sushimonster85

Lads, just stop it!

Think a lot of this will depend on their agent. I'm sure the club/Eddie will be drilling it into them. But ultimately these lads tend to (rightly or wrongly) trust their agent with this sort of stuff. If the agent wants a move he will skew their thinking that way however he/she can.

Aye, people are just driving themselves mental in here. They've been briefing the same message for months. No one in Jan, barring a big injury to a big player.

Have really reached Burnsie level of desperation?

Not really. Word is (and was back in the Summer) that signing Guehi would have meant a big departure at some point before the June 30th 2025 PSR deadline. We didn't get Guehi so we will never know, but if we had it could have left us more vunerable to bids for Isak, Bruno, Tonali, etc.

According to local journos we were never as high as even 80m, hovered around 60 before walking away. And as others have said, if we'd have done that deal we likely would have had to generate it back and then some before June 2025.

Yeah, said it all month, but the club have made it pretty clear we aren't signing anyone in Jan. The only slight caveat to that was always 'unless a key player gets a bad injury'. Yeah, Almiron is going and we look short. But Barnes and Wilson are both back pretty soon.

Haha wouldn't go that far. Summer is a different matter. I just feel bad for people every time I come in here theorising about this position or that position. The club have gotten it out there all month, and in the months leading up to Jan that, unless there was a majoy injury to one of the crown jewels, we would be saving ourselves for the Summer market. The days of "well of course they say that..." or 'smokescreens' are long gone. The notion of 'smokescreens' to begin with is just a bit daft.

We're not signing anyone in Jan.

We aren't signing anyone in Jan. We may move for him in the Summer if we end up in Europa or Conference. If we get CL we need someone who is ready to (in theory) start week and week out at a high level.

Cunha is a tremendous player, but as others have pointed out, we don't really play in a way that suits him. And the only position we have where he comes close to fitting in our current system would be on the left, which Gordon has nailed down. Mbuemo is still the ideal target for me. Though I think we only move for him in the Summer if we get CL.

Think that's what was meant. Isak has played himself into the bracket of players where there are only 2 or 3 clubs that could realistically sign him in the middle of a contract.

Definitely think this is more likely to happen first than the big six properly turning on each other. This and maybe another league starting to muscle in. La liga really should be doing better than it does commercially.

I mean if you want to look at that result in a total vacuum then go right ahead, I just think it's fucking daft.

It will be good to at least get some proof of life from the 'Howe out' people. Been getting worried.