Wet Spam just spent £25m on Pablo Fornals. 'Pablo who?' I hear you ask. I'd never heard of him either. Attacking midfielder with 12 goals and 18 assists in 129 La Liga appearances. £25m. That's how much obscure mediocrity costs if you're a PL club.
You want to know a bigger joke? One West Scam blog was talking Fornals up last week by saying they'd pulled ahead of us in the race to sign him The only source linking Fornals to us was...that same West Scam blog
On the other hand, a Spanish midfielder must be doing something right to get selected for their national side.
Fornals' international career to date 2016: brought on in the 83rd minute in a friendly against Bosnia 2018: brought on in the 64th minute for a friendly against Bosnia For comparison's sake, the 45 minutes Michael Ricketts played in a friendly is considerably more international football than Fornals has played
Ricketts was competing with Emile Heskey and Darius Vassell, rather than Isco, Silva and Koke, though.
We probably shouldn’t take the piss until we actually sign someone, though! Knowing us, we’ll probably end up with some cheap unheard of alternative like that!
You're not exactly helping Fornals' case there, considering they had friendlies with the might of Georgia, Tunisia, Costa Rica and Wales, plus dead rubber World Cup qualifiers against Liechtenstein, Albania and Macedonia in that period yet he wasn't called up
Lo Celso Watch Fernandes Watch Spurs are now "very close" to signing midfielder Bruno Fernandes from Sporting Lisbon after progressing the deal earlier this week. - Record Spurs will not be signing Bruno Fernandes from Sporting Lisbon this summer - Sky Sports ...so which is it? Shopping List Watch Tanguy Ndombele, Donny van de Beek, Nicolo Zaniolo and Ryan Sessesgnon - The Grauniad Tanguy Ndombele, Giovani Lo Celso, Ivan Perisic, Ryan Sessegnon, Jack Grealish, Jack Clarke - FootballDotLondon Tanguy Ndombele, Giovani Lo Celso, Ryan Sessegnon, Max Aarons, One Experienced Centre Back - Murdoch's Hate Comic ...so which is it?
That bottom one would suit me. Ndombele and Lo Celso improve our biggest problem area tenfold, Sessegnon can provide competition at LW and LB with the possibility of becoming our long term LB, Aarons is a solid alternative to AWB and an experienced CB for if Toby leaves make sense.
The one issue I have with Aarons is that, at present, we have an obvious weakness we have at right back with three players already vying to be the rotation option for somebody clearly a step ahead of them who we don't have, yet there's no guarantee signing Aarons won't address this Could he be this player in a season or two? It's feasible - but we don't need this player in a season or two, we need them now, especially with the rumours of Trippier angling for a move to Juve coupled with those of us shopping around Aurier
Reading that Man City are getting ready to gazump us on the Ndombele deal. Also, that Eriksen's Champions League final display convinced Zidane that he's not Real material, meaning we'll probably lose him for nothing next summer.
...and you believed it? I'm a Nigerian Prince and if you lend me £20,000 for 2 weeks, I promise not to bugger off and never be seen again.....
