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Wouldn’t Eddie have some claim to the credit of him being worth 70m food for though.

That’s exactly what happened, people are speculating that if Wilson were to be sold it would free up wages to bring in DCL.

No way we pay 80m that you can relax about.

Haha, it’s good harmless fun. Something to discuss

I hear that argument I really do but it doesn’t change any of the facts regarding how bad of a deal financially it would be. You have to try and achieve the same whilst being more pragmatic with the clubs resources. We simply have to player trade and buying players who can’t be traded will be really bad for us in the long term.

Seriously? I expect us to challenge for the top 4 this season. I don’t expect west ham too. We had an unprecedented injury crisis last season and still finished above them. fair play though.

Because we aren’t even in Europe and we are much better than them. Do you believe west ham will qualify for Europe?

You made reference to ASM in your post. The rule your referring to relates to UK tax law.

Is he? I’m not sure he is tbh. If they can’t push for Europe then what’s the point? I think West ham have an issue with overall direction of the club what’s the actual goal? What do they hope to achieve? Bottom line is they are unlikely to qualify for Europe, he’s on a massive wage and worth a lot of money if you sell him you save on his wages and bank a massive profit all whilst not having much impact on your league position. Perfect sale for them imo.

Absolutely your point is definitely true, but the flip side is your paying a premium in both fees and wages for a player who won’t improve and will only de-value. To make the transfer worth it your relying on multiplier effects which might have also been achieved by signing someone who is slightly worst but doesn’t have the above negatives plus your protecting yourself on the downside.

Our FFP issues will be less acute moving forward we age more revenue and ideally more players with resale value on the books. That being said, we still need to be pragmatic about things.

The problem is in this era you can’t look past the accounting. It’s depressing I know but this is the reality of football. A lot of people’s frustration regarding Minteh is he seems to have a lot of promise in a position where we are badly lacking and he’s been bought by one of the clubs who are adept at talent spotting for a record fee. I understand and the respect the view but we have no choice and it was the most palatable option.

That’s the end of that.

Eh not really we got great money for both Minteh and Anderson I would have sold both too. I think some of us on here realise that the only way for us to bridge the financial gap is to trade players acquire aggressively at that.

I don’t think we end up with Elanga personally. We could have obviously tried to get him last summer for cheaper than what he would be now.

He’s being linked a lot, this isn’t the first rodeo.

Most players would be a massive upgrade though, it really isn’t difficult to upgrade that position given how badly we are lacking. Bowen, is at peak value and on a massive long term contract, it would be eye wateringly expensive with little to no chance of any return.

We deserve our FFP troubles if we insist on buying players at the peak of the value in the most expensive market in the world.

You can’t just assume Henderson didn’t return to the UK for tax reasons. Also, totally unfair on ASM given he’s not British to be begin with.

These kind of rumours can be ignored, we just have to wait for the decisions. Not really the kind of thing to leak are these.

Why? No indications we are interested at all.

I don’t think Brighton’s owner is willing to spend 100m+ net this window. I could be wrong but I don’t see it. All Brighton have more than us is FFP headroom, in every other metric they are behind us.

Ruddy and the Greek lad I don’t even count them to be honest, both signed to make the numbers up nothing more. Expecting a RW, Right Cb and a forward personally and some prospects in the mould of Minteh.

Precisely, as usual our name will be used a lot to bid up the price of players moving. As fans we should know which links makes sense and which don’t.

The only way we can get a full back this window is it Trips leaves, if not I think we will spend our resources elsewhere.