christ

I’m just glad to see some people brave enough to spay it. Or say it.

He’s going to watch James Trafford YouTube compilations on Schiphol airport’s Wi-Fi.

He’s not wrong

We’re not signing anyone that manager doesn’t want.

I don’t think it’s a secret that Howe likes to have a lot of control over things. I also think it was made pretty clear by him at the time that the Mitchell appointment wasn’t welcome news. It would be very weird for us to pursue a defender for that much money (and who we’re unlikely to be able to attract after this window IMO) and not have a back up in mind in case the deal didn’t come off. If that’s what happens then we can only assume the direction is being given by the manager.

To be entirely fair to Hope, I don’t think Howe being obstinate as fuck and insisting on Guehi is far from the truth. He obviously had his nose put out by Mitchell’s arrival/Staveley’s exit. You can definitely see him trying to flex his muscles.

Suit yourself but I’m knocking off early tomorrow.

If PSR is a big concern you’re not waving the fat end of £70m under Crystal Palace’s nose IMO. I think the fact of the matter is they’ve spotted an opportunity to get the player they wanted above everything else, believed they could get a deal done and simply ran out of road. The next 24 hours will be interesting. You’d hope there’s some alternative names and they’ll move quite quickly to try and get at least a body in.

The eternal optimist in me says that the fact the news hasn’t leaked via Parish’s mouthpiece in the Mail means it’s coming from our side. Could be an attempt to force Palace’s hand. The realist in me says this is a mess.

They’re grim when we’ve had decent windows. Minus figures ahoy

It’s more the fact it’s been dragged out until the day before the window closes than we disagree on price like.

I think the reason we’ve persisted here is because we know that we’ve got next to no chance once his value starts to drop.

In fairness if a load of journalists come out with the same thing at the same time it usually means someone has been briefing the media.

You’d think experienced operators at this level would be savvy enough to have other irons in the fire in case this exact scenario occurred. You’d think.

The fact we haven’t a centre back that can pick a pass is putting us in all sorts of bother IMO. It invites the press, means the midfield has to sit too deep and puts pressure on the fullbacks.

What the fuck was that

This would be the funniest possible outcome.

Oh you cunt.

I’m mobile only unfortunately. Clearly being discriminated against for my technological choices.

I don’t know whether the funniest thing would be not to sign anyone and prolong the meltdown, or to and get a centre back and right winger thereby rendering the crying of the last few weeks completely pointless.

I didn’t know we had one.

There are some proper miserable arseholes on here. They could bring down the mood at a child’s funeral. Every transfer window there’ll be someone trying to talk people onto the window ledge with them because we haven’t strengthened in X, Y or Z position. Sorry like but it is frankly unhinged behaviour lose your mind over us not doing deals for Dele Alli or Jesse Lingard or Sander Berge. I can’t say whether it’s a phenomenon that’s unique to our club or not. My suspicion is - like everything - the internet is to blame. Either way we could do with some people logging off and going outside once in a while.

Best be logging off for the next few days.

Wasn’t there an interview last week where they talked about the stadium situation?

I fundamentally disagree with this fwiw.