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Didn’t know it would have gone through by this point, these things can go on for a period of time. Really good and smarmy though mate, hope that made you happy

That is cracking stuff, can’t believe they actually did something well here, drop him off the bench for Alves for Saturday and use the money for strikers and cm’s please

Gamesmanship taken from the West Ham guide to pull down rudkins trousers, he’s probably already sent a counter offer for 15m and a pack of quavers

Things will level out, we won’t finish below mid table, Mavididi/Fatawu/Monga should be enough in attack with practically the same defense as our promotion year to guarantee that. Worries me more that we do not look good enough from the past three to win enough to be anywhere close to 100/90 points which will be needed with our deduction to be near the big players of the league, reckon as things stand we finish in the 4th-8th range

Do think we will put through a couple of loans and one permanent likely on deadline day, how good they are is another matter entirely

McAteer is good and seems to be a great lad but for the money and pure profit it would make sense to sell him, Monga can play off both feet so could go either side and we have about 5 others who can play out wide. This is the sort of sale better ran clubs than ourselves do, get a nice sell on clause and replace with other resellable assets, have to imagine it would open a few more chances for someone like Alves who is marti has said will be more involved this season

Later in the window imagine Hackney gets more likely to take a ‘lesser’ side, his prem opportunities all seem to have fallen through, similar to Brownhill, could see either going to Ipswich on deadline day

Makes sense for everyone involved tbf, he is our best creative player but for 30m we can find multiple other options and we do recruit well when we aren’t scouting premier league years on sky. Think he needs a couple years as a rotation option which he will get at palace. Go grab Rego and Brownhill for next to nothing and this looks way way better, I’d do BEK for 30m +Brownhill+Rego

£32m is a cracking deal for our level, similar to Barnes and Maddison prices on what he could be. Take it, keep Fatawu and spend 10 of it in a few loans and a permanent for a few mids and a striker, 10’s are far more common than a good striker or 6 imo

Think we have to have learnt that this shape does not do any favours for Vestegaard and he can’t start, reason he did well for Enzo was for counters he was essentially in the middle of a three so didn’t have to cover as aggressively, he’s just so exposed right now, has to be two of Faes/Nelson/Okoli

Rego, BEK and Soumare/Skipp

If we can get enough for him to allow us to increase the BEK asking price another 10/15m after his release clause ends I’ll buy his plane ticket to Milan himself (hope he likes Ryanair)

We need a CDM and an 8, and I think it is going under the radar just how desperate we are for both because of how equally desperate we are for a striker.

Stolarczyk JJ Faes Vestegaard Thomas Soumare Winks BEK Fatawu Mavididi Ayew Page/Monga off the bench for the last 30, some stability with the CB’s and bleed Nelson in when things are more stable after the window

Thought McAteer/Daka/Skipp/Soumare looked genuinely Sunday league, and Alves looks way off the pace. Stolarczyk/Monga/Page were good, Nelson had a good second half and Faes put in a decent shift too

Tbf the Newcastle interest being reported serves a purpose, I’m not sure reporting the release clause ending serves anyone, puts a deadline on a big move for BEK and his agent, highlights the release clauses existence for us and gives a hard deadline in like 3 days time for interested teams. So I’m not sure that this would be reported without some truth to it

Don’t forget Everton wanting Fatawu, did not think work would be the highlight of my day come 5pm this morning

Danny Ward starting, very excited to watch him play for someone else

Bet it ends up being around the same as Hermansen, just pleased Longstaff has been bought or we’d have spent the 30m on him

We are so bad at transfers these days, £20m or less is just tragic. Would rather we just kept him and did what we can with Wilf/JJ/Coady money until we get a worthwhile offer, undoing one of the two actually decent signings of the past 3/4 years

You can not compare the progress of Kelman and Kone, last season was Kone’s first in pro football and he is 21, and he scored nearly 20 goals, it’s unheard of. Kelman has been in pro football for a long while, has never scored over 10 in league one and two in that time and when he was Kone’s age(with far more experience) he scored 4 in 14 for Wigan and 7 in 43 for Leyton Orient in L2 I believe

We can afford this one to play out later in the window provided we sell Ndidi/Justin so we can bring in a cm or 2 and a striker, have his replacement waiting in the wings, would only need to find a back up option

Don’t think our offer would be in the media if he did, was definitely an agent leak to try to prompt another team to offer more than the current best offer

Cartwright is on the bench for Falkirk today

Think financially they’re a lot less incentivised to play a friendly, if they’re there for the season they may not want the fines that would no doubt arrive a lot faster than their wages should they miss out, reckon Chansiri wouldn’t mind an excuse to fine them all a couple weeks of wages