

Best write in Arabic aswell for that authentic look.

Proper bellend by all accounts, doesn't seem like a Rafa player at all.

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