Gawalls

Here - I was born in wallsend

So you want just the five players then?

Ffp is based on a rolling three year basis and we’ve spent more now with last two windows so that will be why we have less (if we do). Said it a few times now - these owners have a long term plan they don’t seem to deviate from so I feel a lot of people will be hugely disappointed at the end of this window.

Didn’t somebody post that £75m is misleading because say we buy somebody for £60m over 5 years then that’s only £12m out of the £75m kitty?

Just leave - you’re dead to me ?

It’s still more proof than I could find of him supposedly being an arsenal fan.

for conversations sake, let's say we did spend that - will you be disappointed or accepting that we don't have all of the information and the owners have a longer term plan in place you still trust?

No - I genuinely think this is the window where people are gonna be disappointed the most with our spending.

sorry mate but i think that's grasping. Besides it's reported he supported Man U as a child Maddison in Man U colours

Arsenal reporting wanting more than £30m for Tierney - don't think that will happen either, for me his injury record was a red flag anyway.

They need to get a manager in first

isn't the ffp a rolling 3 year profit process (I get i'm simplifying it) but on top of that sure I read somewhere we posted a £105m profit last season before takeover. Using those as a very rough estimate, we haven't got masses of amounts to spend and will want to spend it conservatively as well I feel.

I completely agree with the Gordon thing but Howe has said he was a long term target and came available (sure I read that somewhere but my apologies if I just made it up). If he's not prepared to divvy up an extra £5m on Maddison then it must be an age / long term thing as that's all I can think if. The guy got 10 from 30 this season and 12 from 35 last season so will chip in with decent goal tally for us.

is it though? Leicester turned down our £40m last season as too little and continued to turn down all Tielemans offers until he left for nothing whilst stating they can't rebuild as there's no money to rebuild. Since the helicopter crash it seems there's been a lot of bad calls at Leicester (I live there and am surrounded by the news and fans etc). The general feeling is this guy isn't the businessman his father was.

if they want £50m I don't think it will happen personally, we didn't offer it last year and I feel we won't this year either. I reckon he'll end up at Spurs.

And I’ll genuinely be happy for you

In with you fella - people I worked alongside for fifteen years who support them will be happy and that makes me happy. We all have our reasons and beliefs though and that’s football.

I think he’s offside, lucky there

I could post a picture of my old Italian neighbour who grabbed a hold of my step daughter (honest true story) but it wouldn’t mean anything to you. i worked in London, knew quite a few West Ham fans and they were pretty sound to be honest.

Somebody please explain to me - not watched the game and just switched on and tuned in here, why’s everyone happy an English team getting beat?

Fair but others would have as well

Admit I’m not his biggest fan but just checked his stats and he got 5 assists last season compared to murphys 2, joelingtons 1, longstaffs 2, miggys 1 etc. that’s still quite impressive for his limited time.

Agreed but a one off is not so much cash where people should be saying “yeah we can buy - we’re in the CL now”

People keep saying qualifying for CL will give us considerable funds but we only get around £16m - the rest is earned on matches won etc. qualifying as a one off isn’t gonna turn us into Man City spending overnight and FFP isn’t just lip service. It is real so if people think we can keep just buying over and over then their in for a shock.

Agreed, I don’t bit into the whole ASM thing - sure he has good moments but if we get that kind of money for him then I personally think we’re could replace with better.