Bunk Moreland

I think it's best to keep a level head about it given that we sold him for a relatively large amount without him ever having played for us. If he does start tearing it up weekly in the PL, sure I'll be disappointed but the fact that his sale came out of the context of us being in a PSR mess means I'll struggle to be too sad about it. Think this might end up happening with a few players for us over the next few years.

Good goal but it's in a pre-season friendly against a Japanese team who were in the second division last season. Not going to bother ruing his sale until he starts doing it consistently in the PL.

They need to hurry up and buy Fraser like

Can't believe we bought him for £250m and sold him for £1 to Brighton. What were we thinking

"Still no official offer from Newcastle for Malick Thiaw. Milan have been aware of the interest [Eddie Howe, a great admirer of the German defender] for several weeks now. The situation needs to be monitored."

Aye, same. Started out questionable Italian sources reporting it, then reliable Italian sources and now quite a few local sources here. Feels like the momentum is definitely there for this to start moving seriously.

Fack

Fiorentina signing a new RW?

Honestly prefer our window so far despite having really only signed Kelly (and Hall I suppose) for the first team.

https://gianlucadimarzio.com/it/huijsen-juventus-calciomercato-news-24-luglio-2024 Huijsen who we've been tenuously linked to earlier in the window apparently waiting for better offers than Stuttgart and Bournemouth.

The last news I can find about it is from September last year saying Fiorentina rejected a bid for him in the summer and he signed a new contract with them.

Brentford tried to buy him for €42/43m last summer according to Romano. Guessing we're going to be paying a chunk more than that as Fiorentina rejected it.

So seems like the origin of the Gonzalez story is La Nazione, which is the big local paper in Florence. Usually a good omen. First to report Isak deal out of nowhere was a local paper in San Sebastian iirc.

No refunds!

From what I've seen since we started being linked they seem not to rate him too highly, but Everton fans didn't think much of Gordon when he played for them so I don't put much stock in it.

So about £34m rounded up. If we truly are interested in him being a longterm Schar replacement then 40m euros structured as 35 + 5 seems like a good deal.

Di Marzio is pretty reliable for Milan isn't he? Wonder if this was one of the targets Mitchell was working on before he officially joined us.

Hope it's all resolved and Eddie is feeling reassured. I really wish it hadn't played out in the media though.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/article/2024/jul/22/aston-villa-joao-felix-target-atletico-madrid-moussa-diaby-sale-al-ittihad?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter Villa after Joao Felix for £50m. Wouldn't like that at all if it were us.

Couldn't find anyone else mentioning it on Twitter or Google recently, so probably conjured through some form of scatomancy

Some scouting job like if he was in the Serbian 2nd division and turns out to be a gem.