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Presumably because he has enough self—confidence to think he’ll earn it without having to be guaranteed it.

If you follow the logic that being in the last year of your contract knocks 30-40% off your value, asking 20m for him now values him in the high 20’s. That seems too much for me.

Also had a kid fairly recently I think.

The thing that makes sense about it is that there aren’t a great deal of genuine dual purpose players like Pedro available. We’re going to need some form of back-up to Isak, ideally we probably want it to be in the form of that type of dual purpose player, but assuming we can’t find another one of them, we pivot to going to an outright backup striker.

RyDog first again

Today is your day plane nonces.

Don’t think that’s in doubt tbh

As @ponsaelius mentioned last night, the writing’s been on the wall ever since Eddie was surprisingly forthright about his future in one of the pressers a while ago. Fraser aside, he’s never been like that about anyone since he’s been here, so it always seemed he would be away this summer.

RyDog says we’re ready to make him the highest paid player in our history. Which probably just equates to more than Bruno, but that doesn’t sound as good.

If you’re a club in our position though, you often can’t wait until they become free because you know you’ll get blown out the water by clubs offering far bigger wages. So it’s pay the fee now, or miss out.

He’ll be replacing Konate when his contract expires

Yes, Liverpool have done the thing that it was a disgrace Madrid did with Trent…

Still no sign of Mainoo signing a new contract? Probably an issue with his rumoured wage demands as well as Brexit Jim wanting a big fee, but if Longstaff goes for ‘pua profit’ it might unlock some further spending potential.

We’ll call it quits for the Ashworth fee.

He used to keep wicket for Sri Lanka

Would having Kraft or Lascelles in the CL squad be the difference between the team being run into the ground or not?

Would be my thought initially too, but he did kind of phase him out in the second half of last season. He definitely seemed well behind Miley in the pecking order.

Is being able to register someone like Kraft or Lascelles for the CL squad worth £12m?

Not with one year left on his contract he’s not. That values him at something like 30/35 if he had multiple years left, which isn’t realistic.

Would probably mean we have to go with an A List squad of 21 rather than the 22 we would have been allowed if Longstaff was here. Probably means not registering someone like Kraft or Lascelles.

That’s very much the top end of what I thought we could get for him with one year left.

£30m would seem ridiculous value unless his shoulder has fell off?

If you think we’re waiting til page 119 again…

Not sure what the Tonali fee was?