JimJams

It'd be amazing business. And therefore unlikely.

It's a great starting point to negotiate down from.

Bare in mind we supposedly got offers of 10 for Kasey, 5 for Thomas, got 10 for Cannon and Wilder fancies Hamza. There's enough idiots out there. And we should know...

Also presumably the higher value of those saleable assets isn't as big a gulf as you'd think given it was used to balance books rather than add to the transfer kitty.

In fairness, Youri came to us under Puel. Rodgers can't really be credited with him despite YT only becoming permanent during his tenure.

Players that can (largely) only win the ball though are a throw back. You're the target of the press and often become the weak link because of it.

Would be awesome if the VK and Daka to Everton rumours were true. Saying that, Moyes has made Beto look alright, so maybe can work something with Daka so he's not so tragic. Hopefully that's their thinking.

You wouldn't be surprised however to see that no player signs a contract with those kinds of stipulations in them. I think there's a massively naive sentiment here where as fans you're wanting to weight everything in the clubs favour, but in reality it's not a working system. At Champ level, in the player pool we'll be fishing in, we have a massive upside. Talk of wage limits are fine because even at the suggested limits here you're still talking about top earners in the division. Step up and what do you do? Offer championship contracts? Up your numbers? Because now you're no longer the big fish. You aren't the draw on size, you aren't the draw you were. You're now in competition with bigger clubs with bigger spending limits, so how do you draw those targets in if there's competition from other clubs? So do you miss out on players and go down because you haven't improved? There is no rigid system that works. It has to be flexible. Much lauded Brighton have bought cheap from South America and sold big. But they signed Rutter for 40mill, totally contrary to their normal business, and he's proved a success. Ultimately the finances aren't the biggest issue. It's the identification of talent. Signing shit on high wages with big fees is of course bad, but signing shit at any price is bad. We need our strike rate to improve. I'd sooner sign good players on excessive contracts than poor players for peanuts. I suppose it depends who we see ourselves competing with for signings. We've struggled with signings every time there's been a step up in status and trying to level up. We've lost our established tag now, so we're back to 20 years ago!

So the plan is to buy our own youth players with illegal payments now. Bargain.

... Concede stupid goals.... .... Ensure clean sheets for the opposition... ..... Ok, got it.

Why do people think there's some sort of convoluted plan behind what Ruud is doing now we've been relegated? He had no fxxking clue before then on what to do, why has it suddenly changed to becoming "a message"?

That's that then.

Bilal had no runners, no options, no chance.

Brentford had Benrahma, Watkins and Mbeumo. Then got Toney in for Watkins.