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The classic "I know you are but what am I". Our finances are in the shit mate. We're about £100m short of meeting PSR's £105m loss over 3 rolling seasons and the season just gone in the Championship is going to put a huge dent in that. You can sit there and pretend we can still afford to splash the cash and King Power absolutely can but Leicester City cannot. I have an eye on the club's future and I can see it being extremely bleak if/when we go down this season. The hope is that PSR rules are relaxed (and I think this may happen) but it's about time the club stopped chucking money about in stupid areas to solve the problems that have gathered as a result of chucking money about in stupid areas.

I was sure I had seen £30m quoted from when it became apparent our £23m bid and Ipswich's £25m bid were turned down but now I can't find where I saw that Either way. It's north of £25m so still pretty eyewatering.

I would say that it's reckless and the EFL have shown they don't muck about when it comes to dishing out points deductions to clubs that overspend in the Championship. If we can stay up then yes I think we can afford it but I just don't know if he's really the difference between staying up or not because we don't know what the points deduction will be. It's clearly a big risk to take and when you consider that this lad has never played outside of Greece where even there his scoring record isn't exactly blistering... I don't know.

I'd agree but Fotis won't be the player we go for unless Top decides to go nuclear. £30m is beyond our budget and going after him would have be seriously worried for our longer term future.

No but I'm not exactly upset either. There were clear positives to having Zaha but I personally thought the negatives outweighed them. My main worry is that the season starts in 5 days time and we currently don't have anyone to play up top given Cannon hasn't played in pre-season. Ideally we get Hlozek and someone that can sit just ahead of him. Worth noting though that just because the deal for Zaha has hit a snag, Ornstein hasn't suggested that it's gone cold. I'd imagine both clubs will still want this to happen.

Galatasaray fan on Reddit suggesting that Zaha is being paid more than the club announce which is why they wanted us to pay a flat £9m fee and leaving them to pay his wage.

Just being real. We can't afford it.

£9m for a loan is too much. Blessing in disguise. Now go all out for Hlozek and an out and out number 9 (Broja would be my pick).

We're not spending £30m on him.

I think the issue with Soumare is more mentality and the fact he's clearly just not settled here. A donkey doesn't get loans to Sevilla and Roma. I think Musa would be my shout. Outside of a friendly and getting fouled by Hector Bellerin on debut he literally did nothing here and looked like a League 1 player.

No, it's just the usual bed wetters that can't go 2 hours without a tweet.

Do Real Madrid have the winning mentality? Eh?

Rangers game is on the BBC tonight.

Yeah i'm not saying we should sign Ayew and then shut up shop. Hlozek, Ayew and a maverick like Zaha would be a good end to the window and would mean we could lose Cannon, Wanya and potentially Daka.

Buonanotte likely to play through the middle but I think Ayew is just about the perfect player to bring off the bench to kill a game.

It's more that I don't think we should be signing Zaha on loan for £9m. I don't have a problem with beefing the squad out with a solid player like Ayew with a great attitude but I don't think we need to spend what is likely to be a massive portion of our budget on Zaha on loan when he'll be flapping his arms about and crying when things aren't going well in November.

Yeah we'll need to at least one striker but I don't think that a quartet of Mavididi, BDCR, Fatawu and Ayew is a bad set of wingers to have at all. IMO Hlozek and Ayew would be two good additions to the squad.

2 year contract for 4m isn't bad business btw. He offers a lot outside of goals and assists that would be important for a club struggling to stay afloat.

Always funny how people react on here.

We currently have only have Winks, Ndidi and Hamza who has 1st team experience of playing in midfield. Ricardo too if Cooper would be as bold as Enzo. IMO we can't afford to loan him out without a replacement and i'd imagine that that would only happen if he was sold.

Brentford and Newcastle fans really seemed to hate him.

Nah definitely not. Always raised his game when he got booed for us.

I think supporters will play a massive role on Monday. We need to make it bloody horrible for Spurs.