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Awful, awful reading. Heart goes out to Maddy's family. What an awful way to treat someone. And that it did that much damage shows what's reported here was probably just the tip of the iceberg.

Wouldn't it be joyous? Even if it failed, the confusion on opposition players' faces and pundits loss of explanation would just be wonderful.

I would also love it if Enzo went full Pep and just decided to retrain Souttar as a box crashing, physical #8 😂. Never going to happen, but boy would it be funny to see.

It does fortunately give Akgun more of a run in the side, and he's started to find some form as an 8, which is great. As Enzo touched on before, he did want some more physicality in there alongside KDH, which without Ndidi and Casadei we now lack.

I have three big concerns following this window: 1) For all his detractors, Casadei was an option, and has scored goals for us. We now don't have him, so we are weaker than when we started the season, as Ndidi is also out until April. 2) How is it that we can't even afford a loan to at least get a body in for CM cover? Casadei has gone back, so his wages/fee have gone. How do we have even less funds to play with than the start of the season if we've spent nothing and technically should have lower outgoings? 3) What exactly does this mean for the summer? Can we actually sign anyone? Can we even take up Fatawu's purchase option? Yunus'? How are we going to replace the 6 or so outgoing squad members who are out of contract if we have no funds? If we're that close to the brink with PSR or whatever it's called, can we afford to replace those players other than in terms of wages?

This is what worries me too. I wonder if we can actually even afford those fees now. And if we do (which obviously I want us to), we then have no transfer pot to strengthen, despite a number of our squad being out of contract.

Keeping Enzo would be a start 🤞

Sort of. That's one angle suggested. The other is that there are work permit or "legal issues" holding up the deal. Basically, nobody has a clue. And neither do we.

"Any day" *Waits patiently*

Hey, what two grown men get up to in a honeymoon suite is entirely their business.

What makes it even better is...sorry, you're making a curry in the oven? That feels very on brand for us right now.

He's exactly what they've been missing without Hirst. Think he'll help them click again. Give Southampton a good run for their money, fingers crossed.

Unless we don't engage 👀

His sometime ITK status I guess

I think I can actually feel Fab's exasperation through that tweet 😅.

I mean that sort of incompetence and lack of research would chime with @Chocolate Teapot's suggestion it's down to incompetence...

That's actually not a terrible shout. Would make sense rather than FFP being an issue.

I'm going to go with "incompetence".

This is bizarre. There's no way any players are leaving now either. So why not just announce the deal is dead?

Thanks for sharing. I'd much rather we sell Iheanacho to Fulham, but qué sera sera I suppose. If it's a sale of Daka then I can accept that reasoning, just not if it's a loan!

In: 3 academy players from Villa, Sensi Out: Sensi (for the season)

Spill the tea, Pot.

Lovely assist from Daka, and he's got into some great positions...but Cannon or Vardy would be putting away at least one of those clear chances he's had. A shame, but he's got to come off early in the second half. We've let them back into the game a bit, which is annoying. We need to score a second goal, and soon.

This sounds very much like we'll wait to see if another signing is going to come in, and if not, then we've got Sensi to announce and keep fans happy on deadline day 😅.

👏👏👏 LOUDER for those in the back. We've been mismanaged of late, but we're not that ****ing stupid.