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The London stadium rental to West Ham was an awful deal, agreed by Boris Johnson. Its worst of all worlds as the stadium isn’t available for athletics for almost the whole year and yet the rental income is almost nothing. Meanwhile West Ham have figured out it’s a terrible stadium for football but can’t buy it to fix it properly. It’s cheap for them but it’s also a poor stadium so they aren’t total winners.

Classic journo behaviour. Howe never says anything on incoming transfers, but they ask the question for the tweet. Then Ryder who has the easiest job in the world still manages to balls it up

Robert and Ginolas jobs were to stick crosses on the heads of strikers in a 442 era so can’t be judged without looking at assists. I don’t know the stats so maybe I’m wrong but my guess is ASMs assists are pretty poor in comparison.

The clubs were in talks before the first offer went in, so I imagine the offer was in the ballpark, or why bother making it. If those initial talks had been miles apart they’d have moved onto other targets. My guess is there’s some back and forth. “We want more upfront” rather than a straight “no” with the revised offer to be more of a “How about £x more upfront plus £y after 50 appearances” etc etc, but it’s close.

Chelsea started to gel last season and they pay big wages. Easy to see players thinking it could be both successful on the pitch and lucrative.

Good luck to him, put the graft in for years. He could never have joined Bournemouth, he cannot play in the PL now, however the Championship might give him a nice final hurrah

It will be Kelly BDB Schar Trippier Maybe Hall ahead of Kelly If you are expecting anything else you must have missed the team selections all of last season

99% of fans don’t care or know about FFP and don’t agonise over it, and will therefore draw zero negative conclusions about whether Miggy stays or goes. I am sure Miggy can live with a couple of absuive posters on a message board Id also note there has been no proven bids accepted by the club, only rumours about Saudi, and Saudi rumours are ten a penny

Taylor is an out and out mackem so covers any wins or success through gritted teeth. She will find any cloud and ignore any silver lining. However as she’s openly a Sunderland supporter it’s not that annoying as you know she’s going to do it, just think of her having to write up Newcastle match reports over the past 2 seasons.

I like Palace, many fun away days, home fans pretty friendly, don’t know where this grief is coming from They also suffered Pards so I sympathise there as well.

lol If you think Miggy can be coached out of some of annoying traits you’re set for disappointment. If it was possible either Rafa or Howe would have done it by now. Miggy has many many strengths, but his decision making has always been poor and nothing will change that.

I can believe it, basically on numbers grounds, there are already 3 players in exile, and I doubt there be squad places for 3 RWs so that’s potentially a 4th player not contributing on the pitch. Dummett and Ritchie got released even though Howe would have liked to keep them, can’t just pile up players Also why I expect Dubs to be off, cannot keep 4/5 GKs

You aren’t going to get a PL finished product as a third choice, otherwise they’d be first or second choice somewhere else. The aim is to get someone with potential who will improve but in the meantime can ‘do a job’ in an injury crisis and regularly make an impact as a sub in the last 20 minutes of games. I reckon Osula will do that this season, and then hopefully he can kick in from there

Excepting the brief period of Isak, Wilson and Wood there haven’t been enough strikers on the books to even have backups.

He’d only start a string of games if Wilson and Isak were both out, and the options for 3rd choice are really a player coming to the very end or someone up and coming Like this guy. IMO this is the exact profile the squad needed. His aim should be to take his chances and swipe the second striker slot for next season.

Great to see. Sorts cover in the start of the season with Wilson out Depending on other incomings or outgoings potentially should look at a January loan. A bit like Kelly, this transfer is solving a squad weakness so really positive

I am very petty so even if this was the bargain of the century I’d ignore

Very good signing for the price and clubs circumstances at the time. One of those very rare smart pieces of business from the club in that era

We’ve had so many rotters, hard to name them all. To be contrary Carr did alright in his first/second season, he just got injured too many times and was then kept way too long when it was clear he was done. If he’d gone after two years would just be remembered as injury prone but ok. Many many examples of this problem! Geremi was the slowest player I’ve ever seen, however when KK used that 433 he was effective. He wasn’t shite as much as totally immobile, when KK stuck him where he didn’t have to run it worked ok

His agent will have done it already and if Palace are keen sellers they’ll have done it too. It was probably one of these two parties that leaked it. There’s basically a few days window now for other clubs to come in, whilst NUFC will be saying this bid is on the table for 72 hours (or whatever) to move it along

Could be looking at other players or just building relationships with the agent “who is good on your books” etc. wining and dining with agents sounds a bit depressing but it’s part of the game now

Some shocking players getting a mention. Carl Cort was shite, Diego Gavilan only made a few appearances and was totally anonymous in them, Bigirimana we all hoped he’d be decent but he was also shite except maybe one game. These are all obscure players, not decent ones!

Well there probably won’t be any actual updates until Monday earliest and decent chance it’s another week before either it’s done or it collapses. By which point this thread will have 200 pages, so sorry you’re probably doomed with this request

Splitting hairs but you qualify for the CL with good PL players, you need CL standard players to thrive in the competition after you have qualified.

The Times reckons no one else will come in for him. However times also reckons palace want 70m. Not sure what the clubs limit will be.