Recent content by windymiller

Four year contract. Fair dues, the lad's backing himself to dislodge Pickford. I admire his confidence.

I'd add another fullback and a third keeper to that list, personally. We need a RB and a LB.

I hope that's 4 to 6 permanent signings plus at least a couple of loans as our squad is very, very thin.

Ha ha, are you trying to wind up our resident grumpy orange?!

I think he's a quality player and would be ok with him being our highest earner. I agree, though, that his wage seems on the higher end but we have to be realistic about the sort of players we can attract and do have to carefully balance our opportunities and our balance sheet. If we can get...

Depends who else we're looking at, I suppose. I'm not totally against Douglas Luiz at that price, I'd be very much up for signing him at £100k a week, but it would have a knock on effect, you would have to think, on the rest of our business this summer. However, if it was Douglas Luiz at €25m...

Every signing is a risk. He did the business at Villa and didn't perform at Juve. You have to gamble that you're signing the Villa version. If he had performed at Juve he'd be out of our reach.

Touted by whom? There is only one person suggesting that figure and he is a professional WUM. There is literally nothing to support that figure in the press.

Yeah, Italy is odd, sometimes they report wages as after tax. If that's the case here then his wages are completely out of our reach for us. Who knows, though. If his reported wages are after tax then I can't see him moving anywhere other than the Saudi league as nobody else could afford them.

That's about £140k a week. It's doable, I suppose, but is the sort of thing we've been moving away from. Cracking player, though.

Or Pal Mall sacked him for leaking confidential information!

They all get chased off eventually. It's a shame.

Most top flight clubs can't take the risk of blooding a young, inexperienced keeper. In any other position on the pitch a mistake is unfortunate but probably doesn't cost you the match, one mistake from a keeper and it's invariably a goal. You can understand that where the stakes are higher, and...

Lol. Dave K the voice of the people who spends all day every day deliberately winding up fellow blues. "Best interest of the fans", hilarious.

It's all guessing though, isn't it? Dave was always going to guess on the lower end because his only interest on this forum is winding up fellow blues. It's a weird hobby. What we can be sure of is that it was the best deal on offer. Maybe if we can raise our profile by doing better on the pitch...