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As long as our budget is unlimited, you won't see me complaining

Yeah, imagine that one Anthony Gordon cost 120 percent of a Bruno Guimaraes. The English tax is insane, like.

Can Chelsea hoy in a 70 million bid for Ayari right now? Or do they have to wait until the summer?

The exact sum we paid them for Gordon

I'd say that if Fulham manage to land Sasa Lukic today, it may clear the way for us. They already have a decent CM selection and Lukic and Berge's attributes are not too dissimilar.

Gordon onboard and a possible replacement for Shelvey in, and we could also do either a "pre contract" or a loanback until the summer. He's only 18, I'm not sure how much we'd use him in the run-in anyways.

In addition to that, he's still a teenager and doesn't count in the 25 man squad registration either.

I really hope nobody takes any of their current unwanted players like Pulisic, Ziyech and Gallagher off their hands. Leave them stuck with a bloated squad that would have to have their contracts bought out or whatever.

These days, all I need to do is to Youtube any player and check if I have already watched his "Brazil Scout" video. If I have, then he was linked before. Vitinha - yep, we've been linked

I mean, he's not fast fast - but he's not slow either.

His turn and burn to set up the Joelinton goal was so silky, a very different energy altogether from Almiron's head-down bursts. Kept looking up too, as he was scoping out who to cross to. Such an intelligent player.

“Bashing wood “ is English for masturbation, and that’s all we’ve been doing the past three pages.

Totally expect something out-of-the-blue yet opportunistic now, like getting Weston McKennie or Vlahovic from Juventus now they've been docked points.....or Pogba.

https://insidefutbol.com/2023/01/23/amount-newcastle-united-prepared-to-pay-for-evertons-anthony-gordon-identified/592176/ Newcastle prepared to pay "up to 40 million pounds"

If Tory Frank gets the sack, it may well be that Gordon might stay to impress a new manager. Which may or may not be good news for us.

https://www.nufcblog.co.uk/2023/01/22/using-data-to-find-newcastles-new-winger-five-exciting-options-for-eddie-howe/ A decent bit of research. Kudus’s stats are amazing, but that Tete from Shaktar and now on loan to Lyon looks like a canny under-the-radar pickup if we like another Brazilian.

Zaniolo's done his ACL twice in the past three years. Plus he didn't want to leave Italy. He needs a long and gentle bedding in period, and might still end in tears.

Mitoma's goal looks like a mirror image of an Almiron banger.

After watching us play, every other team seems to be running in slow-mo

Trawling Newsnow for transfer-related goss, and have always been tickled by their ridiculously hyperbolic titles, but these two sounded hilariously apt for Gordon. "Newcastle set to enquire about Everton 'star' "; and "Newcastle set to enquire about 'frightening' 50mil attacker, he could be Murphy 2.0"

Hold on, was that infamous @oldtypeO-face photo from 2012? Time flies!

Other than him walking out on the club, he apparently had a bust-up with Lallana, who saw fit to comment on his attitude. I'm glad we steered well clear - our team harmony is one of the key ingredients to our current success.

The way Chelsea are going, they'll end up like Manchester United of the past decade - players treating a big-money move to a Massive Club as the endgame to their career and reputation, and then killing the hunger to win. Fingers crossed.

Just waiting for Marcus Thuram, Martin Terrier or Jonathan David to be signed and sealed totally out of the blue now.

Some noise about DCL now that Wood has gone. Hopefully just wishful thinking by Everton journos.