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TBF, no he wasn't. We were linked with him all summer and it was a drawn out negotiation clearly with other parties interested. At the time Hughes or that Ross Wilson said we'd been working on him all that summer.

We're now pretending that Danny Ings was a last minute emergency signing and not a priority we'd been working on all that summer. Fair enough.

That's why I wrote it on a football forum about football.

An option which I am reading on this forum people think is better than Tella and Smallbone and maybe slightly better than our current players on the bench like Long. Not sure we could set the bar much lower for someone coming in on fifty/sixty/seventy grand a week. Gee, what a fantastic option. An absolute travesty of a transfer window yet again.

So as long as we sign someone who is at the same general level of shitness as our current players, it's mission accomplished. Great transfer window.

Why do we need to fork out on huge wages and take a massive injury risk to achieve the benchmark of "he's an upgrade on Will Smallbone". Pretty sure we can find an upgrade on Will Smallbone in plenty of places.

Don't tell me: that women's and racial equality thing is fair enough but its gone too far the other way now.

If you want to associate yourself with people whinging about "woke", the "PC Brigade" and people getting jobs only because of their colour, then that's your lookout, squire. It wasn't aimed at you but if you want it to be then be my guest.

I think signing Diallo has closed off any Grujic talk. Winger or bust tomorrow.

I wasn't replying to you, was I?

I get the feeling that this entire season is going to be something of an outlier.

Ahh, Talksport. Famously known as the favourite radio station of the PC Brigade. You dipshits still crying about Sky binning off some pundits because they were hanging about too long getting less relevant to the modern game and asking for fatter and fatter contracts. They bounced them out. Saved a few quid. Pretty obviously a financial decision but pitiful thickos can only see PC-gone-mad-innit because they are incapable of processing the world in any other way, having a hernia if a woman or, heavens, a brown person ever gets a job. Bunch of fucking mugs.

MLG thinks that's fine because he wouldn’t really be that bad because he's third or fourth choice.

We shouldn't be signing old men to be third/fourth choice. Life is not a computer game.

Would be an utterly depressing signing.

I don't think any need to worry about our efficiency in making sure we get the outgoing players out of the door on deadline day. Unlikely we will be anything remotely as efficient in actually signing anyone however.

Let's get back in bed with Hummel and bring back the glory days.

All of the good ITKs don't post here any more, and you can see why.

I wish we were Aston Villa.

The club plan for every eventuality. Mainly they do this by making sure that in every transfer window the eventualities are exactly the same as the eventualities we experienced in all the previous transfer windows.

Please can you stay on topic.

Some people have never quite recovered from Wayne Bridge never coming back.

No it's Lee Hendrie.

The Athletic globally is one big loss leader mate. Don't kid yourself that it is making profit in the USA to plough into the UK. It isn't. It's just hoovering up investor cash in the hope it will eventually get big enough to be sold on to someone else. Nice bit of hype, it's a decent product but absolutely no evidence that it can be sustained in the long term. Anyway, completely off topic sorry.

Not in the UK they haven't squire. Their target for the UK is 100k which doesn't feel like a lot when you consider the top level journalists they have signed up - David Ornstein, Oliver Kay, Daniel Taylor and co must be on six figure salaries. Their only income is subs as they are a site with no ads, so if they have too many paying £1 a month I can't see how they are going to be sustainable long term. The Guardian have a lot more paying subsribers than that, paying more than that plus can supplement income through ads etc. And they are skint. They have splashed a lot of cash at writers and good luck to them, and maybe in a post-print world they will do okay. But i still suspect they will get swallowed by a bigger player sooner rather than later. Like lots of digital start ups, lots of reports of attracting investors, but not so much about making actual money. We'll see.