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Onuachu is the other one. Could net us 45-50 million woukd should help with the finances.

Same. I assumed he was an old poster under a new name...

Interesting. Would be a bit of a blow for me as he's been a steady performer and was good again today as well. Wonder what we'd get for him. If he did leave who would be the o'riley alternative if we got him?

Good post. The hope for o'riley is due to the fact that Atalanta have moved on, his previous relationship with Martin and that he is still in contact with him, the fact we have bought players not hugely less than celtic are asking for him and that they like Shea Charles who we are clearly sending somewhere. Fingers crossed.

Cheers let's hope so. If that is true I'm not sure how we are going to fit all these midfielders into the squad.

I don't need to trawl through your posts to see you talking utter bollocks. It's a bit like when you got drunk the other week and repeatedly called me a cunt before apologising. Maybe you're on the sauce again. We may well sign o'riley but it will have feck all to do with you pretending to be itk on here.

Is it a different interview? Do you have a link to the Alex crook interview?

What on earth are you talking about? I had no idea you'd laughed at anything I said. I'm laughing at you because you pretend to be itk with your COT bollocks. It's got nothing to do with racism you weirdo.

Because if we had no intention of signing him this window there would be little need to add that caveat. If you watch the stream he also smirks when he says it. Seems rather telling to me.

Genuinely I haven't seen them.

And me. Besides which we don't have another 25 million to drop on o'riley plus the putlays on Archer and this new guy.

If the club mentioned it almost every single time, do you have any other quote besides the Alex crook one?

The tweet I saw said we are not in the race "right now". Which is a big difference.

Isn't Alcaraz similar in style to o'riley? I hope you're right.

I haven't seen any quote that said we aren't signing him. Do you have a quote? The tweet wouldn't mention attacking midfield if that isn't what we were signing him for.

Pretty much confirms he's our o'riley alternative. Let's hope it's good enough.

I don't see it myself. You'd also have to fit in Smallbone, lesley and Aribo. I reckon this makes o'riley rather unlikely.

I don't see how we can afford much else. A winger and goalkeeper hopefully but I reckon there still isn't enough creativity for us to score enough.

Where is he going to play? Aribo replacement presumably. Still doesn't get us the creativity we need. I could end up with egg on my face but this is the first signing we've made this summer where I can't see the logic and for the price you can't help but feel that the money could be better spent elsewhere. We've been so careful with our funds in other positions and looked for bargains and shrewd buys. It seems like a complete change of tactics for this one unless we are supremely confident that he's unbelievable.

It's not like we even need a megastar. Someone like Johnstone is clearly an improvement on what we have now. We could have made a signing like that or similar about three years ago and sorted the position. We could have done it in any window once it became obvious that Bazunu wasn't ready to be first choice every week.

The more I look at this signing the more bizarre it seems. Is this just another one of those punts that he might turn into a megastar and we can sell him for big bucks later on? We have a finite budget and it looks like we are using loads of it in a position we don't really need. If this is the Alcaraz replacement then is there much point? Might as well keep him.

It's a really odd mindset that he'd play well for a handful of games at the end of the championship season and that somehow earns him a two year contract in the premier league? What happened to being ruthless? He could have gone elsewhere and left as a bit of a cult hero getting us up with well wishes from everyone. I don't understand it.

Hmm. Really not a fan of this. What we don't need is a young player in this position. Also seemingly means we aren't in for o'riley. Not sure this is a signing we need and it's a heck of a lot of money when we need strength elsewhere.

I don't see how it would be good. Hopefully they are just conducting their own tests and we will see it pushed through next week.

I reckon if you'd polled them about 95% of fans would have agreed with this. It's a bizarre blindspot for the club.