Hang on…
Are you happy or unhappy that we don’t want to spend £20m on Winks?
I'm 99% sure you know what I'm unhappy about. You can try and turn it on me by saying I'm not happy about this that and the other but, just for clarity, I don't want us to pay big fees for anyone unless they are as close to guaranteed quality (I know there are no absolute guarantees as this seems to be your catchphrase now, but there are safer and riskier bets) and Winks is certainly not that. I don't really want us paying big fees at all, we've proven we're bad at doing that so many times it's become a meme. My fear is that we will spend moderate fees, because that's all we have the budget for, on poor players from the PL who are as close to guaranteed failures (see my previous comment on guarantees) rather than speculate on CHEAP prospects who might be better (these are the riskier bets I'm all for). Cornet and Winks are poor players, the fact that they are some of the most consistently linked players to us worries me. The only other club linked to Cornet is Forest and nobody is linked with Winks except us. It speaks volumes. So, no, I don't want us to sign Winks for £20m or for two kit kats. The fact we can't afford to sign anyone, seemingly for any fee, should worry everyone and it certainly worries me.