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Thanks Turkish. It’s good to have someone with your inside knowledge and connections being able to confirm this link for us. Might not have believed it otherwise.

Christ you're right...

Suggestion I saw yesterday, albeit on an 'unreliable' West Ham source (vlog) was that Downes had rejected the prospect of the move.

After that video that’s exactly the response we should give. Or tell them it’s now £20m ..,

Think the Van Hooijdonk rumour has gone away.

West Ham also linked. As someone else said, You'd have though Burnley would have been in the driving seat. £15m mentioned in articles. No doubt we'll do it with the usual buy back options. Wonder how much Edwards would be from Peterborough, and which one we'd go for.

For one Lavia , there’s an Edozie, Bazunu, Larios… Gunn… We’ve already taken Charles from the City tombola this year. I think the Bobb signing is intended a loan rather than purchase. Agree with you regarding the Manning standard.

At what level ?

Fair point

in a perfect world a better recruitment team might filter out those who might not be ‘manageable’ or motivated.

On the face of it good work by our negotiating team on that one. Just hoping it’s not mostly add ons.

After the signings of Carrillo and Tall Paul, I don't think it's just temperament we need to worry about.

Any clues as to who, and from where ? Hope the GK isn’t the Swansea bloke they’d taken there from MK. Not rated by Swansea supporters by all accounts

With the review of Smallbone from a couple of friendlies I’ve read on here it could be heading for another 9/10 window …

Joining up with the striker we nearly signed last summer, name sounding like Fuck Awe ..

Does this include Zach Awe or are these players with first team experience ready to go straight into battle ?

He gave the team some leadership.

Not bruisers, but Hammond and Schneiderlin were solid and could mix it when needed, not the delicate flowers we’ve had in recent years. Cork was also a dependable player who did a lot of the donkey work.

Some of the names certainly don’t inspire confidence in me.

Angers are in Ligue 2 Will we ever learn ?

Wonder if Henderson and Fabinho are being sold on the ‘never never’ … Probably not.

Good user name. We could certainly do with the spirit of the Alehouse team on the pitch nowadays.

Good point (Joe Shields)

Which suggests RM isn't in control of transfers and Wilcox has a casting vote, or is able to veto it.

Perhaps Liverpool can add the £12m from Hendo to their low offer on Lavia. (And hopefully we'll still sell him to Arsenal or Chelsea)