S-Clarke

We probably felt we did have someone lined up, in Theo. I think the club have dropped the bollock here by being a tad laid back.

*All the time.

Every transfer works like this, our transfers in will be structured like this. It's very rare that any club will pay the entire amount straight away. Even Barcelona's payments for Coutinho and Dembele are staged, it helps clubs adhere to FFP as they can put the cost against 'future' years incomes, rather than against the same financal year. So the issue that we get paid in instalements by Liverpool isn't the issue here, this is standard practice.

Personally I don't think we'll end up with anyone now. Sims may have to be our answer....hopefully he's fully fit now.

Agreement on a summer move, jesus christ. Just shows up the pure arogance of us, assuming we will stay up. Everything is calm and relaxed.

To be honest the money we get for players is irrelevant, the club can pat themselves on the back about that for as long as they want (which they will) but if it's not reinvested into the playing side correctly then we might as well have just got 5p.

And the most frustrating thing is that this is all caused by ourselves. All of this has been avoidable, being in one of the strongest positions this club has ever been in.

He earned trust and some wiggle room during his tenure (we were always going to have a sticky patch at some point), but that is now evaporating incredibly quickly given that all of these situations are seemingly created by our own doing.

This 'failed to sign a replacement' malarky is planted to make them look like the bad guys. The bare reality is that we have not met the fee Spartak want. Spartak have another month until their season resumes, and another 3 weeks to sign replacements. This isn't anything to do with their side, this is simply because we don't want to spend the release fee.

Imagine if we sign Promes, a CB, a GK and we win tonight. 10/10?

Don't go lowering the tone with your sailor slang.

He's a good ball playing CB, but needs strength and power alongside him. He is bullied by powerful strikers because he lacks the strength and phyisical attributes. No one is saying he's a bad player, but the problem is we have CB's all in the same mould.

There's nothing left to do other than believe.

Need 6 for me, two wins are needed. Esp. with Liverpool up after that.

Those were the days.

Not exactly the sort we need, not even close. Good player, don't get me wrong, but not what we need. We have plenty of those types.

As much as I admire your optimisim, I don't see a huge deal happening for us! 0.5-1 for me. Would go to a 5 if we signed Quincy, but we do still need a CB with power. We've basically sold our best CB for £75m and haven't replaced him.

At least Goa can now pay back some of his loans with the VVD money.

Why? What has Slimani ever done in the PL? I think he's looked completley unfit for the PL. Hey, Carrillo may be as well, but Slimani wouldn't have been the answer.

Ah I hate that quiet day bull****. Bit of club PR in there as well throwing the ''it would be unacceptable for most clubs to pay the fee up front, so we've done well to get this far'' kind of thing. But it seems as if the official line fed from our side is that Spartak couldn't get a replacement, but that's a weak line as their window doesn't close until late Feb, and their season doesn't restart until a couple of weeks time either. Push the blame onto the other party, we did all we could sir, we did. The team is a little bit broken without pace.

They could still buy a PL player after our deadline. Sure it's been done before. That's why I don't buy that reasoning.

It happens every year. Sky just want to make a story out of anything.

To be fair, Spartak have got more time as their window closes in Feb. So I don't buy that reasoning Sky have put out.

Deal off, according to SSN.