Matt1892

I’ve just read that Spurs have an obligation to buy Pedro Porro for £39 million on the 1st July. Ouch!?

It will be on the next accounting year, as Willock’s summer transfer and the permanent deals for Targett and Pope were covered in the 2021/22 accounts. Botman was completed on the 1st July as requested by Lille so sits in the 2022/23 accounts. I have been reading an article from the Athletic that was published a few months ago and they said then about it being in the £60m - £80m range which was the amount earmarked for last summer, we can go above that but the concern is that we do what Everton did and go to the FFP limit too quickly which hinders ourselves in following windows.

I don’t think they will wait for the RCB, we have been lucky that we have been able to field a consistent defence all season but an injury to Schar will cause us major problems. We need depth at RCB every bit as much as we need cover for Bruno in my opinion.

We don’t seem to get linked with many players that would cost less than £30 million either.

Maybe it was just the keeper shirt as my boy wanted the green Pope kit for Christmas, I ended up getting it from kitbag I think.

I’m not even sure if you could get the name and number online from the club shop at all last season.

He’s 22 in November so if he isn’t ready soon he never will be.

I can’t believe we spunked nearly 10% of our summer transfer budget on Minty. Seething.

We signed a prospect right back in the last window.

Of course, as the thread was made off the back of Hope’s comments. I voted £81m - £100m but we can add the sales of Wood, Lascelles and ASM to that too which will push it up to the £150 million mark. might even sell Miggy too.

Including player sales or not?

Worrying.

I don’t think other clubs have the same revelations about transfer pots every window.

We have sold Wood this window so that puts it at £90 million.

I don’t know if Leicester have relegation clauses in player contracts that impact wages but their wage bill was running at 85% of turnover in the Premier League so they are not in the position to play hardball for too long.

Most have been piggybacking off Romano with the Mac Allister to Liverpool story, he was giving daily updates on it.

Mac Allister has become overrated since the World Cup, he’s decent but I wouldn’t put him near the top grouping of midfielders in the league. Caicedo is far better of the pairing in the role he does.

He will be picking up a lot of the leg work that Longstaff does though as Bruno doesn’t have the engine to press at that high of a tempo from a more advanced position, unless we are changing formation to go with the double pivot of Bruno and Adams? We should be looking to sign a back up to Bruno and a better version of Longstaff that offers all of the work but more ability in the final third.

The issue with Adam’s is that he doesn’t offer any real improvement on the shortcomings of Longstaff, which is surely what we should be looking for in a first team replacement in his position.

Would it be against the rules for us to sign Gundogan on a 2 year contract and the Saudi lot sign him on a pre contract for 25/26 on another 2 year contract? 2 years with us for £100k a week and then another 2 years on a £1 million a week?

I can see this getting abandoned if West Ham go behind.

Going back to Carlos Alcaraz, someone made a video of his performance again us in the cup at St Mary’s. This was 2 weeks after he joined. You can see why Benfica might have wanted him to replace Enzo, he plays like a more mobile Bruno in the clips. https://twitter.com/nufcgallowgate/status/1666143250598461441?s=46