Matt1892

How much would Szoboszlai realistically cost? I know he has a buy out clause in his contract but that doesn’t mean there is value in activating it.

I’m not wanting to play down Longstaff’s contribution last season but he was missed because we had no other RCM that could play there, as Willock and Big Joe prefer the left side and if we played Bruno there we wouldn’t have anyone to pass it out from the base of midfield. Tonali is the upgrade on Longstaff at RCM and will likely allow Bruno the ability to rotate getting forward.

They said the same on sky sports news transfer round up earlier on, that we can’t afford what Leicester want but might move again towards the end of the window if they are prepared to drastically reduce the price or we sell someone. All guesswork.

What channel is it on?

We need to break the ‘Big Six’ for a second consecutive season so we establish ourselves as one of the top teams.

I would enjoy the Neves on loan signing more than us signing Tonali just for the sheer volume of seething it would cause that we’ve found the cheat code to FFP.?

That was the point I was making, if it is going up by €2 million every year as well then he would be on over £400k a week by 2029 which just isn’t a believable figure.

Fab is saying those figures are net, so after tax.

According to that he will be on about £475k a week by 2029! No way is that true.

I don’t know why they played him RCM as he isn’t very good there, we seen that when Longstaff was out. Plus Brazil are such a cumbersome team, there isn’t any zip in their football at all.

Watching it again there wasn’t a great deal he could do with it as the pace had been taken off the ball by the deflection.

He turned to head it out from about the 6 yard line and landed on Diallo’s boot 15 yards out. It wasn’t that bad but could have put it out wide.

15% of any profit isn’t it rather than £15 million. It will be interesting to know if Leicester have relegation clauses in terms of player wages as they have a higher wage bill than we do.

I don’t even think Southgate wanted to take him to the World Cup, it was that Maddison was playing that well that it was harder to justify not taking him than including him.

Apparently he failed a medical at Milan in 2020 due to a heart condition. Worrying.

How is he worse than Targett from a technical basis?

Probably not defensively but there is things like his positioning when he doesn’t have the ball that Howe could work with quickly. I also think Burn is better defensively than Tierney by the way. He is very good at getting up and down the left hand side and carries the ball well, he also has recovery pace which we are crying out for and is comfortable in possession.

Robinson has matured and completely turned his career around at Fulham, he is coming off the back of an excellent season and a good showing in the World Cup. Howe will make him even better but I think he might end up at Man City.

I’m presuming anyone signed before July 1st would need the first year of amortisation to go on the 2022/23 accounts, which we felt we were at the limit with. I’m not sure if the new shirt sponsorship will go on from 1st July but the Chris Wood sale will.

Maybe we don’t think he’s worth that, it will be interesting to see if anyone else does.

The club have already signed a deal with adidas for next season.