Chez

I agree with you. We don't want to sell, we want to add a striker of two. We also don't want to sell for buttons. 20m is too cheap, but he's worth what someone will spend. 2 seasons left. I think its been mentioned a lot, that this the is perhaps the point (for most players) to sell or renew a contract. If that is the only decision, you would renew, and for say £75k a week?

the highlights video I watched during the week suggests he is in the Livramento mould. Loves to bomb forward. Looks pretty good. Never seen him in the flesh though.

perhaps worth its own thread... ...that's not a ringing endorsement. Our other attacking midfielders aren't exactly `above average'. As I said, there is a stuff to like, but he is one dimensional and his output last year was shit and he deserved a bit of criticism IMO. We (fans) like him, so he got a pass, but I am racking my brain to recall stand put displays in the Prem, especially as the side struggled? We he good in our purple period? I honestly cant remember.

£40m? That's a hard bargain, and prices Forest out. My guess is the `Forest interest' is just Che's agent starting the process or negotiating a new contract. As sure as night follows day, a new contract follows interest from another club.

sell Che, buy Broja? I wonder if that is the option. Every player has his price. If £20m is too cheap, what price is good value? Or (as usual) does it all depend on who we replace him with. With Brojas and Long gone. we ain't letting either guy leave without a decent transfer fee AND someone lined up.

Why would Broja not be included in the squad, then join up the following week? Is that statement basically code for "he ain't coming with us, but we cant be bothered to spend too much time talking about his probable transfer, so if we say he's coming later, it shuts down the questions, for now, even though he's off"?

Do players acquired with £10m-£15m transfer fees really only get £25k a week? That's only top end championship wages.

getting Johnson to sign a new deal was great for them. Spence and Garner did well for them last season, so they have had to spend to stay still. They have momentum. Thats not good for us. We need promoted sides to struggle.

he checked and he did. i thought he came later. very well liked by the fans, but was he actually any good? Was living in Hull around that time so didn't see many games live.

shame. would have liked us to sign him. I worry the reliance on KWP to cover both sides might bite us on the bum. i guess if we bring in a good right back on loan that will solve any potential issue;.

The hype was we were signing a 17 year old that could play for the first team. When you hear that kind thing you think of Luke Shaw and what a tremendous talent he was.my expectations were clearly too high. Doesn't mean he won't be great for us, but he hasnt bridged the youth to senior gap, yet.

He was signed as an exciting young talent, who seemed keen for first teams games straight away, hence the move. He hasn't done that. He hasnt stepped up from youth to senior yet. He's not stepped up yet. Not harsh. It's fact.

Good luck Joe. Worth the wait. Hope you tear it up.

Is Stuart Armstrong all that? I like his attitude, power running, engine etc. But he does run into blind alleys and gives the ball back. We don't win without him, but we don't win with much either.

Aribo was pretty average in his first season at Rangers. Better in the second season, Gerrard's last, but even better last season. Villa have a few decent attacking players already too.

isn't a Chelsea academy salary similar to our mid range players?

Not sure he's thinking about England. He just seems like a guy that is in absolute brilliant form, keen to play and confident to be on either side. It's a tricky situation, with Small not stepping up, Livramento injured and Valery not trusted. I do wonder what Ralph's opinion of Perraud is. He seemed to drop him pretty quickly. With fullbacks so important we really need four of them. We have the bodies, but we only really have two. KWP gets injured and we will be struggling all season. Godo to hear we are looking to sign another and not relying on Small and Valery.

Tuchel knows what he wants/needs.

does that basically mean that he is going to be sold? If they were considering a second loan, would they not take a look at him first? Maybe his agent has had talks with a club like Newcastle or Everton and has said he wants to join them and now its' just about the negotiations?

combined £140m of losses over the last three years and a debt pushing towards £100m. I don't think we will be deviating from this plan after a big sale.

If the club's philosophy is to sign youth, which looks so, then he seems the ideal candidate. If we didn't know it already, its seems highly unlikely that we are going to sign James Tarkowski types.

Not read anywhere that they intended to pay the debt off immediately. It's been discussed on here, but never read a statement from SR or SFC about it. My understanding is that loan repayments do not need to start until 5 years after the loan. We know interest is being added, so I think its pretty safe to say that if we wanted to start paying down the loan before year five, we could. There is bound to be some sort of minimum cost to loan, but that won't be 7 years of interest at 8% which is £31.5m on the £78.8m loan. Whether we will is a different matter and will depend on cash flow requirements, available monies and the general business plan.

Could have got him for £300k three years ago, but maybe now for £6m we get a more experienced player. Can't wait to see him in a Saints shirt. About time we got `lucky' with one of these flair players. Boufal, Djenpo and to a slightly lessor degree Redmond, just haven't worked out as well as we hoped.

Do you mean there was £17m outstanding still to be paid to us, or that we made a profit of £17m in player trading? I honestly can't recall which it was (maybe a both?). Overall we made a huge loss, so any profit from player trading would effectively have been dwarfed/swallowed up by loss, however if there was actual cash to come in (in the future for Ings etc.) then I guess you could effectively spend that the following year. The key though will be the Prem/sky money. When does that come into the bank account? If it is June, then I don't understand why we ever had an issue at the start of transfer windows. Why not use that money to buy and then balance things during the window/season - or was it just a case of not wanting to touch that until the player sales had been made (caution).

Correct. Often half now half a year later, and sometimes spread across the contract length. Whatever the timeframe, the spend will need to be balanced with income (sales etc). I don't see a revolution (they said there wouldn't be one), just moving quickly using the cash that was available.