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Two Championship seasons with 20+ goals and a 15 goal Prem one at the age of 23 despite never really being Chelsea's main choice. He'd definitely be my number 1 choice but I imagine there's teams out there willing to sign him permanently which we won't, also teams who are far better such as Atalanta. Also, if he was suddenly available for loan then I imagine he'd end up at West Ham.

He's also 5 years younger, come on now.

Stylistically I'd definitely prefer Edouard. A threat in the box (seeing as Che hasn't scored a header in his career) would be useful and from what I've seen at Celtic he's got a great touch in particular. I believe we've only ever been linked to him in The Sun so who knows if he's even on our radar.

Sky are one of the worst sources out there at the moment. Both sides of The Athletic and Blackmore etc are all saying £30m.

Not that I think anyone will be gutted with the fee, but we do need to act quickly now to get the fans back on side after spouting "he's here for another season" for months. Absolutely no idea on the source.

Absolutely no shame in us accepting £30m, as it doesn't matter where the money comes from for us. Embarrassed for him going to Villa though.

Rumours he'd cost £30m so that one is immediately in the mud.

Be nice if he wasn't wrong for a change.

Looks like things may be heating up re: Kane as he's apparently refused to train today. I'd be very surprised if Ings doesn't end up at Spurs or West Ham.

That’s a bit vague, would be disappointed if it’s between £25-30m. Ultimately though we clearly didn’t have a choice.

Little disappointed with the buy back but will wait to see what kind of fee it is before complaining too much. Anything upwards of £30m would be fine.

Looks like he's going to cost £5m. The article states he can play both sides of defence as well, so that's a big bonus. Would imagine he's now first choice back-up for both LB and RB. Pinch of salt as it's Crook but happy days.

My bad, meant hopefully not a bullshit link. I agree he was great at the Euros and the exact signing I think we need to make. I'd assume we've given Livramento some promises to join us, so I'd imagine immediate back-up.

A million times better than signing Williams on loan, buzzing with that one if it's true.

Maybe just a lazy link as we've been mentioned before, but hopefully not.

Without wanting to go full MLG, he did post on here after the tweet from The Athletic, at which point people on Twitter were already suggesting it could be us. The same guy from The Athletic said that Watford were not in the mix a few hours ago.

Unfortunately it'll be because they're two of our higher earners and they're both too shite to be wanted by another club. Ideal situation would've been selling Frase to Celtic last Summer but I don't think he wanted to go there. I imagine we're stuck with this pairing until next season where Forster goes on a free and we try to bring in a new starter.

Would imagine it was a case of working with what we had due to limited funds, as opposed to actively deciding to bring someone like that in.

Fair enough! No point rebuying Lemina right after getting rid.

Ntcham seems a bit of a no brainer given our previous interest and the wages he was on at Celtic. I'm sure he'd have better options than being our 4th choice CM though.

Armstrong is so good, what a signing he was. Che Ings; Tella Armstrong is an exciting front four.

Oh my Shane Long is absolutely useless.

Djenepo's just been booked for diving in a friendly.

2-1, Redmond. Other than the weird own goal we've been top class here, especially going forwards. Stu and Tella in particular are brilliant.