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I imagine the bit about needing to reach a deal with Flamengo wasn't about negotiating the transfer or settling on a fee, but structuring the payments relative to PSR.

I'm pretty sure the deal was a loan with a buy option that became an obligation if certain conditions were met. Even bypassing the obligation, there wasn't a chance of someone swooping in if they exercised the option and worked out the details...

That's fantastic. It'll also not be all upfront, probably spread out over two years, so six million pounds per year will barely even touch our PSR.

I agree and think most of the wrongly quoted numbers are ALWAYS abuse of exchange rates. "Journalists" know it too. Id wager 90% of the wrong numbers bantied about, and believed by people on here, are because someone said 20m euros and the next...

You may be right. I remember reading something about Thelwell wanted Maupay to complement Calvert-Lewin, but whatever I read could have been wrong.

Paled Mail

Thelwell definitely brought in some gems, and some stinkers as well. It's hard to know how things would have panned out if the club weren't so desperate and poorly run. How much of the failures had to do with a lack of overall strategy...

Good thing we binned off basically the whole team responsible for them eh :(

I assume terms with Charly, or some conditions of the option rather than the obligation.

Andy Hunter in the Guardian also confirms, along with the club working to extend Idrissa:

Andy Hunter in the Guardian confirms that Everton are working to extend Idrissa.

The New York Times says that negotiations are progressing well and they expect to have it completed before the end of the May. It also cites the price at €15m (~ £12.5m). I think this is accurate, and all the various "reports" on less reputable...

Jack Harrison's best happened on the left under Marcelo Bielsa, and the peak was their promotion year in 20/21, the last year that he was partnered with Ezgjan Alioski at LB. They'd had a lot of success together in the Championship, but Alioski...

The only reliable and quickest transfer site I pay any attention to is when Danny changes a thread title to "confirmed signing". Before that it don't click on owt nor read speculation. What's the point. Too long in the tooth to waste my time...

Weirdly, was only thinking earlier whether we should bring a reliability guide back... The idea of fans voting on reliability and us preventing lower rankings sites is a good one.