Ric Flair

Exactly, over 5 years instead of 3 this is the equivalent of a £15m transfer. Which gets you so many exciting prospects this summer. I do think this is the end for me. I can't do this to myself any longer. I know there's potentially worse things happening in the world than the way we are ran but to me this is genuinely mental torture and I need to look after myself before I get angina.

Not even Graham Brock or @Babylon can defend the club this summer. It is revolting.

How dare you

They'll naturally go back to probably 60-90 mins as the games come thick and fast but so much to ponder and get apoplectic and excited about.

Naaaah he's class. Hull had an abysmal defence with Maguire and Andy Robertson in it don't forget.

It's business that you can understand though. I'd take a £9m punt on Szmodics over £6m + add ons and big wages for Jordan Ayew. I've a feeling Szmodics will do well in the Prem and will be that annoying player that our fans can't help but reference that we should have got.

Not so sure that's correct. It's nothing to do with cash and installments for PSR. It's structured fee and then add ons. So if we'd agreed to sell Soumare for £17m but it was £5m up front and then installments of £3m a year for 4 years it would still go down as a £17m sale in the year in which the sale took place. If we agreed to sell him for £5m + £12m in potential add ons then your point applies.

This is what's not being clocked on to. We aren't a newly promoted PL side lacking PL experience. It's a myth.

You really think he's on less than £30k a week at Crystal Palace? Not a chance. They pay very well and he's been there a good while so he'll have received a few pay rises.

Mavididi's defensive work is very underrated

Not a chance he's coming here for 30 bag a week 😂😂😂

He won't be coming here to be a squad player, that's what fans sticking up for this deal need to understand.

Cooper will have pulled all scouting abroad so very unlikely mate. Pie in the sky.

Soule was very close to agreeing before Roma stepped in. He'd be on far less wages than Ayew as well. Our PSR issues don't go away with an obsession of PL experience where wages are vast.

If the club submit a £15m bid for Sverre Nypan tonight for him to come to us as soon as he turns 18 then I might just turn a blind eye to this evening.

That might well be the case until it comes to the wages offered.

Like being sent down for a 10 stretch on the same day you find out your ex company are offering voluntary redundancy on 2 years full pay tax free.

You can't put out that news on Nanasi at the same time as Ayew. This is actually making me unwell. €11m for Nanasi and €14m for Gronbaek to clubs who'll pay less in wages than we will. I'm in bits. We paid more for Skipp than the pair combined. 😭😭😭😭

He's not coming here to be 4th choice. That's my point. One of him or Reid are a complete waste of time and money, or Mavididi and Fatawu are going to see their game time curtailed.

Which isn't that much use to us as free kicks and corners are like goal kicks for the opposition.

See my post below. He was hideous as a striker too and got moved out wide.

I'm extremely confused because it would be Premier League suicide to play Jordan Ayew as a striker. If you do so you sacrifice any notion of scoring goals. It's why he was moved our wide many years ago. Even then you need to ensure there's a steady ability to score goals elsewhere because that's not his game. As you say he is good at winning free kicks and being difficult to get the ball off. My issue with thst role though is where does he fit in? We've signed Reid to be the experienced steady right or left winger. We need a striker who scores goals. We also need another attacking midfielder and I thought that would be a player that's comfortable playing off the left like Bounonanotte is off the right and then we're covered either side in the attacking midfield, inverted winger system. He just doesn't really fit in here and certainly not on a 3 year deal at the fee being quoted. It's rhe closest I've come to crying in quite some time and I've had a pretty torrid year all things considered.

Daka's been fairly poor but you do realise he has a far better goals and assists record in the PL than Ayew in minutes/games played?

I am genuinely speechless

I meant Kalimuendo