Upthemags

Not too apropos of this thread but Tonali will really feel a new signing and up to speed with Eddie Ball...

Hearing about =/= all cases of infidelity/unhappiness

Should've cashed in in January and got his wages off the books

Spot on

Eddie, is that you?

I wouldn't be surprised if this is all smoke and mirrors by management to see if they can coax some truly absurd bid out of Dortmund.... Hard to know with all the PSR rumors and whatnot. Happy to eat crow if he's indeed out to France

Have a feeling its a false positive.... Seems like some indelicate wording in the article to have been mentioned one-off and not picked up anywhere else

Interesting not seeing it being reported anywhere else but a one-off line in that article

A "half decent season". lol. 19 years old with a goal contribution per 90 in a top 6 european league with grown ass men... Curious definition of "half decent" that.... There's a reason the Champions League finalists are interested mate

its a fair shout I'm not pretending there wouldn't be potentially massive consequences... Seems a bit of a damned if you do, damned if you don't situation

Just dont understand this type of deal, when you could leap across the channel and find some serious, unproven youth talent hungry to prove himself for that price tag... who could conceivably stick around for the next decade/be resold at a premium, etc

Really sincerely hoping this means Minteh stays

Yup - its that kind of blatant inequity that makes me think just hang on to him and take the deduction if you can't offload someone else by next accounting period... These other clubs are playing dirty, and have no qualms about it. We need to be more ruthless in our maneuvering

You just know the lad's gonna be a world beater once we sell him

No real disagreements here. I think the broader point is if Stavely and PIF want to move into the bracket of big boy clubs, they'll need to become savvier (broader in their geographic scope) at some point. Domestic buys are too costly and PSR has real consequences flowing therefrom

Yikes

Keeping Elliot around as a squad player on modest wages seems a no brainer to me.... Only upside for the lad as he gets older, only 21

This timeline of rumors today is not it

"in effect"

19 years old, Scored in CL, 99th percentile in dutch league attacking players, --> no one rates him at 30m Some people in here think Miggy is worth 20 million ffs

Probably be crucified for saying it but I'd sell Miley before Minteh for PSR

At the very least, probably makes sense to withhold the flogging until a deal is actually executed... for all we know this is all nonsense

Dont think you've countered anything mate... you're really just deferring to club judgment, which, fair play to you, is fine. But not everyone wants to cover their eyes when they see a bad deal

Earth to Eddie, earth to eddie - there is football talent that exists outside of England

So bizarre to me when the three greatest transfers in recent memory for us happened within two windows where we poached three undervalued world class talents in the Spanish and French league