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I will genuinely be sad if we don't get Hackney. Seems like such an obvious fit.

Given he's 7th (!) percentile among fullbacks for carrying the ball up the pitch I think we might agree with you mate 😜

Reckon this will get done then. Assuming all reports are true, the player is keen and clubs are not far off in valuation, and this was our first bid which you'd never expect to have accepted. Blimey.

Depends on their squads - worth remembering Fofana is only *20*. Couple seasons first choice at a middle prem club can be equally as attractive as a couple seasons rotation option at a CL club at that age. He's not the finished article yet at all

Oddly Boylands article feels more positive than his bluesky post. Nearing an agreement with the player and in talks over fee with the club.

Seems like we'll find out later today if this is real or not. I'm leaning yes if Boyland is planning an article on it...

If this is real, Sociedad must have massively upped their price for Kubo. I can't see Fofana being much less than 35-40.

He got upset he didn't know about Aznou and went begging for a tidbit haha

His stats here are hugely skewed by the fact they were from one of the worst La Liga teams of all time. Spent 90 mins under the cosh every game pretty much. So the defensive stats will be a fair bit inflated and the attacking stats will be hugely suppressed. Think he probably is quite an...

I like this a LOT. These were the vibes at youth level: And at senior levels he was putting up elite dribbling numbers and extremely good defensive numbers on the worst team in La Liga at age 19: That's a lot of good looks for £8m in a position where exactly that profile is great: someone...

To be fair, Joyce will be writing pretty much verbatim from what the club is telling him. How true THAT is is another matter

Hopefully just a way of telling Sociedad we have other targets that we'll move onto if need be. Don't understand how any game-playing via the media like that actually helps, but all clubs and agents try and do it so who knows

Poking my head in there's people arguing we don't need CMs? Am I reading that right?

Definite credible links that we're trying. Not enough credible links that he's interested though. Feel like it's one where we may ride our luck a bit. Happens to be a summer where he wants a move and we want a new RW and by chance there's not the same opportunities going elsewhere so a PL move...

Yeah absolutely he's a huuuge upgrade for us immediately. This is all just conjecture from me projecting out yeeaars in the future - which is hard! That's why even pros at football clubs get it wrong so often. It's just what I reckon. It's not where I'd spend that much money right now but...

I guess it's more that I think weighting our resources into moving the dial for the next season or two shouldn't be our main goal, or at least not at the cost of impacting our ability to rebuild long-term. In absolutely every sense of the word we are a club in transition and we should be...

Compared with other CMs in the prem that year Edit: again, I just wanna be clear because discussions on the internet push people into taking two opposite viewpoints - I don't think he's a bad player at ALL. I just don't think he moves the dial aalll that much for the price and age.

...passes and progressive carries were all just slightly above average in this last season at Villa? And his shot and goal creation from open play was *below* average? This is what I mean like, he's a good player and triple the player of Garner - and I totally agree he gives the squad a massive...

A Ahh my mistake. Anyway he's a million miles better than Garner and I'd enjoy watching him play if he signed. It just gives me concerns about long term planning.

I guess the thing for me is, and this relates to your last point @GrandOldTeam, is that in the age of PSR, 40m for a 28 year old is not peanuts at all. If you spend that on that player on a 3 year deal, you are never seeing another penny of it again, and that then is instantly £40m that you need...