S-Clarke

There was a crazy media story at the start of the window which said we put a £100m price tag on him, as we valued him at close to Grealish or something daft. I don't think that came from the club though, weird rumour.

There's all sorts on twitter, impossible to know what to believe really. I saw something which said £42m fixed fee, with £6m achievable add ons + 20% sell on. There's obviously agendas at play, Everton journos wanting to say they got him for much much less, and our side making us want to believe we stood our ground. The truth is probably somewhere in the middle.

£42m fixed fee, with £6m add-ons. 20% sell on. So pretty much what we wanted all in.

Where's Abu out of interest?

Does anyone else find the Forest owner a total knob end? He's the sort of owner who will run that club into the ground if they're not careful. I can see him stomping his feet and stopping the taps at any moment if the fans ever say anything against him. I'd hate someone like him owning us, just a constant state of apprehension.

I assume the 'bidding war' brewing has pushed them to get this completed sooner rather than later, fully on our terms I'd assume. I always felt this was likely to happen. Be interesting to see who we target to replace him, clubs will know we're totally loaded now. The next 10 days are going to be nuts.

I'd be staggered if he hadn't had an involvement or a recommendation towards this one.

I'm sure that actually came out of his mouth once. 'if we lose, but we're doing it the right way, I'm so proud of them'' - or something a long those lines. Utter bullshit. So glad we're out of that. Feel sorry for Rangers.

Depends how the Boro manager sets up, he may find that his setup fits BBD more than he's ever fitted here. I think he's a very limited player, but his past has shown that he can clearly be effective in the right environments. Why anyone thought he'd effective for us in a Russell Martin pass the ball style is beyond me though, a truly bizarre pick for the situation we were in.

It's a weird one from Ipswich to be honest. He's not a true first team player at Leicester, so they did well to get £12-14m for him. Not sure what Ipswich are getting there, Leicester describe him as fairly average - but that's probably on the back of last season. I remember him doing pretty well against us in the Championship thrashings we had against them.

I don't want to speak too soon, because we've all been burnt so many times in the past. But I do kind of get the same vibe. It's hard to explain why, but sometimes things just feel right and you ultimately have immediate trust. That's what this feels like here. I think a lot of it is because he talks straight, there's no waffle from him. He's straight, he wants to win games, he doesn't care how, here's here to win games. So many times it's been about philosophy and playing a certain way all the fricking time, but for me it's about getting good players, playing them in their natural positions and being flexible when required. That's where I feel we are now. And the Mads signing is another example of our common sense approach imo. Nothing clever, nothing flashy, 'just works'.

Once someone picks him up from South Korea.

I get you, we've dealt with crappy signing over crappy signing for what feels like a decade - but this sort of signing feels like a bit of common sense for a change, and a 'now' signing and a step away from buying kids with up sale. This guy has been signed to make us better today, rather than a view to make us a profit in the future.

How I see it is that he was reasonable enough at that level to allow Brentford to establish and stabilise in the PL. They've now evolved their full back positions with better players, so he's dropped down the pecking order. I think they signed that Kayode guy this summer for £20m or such. Yes, people are now looking at Brentford to struggle - but it's because of what they've lost in attack, as opposed to what they have across the wider team. They evolved on from Mads, but it's not to say he wasn't part of the setup which established them in the PL in the first place. There is a risk that sometimes you can look too far ahead with signings, I think you have to take what he can offer us today. We've all called for players ready to come 'straight in' rather than 'young with potential', well this guy - and Azaz - will be players who can come straight in and immediately lift up the side in our weak positions. Absolute no brainer for me.

I don't think anyone is expecting him to be better than KWP, or were expecting us to signing anyone who was as good as KWP. This guy is a completely different profile to KWP too. I think we all appreciate that having KWP last time out in the Champ was a bonus, a ridiculous bonus. Those levels of players don't often operate in the Champ. We got lucky he stuck around.

Everything about his game is so bad. It's a shame really because I love his attitude and how he approaches 'life', but he's just not right for English football. A poor pick of many from that ill-fated transfer window last year.

I'm personally frustrated that we allowed Real Madrid to sneak in and snap up Trent. (tm)

Not sure if Blackmore is guessing on that one. It would make sense though. He was a player who arrived with much fanfare, but holy christ he is easily the worst RB we've ever had in the PL. He's a happy chap, but he made me depressed. If we get a good fee for him, at least making back our £6m, then we should accept it and move on. He's even frustrated me in the Champ with his awful wayward passing.

Brentford have Kayode and Hickey as their full back options, they are better than Roreslev, yes, but both of their 'starters' are out of our league and thus irrelevant options for us. We are shopping in the market of PL reserve players, I don't understand why you're so upset about it. Who were you expecting exactly? We're not signing a starting PL player, they're always going to be a squad PL player.

Yeah I'm with you, and everyone else by the looks of it. I don't see anything wrong with the deal. We needed a RB, one of our key positions, and we've got a PL right back in the door who has played and performed at the top level of this very division. Looking at all the comments, the Brentford fans love him so he seems a good egg. And that's often just as important as being good in your position.

How have you come to that conclusion out of interest? I'd take the Brentford fans views, who have watched him every week, over other club fans views if I'm honest.

Yeah, I'm really frustrated we didn't sign Aaron Wan-Bisakka, Dallot, James, Rico Lewis or Ben White. Everyone out.

As others have mentioned before, gauging the view of the fans he's leaving is often a good indication of the player and person he is. No faults to be seen with this one.

Well where the feck did that one come from. I've always thought he was a cracking little right back when he's played for them.

I wonder if we'll have him sign his contract on the pitch? That was a funny saga, dealing with that crazy Hearts owner at the time iirc.