TheInfiniteOdyssey

I’m getting frustrated with our approach to this to be honest. We sold two top talents and bought a useless keeper to comply with these regulations last summer. It’s a choice by our owners to not exploit these loopholes.

DCL is horrendous, he can’t even score goals when he’s fit.

Not massively bothered about missing out on him to be honest, but my bigger concern is what form of due diligence the club performed on a prospective deal. Was he always hanging on for Chelsea? If we had any inclination of that, we should have moved on weeks ago.

Unreal football.

Get in!

Howay Stansfield that’s basic striker positioning that, got to gamble.

Brilliant finish that.

Not much we can do if that’s the player’s preference. I would hope the club aren’t daft enough to have done all the groundwork on just him as an attacking target though.

Brentford my outside bet to go down next season.

Strange offer, feel like they’ve had more than enough time to put in the groundwork to assess what would be an acceptable amount for all parties. If I’m offering an overreaction, might even say we come across as a little disjointed.

Think we’re the biggest club to have the most unreliable, uninformed press pack regarding transfers. Every other similar sized club or bigger, seem to have at least one reliable correspondent.

Need Joelinton to go through him like a freight train when they turn up at St James.

If the budget is limited, it would be crazy imo to allocate £30m of it for another goalkeeper. The squad urgently needs strengthened in other areas.

City won’t go to the fee we’re after imo. Don’t think this happens.

We’re very stubborn with our transfer targets. £50m doesn’t seem good value and I wouldn’t be happy if the club brief the press later on in the window that we don’t have money to spread across other squad positions if these are the types of deals they’re pursuing.