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Just now, Dr.Spaceman said:

 

Imagine the fume directed at Eddie Howe if we did that....oh wait

Wouldn’t be at Eddie it’s not his job to sign players.  
 

Im not even mad at him if he’s the one that wanted Wissa at that price.  He shouldn’t be able to make that call. Elanga too. 

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We can't expect much more for him if we want to make his wage demands tolerable for potential buyers. I doubt at this stage of his career he is willing to take a wage cut from a contract that runs until 2029, so we need to finance buyers in a way. No club that can afford him will be interested.

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I get we live in an SCR world, but we fo get way too hung up on transfer 

fees (myself included).

 

In today's market, the benchmark suggests Elanga was a £55 million pound player. Wissa due to age and contest length was not, but we grossly overpaid due to our desperation. While I still think the

former could turn out to be a useful player, he's never going to be a world beater.

 

As good as our talent spotting has been, we've been incredibly lucky not to have a dud until last summer. We've got plenty of flops and overpays to come, it's just the nature of the beast.

 

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11 hours ago, The College Dropout said:

Im not even mad at him if he’s the one that wanted Wissa at that price.  He shouldn’t be able to make that call. Elanga too. 

Why can't we keep a sporting director? Our third under Eddie knew to not disagree with him.  Amanda Staveley was the beginning of the end. 

Time to start fresh with a new group and a goal to create stability.   

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11 hours ago, The College Dropout said:

Wouldn’t be at Eddie it’s not his job to sign players.  
 

Im not even mad at him if he’s the one that wanted Wissa at that price.  He shouldn’t be able to make that call. Elanga too. 

You’d hope that a football manager would have some semblance of knowledge of a players’ value, mind

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14 hours ago, Kid Icarus said:

I'd say it's the definition of an overspend on a player we already knew we wanted. Panic buy to me has to be a sort of 'quick we need someone!' scenario. 

 

Wat. 55m? Not a panic buy price? You sure?

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I'd been clinging on to the hope he might still have some impact next season. Maybe even still have a couple of seasons in him as a half decent rotation option. 

 

I have no idea how reliable that report is, but if it's anywhere close to true, then that's terrible. I'd really like to know what's gone on behind the scenes since he joined.

 

Considering reports that we may need to sell to buy anyway, that sort of loss and also getting nothing back on the pitch would make this doubly bad. 

 

On a positive note, errr... Oh yes, I know, the forum is back up.

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1 hour ago, Menace said:

£55m for a non purple patch Papiss Cisse.

 

Mental.

Cisse even without the purple patch was pretty good to be honest, you cannot compare the two at all
 

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26 minutes ago, kingxlnc said:

Cisse even without the purple patch was pretty good to be honest, you cannot compare the two at all
 

 

Kind Of Idk GIF

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I don't know what year you all are living in acting like 55m was some outrageous fee. Going on like he's 35 or something too, 29 isn't that old.

 

 

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2 minutes ago, Alreetworked said:

I don't know what year you all are living in acting like 55m was some outrageous fee. Going on like he's 35 or something too, 29 isn't that old.

 

 

 

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I will still say the biggest mistake Howe made was not selling Wilson two years earlier. Another striker would have been brought in and we would not have had such a weak hand in transfer negotiations.

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