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Napoli paid 20, so it wouldn't be a transfer. De Laurentiis is one of the biggest nutters to run a club in Europe. Makes the lot at Sporting look easy to deal with. Would have our pants down even for a loan fee.

Marcus Edwards is not signing for a Championship club.

Linked to Palace and Everton.

Don't they charter it out?

Nobody really doubts he'd improve the team I don't think. He's just always injured.

If we'd have signed Soulé, we wouldn't have signed Bilal anyway. So tbh, unless Soulé was lighting up Serie A (he isn't) it wouldn't be a bad swerve anyway. To be honest, looking at what we've spent, if we'd have signed Hlozek he wouldn't have signed Bilal either so all in all probably no massive regrets*. (obviously spunking it all away on Skipp but that's another issue.)

I refuse to moderate this shit.

He took a year's contract knowing the adjustment back to club rugby might not be for him and I think that's very much the case. Especially at a club like Tigers where the board are... different.

I'm surprised the club haven't just had that painted on the walls of the press room by now.

Immediately after Shaun said its happening

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My point is we won't be able to afford that if we go down and an obligation if we only survive, given how unlikely that is, isn't super attractive to the seller.

Generously marking this as Tier 3 but Bild can be absolutely horse shit and I highly doubt we can afford Wimmer and I'll be amazed if Wolfsburg agree to a loan without obligation which would need to be survival based. If I were them, I'd laugh us out.

Those are Ayew's stats

Even @Miquel The Work Geordie would be ashamed of this, Stan

Reminder that if we do play him as a second striker or even wide forward, this is what he's competing with here atm:

The original source seems to be pretty consistent on Ajax. I think our interest is genuine, whether it's resulting in a bid or not is another matter.

Perhaps the most incredible part of the Sean from Enderby character is the fact he's still keeping the bit going

My point being twofold: firstly, I wouldn't have a striker a priority anyway. Secondly: whilst it pains me to go all Steve Cooper, right now I'd be looking for warriors with a bit of backbone and some trench spirit over kids for the future. If we can get them on loan or on short term contracts, even better. But give me a Huth January signing over a Demarai Gray one right now.

Odsonne Edouard is a perfectly acceptable Premier League, lower mid table footballer. He's not really greatly worse than Ayew or BDCR. He actually rates very highly in a whole bunch of very useful metrics, not just stuff like progressive passes and carries but he actually weighs in well defensively, being in the 99th percentile for tackles and the 93rd for blocks. Despite all of that and despite Daka struggling for output, Edouard hasn't had a look in at all under RVN and barely got minutes under Cooper, who also had no time for him. It's probably fair to conclude, given his lack of minutes, he's either absolutely stinking the place out because he doesn't want to be here and he's not even trying to apply himself or there's some sort of appearance based structure to his loan fee and we're trying to minimise his minutes (which would no doubt just lead to the former issue anyway.) Either way, it's pretty obvious he's not getting anywhere near the team and we'd send him back in a heartbeat if we could. We're probably more likely to start Mavididi, Ayew or even a youth player up front at this part than Edouard.

But then you're paying money now, in a PSR period in which we still risk relegation, for someone that isn't helping us avoid that fate. And you're paying a premium to jump the queue and have Wycombe sabotage their season. It'd be terrible business. If we get relegated and think he's the man to get us out of the Championship and we want to back him to be our star for the future then we almost certainly can have him. We'll likely be by far the biggest club willing to take the risk on him. The last club to bid for him was Luton, no? Any scrap of cash we have to spend in this window is going to be to try and save us. Can you imagine the look on Ruud's face if we told him we're dropping 7-10m on a striker for next year so he can't get any reinforcements this window?

Richard Kone would be a terrible transfer right now. His club are in a promotion race and the fee would be enormously inflated as a result. Moreover, he's a 21 year old with zero exposure to football above League One who has been a professional for a year and has no formal academy background. His career pathway makes Vardy look like a spoilt and entitled professional. Throwing him to the Premier League, where the pace and the intensity of the game is ten times what he's in now, and asking him to save the season (and potentially long term future) of one of the country's largest football clubs outside the Big Six, where the morale is terrible, the manager might be in dispute with the squad and the fanbase is turning toxic would be ****ing insane.