CB Fry

Nice article on The Athletic on the background to the transfer. He wasn't particularly on the radar until he became available. Says Theo said he wouldn't go anywhere else (ie West Ham etc) which of course put us in a strong position regarding negotiations. Lots of hope that his attitude/professionalism will be a wider benefit than just his contribution on the pitch, contrasting him with the less team-focused Boufal. The main piece of new information was that Ralph still believes in Elyounoussi, and if the Celtic weren't quite as keen to lock down a deal early summer, he may well have been back in our first team squad for this season and we would not have needed Theo. But that's okay right - after all everyone slagged off Moi so therefore he's going to prove everyone wrong and be brilliant because of Danny Ings or something. Welcome back Ely for 21-22.

We've had worse windows but overall this wasn't a great one. Good to get shot of a few earners. Walker-Peters a decent signing. The other two we'll see. If one of them turns out to be a Mane-style smash hit then great but remains to be seen. Walcott, seems a bit pointless to me. Let's see how he does. Maybe the kids might learn something. All in all the squad still feels wafer thin. We've been lucky with injuries in recent seasons so let's hope that continues.

If we pull off another Mane/Toby deadline day miracle i will upgrade my transfer window assessment rating from "travesty" up to "dumpster fire".

But a few folks are saying we could be bringing in as many as three.

Seems unlikely.

All those Lazio fans currently underwhelmed by that signing are going to look pretty foolish when he proves them all wrong by being sensational.

Just the usual absolute forum bollocks that any player who gets slagged off at the point of signing inevitably goes on to prove everyone wrong and be brilliant. Funny how no one ever talks about the people who wrote off Elyounoussi or wrote off Hoedt or wrote off Danso or Clasie every other player that proved fucking no one wrong because people thought they were shit and they turned out to be shit. So unless you dins are saying that Theo will join us and end up back in the England team like Ings has, then I have no idea what point you are making.

Permission denied.

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.