CB Fry

Happy Flynn Downes day everyone!

You'll all see at the end of the window.

Flynn Downes is never ever ever going to sign for us ever.

Happy Flynn Downes day, everyone!

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It was a definitive yes. Whether he lives to regret that we'll see but it was as close as they could have gone to confirming it outside of Flynn walking out at that exact moment like Kevin Keegan.

The medical report says it's coming out of both ends.

Is this the right place for extreme videos?

I distinctly remember there were no posts on the Sheffield Wednesday match thread at all until we scored, because everyone was just watching the game.

My reply got deleted because I done a joke

Has Flynn Downes been announced? Huge if true

Whatever happens in this topsy turvy transfer window, we can be absolutely confident that all this will not happen.

Indeed. But, I will be getting increasingly annoyed every time someone says "....since 1966".

It's a great achievement. Feels like England are peaking at the right time.

Just listened to it, I think they all came across well. Downes is happening so nothing to worry about, good signing. Absolutely unequivocal about Bazunu. He's the goalkeeper and that's that. Let's hope he repays the faith. They were a bit vague about whether they need a bit of height, Martin was a solid no, Wilcox a bit more even handed. Wilcox pretty scathing about last year, our victories were mainly luck, and when you think about Leicester or Chelsea away he's absolutely right, just to think of two examples. And its pretty clear that Phil the new CEO is definitely "moving forward". I don't think he is ever going to stop moving forward.

Well, they won’t all need replacing as the squad is too big.

I'd have thought Chelsea are spending £100m on players because what they want to do it win the league and champions league themselves multiple times, rather than as some kind of incubator club to sell on for a profit later on. They're buying him now so they have a player worth £200m in 3 years time, not to sell him but to stop them needing to buy one. Saudi League is a different thing and not quite relevant and even now would interpret that unless peak players really want to play their peak years in Saudi league I don't see it as a reason to overly worry about sell-ons.

Not sure i will ever really understand this forum's absolute obsession wirh sell-on fees for our players. Honestly, it barely matters, it's money that supporters never see. If we're relying on that kind of thing in two years time we really are fucked. In the case of Lavia to Chelsea for £50-60m it's not a priority is it? Once you're at Chelsea as a £60m signing, the clubs available to us for sell on benefits is about four in the entire world: Barcelona (skint), Real, PSG and Man City. The same for Livramento to be honest, who else are Newcastle going to sell him to for a profit that we benefit from? Maybe, maybe add Chelsea and Man U to the list. So 6 clubs. Chelsea (and now, Newcastle) are pretty much "final destination" clubs, they're not stepping stones to further fortune later on. They are the fortune. I'd much prefer we got £5m on the fee now than a promise of something else on the off chance that PSG come in in two years time. Lastly even at a moral level, Lavia was with us five minutes, and Livramento basically one season. It's not like we've invested that much time and energy in their development. If the bloody sell-on fee is zero for both honestly fine by me.

A bit more than "chatter" to be honest, in that Martin pretty much said it was happening back on Saturday, and Sky/others reporting he was having a medical yesterday. The only risk is if a Premier League team tries to hijack it, or Downes changes his mind and says he wants to "fight for his place" or something. The only "concrete" thing is the club actually announcing it, which of course they haven't done yet.

A sell on clause sounds pretty pointless for a player you sell for one hundred million pounds.

There's nothing actually on that Daily Mail journalist's twitter feed about Lavia though.

Is this the same Harwood Bellis who spent last season on loan in the Championship or a different one?

We've already signed Charles so that's not "dreamworld". Downes is far enough along for the manager to say publicly that it's 48 hours away (so tomorrow) so that's not "dreamworld". Selling Che is likely but everyone running the club have indicated there would be a replacement, so spending 10-15m on replacement doesn't sound like "dreamworld". ABK definitely is going and we will need a front line CB to challenge Jack and Bednarek so a few mill on a replacement doesn't sound like "dreamworld" either. Let's remember you have spent the entire summer, the entire summer, arguing and arguing that JWP wouldn't go when it was the single most obvious and predictable event of the close season. Everyone knew it would happen but on and on you went. Dream. World. You're in absolutely no position to criticise anyone else's predictions.

In other words you've misrepresented what was in the post match interview and then got yourself upset about it. Literally said he was annoyed and frustrated but carry on making shit up if it gets you through the day