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I dont think he's a hideous player. Similar to Albrighton he's good enough to play the role of a consistently decent performer in a good team. He's never going to be the standout player in a team though and we absolutely should not be paying £10m for him.

Yes but why spend £10m on an option? It's the kind of ludicrous spending that got us the points deduction.

Other clubs must love doing business with us because we love overspending on players that they dont want. You know that if they weren't already our players we would be lining up £15mil+ bids for the likes of Soumare and Daka.

O'Riley has played in the champions league and he looked ok despite Celtic not being able to compete at that level as a whole.

Would rather we take the money we have already offered and use it to buy Gabriel Sara to be honest. We already have Fatawu and if we're playing an attacking mid surely a natural midfielder would be a better choice.

Surely it's not the end of the world if he goes to Roma? There's lots of very good players we could buy for £30mil.

Yh that's a strong point, if he matched his expected assists he would have gotten 7 assists. £30 mil is a lot of money for one player though, I hope he turns out to be worth it rather than our scouting team getting worked up into a frenzy like they did with Trincao as mentioned above.

He's got very high potential but surely 30mil for a player with 6 non penalty goals and 3 assists last season is a bit steep.

I assumed we would play 3atb because of the okoli signing. Think we're going to be pretty horrible defensively with 4atb.

Other way around, they are using PL interest to get a decent fee from Roma.

Dont get me wrong I'm happy to re sign Ndidi but financially it's not clear cut whether signing him on a free is better than signing a young player on lower wages for a fee.

Congerton left Atalanta a while ago.

That doesnt take into account that a younger player at the start of his career on lower wages is more likely to have more resale value than Wilf on the decline.

Kristiansen isn't Juventus quality.

Okoli Vestergaard Faes in my mind is either going to be the next Simpson Huth Morgan Fuchs or is going to be the leading cause of alcoholism in Leicester next year. No inbetween.

Would rather stick with Daka to be honest. Sassuolo previously rinsed us for the mediocre Praet, I can see us spending £15-20mil on this guy which would be absolutely honking.

They see him as their second brightest youth prospect. There was one who is considered better but i cant remember his name. Hopefully he ends up like a Livramento/Lamptey type deal.

Matt O'Riley's dream club to play for is Man City due to the style of play so we would have had a better chance of attracting him with Maresca here. He has been a player of interest for the club for a while though so it wouldnt surprise me if he was one of the options to replace Dewbury Hall.

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Different levels of talent. Yes theoretically if he had a Fofana type season it would make the transfer look like a cheap buy. Similarly if Barcelona bought Wout Faes for £50 mil and he turned into Carlos Puyol it would make the £50mil look like a steal, but it's just not going to happen. Okoli is a relegation level £6mil centre back with a potential ceiling as a midtable £20mil centre back. He just doesnt have the defensive awareness to be worth £60mil at any point in his career.

What makes this transfer look even worse is that Southampton are looking to get Ronnie Edwards and Nathan Wood for less than the fee we are paying for Okoli combined. It makes the posters trying to lecture others on how we need to accept that we are now operating in a bargain bin market look a bit silly. We are relatively breaking the bank for this bloke, a premium transfer for the situation we are in, and he might not even be any good.

Atalanta fans, they said they were expecting £5-6 mil for him from a Serie A club and were surprised that we spent £11mil on him. If we were to sell him after an average/poor year we would be looking at a £4-5mil sale. As mentioned above though the fee including addons that may not be hit makes it more reasonable.

That's more reasonable to be fair, if it's £8m plus addons then you could argue that the extra £2m is just PL tax. Hopefully it's not appearance based addons though because they incentivise not playing him.

It's all relative, Okoli is considered to be a £6mil player, so we aren't paying a modest fee at £11mil, we are overpaying significantly. This kind of business is the reason we are in this whole PSR situation, it's fine taking a risk on a young player, but due to us overpaying if he doesn't work out we won't be able to sell him and break even on FFP. We complain about Serie A and La Liga clubs taking us for a ride on transfer values for Praet, Kristiansen etc but this is natural result of us almost spending double what they are worth in the first place. Paying double the value of a player is never smart transfer business, we are taking a big risk and if that risk doesn't work out then we will be stuck with him running down his value on loan/on the bench alongside Soumare, Souttar, Coady etc.

From the video he looks around Faes's pace, maybe slower. An Italian on reddit had this to say about him, which implies that he's not fast - "Unfortunately, doesn't always read the game well and lacks the pace to cover up for mistakes as easily. Definitely stood out as Frosinone's best defender last season but realistically that's not saying much."