DJ Barry Hammond

There is no doubt this would have been a very different window had Enzo still been in charge. We’d have successfully signed Soule for a start!

I don’t think there was much we could do to convince Hzolek to sign for us. Once you’ve agreed a fee with the club and put your contract offer to a player, that’s pretty much it, you can’t go about making huge changes if you want to look like a serious outfit. I doubt Hoffenhiem were proposing to pay more than us in wages, but what they could do is offer guaranteed terms for longer and European football. Even if we did turn round and say “how about £10,000 / £20,000 a week more?” that contract would only be guaranteed if we stayed up… and the player + agent could quite rightly question why we didn’t offer those amounts before?

A very possible reason why we haven’t could be due to lukewarm reactions we’ve been getting from players agents? Maybe we’ve decided that we can’t just go in and make the running on signings where there’s wider interest now - that we have to wait it out a bit and pick up players when those players options have fizzled out somewhat.

Who’s the other great team?

It’s much more likely that this signing was effectively agreed ages ago, but that Spurs wouldn’t allow it to go through before we played them.

The photos don’t get any better.

Hopefully that means we get Conor Gallagher and Jadon Sancho in as well.

With our transfer budget, we can always take a punt on being able to sell someone for profit come June (seems like we did that last year) - and in my mind you could potentially take that gamble with Ioannidis himself. We’d have to position the move as a stepping stone to get him - so be straight with him. If we go down, there’s a release clause for what we paid for you, if we don’t there’s still a release clause of something like £40-£50 million that wouldn’t be prohibitive towards a further move next year or the year after if he’s a success.

What are you on about? I’ve seen enough videos to know plumbers always have a moustache.

@moore_94 is saving himself for the really exciting reveal… of Jordon Ayew 😉

For reference, this is what happened when they asked him to smile!

I assume we’ve lost our best social media talents in the transfer window and have a couple of YTS lads doing them now?

****! We actually transferred the cash. Imagine being the one to hit send for this one!

We clearly blew our budget for these on Fatawu’s forever delayed reveal.

Announcement video as exciting as the signing itself… Wait, there’s more! He sounds as excited as we all are!

There are various ways you can transition a 4-4-2 attacking base into the favoured W-M attacking structure that provides suitable rest defence. It really isn’t that different from a 4-2-3-1, the positions and player rotations can be very similar.

Sounds expensive in terms of wages.

True, I think bring in a striker or two and we might look good in a bog standard 4-4-2. Most teams defend in that shape, so why not attack that way too?

I think that’s the potential conclusion of this one - can’t see anyone picking him up for a transfer fee and those sort of wages. Whether that loans to us, of course, is another thing completely!

Sir. Can you please remove yourself from the bus, please Sir.

Spurs are literally busing the guy to us tomorrow… add no-one’s blowing us out of the water on this one.

I guess technically you could say Rodgers was this - with his choice being to get handsomely paid to leave.

Well he’s getting 30+ minutes tonight from the bench - Panathinaikos are 1-0 down and have been reduced to 10 men at home!

No shocks so far in this round of fixtures so far… there’s normally at least one, right?

That’s definitely a “I want a transfer!” statement, just without the actual words “I want a transfer” so that he doesn’t lose out on any bonuses/clauses he would get from a non-requested transfer statement. There’s also a bit of “how dare you!” and “do you not know who I am?” in there for good measure.