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Few reservations... 1) Doesn't strike me as the most motivated lad in the world, I worry this might be a less extreme version of Dele Alli 2) He earns insane money. Even with City subsidising it we'd presumably have to make him our highest paid...

I don't disagree with anything you've said there. Think the only bit we are maybe not in agreement on is the fact that most of us, scarred by events of the previous 8 years or so, are going to be mindful of what sort of financial package we are...

Not seen Abraham play this season really at Milan. Obviously his goal scoring record has gone dramatically downhill this year, but are there any extenuating circumstances or has he really just had a poor season? Always thought he'd be a decent...

Sorry mate, this smacks of people on here saying "it's not your money, why do you care?" and "I'm pretty sure a billionaire accountant knows more than you" when we were spending ourselves into oblivion under Moshiri and we've only really just...

About a third, as it goes

Gueye is another great example. We paid £3.5m to get him back at age 32. If we’d have paid £10m for him then this forum wouldn’t been filled with widespread whinging but he’d have proven good value. People are so set on having set rules on the...

Think there's a distinction to be made about players who are late 20s/early 30s who are good and those who are crap. Lingard and Phillips were decent players at one time, but the others you've listed (with the arguable exception of Long) were...

You're right, of course, but they were all reasonably priced. Barry cost a nominal fee after about £1m Phil Neville cost £3.5m Tarks was a free transfer English players in their late 20s are fine (and actually we could do with one or two more...

That would be grim and not the outcome we were hoping for. Sure O'Brien has done fantastically well but he's not a FB and as a consequence this limits our options offensively. This is exacerbated by Mykolenko on the other flank

https://www.ribaj.com/buildings/bramley-moore-dock-everton-meis-architects-bdp-pattern-liverpool-stadium These guys seem quite impressed

O'Riley is a really talented player - lovely eye for a clever pass in the final third, but the perception from Brighton fans is that he's not quick enough and TBF they've seen far more of him this season than I have. I saw the stuff he said...

You won't find actual proof, but if you trust what Bobble says then he says this is what happened https://www.grandoldteam.com/forum/threads/kevin-thelwell.120293/post-11882247

This would be reminiscent of the Pienaar/Osman left and right options we had I've no issue with this provided we invest in proper overlapping, attacking full backs because that's where the width would have to come from

It's behind a paywall and I don't want to get in trouble, but this is the original article and "archive today" is your friend https://www.thetimes.com/sport/football/article/dominic-calvert-lewin-everton-transfer-news-pf5qnlmkb

I desperately want to keep Branthwaite, but with Dom and Keane now leaving, I make that the first team squad is now 10 players lighter than the one which ended the season. TFG may well provide cash for incomings, but I can't begin to imagine...