Bunk Moreland

Think Dubravka will be off, hopefully to Saudi for £25m

That'll only happen if he starts leaking

I am genuinely excited to see how having a keeper who play out from the back will help us kick on in certain games

Como in talks with Celtic for Kuhn

Nah, he was exposed a few years ago as a complete faker by one of the Athletic journalists

Only one I can find is from The Sun several weeks ago. Zero mention of it on Twitter either

Where have you seen that?

61m EUR/~£51m according to Bild today. I do wonder if we might be interested in him given he can play up front, as a number 10 and as a wide forward. That's possibly the same price we'll be trying to get Joao Pedro for though I suspect (not that I think Brighton will let us have him for less than £60m)

He's a well-known bullshit merchant, 100% awful.

He's not being signed as a number 9 either.

Broke this morning out of the blue through Ornstein and wrapped up already. Got to admit I'm jealous (of the speed, and tbf he's a good player and that's a good price)

Hopefully Chelsea firming up their deal for Gittens means they drop their interest in Joao Pedro

In this case "ambitious" means they'll pay him more than the other bidders cos the other clubs who were in for him were even worse

Gee Gee Gee Geedup

Isak was broken by some random local journalist in San Sebastian if memory serves, but he was reliable throughout the Tonali transfer

Matteo Moretto. Think he's something to do with Romano, generally considered reliable for Italian clubs on his own

Imagine Akliouche would cost the same too, if not more

I'd whack Summer 2023 in too with Tonali, Tino, Hall, Barnes and Minteh

Didn't realise Atalanta were majority-owned by an American who made his fortune in private equity. Bodes well for any attempt to buy "untouchable" players from them - worked in our favour with Milan two summers ago

Same, but you can't blame them for being ambitious

Definitely seems like we're putting those other options out there with an ulterior motive. Bakayoko is more of a project than a hit-the-ground-running signing, Kudus is likely to cost as much as Elanga and Adeyemi apparently doesn't do the kind of off the ball work Eddie would demand (although does seem an exciting player creatively tbf)

Yup, all these journos are getting the £60m fee from somewhere. Just seems like Forest negotiating as anyone would

Forest value him at £60m but "don't want to sell"

Yup. Doubt we're the ones feeding Ornstein on this. Forest just want to posture to get the price up as is their right - same as Southampton did with Tino and Everton with Gordon. Same as I imagine we'll do if we ever sell a player in this range. Such is life!

Found some reports from 1-2 years ago that it was £43m/50m euros but not from good sources. Feel like if it was £43m someone would have triggered it before his injuries