Some Brighton fans were taking their shirts off and throwing them on the pitch when they did us 5-0 at Selhurst. We never pretended we were some sort of elite set of supporters though.
Who though?
The only truly ready to go players would be those De Zerbi has worked with before, and have played some PL football. Mudryk or Solomon is the shortlist I have, but I don't fancy paying double what I pay now for my season ticket.
The club did not decide to not get anyone in, they did decide that they were not going to over pay for Dewsbury Hall, and Gil decided he would rather sit on his arse at Spurs.
We don't know how many other players were approached and quickly rejected us.
Unless anyone knows of a player that would...
The new Broadcast deal has been sorted recently, from next season only Sky and TNT will show matches, plus BBC will show highlights.
The cost per match is going to be around £6M, a little under for Sky, a little over for TNT, this is less per match than the current deal, but there will be quite...
Well, although it's disappointing not to have bolstered the squad this window, it is clear the club were trying to. There is a willingness to spend, just not spend more on a player than the club thinks they should.
Not sure the value of Lallana is all in his playing, or, if his wage estimate is accurate, whether it reflects that he came on a free.
Might have been the figure of a release clause that was the stumbling block as you suggested, but we would have to know if it was a reasonable sum or far too...
Sometimes a loan player makes an impression on the league, and is targeted by other clubs, the club that had the loan player and the option to buy, then has an opportunity to make some cash from a transfer between the parent club and the buying club, by selling or giving up their option.