Chez

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.

I never understood why this got so much criticism. Why would you offer more than you have to? What was I missing?

I agree, it sounds like bollocks, however there is now a reason for bidding above the release clause. The amount may be indisputable, but the seller may be able to dictate the payment terms. This is what happened at Forest with Marinakis demanding most (if not all) the Gibbs-White transfer fee up front rather than in instalments over a period of years. We may be offered more but spread over multiple years. I still agree with you though. Sounds bollocks.

Are the players they have signed all pretty good then? Asking for a fantasy football friend. Diarra, Adingra, Le Fee, Talbi, Sadiki, Xakha, Mukiele, Alderete, Roefs, Mandava, Guiu... Stach, Okafor, Bijol, Perri, Longstaff, Gudmundsson, Bornauw, Calvert-Lewin, Nmecha Ramsdale, THB, Downes, Archer, Fernandes, BBD, Sugawara, Wood, Edwards, Fraser, Taylor, Lallana, Cornet, Ugochuckwu...

I don't believe the owner gives two hoots about the size of the buying club. Size of the fee will be what matters.

Chemical production continues to be the backdrop of his footballing world.

How many logins does MLG have? 😉 So the price was comparable then to the Dibling move. Excellent. Helps with the comparison. Any insight as to how Spurs fans felt about the Bale signing?

I only mentioned peanuts because fans often feel happier with a big money signing. Forget the peanuts part. How did Spurs fans feel when they signed a Bale from us? I seem to recall the two Spurs fans I know felt pretty good but mostly because I'd been telling them all season that he's absolutely fucking mustard.

I've been flogging him on here for a while. I thought he looked decent in his City youth highlights. I did wonder if he was a little casual in terms of possession and position. I honestly don't know how he did for Luton in the PL as I never watched them. Anyone got an opinion? I thought I read that he did OK at Marseille, but they didn't look to sign him, which might be a concern. Does he have one year left of his contract?

The time to get him was three years ago. I'm guessing we went ABK and Caleta-Car.

Not sure anyone is convinced yet that Downs/Stewart can fire us to promotion, and I am sure we'd all happily take Sir Ricky Mark II if he were available, but we don't sign Downs and then a month later sign another centre forward. Downs is the guy the club thinks can do it this year and maybe beyond. I would be very surprised if we sign another striker. We have Downs/Stewart/Archer/Armstrong...and BBD. You may not like any of them, but they are here and we are not adding another body. Three depart this weekend and maybe the club considers it.

The valuations are completely different. We see a rare talent that could possibly play at the highest level, West Ham simply see a decent PL player. Moving from £30m to £32m is a statement from West Ham. They are going nowhere near £50m (and they might be right to not do so).

I wonder what they thought of Bale when they got him from us for peanuts?

Not sure we have any nuwaubianists in the squad either. I think Dwight York invented it, so you'd think there would be more footballers that practice it. My guess is we have loads of pastafarianists. Who doesn't think a flying spaghetti monster is key to life?

He is. The inaccuracy undermines the credibility of the story a bit, but Nantes have bought and sold 30 players this summer, so could well be true - a total revamp of the squad, with plenty of foreign signings. The mistake appeared in a L'equipe item that appeared 9 days ago linking him with Nantes.

He might not be PL quality, but he's two footed, sees a pass and has scored some nice goals.