Pizy

Soon as Arse score 1 this could be anything. This Wolves team look dire in terms of talent.

Not desperate at all from me. Just think it lined up perfectly for us to get him on a significant discount compared to what his price was even a few months ago. I’m skeptical he will reach world class level too but for Lukaku as part exchange to lower the fee it’s something we probably shouldn’t pass up.

Zero chance Isak could be had. Wasn’t it reported that they would’ve asked £100m+ for him earlier in this window when they were still in PSR trouble? Probably be even more now. Osimhen was/is the only “top” striker we know we can get if we simply pay the wages. It’s a deal that could’ve been extremely easy with them badly wanting Lukaku. Instead, we mess around for weeks and now PSG’s striker picks up a fluke injury at the worst possible time.

Fabrice Hawkins who is a French football reporter and is very reliable I believe (was the first to break the news that we were signing Neto) has also said that PSG could go for a new striker. You know PSG are always after big names and star power. With us haggling and dragging our feet for weeks it may very well have annoyed Osimhen. He can go to the weak as hell French league, score a boat load of goals easily, and surely earn even more than his already high Napoli wages. It’s a no brainer for them and for him. So I hope the club has another plan, whether that’s some other striker or sitting on what we have and not panicking.

Think both of these early kickoff matches will be hammerings sadly. Arse will probably pump Wolves next. West Ham v Villa should be good, though.

Yep, hammering it is. Ipswich are horrendous defensively. Fullbacks getting roasted.

Fabrizio confirming PSG is likely to go for a striker now that Goncalo Ramos is out for months. So there’s Osimhen off the table for us, surely.

What in the FUCK was that from the Ipswich fullback?! He just leaves the most dangerous player on the pitch?! Could be a hammering now.

Ipswich play some tidy stuff on the ball. Can see why McKenna is highly rated. Not sure they’ll fare too well defensively, though. Their CB’s look painfully slow.

Think it’s a perfectly reasonable fee myself. I know people here are mixed on him but for me he’s still an elite talent and is still young. This day and age you see random players from the Championship being bought for silly money. So £38m for someone with world class technical ability is a good deal, imo.

I just can’t escape the feeling that Toney is a big fish in a small pond type. Not convinced he’s good enough for the very biggest clubs. Him going from a small club like Brentford to a medium sized one feels more like his level to me. If it’s not Osimhen I’d just stick with what we have and Guiu will get loads of minutes this season rotating with Nico. Jackson as the starter, Guiu as his backup, and Nkunku or perhaps Felix as emergency false 9’s. Spending £50-60m on 28 year old Toney is too risky, imo. If he flops in his first season of what I assume would be a 5 year contract it would be a disaster even bigger than Lukaku in terms of trying to shift him.

I just can’t imagine any of these clubs being willing to sell such key players so late in the window. Especially PL clubs.

I’m not sure Brentford can do that. Selling their best player and main source of goals with no time for a replacement? They could get relegated if the do that.

Wonder who the club will panic buy in place of Osimhen if we miss out? Just go back in for Omorodion? Christ, I hope not. If we’re lucky someone else will have bought him by then. Wouldn’t be surprised if we get someone on loan completely out of the blue on deadline day.

Ah, shit. When I saw that Ramos got injured earlier I didn’t even put 2 and 2 together and realize that they’re definitely going for Osimhen now. We likely messed around too long. They’ll have no issues at all paying his huge wages.

All I want to see is for us to show some proper balls and play like we belong on the same pitch as them. Don’t take the pitch and be overwhelmed from minute 1. We have more than enough quality to cause them all sorts of problems if we play with confidence.

Always liked Chilly as a personality and loved watching him at his best in that UCL winning season before he got injured when he was flying up and down the wing. So it’s sad to see his Chelsea career never really recover. But it is right that we move on. Ideally it’s not to someone who can hurt us since I do think there’s still a very decent wingback in there.

Now that we have Neto and are chasing Felix, how the FUCK would it make an ounce of sense for us to also be after yet another winger? I’m calling bullshit here. Chiesa is someone who was probably one we looked at as an alternative to Neto.

United for me look like a team that will win a LOT of games against weak teams in jammy ways like we just saw. But from a stylistic and team selection POV I really don’t think Ten Hag is going to get them beating the other top teams. Their football just looks really…..basic I think is how I’d describe it? Doesn’t help when he keeps picking Mount, Rashford, Maguire etc.

True. I’m not really impressed with any of their attackers bar Bruno (who I despise as a player but can admit is good) but they’re very direct and fast which causes lots of problems.

Yep. Fulham have been pretty average here but still slightly better than United. But as is typical for the Manc’s they score a bail out goal out of nothing.

I think he clearly is connected with agents and people within clubs so he definitely knows a lot. But what he has been guilty of this summer is reporting things as advanced far too soon. You can tell he does that so he’s first. As opposed to Ornstein who doesn’t care as much about being first but always waits until something is 99% before tweeting it out.

See, this to me sounds like we’re indeed going to sell them Lukaku but we’re going to end up missing out on Osimhen because we’ll have wasted weeks trying to structure the deal in a way that was never going to be accepted. We need to stop fucking around and just pay them for a permanent move. A loan clearly isn’t happenening.

Surely. I don’t even really rate him but some of those chances they created should’ve been certain goals. They looked like us in front of net last season with those point blank misses.

United look okay on the ball but are badly missing their injured strikers. They do look super susceptible in midfield defensively, though. Fulham just don’t have anyone in there with the quality to exploit it.