Excited by this. Only issue is I'm really hoping he's over the injury and back to his exceptional potential/talent, otherwise this is a big overspend, although it's clearly the transfer policy to buy English premiums at the moment...
Howe has the good drugs, Championship teams do not. Keep and develop, he'll get game time if he's good enough. The loan fetishists have missed the boat on this one.
Irrespective of Wood, if we're looking at all of our transfers in then I doubt we'll see Kuol, Minteh or Ashby do much of anything for us, let alone some of the other youngsters we're picking up. That's not 100%, but the hit rate is still very good.
I think statistical analysis of footballers is a bit more advanced than "he doesn't score".
Either way, he's gone, £40 mil is good and frees us up FFP wise even if in short term it's a stinging blow to lose him and keep players like Dummett.
It doesn't even look like there's much clamour for ASM either, offloading at a shit price to Saudis, our lack of saleable assets is trying to spoil our early ascent to CL football.
Ah well, chapeau Allan.