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If he can get himself fit he offers us something we don't really have at the moment. I think there's a player there, he's looked good in the very small cameos he's made. The whole situation is quite remeniscent of Danny Ings prior to him finding his fitness. Hopefully he comes good and stays fit.

We're not though are we... £18 Mil for Downes £20 Mil for THB both would've been club transfer records back then. Reality is we were relegated we don't have the funds of Brighton or Brentford. I don't think people realise how far the club fell in the last 3-4 years. We're not the same team that were regularly putting in performances against the big boys and punching above our weight into europe. We're a struggling Premiership club that's just won promotion back to the league. It hurts, but that's the fact of the matter.

I'm confident we'll still buy 1 or 2 too. We're not totally fucked just spending within our means.

Yuki to Tall Paul. I see the vision... In all seriousness if we don't get an offer north of £12M we should absolutely try and make it work with him, I could see him developing a bit of a cult following here. As others mentioned he just brings something completely different and clearly knows where the goal is. If his head is in it let's see what he can bring.

Can only draw the conclusion that we are fucking with the Newcastle scouts at this point 😂

Bizarre subs

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Aribo looks miles off it at the moment.

Flynn is limping 😬

Disgusting challenge again

The kick to Janny B was pathetic and unnecessary. Getafe players flopping at the slightest touch here

It’s been said before but Sugawara’s delivery is excellent Getafe players really being petty in this first half.

Loved the challenge from Yuki

Arma not controlling anything today

Are we stronger than we finished last season... no. But I also think it's a bit of a stretch to say it's not looking hopeful when we have 20 odd days left of the window. We've been pretty active. THB and Downes skew the perception a bit because they were here last season but we still needed to get pen put to paper on them. They are now both assets to the club both for now and the future. Outside of them we've added: Ronnie Edwards - Looks like a gem for £6M and will provide good competition at CB Yuki Sugawara - £5M for a player that has looked to give genuine competition to KWP as opposed to the level of Bree Ben Brereton-Diaz - £6.5M for a player that is at minimum of an equal standard to Adams but looks far more promising Nathan Wood - £3M for a player Martin clearly feels he can develop (Jury is well and truly out but we're not breaking the bank there) Adam Lallana - Free - Added experience in bags, will likely provide more value to SAA and Dibling than the first team but still a shrewd signing Charlie Taylor - Free - Bit of battle tested cover for minimal outlay again pretty shrewd to bolster depth A few other fringe signings for the future/Goztepe We clearly need additional cover a 9,10,6 and GK and I'm sure those are deals that are being worked on. But I think we've had a pretty pragmatic window to this point and with time to spare I think we'll see a few more exciting deals in when the likes of ABK et al. are moved along to free up cash. We also have a lot of headroom to bring in loan deals, which typically happen late in the window. When you consider that most of the depth and quality we've lost are from loan signings you'd be hard pressed to say we're not a more attractive loan destination this year than last. So not a particularly exciting window yet but plenty of solid deals and gems had so far and plenty of time to add.

The Eze and Olise point is an interesting one in as much as prior to that break out season they were mearly seen as great high potential youngsters. Now if only we had a couple of high potential youngsters within our ranks… a winger and an attacking midfielder would be ideal 🤔😂

65M for a player with 29 Premier League goals in 134 Premier League appearances is madness.

We must protect him at all costs.

If we're going to stay up we're going to need to grind some results... slay a couple of giants and rely on our fair share of luck. Even with some additional business done between now and the end of the month it's going to be a challenge, but I do think we will see more fight and togetherness from this group than we've had for 5-6 seasons previous. That's all we can ask from the players. Play for eathother not for themselves and and will lose or draw I think we can be proud. If the worst happens, we regroup and go again. Given how poor we were 22/23 it's remarkable we even made it back at all. 😅

The thing to bear in mind is that a LOT of business is done at the last minute. It's why deadline is so engrossing to watch. I think we will get bits done but it might be last minute...

Full context for anyone not wanting to brave the shitshow that is X. (I don't blame you)

Need to kick the tires on Johnstone now right? Feels like we could wrap that up for 7-8M plus add-ons.

Edwards has impressed. He already looks miles ahead of Wood.

Dibbling getting close to earning a starting position surely. He's been so consistently good this pre-season.

Kit too...