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The only thing I'll touch on in all that is selling to Saudi clubs for inflated fees. They'll get investigated and we'll still get the points deduction for inflating the fees. That's what would end up happening there. And that completely ignores the fact that you can't force any player to move his wife, kids, and life to Saudi Arabia cos you've got yourself in a PSR pickle. It also ignores that other clubs were selling stars or fading stars. Known names. You're giving me Matt Targett.

Mate. I'm not gonna get into this again. We needed £60m of PSR profit and you could sell the entire list you provided and not make that. It's profit. It's not transfer fees.

That's IF we've focused on Guehi to the exclusion of anyone else. As @Polarboypointed out, Howe has said we didn't. I do wonder though whether we watched other players that we liked go to other clubs because we thought we were gonna get Guehi.

Yes. I've said. If we don't sign anyone today then focusing on Guehi to the exclusion of anyone else has been a mistake. And Mitchell has had a personal fucking stinker as his first transfer window.

And I've said as much. But KD came into the thread saying that the outgoings have been as farcical as the incomings. And then complained that we weren't matching Brighton and West Ham, both of whom have sold players for £100m+ in recent windows. And then complained that I wasn't just letting him get away with it.

It forced us to sell those two players and it's stopped us from "pumping investment" like other clubs around us cos we have different PSR losses. I'm not happy that we haven't signed anyone, and I'm not making excuses for it, but do we have to go back and relitigate the unavoidable PSR sales. Next season we should just take a points deduction and people can moan about why no one at the club did anything about it. PSR is the source of all of our frustration. It's what meant that we didn't sign a RW while we were focused on Guehi cos there was only money for one. The focus on Guehi and Guehi only is for someone at the club to explain, but the rest is a function of PSR.

Fine. Wallow in misery about things that you know perfectly well had to happen to avoid a points deduction. I'm sorry for having to be sensible and point this out FOR THE HUNDREDTH FUCKING TIME.

I wonder if they've got different accumulated PSR losses to us. It couldn't be that, could it?

It's like living on a dementia ward, this.

If PSR didn't exist you'd be spot on. But it does, so you're not.

He likes Munchen. Munchen FOOF amirite!? *we're all high fiving*

It's PSR PROFIT that we have to make on players. You can't make that on has beens and never weres. That's the fault of the rules, not the people running the club.

The sales we needed to make to not breach PSR?

John Hall getting Jenrick into SJP and filming a promo video for his leadership bid. What a fucking Tory rat that bloke is.

Dr Tit Sweat

Dr Panic Stations.

This doesn't look like the cold as steel Dr Gloom that estate agents across the country fear.

After all of the protesting and the "we should have walked away", you're ready to pay £70m on deadline day.

Another "like", but this is the last one.

I'm just gonna give you a "like" and we need never speak of this again.

NRL?

Pearson starts talking and suddenly subtitles start appearing.

Flex is fucking hilarious. Man United's window is irrelevant cos they don't have a personnel problem, they have a coaching problem. Maybe they should get me on to school Flex.

Still an outside chance it goes through today. Us "walking away" might have prompted the player to pick up the phone to Parrish or something. Re your last point @Kid Dynamite, it sounds like we had other targets but they moved elsewhere earlier in the window while we focused on Guehi. If that's the case, it would be a mistake to magic up a new target at this stage.

Aye, good outcome but a shite way to get there. Hope your mam's OK.