If PSR is the issue we shouldn't be trying to sign one of the most expensive CBs in the premier league. If you can't afford bread, don't go and try to buy an expensive car.
EXACTLY THIS!!!! If we have a tight budget where the **** is the scouting? Todibo, £30m, Thiaw £25m for starters. As I say, literally anyone can say “Guehi is good”, just like anybody would also say “but he’ll cost £60m”. What. Are. We. ****ing. Doing????
In other news, Chelsea have bought Neto for £60m. No bids, no rejections, no week of to and fro. Just a player, with a value, and they buy.
8 days til kick off, 21 til window shuts and we have 5 goalkeepers, with Dubravka still here, as well as Hayden, Lewis, Fraser, Targett. Amateurish.
Is that the best you have, they can still try? We have had this rodeo before on here, everyone was banging on about how skint we are and we are just trying to get the best prices available. Then we paid the original asking price afters weeks of protracted negotiations. Wasting everyones time. That has been the case for Gordon, Barnes, Tonali, Bruno, Livramento. We play hardball and then just cave and give them what they wanted all along. What we are essentially doing in laymans terms is trying to figure out the best terms for a payment plan. That's all, we come in with 50m and try and negotiate what they might accept in monthly/yearly installments, but instead of saying "it's a payment plan" football clubs and businesses invent bullshit terms to make it sound more technical.
Rumour that Neto to Chelsea frees up Madueke to Newcastle. Maybe Sky needs a rethink on that “big 7” notion…..
Makes sense - saw a report saying we'd already agreed personal terms, so maybe we've been stuck waiting for Chelsea to make a signing
Madueke is decent, I think, but given the noise about UCL qualification he’s more Barnes than Isak. We can loan him I heard, because we’re that broke.
Rumours of interest (how you can have “interest” this far into a window with no scouting possible is a ****ing mystery) in Kulusevski. I’ll say it again, Olise, Tosin, Kelly, Madueke, Kulisevski, Guehi. Are we ****ing allergic to scouting overseas? What’s even more baffling is our best players - Isak, Bruno, Botman, Joelinton - all came from abroad. Our uk buys are all second fiddle bar Gordon.
