TheBrownBottle

They’re still France’s biggest club to me - PSG’s position is a manufactured one which would end the moment the Qataris pull the plug

I’ll happily defend TCD, even while disagreeing with his assessment of Guehi. He doesn’t half take some flak on here for doing nowt more than expressing his opinion.

We counting the Mackems’ Papa Johns one too?

Krystallnackers

I’ve only seen three of them, and I wouldn’t count them either

Just woke up and was hoping that I’d see this one has gone through nice and quick Hope there isn’t a saga - let’s get this lad signed. Would be a genuinely exciting move I reckon

Burn it on stage like the KLF would be my bet (Or cheer on the new signings they’ll make with the profit. One or the other)

Not trying to make you look bad, just disagree re the lad’s quality I would think that Botman-Guehi would be the intended partnership

Few are, but I don’t think that players in specific positions necessarily need specific physical attributes. In terms of wingers, Waddle, Ginola and Solano weren’t exactly shit off a stick, but did ok for us. £60m doesn’t look crackers for an England centre back to me tbh. Stones was £50m eight years ago, and Maguire was £80m

Baresi and Cannavaro were both 5’9”, and they were ok at centre back. Centre backs don’t need to be man mountains. Scratching my head at a lot of the negativity re this as a potential signing. The lad is quality.

Agreed. Hopefully this all gets sorted nice and quick.

Reckon it might have been his agent working himself to get an improved deal?

Kit looks like the usual to me - a piece of deckchair fabric with go faster chevrons

Peter Lovenkrands wasn’t that bad (I know you’re likely referring to JD Tomasson though)

I’m absolutely willing to trust our recruitment team given their track record, even if there is nothing in the lad’s professional career to date to suggest that this is a goal scoring machine in the making

I hope not. Would be crackers if true

Yep. Even from an amortisation point of view it would be bad news

Tbf Rod, you don’t need to be a chartered accountant to do the numbers

The FFP pressure isn’t off, it just isn’t catastrophically bad.

The goalkeeper fee was chicanery. No-one is paying Kelly £150k per week. You pay players what they’re worth in the market - I don’t picture any other club coming near that figure, so why would we pay it? And why would we create the potential dressing room conflict given it would blow all the other pay scales up?

It remains a head scratcher to me that they haven’t tried something along those lines. It has been painfully slow in terms of getting sponsors in

That would make him our third or fourth highest earner … yeah, seems doubtful

The old ‘they’re not household names in their own houses’ problem. Lower half of Division Two dross.

I’m one of them - was scratching my head why during an injury crisis Howe wasn’t giving him minutes. Assumed that there was an issue with the lad’s game - clearly I was wrong!

‘You're sure he's a proper … It wasn't just … racist horseplay?’