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Jesus Christ. Harvey Barnes has been putting up consistent numbers in the PL for a few years now. And improving in a side that's been getting worse and worse all around him. The push back from some people on this deal (especially at 35m) is madness.

Don't know, 13 goals from LW for a side that got relegated definitely seems a little elite than he is getting credit for.

Chelsea will be along any moment.

Fab could be an actual model

If it's a Saudi side (which I hope ,for Maxi's sake, isn't the case) we could get at least 40m for him. Say we do, instead of saying 'can we replace ASM with 40m' a better way of looking at it is 'we have only had a net spend of 15m so far'. We know any fees brought back in will go straight back into the squad, meaning there is still a good chunk of change left to spend.

Aye. If Leipzig aren't budging on that release clause and ,given how much money City are about to give them for Gvardiol, they don't have to, I can see us moving for a younger/cheaper option. Likely someone we don't know about/hasn't been mentioned yet.

Personally think it will be Friday. European transfer window opens on the Saturday, right?

Dummett is going nowhere. We need him to help with the homegrown at the club quota UEFA has.

Every time I think something like this the club ends up proving me wrong... But surely Hernandez is out of reach? He's legit one of the best LBs in the world.

Yeah, he likely won't be able to do/begin any sort of medical till later on tomorrow.

Don't jinx anything. Still think there's a few twists and turns left with this one.

This is the most exciting part about the Tonali link. With Maddison and Barella it's exciting but with that 'how does that work' thing in the back of my head. With Tonali you can see exactly how he fits in, and the effect that has on those around him (Bruno becoming a true 8 etc).

Just chucking numbers around, but I can see it being maybe 65m (euros) with an extra 10m in achievable add-ons. If this 80m figure is accurate that is.

All I remember about that guy is him winding Nunez up to the point of getting him sent off.

I did enjoy that the bid has seemingly been rejected a mere minutes after some of the more wanky Newcastle ITK twitter accounts said it's getting completed today.

Do you mean 'we' as in this place? If so, then yeah. The club will be fine, pre-season is still a few weeks away.

Guess now we see how badly we want him. Go back in with another bid, or move on.

This is really fucking dumb. I can't believe it's gotten to the point where The Athletic have actually managed to get an article out of it. It's purely down to Chelsea having the largest collection of big names players that need shifting off the wage bill. If the PIF were really secretly trying to ghost own Chelsea, surely the best way they could help is a bumper front of shirt sponsorship from one of their companies. Instead it's looking like Chelsea will have to go with Stake. A company last seen on the front of Everton's shirt, who they can only have as a one year stop gap anyway.

Think he's taking some time off, isn't he?

Starting to seem like more of a goer this one. The morning after the Barella links we woke up to a bunch of journos saying nothing concrete has actually happened. This one (Craig Hope aside) seems to be getting more and more traction.

Aye. I know there has been some turmoil with Maldini leaving, but still feel like Tonali wants to play the rest of his career there.

Given I doubt he'd cost over 30m, Robinson would be a great signing. Already the business going forward, think we would come on leaps and bounds under our coaching team. Has some much needed pace to add to the back line as well.

Delany happy enough to farm clicks off us I see.

Any money we get a similar post from Fab around the same time next week.

People seemed to say this, but Inter didn't have one.