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Yeah, this sounds plausible and I hope it’s the case. But I’m almost getting Maignan vibes from the Simons deal. The club were given the impression by someone that a deal could be done for a low price, we bid said amount with genuine desire from the player to move, but then the selling club say nope, we want much more.

Does feel a bit odd how long we’ve gone in “advanced” negotiations without actually completing these deals. Hato seems nailed on at this point judging by what Fabrizio said last night but something feels off with Simons. I don’t feel confident at all right now that we’ll get Simons done. I suspect what’s taking so long is that both sides are digging their heels in deeply at their hardline valuations and neither are budging. So I can see us walking away and just getting fucking Garnacho.

We haven’t gotten our daily “Xavi Simons and Hato are advancing well after the clubs talked again today” tweets from Fabrizio & Ben Jacobs YT today.

That’s two sales now that we anticipated being far more difficult than they actually ended up being in Felix & Madueke. Bit concerning that pretty much all of the Nkunku links have died. Bayern are getting Diaz, United got their two new #10’s and don’t need him anymore. Those were the two clubs we repeatedly heard about being interested. If Simons comes in and we’re interested in Garnacho then there’s zero place for Nkunku at all. Then there’s the actual anchors that will take some kind of magic to move in Sterling, Chilly, and Disasi. How we’re going to move them I have no clue.

I’d be shocked if an Italian club pays what we’re asking. These cheap bastards will probably offer a loan.

Doesn’t Quenda play almost always on the right side? Not that it’s going to be any easier to get into our team over there either… That might become Jackson’s only possible destination if we sell him this summer. If they sell Isak and United pip them to Sesko there really isn’t another notable option out there. They may be desperate enough to pay what we’re asking for.

In theory, Garnacho only makes sense of you consider the club wants 2 players for each AM position and that Xavi would be seen exclusively as a #10 rather than a LW. Gittens + Garnacho LW, Palmer + Xavi #10, and Neto + Estevão RW.

My goodness, I see the Garnacho links STILL haven’t died even with Xavi potentially coming in?!

I get the vibe that Hato will probably be done tomorrow and Xavi by the end of the week. Here’s hoping! Would be awesome to have all of our incoming business done well before the deadline.

Yeah, I’m not worried that either deal will collapse or anything. Just had hoped we’d maybe get reports that the deals were done today. But seems like we’re still negotiating for both and will be for at least another few days.

Sounds like we’re still days away from actually completing these moves.

You knew it was gonna happen the moment Donnarumma was linked with a move away. PSG weren’t gonna let him out of France.

Yep. As Maresca said after the final, he’s the heart and soul of the team. Unsellable now. He seems to love playing here as well.

Feels like we’ve heard some variation of this same thing everyday this week. Surely by now Leipzig have told us the price range. Don’t know what can still be happenening in these discussions. Perhaps this’ll be one of those saga’s where we don’t even hear of bids and just get an announcement from Ornstein that a deal is sealed.

He’s really good but he isn’t amazing or anything. They’ll probably go big for Rodrygo now.

Is he? I thought he did pretty well for them but nowhere remotely close to the player he was meant to replace in Mané. I feel like they can upgrade on him pretty easily if they want to.

Quite a massive difference in price from what Fabrizio says and Jacobs. Which is it?

Ok, then yeah. We ain’t going near him. Yes, I’ve said before that I think Penders is the long term hope. If he impresses at Strasbourg this coming season I think he walks right in as our #1 next summer.

Wonder what sky high is in this case, though. If he’s asking for £250k a week or something like that then obviously no chance we’d move for him.

Oh wow, Donnarumma may legitimately be leaving PSG. I know he’s considered bang average with his feet but should we not be considering him if his wage demands aren’t sky high? Especially with the Maresca/Italian connection. Problem would of course be trying to shift Sanchez out. Would also surely mean the Penders doesn’t get a look in after his loan.

Felix has to have one of the most puzzling career arcs ever. So supremely talented but just never out it together and bounced from club to club to club. Kind of crazy that he has been given opportunity after opportunity at massive clubs and couldn’t cement himself at any of them. I see a portion of our fanbase on Twitter and elsewhere suggesting that it would be a mistake to sign Xavi Simons bevause he’d just be the next Felix. But unlike Felix, Xavi has the work rate and mentality in addition to the silky smooth technical ability. That’s why I think he’s perfect in our team.

This was definitely the case in eras past. But in this current era of the PL where almost every club can demand £100m+ for their prized assets it’ll be much more difficult to use someone like Everton as a stepping stone. You’re probably right that in terms of game time it would be a decent move for him. But his agent better secure a release clause if he’s going to be as amazing as some people says he could be in the future.

From being linked to Chelsea, Liverpool, and Bayern to David Moyes’s Everton. Yikes! Surely he can do better than that?

With as crazy as we operate in the window you can’t really rule it out 😂 If Simons is signed we’ll have a completely loaded set of attacking midfielders. Quenda coming in next summer and if Paez crushes it on loan at Strasbourg who knows what we do with him. But would I be shocked if our crazy club went for another winger? Nope.

Yildiz will be next summer’s big saga I think. All the big boys who feel they need a top winger will be after him. Can see City going big for him if Doku has another average season.