sushimonster85

We're not signing Paqueta this window. Don't get me wrong, I think he may be a long term target, so it would make sense to keep an open dialogue with him/his agent, which in turn is likely what leads to these sorts of rumours.

The endless cycle of toon discourse on Twitter at the moment is way worse. "We have to start getting serious and realize we may need to over pay for the players we want" *Bid supposedly goes in for a substantial amount for player* "WTF are they doing, he's never worth that man"

Just assuming, but I imagine they turn this down then that's when the transfer request from him/his agent goes in.

Chelsea would have to be mad to loan a player to Man U. Fair enough if a big bid comes in, but why would the do a favour for a team there's still (a very outside) a chance will be a rival.

Tbh I always felt CHO feels like a more realistic target for us.

I think if we get to the final few days of the window and Tielemans is still sitting at Leicester with no one coming in for him we could make a move. His asking price is likely way more reasonable than Maddison or Fofana.

Yep. I really rate CHO, and would love to have him, but the fact he has never really established himself in that side and yet is somehow on 150k a week is mind blowing to me.

He is an unbelievable player who I'm amazed wasn't snapped up earlier in the Summer when he had a ridiculously affordable release clause (around €25m I believe). He has since signed a new deal with no release clause. Make no mistake, he will be bossing a top 6 midfield at some point in the near future.

Imagine we will know tonight if it's Wolves. There stuff always hits Twitter when it's close.

I don't know, I see fbref used a lot on here. Not sure if that's a recent development as I have only been here since early this year, but you rarely (if ever) see it referred to on places like r/NUFC (where I used hang out before I came here).

Can we stop feeding the obvious troll?!

True, but Trippier is on (supposedly) just over 100k a week. So far as I was aware I biggest earner pre-Trippier was Joe on 80k? Pulisic is currently on 150k a week, and would likely want a better deal to move to a none CL club.

Wonder if there will be a Sky Sports News post 5pm signing update. They tend to wait till after people finish work to drop the big updates.

Yeah, likely would be. Like, I do think he is worth being the highest paid player at the club, but its whether they want to break the wage structure this early. Personally think it's next Summer that gets adjusted.

Pulisic is a totally different level to any other wide forward type player we currently have at the club, ASM included. Would walk into the side and immediately be head and shoulders above everyone else in that role. Which is why I don't see it happening. He won't be short of offers. Personally reckon he ends up in Italy. He'd get into the top sides there easily.

Yeah, can see the database filters working in real time.

The fuck does Kevin Nash know about young, Portuguese forwards??

Yeah, not sure how Mount gets in ahead of him.

What I'm saying is the guesswork comes in terms of knowing how much any future sponsorship will be worth. Yes its incredibly likely to be more, how much more is what they don't currently know. Like I said in my original post, things happen. Hopefully good things that only increase our ability to attract high value commercial partnerships. As a brand we're already way more attractive than we were previously. However any number of things can happen between now and said deals being signed. Not saying they will, or even that they're remotely likely. But everything we have seen from the consortium so far suggests they're playing things very sensibly.

Know this is bantz, but £25m + Ritchie is actually something that could work for everyone.

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I agree it's incredibly likely we will, but until stuff is actually in place they won't speculate on assumed income.

Really don't think the current owners, or any responsible owners, are the type to spend money on the assumption of a dramatic increase in revenue until there's at least some clear evidence for it. Like, we know Fun88 are off at the end of the season, so it's more than reasonable to suggest that shirt sponsorship revenue will increase (likely dramatically) from next year. But they don't know that for sure, and they don't yet know what the actual increase could be. Literally anything could happen. Say there is another 'Khashoggi' type incident in April, or things in Yemen get dramatically worse. Whether it actually should or shouldn't, I think there's no question that would make major brands reluctant to associate with us. And now the rules have changed on related sponsors, we can't pull the City trick of just sticking Saudi Air (or Golf, or whatever) on the front of our tops for £40m a season without it causing a huge stink.

I know we seem to be leaving things till later in the window, but I do still think we will have our business done before then. Maybe a loan will come in on deadline day, but even doubt that.

Wonder if there is an additional cost to Pedro due to Dennis already being sold. Not such a pressing need to sell anymore, and would be the second important attacking player they lose in a week.