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He scored 8 goals for Middlesbrough in the Championship across 36 games. (Sam Gallagher scored 9 last season, in 37 games.) Might not be "fucking shit", but he's of no use to us.

11 points for DDB, according to an online WP calculator. Need 15 points to qualify. 11-14 range makes you eligible for an appeal to the "Exceptions Panel". 10 and below is a fail. Think Mara got 12 points, and we seem to be pushing ahead with that deal, so it's not beyond the realm of possibility. Hypothetically speaking - no idea who this bloke is.

Seems a bit of a desperation stations after-thought if we're only moving on him now. Leverkusen have been all over him since June. Surely, if we were really keen, we wouldn't have left it so late. If true, of course.

When his broken leg has healed. It's taken longer than expected. Someone on here said he rejoined training last week, so if that's the start of his pre-season prep, I wouldn't expect him to be available for the first couple of weeks - if all goes to plan.

12 points (if that's the actual number - big if) puts Mara in a bracket (10-14) where we can appeal to an Exceptions Panel. The outcome of that could go either way, I suppose We definitely announced him before we were ready to - Bordeaux jumped the gun and we had to follow.

Perhaps the Mara deal isn't as cut and dried as it appears. Doesn't look to me like he meets the WP requirements - only 12 points of the needed 15, according to those websites that calculate these things.

He'll be like most Italians who come over here - in six months he'll be sulking about the weather, the physicality of the league, and pining for his mum's cooking.

Arnau Martinez, 19, RB/CB/occasional LB, is Girona FC's hot young talent. For what it's worth...

Definitely mindful of the SPL being weak enough to even make Elyounoussi look good.

Number 10/winger options remain dire. No point stocking up on strikers if we can't create.

Hasenhuttl's going to be in the mix.

Not certain even one of our signings starts the first game. Perhaps Aribo. It's nice to have some more very promising kids on board, but If we're not improving the absolutely dire first XI, it's just window dressing. IMHO.

Better second half - overall standard pretty dire, though. Aarmstrong should've won the game. The limp penalty is one thing, somehow contriving to mess up a tap in from six yards by trying to take another touch was truly rubbish. What ever did we see in Djenepo? Lavia quite tidy.

Nothing much to write home about thus far. System looks a mess, but I suppose no more than usual. I thought Small did okay, actually. Positionally, he's a headless chicken, but at least he's now sprinting back, which he wasn't in his ill fated debut against Coventry. Lots of enthusiasm going forward - albeit no composure. Edwards has the look of a player about him; the way he addresses the ball, uses his body and low centre of gravity to protect it hints at a bit of quality. Fuck knows what he's doing at wing back, though. What a waste. Don't rate the formation at all.

Had a bad ankle injury at the end of his "breakthrough season" when he landed on some water bottles on the touchline, and hasn't come close to recapturing that early promise. Whether that's because he's been adversely affected by the injury or whether he was just over-hyped and people have now been able to make a more detailed judgement on his ability over a much longer period, I don't know. But he hasn't risen above mediocre in a long time. Certainly his brief patch of form seems an aberration when compared to the rest of his career to date. Don't think there's anything wrong with his attitude - character might be a problem: loses confidence very quickly, starts turning down forward passing options and playing safe, then the crowd gets on his back, then he shrinks even further. He'd get along well with Redmond...

My whole family are Spurs fans on my dad's side. So unfortunately I've watched him pretty much every week in some capacity. Wouldn't improve us in any way. Might as well bank the cash and promote a youth team midfielder. Or the kit man.

We're surely not considering spaffing £20m on Harry fucking Winks. Passes safe and slowly, backwards and sideways. Can't tackle, can't head. No pace. No physicality. An absolute nonentity of a player. He's not even Matt Oakley.

Number 6 - trialist A. Don't recognise him. (Lost 2-0, btw)

Don't recall us announcing Max Alleyne joining City from the academy last summer. Think he announced it himself on social media. Pretty much the same scenario - turned down a scholarship because he got a better offer.

Teams are still sniffing around Svanberg for around £8-10m. Surely better value than Winks.

Supposedly switching to a back 4 next season.

He's been crap for them under Conte. Doherty, before he got injured, and Sessegnon have been the go-to LWB's for Spurs. And now they've signed the versatile Perisic who played the role at Inter.

Anyone seen Thierry Small lately?

A reddit spy reckons he saw Broja yesterday evening out in Winchester with Livramento, Tella and Smallbone. Make of that what you will.

A more chilling sentence has never been uttered.