Dr Gloom

bringing Chris Wood home?

£35m is the going rate for promising young players in the PL. we’re just not used to receiving those sorts of fees because we’ve struggled to shift so much dross during the Ashley years

100%. even if he’d only hung around for a few seasons as a bits and pieces squad player like longstaff. We’ll never know now. I hope the move works out for him

he was robbed of a perfectly legitimate header by VAR wasn’t he? The other thing killing the game

Yeah, if you park whatever we think about the players who need to be sold to comply with this nonsense, you have to feel for Anderson. He’s just broken through into the first team squad of his hometown club, was injured for most do the season then just as he started to get a few games the club are forced to sell him to “balance the books”. Bullshit

they’ve been good since the Germans dominated the opening 20 mins or so

Apparently he wasn’t in any of the promo pictures for the new kit, which is surprising given he’s been our on field captain most of the time he’s been here. Could be one already priced in

DCL swap for Longstaff? He looks a Dyche player

All that shite about selling Gordon to Liverpool was smoke and mirrors to get Brighton to up their offer. Like I said

£33m is decent for a kid who has never kicked a ball in one of Europe’s top leagues. Man City sold Cole Palmer because of these rules when they probably would have rather kept him. It’s shite but now we can hopefully get the cheque book out next month and avoid any points deductions

Doesn’t the £30m we need to find to balance the books include the money owed to Chelsea for Hall???

I’m sure this is the solution, as disappointing as it will be to lose a promising youngster who hasn’t played for us yet. Needs must. We can’t be flogging our top players who are proven at this level for this psr shite. It will be annoying if he turns out class for Brighton but it’s be easier to swallow than selling Gordon to Liverpool - I can’t see that happening at all.

Fuck me, is this joker still peddling his shite?

I’d rather keep Anderson and Minteh too but it looks like we’re going to be stiffed by these rules and you can only sell players people want to buy. As long as it isn’t one of Bruno, Isak or Gordon I think we’re going to have to suck it up. Is rarher not sell willock either but if a £30-40m bid came in (unlikely after an injury-hit season) you’d have to consider it

The Elanga/Anderson swap with forest makes perfect sense as does the DCL/ Minteh swap - clubs getting stiffed by the rules working together to navigate them. Selling the players the Saudis want to build the team around to (in the chairman’s words) take us to number one makes zero sense

I think we will sell a player or two before the end of the June cut off but there’s more chance of your Everton prediction coming in than us selling one of the Crown Jewels

the counter point to that is if we sell someone for £100m we get to splash the cash in the remainder of the window. I’d like to think the club will find a more creative solution and this is all noise

Talking sense for once. It’s wine and chicken tonight