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How is it a horrible deal from a PSR perspective? The club have likely structured it this way to allow for flexibility around PSR. The option gives the club the ability to retain Charly, sell him for a profit, or extend amortization to reduce...

Terrible signing. And what’s worse, probably the first of several terrible signings - which will see us do better next season than this. Awful.

as has been mentioned, his position is the one position we have strength in. Also he lacks pace. We need an injection of pace as well as quality on the right side.

No, the only reason we are talking about him is that he would be a terrible signing. But it has more than a whiff of inevitability about it.

I'm concerned that so many people keep talking about Callum Wilson like he'd be a good signing. Not only is he 33 and has lost his legs, he's hurt every year — 5 times for 28 or more games. I'll take a pass on this bag of old, brittle bones.

I want McNeil on the right with a blazing attacking fullback behind him. Dwight is more creative from the right, and works hard enough defensively that such a pairing could be perfect for him.

The only thing I knew about Delap was watching him against us and Daz and Snods being thoroughly unimpressed with his poor performance and especially his poor decision making as he was unnecessarily aggressive at all the wrong times. I remember...

There was a recent article somewhere about Beto's hope that Charly remains. He said that their styles fit so well together because Charly likes to drive with the ball and put passes in ahead of him, and that before every game, Charly tells him...

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.

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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...