Chez

want and get are obviously two different things. Ultimately, the x years on x wages etc. is probably what matters most, but if the player has a sizeable tax bill or gambling debt, that signing on fee might be more desirable.

It most certainly will. Boro's budget (like most championship sides) is very tight. They can't afford to pay `almost' PL wages, which you would assume we are offering.

why don't they just come direct to us for our rejects. BBD and Taylor seem ideal for them.

yeah, right wing has been a source of endless goals so far this season.

Saints signed Aaron Ramsdale August 30th 2024.

That was where he was linked to right at the start of the window. Bloody shame it's only a loan.

Agreed. Everton have made a great choice and got a very good price.

Real shame to see a talent like him go. If we had stayed up things might have been different. Going to be hard seeing him blossom into a tremendous player.

No problem trying to loan in a first choice, but what's the point of paying McCarthy up if you then have to bring in a mid 30s league 1 keeper to replace him as our number 3? You are paying twice for a third choice keeper.

You go down, sell your best players and then hopefully strengthen from there, but not sure we will be stronger than last year.

do you usually strengthen when relegated?

Great. I wasn't expecting our 3rd keeper to be much, although there were a few decent young guys mentioned on here. So better than Lumley...well, it could be worse.

I imagine he is a similar level to Lumley. Reasonably solid but prone to the odd major error. We probably wont see him play.

how many do we get?

I'm amazed anyone thought we would. We are about to give him a shiny new contract. The club has confidence in him.

Savinho at City. Scored one goal last season. They want £70m. I thought he looked a good player, but I thought Dibling did too and he's two years younger. Everton are getting a good deal if you ask me.

I agree. Hutchinson fee was £37.5m and he's not the prospect Dibling is. In today's market I thought we'd get at least £40m guaranteed.

Lots of nice words on their forum as was the case with Charlie Taylor, but when I read "he took a lot of stick, a lot undeserved", "got pelters for playing it safe" and "championship is his level", maybe there is some devil in the detail? We don't want championship level players, we want players that can win the league and play at that PL level. However, on the flip side, when I read "did a great job of marking a winger from the top 6 out of the game" that sounds pretty promising. I'm nervous because I dont know his game and the last few fullbacks have not been inspiring signings. I'm sure I'll get over it once I've seen him in the flesh. Bree and Sugawara are not up to it. So if he isn't better than them a change is required in his our scouting.

I can understand his concern, but I think a bigger problem making the world cup squad is him being crap.

to score 24 goals in the championship?

...we might finally be getting to the fun part of the window

I don't know him, at all, but Charlie Taylor played 160 games in the PL, so I'll reserve judgement until I have seen him, up against someone with a bit of pace and talent. Sugawara has been terrible, so really pleased to see us try again at the position.

Cheers. He's pretty open about the players linked to us - it seems like they are all pretty genuine.

I had no idea Krasnodar was that big a club and got that many fans through the gates. Give us a season or two in the championship and that 27k average might be similar. Bigger ground than ours too. TV money on a different scale of course.

Who doesn't want a "good striker", but I am not sure the club is fighting off bidders, so "letting them go" is harder than you are making it sound.