If Thelwell pulls off some three card monte with DCL to Newcastle exchange for Minteh he deserves incredible props to how he's moving in this window thus far. Im assuming we are paying a difference in such a deal, but the question of how much is really hard to discern. If his eval is around 40 million I don't see how that's feasible unless DCL pays for half of that the other way. Then we start to enter some plausible ground. 20 million for a touted winger in exchange for an expiring contract is not ludicrous although arguable.
But removed of if our limited resources would be better served allocated elsewhere, Thelwell is proving nifty. To try to cook a trade for a player we would be loosing almost certainly in 12 months to lower the asking price of a target is savvy. And the same in the Villa deal. Not sure who initiated the Dobbin deal but I think we got the better end of that talent wise with Iroegbunam.