Finnegan

Just in time to sign a new five year contract on double money then go back to being shit.

You idiot. By then they'll have realised he's not good enough and he won't get anywhere near the pitch.

Tbf, Martin Allen doesn't deserve to be mentioned in the sand breath as Wayne Rooney

@Mark can you merge this with twitter rumours and delete my lost. There's just less than zero chance of this and the source is trash. The absolute dictionary definition of a silly made up click bait rumour.

Bilal is the player Brighton fans think Facundo is.

I don't want to watch a game where we start with BDCR and Ayew as wingers against a big six club, even a shit one.

Saltaire is mint I can't lie. But let's be honest pal, you're still living in Bradford. If you said it's technically a BD postcode but you're really in Ilkley I'd be like, fair play mun. But Salt is Badford

Jesus man, I'm sorry. I had no idea it was that bad.

Leeds. The old man comes up from Devon. Suspect this will be the last year we do it though tbh. It's not sustainable.

Bit harsh on Jannik

**** me

There probably aren't too many other wingers you could bring in on loan that you'd expect to settle quickly culturally, are available at the moment and are the finished product playing at a level that'd improve the first team.

Hmm, get a winger in on a loan and then use what cash we have left for a defender? I'll be genuinely surprised if we don't want a CB.

Ha. He's definitely fallen off a bit but I'd probably still have him for cheap. Be a decent foreign loan.

No chance we sign Kyogo

We've just sold Tom Cannon, making roughly 4m this period in profit. If we were to spend all of that this window it means, considering amortisation, you could probably spend 15-20ish million on players this window (variable based on agent fees, how deals are structured and contract lengths etc.)

FWIW I don't think we'll spend that either. I'll be surprised if we do much business at all.

For sure, I'm just being a pedantic bitch. Although, tbf, it depends. If Cannon goes for 10, depending on how his purchase (and exit I suppose) are structured it's possible we've got about 4m profit left in this period. Even acounting for a net 0 January, that still means we could sign about 20m worth of players on 5 year contracts. Given that Pavlovic wouldn't ACTUALLY be £20m as one solid fee, it's not entirely beyond the realm of possibility that we throw that much at one player if we think we can also maybe do a good loan. We wanted a full back, centre back and a left winger right? That's what Percy said our priorities were a couple weeks ago, at least. Well we just signed a versatily LB/RB for pennies, the winger is our lowest priority and could possibly be covered by a cheap loan giving a young promising winger from Europe somewhere match time. Most important of those positions to spend any actual money on and make sure you really get right is the centre back. It's not entirely outside the realms of possibility that we pay 15+ for one.

Didn't he turn it down because it was Fener?

For a start, this is a bullshit rumour. But if it wasn't, I don't think it's extremely unrealistic. Did okay at Partizan, struggled at Monaco, did okay at Salzburg, struggled at Milan. Spending 20m on a 23 year old that hasn't quite managed to dazzle in Europe's top five leagues after two attempts (albeit being still young) sounds about right for a floundering Premier League club. The only particularly unrealistic part is I don't believe we have 20m to spend on one player.

Was genuinely surprised you weren't in this thread watching it live to be honest. Was one of the most batshit games I've seen in years, you'd have loved it.

I highly doubt any of those want to extend and the club would be daft to do Soumare and Daka, frankly. But anything < 5m is going to be enough for us to sell them this summer and not make a loss in-season even if they're crap from now til May.