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If I buy a Brighton kit with Minteh on the back of it, and start to enjoy any success that he has, maybe I'll get over it quicker.

I don't think it will happen, was just making a reference to the Tonali suprise sale which made more sense later.

So to everyones surprise we get him for £50m, and 2 weeks later he will be banned for a year due to gambling.

- We made a pretty sizeable bid for Guehi (after having other bids rejected) - Other clubs knows we've made a sizeable bid Do you agree with this? The exact number is not so important. Or are you suggesting that our last bid may have been about £40m or so?

We started out getting good players from abroad, but the last 4 windows we have signed PL players only, with the exception of some cheap talents and Tonali. Will be interesting to see how it develops with Mitchell.

That's what it said pretty much everywhere, £60m that could become £65m. There are not many things that we can know for certain, might aswell close the transfer thread if that's the standard.

It's kind of unfortunate that other clubs knows we bid £60+5m for Guehi. Not saying we shouldn't have just because of that, but it can be used against us now.

Exactly, either that or a new account.

He probably made 100 accounts with different combinations of Man Utd and Fulham players, and trippel capped different players. Some do that, and it's often those who are #1 after the first day. They specifically go for that.

I wonder if they actually gave more than us, probably a little more? Media says about the same, but that is just wages.

I honestly don't think the club could care less about what clubs they are "helping" when figuring out who to buy. As long as they feel like the player will help us with what we need, and the price is not too bad, that will be first priority above all else.

I don't think that Liverpool have any regrets over having Gomez in their squad over the last few seasons. He wasn't a key player, but he didn't need to be.

Sometimes it feels like they just sign players to prevent others from getting them.. Legit. They love hijacking transfers as an impulsive thing with no real plan behind it. How much are they paying him in wages?

Many people exclude him based on some loose rumours. You take a concious decision that those rumours doesn't mean much. And you get hard done by with the disallowed goal, rewarding those who excluded him. Classic. I really want to take out Nkunku already, especially with Felix coming in.. Just contemplating on whether to get Mitoma or Minteh. The extra 1.0 will probably come in handy.

Ofcourse, that's why I removed it right after posting. But it doesn't change the point. If he does well, that effectively means that Liverpool helped us aswell by selling him to us? Why can't it be both ways? Feel free to argue against my actual point if you think that it's not valid.

Strangely several clubs has been tranfering players between each other despite not being in a different league or on a completely different level in the league.

Allright. With transfers, the buying club is allways helping the selling club? There is something in it for both most of the time.

I just feel like it's another one of those players that seems like a bad signing on the outside, but after a full season we all agree that it was actually pretty helpful. 40 seems a bit too much, but I don't think the club would pay that. He has played 5000 minutes the last 3 seasons and gotten injured once. He was out for 5 games. He has had 2 nasty injuries since 2016 (and 2 more before that), but I'm not really seeing a lot of muscular injuries and minor injuries like Wilson for example.

Unfortunately we are pretty much on par with Villa and West Ham in terms of spending power, all things considered in terms of FFP. Maybe ever so slightly above, but the gap between us and the others above us is quite a bit higher.

What's with the Gomez hate? Are we back into thinking that we should only sign "elite" players with the 7th highest income in the league and barely any sellable assets? I don't even know that much about Gomez, but I know enough to tell that we would be much better off playing him than Krafth. Which is where we are at when Schär is out injured or suspended. I thought Liverpool fans kind of liked Gomez. Not even saying we have to sign him, I just don't see why it would be so horrible.

Can we request a 3 game ban for Diaz for "headbutting" Schär?

On what basis do we actually think that one of Tonalis biggest strengths is in keeping possession? Where did that come from? Not only from what we saw last season, but also most of the analysis of him from Milan, points to a player that fits the high intensity pressing and counter attack game that Howe has done so well with. One that likes to move the ball quickly or look for the killer pass, where the upside of it makes up for losing the ball a little more often than others. Ofcourse, 1 year of coaching can change that. Maybe he has just not really been used in a role that would have him try to keep possession to a bigger degree, and he can actually play that role aswell. Who knows.

I was talking more about what type of player he is by the way, not how good he is. My impression was that he's more of a high risk high reward type of player, or one that tries to be very effective on the ball. Which is different from the type that is really good when you are trying to control a game.

Right, we got another goal right before theirs. Point still stands though, in some situations there was no need to give the ball away with a hollywood pass. That's not what you want to do when you are 2 or 3 goals up against a strong side. He will probably look different this time around though.