S-Clarke

I wonder what would happen to DT if we signed Winks and sold JWP to Spurs. Self destruct?

Massive loss for them. I guess they'll go for RLC at Wing back, or 'Dave'

I think the reality is that to compete we will need to spend £30m on individual players from time to time. You've got Forest splurging £35m on Gibbs-White, West Ham on all sorts, Leeds spent £30m on Aaronsen (and spent £30m fees windows before that). Villa have spent big on individuals, so have Everton in a window where they are not so 'flush'. I think SR appreciate that and we need to join the party. I'm not advocating us spending £150m on multiple big signings, but we 'should' be able to get a single £30m+ signing over the line if we are really serious about competing in this league - which I think we are.

Typo in the tweet. Stengs is currently at Nice

They do seem to be shopping about for a replacement.

I'll be sad about this one, I'll miss him. His legs have gone as we saw last season, but he's been great under Ralph. It's hard not to begrudge him a move back home on a decent secure contract, he's only got 1 year left here and obviously we're not looking to extend. We can't leave ourselves short though, so he'd need to be replaced with experience. Nothing other than good things to say about him if he does go. Leaves in a similar vein to Yoshi, signed as a squad player but never moaned, complained and contributed when required.

Sounds like this is more of an agent lead one as opposed to us being totally in for him. I imagine it hangs on Bednarek going and Caltea-Car being presented as a bargain to us.

Oh yeah for sure, some of the stuff (probably more than we actually realise) they spout is nothing more than lies to drum up clicks and the such. Builds the drama, increases their viewership and gives them more money in advert revenue (their deadline day is actually sponsored by leading brands now).

I can see something like that. £25m guaranteed and 10-15m in add on's based on things like apps, international apps, PL finishes etc. Whether we're prepared to go there...who knows. Probably somewhat unlikely, but I imagine SR are looking around at the PL and seeing Forest, Leeds, WHU, Villa and even everton spending £30m upwards on individual players this summer. I don't think the ''we won't spend £30-40m'' on a single is particularly sustainable when you see the rest of the league.

Don't do that to us!

That's what forums are for! 😅 My forum star moment was when I proclaimed Elyounoussi would add strength and pace to our attack.

This is the same club that spunked £25m on Solanke and £19 on Ibe. More nonsense from Sky Sports experts.

It's not like Sky to make it up as they go a long. The chuckle brothers are being briefed as we speak.

Yeah, I'm not having that. He was a shocker. In the list of worst ever PL signings, not just for us, but for anyone. He wasn't any good as he's been a total failure even since he left us. He has scored the grand total of 11 league goals in 5 years and he is now at Henan Songshan Longmen in China. Monaco are probably still having a laugh.

It was when we had Kruger I 'think'. One of his daft pushes to try and make us relevant in the states, opening up satellite academies in the summer, doing pre-season out there etc. We went out and did some things with Under Armour too, really trying to raise our profile. I don't think we quite took over Man Utd's states reach though, it was close.

Rumour has it that Niko Kranjcar and Peter Odemwingie are in the car with him.

That's another popular shout from the Bournemouth lot. Not too far fetched.

PSV are in the driving seat really, he's got 4 years left on his contract. If he doesn't throw in a transfer request and kick up a fuss (and that doesn't seem to be what's happening), then PSV can ask for whatever they want. If they don't get it, oh well, they can ask again next year as his value won't drop.

I can't really remember how those panned out, is it right that there were no links or stories about those two guys until deadline day? I remember Mane wasn't actually paraded until after the Sept international break, cue mini meltdowns on here that we'd spent money on a player who couldn't get a work permit.

Yeah, those are the two. I saw some Bournemouth fans thinking Steve Cooper was a realistic target 😅

Why judge him on goal scoring though? Seems a bizarre stat to use against him. If he was a striker, fair enough, but he's a deeper CM.

Probably not, it's just a random link. Why would you be against that one? He is a very tidy midfielder.

Pretty much. He's hung the ownership out to dry by saying if you don't give me more money, then we will lose more games and not compete. They don't have very good players, not even close, but you can't sell out the owner like that given the backing he provided in January. Only one result after he did that, and it's a culmination of comments over the course of weeks. Somewhat strikes of a club without any footballing structure though.

It's 11pm on Thursday 1st September, 100%. 72 hrs to supposedly bring in 3 and lose 3. I can't remember us ever being this active in the closing hours before.