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I still don’t believe it. @Frankworthington told me he’s not coming.

I work with a (Turkish) Galatasaray fan and he messaged me to say ‘congratulations’. I think Ferdi’s performances for Turkey in the Euros endeared him to many non Fenerbahce fans.

Has anyone whose flight we’ve tracked turned out to be any good? Maybe I’m just scarred by Ali J but it seems nearly as much of a curse as the POTS!

We seem to be ‘advancing’ like a WW1 battalion. Inch by inch

If Ferdi is coming as Lb it could be both!

Halfway down page 2. Not very excited by this potential £25m signing are we?!

My assumption based on 2 players per position was Pervis and Barco LB and Hinsh and Ferdi RB with nearly all of those also able to play WB or even CM. Lamptey off.

Would show what we all know. I’ve been impressed with him and was expecting him to get a good amount of game time…

The issue with this is that I don’t think Ferdi (or his lawyer) is the blocker here. The blocker is the extra €5m Fenerbahce want…

I’ve solved it by only looking at the ‘Followed’ tab, which for me is basically transfer stuff and a few accounts I find funny. Never look at the algorithm stuff now

This will be Rutter probably. Incredibly I’m a lot less excited about that (club record £40m) signing than Ferdi though

Looking at the side yesterday, there’s an obvious Milner shaped hole. Neither he nor WBG are ideal for that progressive CM role. And Rutter usually plays further forward. Still think we need O’Riley (or similar)

I appreciate our recruitment team knows what it’s doing. But £40m for Rutter, and not paying enough for this guy feels like it would be the wrong way round. Hopefully we can still get it over the line, but playing him tonight seems like hardball from the Turks

As someone who’s done quite a bit of business in Turkey over the years, my main concern is that they might agree something and then try to move the goalposts (that may even be what’s already happened). And we know Tony doesn’t react well to that (Van Dijk…)

This seems to be the consensus in Turkey - down to the player now. Imagine if we spent over £70m in 2 days!

My hope this is still alive is that seems unlikely Fenerbahce would ‘rest’ him from a key CL game if something isn’t close. That could of course not be with us.

I wonder if the misalignment on who to spend the money on was the issue (RDZ wanting too great a say) as opposed to how much money

I wonder if the O’Riley thing is actually about Kadioglu. Get him and it frees Hinshelwood to play CM and we don’t need o’riley and then we can afford this bloke?

Checked with a Leeds mate and he said ‘he’s our 3rd best player. We’ve already sold the best two’. And also ‘he’s either absolutely brilliant or totally sh**e. Nothing in between.’

Hard to say who is a striker and who a #10 these days, but if you look at it as 4 attackers across STR, ACM, LW, RW, then we would have Ferguson, Welbeck, Pedro, Rutter, Gruda, Minteh, March, Mitoma, Adingra, Enciso. So 10 players for 4 positions. You could probably exclude March as he’s both...