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I would liken it more to novelty socks as the main present. Loads of hype and fanfare about this amazing present, then you open it and it’s a pair of garish socks with an inappropriate slogan on - back of the drawer they go. i wonder when our marquee signing Jordan ayew will be announced. Do you think his brother Andre might come too if we chuck an extra fiver in? We need all the bodies we can get at this rate.

Come on then bouba, off you **** quickly so we can reinvest the twenty quid we get for you.

To go with the rest of the tools we have collected over the years - this one could actually be useful though, which makes a difference.

They’re in luck, we love giving away money.

SIGN THEM ALL!!!

I wish you hadn’t pointed that out. Ward shouldn’t even be mentioned in the same sentence as those two. I’m 36 and I was down Filbert street at 4 - Danny ward is probably the worst keeper we have had in all of that time, few have come close.

Faes is the obvious one. Nobody is paying money for the other dross at the back.

The positivity and calm were nice while they lasted. Back to reality; Ayew the marquee signing. Life of a City fan.

I’m hoping Rudkin is just trolling us so he can watch the meltdown on here, with no intention of actually signing Jordan fxxing ayew.

See I would pass on keita and go for all the forwards personally. Would be great to get keita as an extra, but I do think we need to prioritise the forwards we are in for.

But what if the budget only allows for those. Which one you dropping for keita?

So who out of Fotis, wilf and Adam are you not signing over this lad?

Don’t understand the hate this lad gets. Id rather he be backup to a better left back, but he really isn’t that bad. Its if he gets injured that we are really screwed as we are then relying on Luke Thomas. Be careful what you wish for. Imagine we sell Kristianssen but don’t manage to get a replacement in and have to watch Luke Thomas every week til Christmas.

Me neither, at least not in the dressing room, at training etc. Poor attitude on the pitch towards the other teams, opposition fans and the ref = bonus points in my book😂

The Greek striker - bid of around 20m. We are on an embargo in the championship regardless mate because of breaching and rubbing them up the wrong way last year. As soon as we go back there, they’ll have our Crown Jewels for earrings. We don’t know the extent of the FFP stuff. on the face of it 40m seems reasonable, but when you factor in that we had to sell our best player for below his value just to meet last years targets, 40m is a lot.

I’m of this opinion. arguably we need a left back and a centre mid still. I have a feeling we will sit really deep in a lot of games though and attack using the front 3, which would explain the lack of creative midfielders signed/on the books.

Siri, call Alfie Doughty. ”Help is on the way dear!” No, that’s Doubtfire.

But we can’t afford to buy all the players we need mate. That’s why we are doing these types of deals. Its essentially transfer window Tetris. And as mentioned, why would he want to commit to 5 years when it’s likely the second year and maybe more will be in the championship? Also mentioned above is that we probably wouldn’t want the financial commitment of having him in the championship. We have struggled with loads of players on inflated wages without PL income, hopefully we have learned our lesson. He could be an absolute flop and nobody will want him, be able to pay his wages, or cover our outlay.

Him and vardy will be such a combo. A few years back I said my dream front two would be Vardy and Diego Costa. This would come close.

Me too. A triple swoop of Fotis, Hlozek and Zaha would be unbelievable. Everything crossed we can pull this off!

He basically was the palace team for years. They were abysmal. Zaha kept them going. Zaha still has a point to prove. And he may well want to come back to the prem permanently at the end of the season. If we stay up and he has a good season, I can see us signing him permanently. He still has a lot to play for.

It can’t be with a deal like this because what if the player decides he doesn’t want any to join, or then prices the club out of a move in terms of salary etc? Likewise, the club could have changed their mind on the player and deliberately low ball so he doesn’t accept. That then leaves the selling club stuck with a player someone had agreed to buy. So it all gets agreed before hand. Obligation to buy means the permanent purchase goes through on completion of the loan and meeting of any criteria (survival in this case), it’s already agreed and set to go.

It’s a loan with an obligation to buy. Same as with Fatawu. This means all the details around the future transfer will need to be sorted now - his full time contract that would begin in July next year.

I think every man and his dog knows mandaric is a crook mate. But he did have a habit of stepping in and saving clubs, then to sort them a bit and sell them on.

So we tried pleading poverty for the first month of the window, that didn’t work. So Top’s remortgaged a load of property and it’s balls to the wall from he on out! SIGN ALL THE PLAYERS!!!! …Just don’t change our home kit to red.