Get all that but still cheaper overall than a purchase I guess. Assuming the papers are correct the price quoted for brown was circa 8m so even taking in the extras it will be cheaper.
Decent prospect and good age for squad purposes. Competition in the number 10 role without significant outlay.
I always hope that this type of signing keeps money back for the more important forward or delaney
See now that Andy Naylor during a twitter conversation is saying that Delaney may be beyond our financial power since he current club have no need to sell. Disappointed but no surprise I guess.
Everyone is going to feel differently about this issue. I dont see a problem with expressing concern or surprise that we are not further into our recruitment for the season in the same way as it's okay to mention the time left until the window closes.
Personally I sway a little towards the...
Not sure I agree totally with that. We are going need every single point to maintain our extremely hard won status and whatever way you look at it the sooner the scouted players can be integrated the better. Yes it's about quality but as everyone keeps telling me all the players on our target...
No not anyone but perhaps someone that the clubs praised scouting department have been tracking for possibly 2 years now according to barber. But then again you knew exactly what I was getting at
The timing of the Argus article was odd. It's basically saying we are interested and would be prepared to set a new transfer record to get this guy something which had been mentioned elsewhere before. Normally this sort of piece goes live in the morning on the website certainly no urgency to get...
This would be an excellent addition. Having seen him play he is undoubtedly a better player than Mooy and him plus stephens, kayal and sidwell would be great for the battles ahead. All the noises coming from his club don't point to this going forward but money often talks so we see. At least...
Another keep calm message from the club in today's Argus. I get the need to manage, where possible, supporter expectation but that's 3 or 4 this week along the same lines from the club in the argus and on the website.
Are the club finding this harder than expected?
On that basis nothing in...
Depends on what he means by huge. Relistically it gong to take at least 25m to get us in a position to maybe compete. Still have trouble getting my head round 25m being a small amount in football terms.
I was relatively relaxed about signings until I saw that list of supposed strikers on the radar. Let's hope it's the usual surprise name signing rather than those linked otherwise it will be a long old season and probably a low scoring one
Personally I am determined to try to enjoy the season whatever happens but I do understand some of the concerns. Yes not many teams have added to their squads yet but to be fair most already have premier league squads that need small changes. It's a whole new ballgame for us we need to...