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I worry that if they are willing to do business at around £33m it won't be just us and West Ham in for him. Frankly at that price it would be a bit of a red flag if there weren't multiple teams in for him.

Not sure what to make of this. On the one hand I'd love Paqueta, especially having made my peace with him not actually coming. On the other hand it is Bailey, who is very hit or miss.

Could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure this new Raul de Tomas tweet is a rehash of the one that came out yesterday from some journo over in Spain. No new information.

Gutted for him, after the work he put in during the Summer and pre-season this must be awful for him.

Ha, apologies. 14 years of fat Mike and his 'line' it was always impossible to get over means any talk like that well and truly triggers me now ?

Any proof on that, or justy talking out your arse?

I don't know that I would be thrilled. But then, all I really want out of this first full season of Ashley being gone is not to have to ever worry about relegation once during the season. Give me a nice, boring, mid-table finish to fully recover from the last 14 years, then maybe I will start to let my ambition run wild for the season after!

Jacobs suggesting Maddison is Howe driven.

I do get the feeling there may be one more bid to go in, likely after this weekends matches. But still don't think that will get it done.

Maybe wait till this evening before getting too comfortable. Wouldn't be shocked to see us (and anyone else interested) have our forced by this. Often see it with players with affordable release clauses. One side triggers it and a bunch of others jump in.

Seeing some stuff on twitter suggesting West Ham have activated Cornet's release clause. If we want him we will also need to make our move now.

Really don't understand the apathy people have towards Cornet. First season in the PL he scored 9 goals in 26 games in a shocking Burnley side. Broja... I get the apathy.

Think Harrison is a good shout. Basing that purely on thinking that eventually we decide we need to pay over our valuation for someone, and the "fuck it" figure for Harrison is way more manageable than the "fuck it" figure for someone like Maddison. Predicting Harrison at around £35m, and then some youngish striker/wide forward from the French league none of us have heard of yet.

Would likely be an Ekitike style one for future, but can play a role off the bench/as a rotation option in the short term as well.

At least if this turns out that he was using us to get a pay rise at Leicester I can go back to calling him a divey little prick.

Crystal Palace 1-2 Arsenal Fulham 0-4 Liverpool Bournemouth 0-2 Aston Villa Leeds 2-1 Wolves Newcastle 3-1 Notts Forest Spurs 3-0 Southampton Everton 0-2 Chelsea Leicester 1-1 Brentford Man United 2-1 Brighton West Ham 1-3 Man City Spurs for double points.

Big Dan after he sends though our 3rd offer with an extra £1m paid over 17 seasons.

to be honest, without having to deal with the extra European fixtures they likely don't really need to. Their squad should be good enough for top half.

Think the only thing different to this year compared to others is their apparent need to sell before they can bring anyone in.

Tend to agree. Think if we were going back in with a third bid that would have been reported by now.

Feel like the betting market it almost too optimistic. Most bookies I have checked have us at 7th. Essentially winning the 'without the top 6' market.

I imagine the fivethirtyeight supercomputer didn't really know what to do with us this year, given we spent the first half of last season as the worst team in the league, and the second half as one of the best.