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No idea to be honest. I'd had a few drinks and fancied shouting epicly into the void!

WHERE IS YOUR GOD NOW @Shadow Puppets?

They've already lost one top player this window, can see why they'd be keen not to lose another without damn good compensation. Plus if they're losing 20% to Chelsea it makes any deal less appealing to them. Guehi's an excellent players from what I've seen but I certainly wouldn't say generational talent, not that I've seen him much. Time to channel full Brexit Eddie and get a proper right winger.

No idea who the bloke at the station was. Sounds like a Spurs fan and I'm assuming if he was an ex-player he'd have joined the train. Love that the station he was on was called 'Broondale' though.

Shoutout to the 'Pavel is a Geordie' banner in the ad.

Whenever I hear 'Brajan Gruder' I always imagine Arda Güler but in a false moutashe and plumber disguise for some reason.

I'm not on Twitter, but could someone who is grab the user name William1892 just in case?

I'n assuming this is done and the silence now is just getting the contract and promo stuff sorted for the announcement. If it's not done then Will1892's publically stated he's leaving the ITK game (not that I believe he'll stop tweeting shit for a second, but he'll still look a fool), so win-win.

I reckon he's got approx £3.5 million amoritisation still left on the books, but totally not a nerd so can't say I've worked it out too precisely .

Or possibly it's us saying this is take it or leave time, we're not going higher. It's been a week or so since it was announced we were negotiating. Plenty of time for other clubs to get involved if they wanted to. Sounds like they've had offers for guehi and anderson so time for them to weight up what's the better deal.

Really the team's almost there, we just need to add real long-term quality now in CB and RW. We probably don't have the budget to do both without sales his window, and we can't offer European football or wages in line with the biggest CL clubs, so getting those top guys in will be hard (Olise would have been perfect). But, if by the end of the window we've kept all our top players, added a top guy in one of those two positions, got our 3rd choice development striker and a classy looking CB/LB hybrid who can hopefully allow Burn to focus on CB, with a healthier squad, and maybe one or more backups off the book it'll be a pretty solid window. Last year's window was mainly for this year: Hall, Tino, Tonali [I know he was bought as a CL ready player, but given he probably didn't actually want to leave Milan always felt like he might struggle a bit, gambling issue notwithstanding]. Hopefully we can benefit from that this year. Also, worst case, suppose we can't get our top guy in now, perhaps then we have a little money in the kitty at the end of the year and can take advantage of the PSR panic. Hopefully with some decent European football to offer.

Don't forget Nick Pope back from injury will be like a new signing as well.

Yeah? Well, you know, that's just like, uh, your opinion, man.

My favourite commentary from the highlights: "Oh lovely ball in, but Pope had read it."

They have a couple of defenders away at the olympics as well

Just in case he turns out to be the next Xavi I'm chucking in an 'I was here' post.

Just in case he turns out to be the next Messi I'm chucking in an 'I was here' post.

Yeah I couldn't work out how to get rid of his picture, sorry about that!

We got one recently!

You don't accept the fisrt bid. And you almost certainly don't acept the second, even if close. Little bit more haggly haggly, tiny bit more upfront, perhaps slightly higher extras for finishing in europe. Feels like we're close and this is going to get done soon, but it's a big deal and obviously they want as much as possible.

I can't help but feel we're missing a trick by not publicly complaining that they haven't accepted our offer.

Anyway, the moral of the story is get Callum some doughnuts.

Sure I heard Mike Carlson tell a similar one about a baseball player who didn't like the gym and said "you can't pull muscles you don't have". Can't find who for sure, this article https://www.tampabay.com/archive/1996/09/19/specialist-sought-for-ysebaert/ quotes Phil Esposito saying it (though he also says the 'you can't pull fat' line so maybe repeating a quote he heard).