Tommok

Today is Wednesday...why the f*** do they have to wait until the weekend to have a chat?? This one is in danger of reaching the "we just ran out of time" bulls*** briefing

Euros or pounds? Anyway, yeah just get him in along with Barcola and admit this was an overly expensive window, sometimes it happens and move on...hopefully to buying a CM!

Do we know what the difference in valuation is at the moment?

Checking on a deal - no rush lads. Oh it's unlikely is it? OK nice one.

https://x.com/i/status/2092583413588840727 [] NEW: Liverpool have checked on a deal for Crystal Palace forward Ismaila Sarr, though any move looks unlikely as it stands.

Yeah comes a point where PSG get sick of us dicking around for the odd £5m to £10m and feel minded to just sell to anyone else.

Dealing with Crystal Palace you say? Late in the transfer window you say? What could possibly go wrong?

We really need to reconsider our approach to letting our players run down their contracts and leave on frees. Can't really think of a top club that has so regularly done this recently. I don't care if they're club legends and it's a "decent thing to do" Especially as we're working very much within "spend what we earn" parameters. We could've quite easily generated a good few million by selling off players that we knew weren't going to sign new contracts rather than let them stroll off for nothing.

This is where the "value at the end of the window" seems to fail for us. Teams know we're desperate for a player but often they don't seem to be desperate to sell. Leaving it to the end of the window also often just means the selling club don't have time to spend the money we're offering them on a replacement. This tactic will only regularly work with selling clubs that have a surplus of players, a player on strike or are in financial trouble.

I mean they're holding key talks to seek clarity and are establishing a direction of travel - so how much more activity do you want from poor Hughes? Eh?

Sounds good. The only problem is we have to actually sign Barcola. f*** off Hughes

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Maybe their noses look similar from a side on view...that's the only way that "similar profile" line would make any sense

I'm sure, given a bit more time, Iraola will change that. He likes his teams to do a lot of running.

Yeah he can play in the league cup and early rounds of the FA Cup. Or perhaps that's cruel.

Yeah, Rogers and Palmer looked very decent for Chelsea yesterday. Be annoying if Palmer finds his form from two seasons ago again (and stays fit) . Even more so if him and Rogers continue to click.

Yeah that's not happening. But he'd be a decent signing at a lower price. His stock has gone down a bit but if we could get him playing like he did a season or two ago he'd be ideal.

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One for the kids there!

Hate to tell you this but that's exactly what Gary Neville suggested

Isn't he off to Saudi?

Well and strictly speaking the £30m we got for Jones should really be going towards his replacement.. But his replacement looks like it's going to be Nyoni at the moment. So that's a "clever" little saving. Speaking of replacements, if we'd been told 18 months or so ago that we'd be replacing Salah with Minteh and Munoz - there'd have been a riot* *after having first asked "Who?"

It's almost certainly this isn't it? I mean the higher ups obviously have to take a big chunk of the blame for not realising Hughes was leaving and just replacing him straight away with someone who didn't have half an eye on his next job - and at such a pivotal moment in the season too.