Gemmill

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.

I've already spoken. It's relegation time.

The Shields Gazette reckons we might still be in for Simakan.

Yeah I do. Cos if he's just reporting facts, where's the problem. He's not there to be a happy clapper.

Hope is now reporting that Arsenal have expressed an interest in Gordon. He reckons he's staying.

The only thing we appear to have fucked up is the focus on Guehi to the exclusion of all other options. If the window finishes with no further signings, that's a fuck up. But I'm not entertaining any shite about selling Minteh and Anderson contributing to a poor window. Those were basically compulsory transactions. No one should be getting the blame for them. Let's see what happens tomorrow. There's still time for something to happen if we've kept some options open.

Looking forward to Chelsea signing Guehi tomorrow mind.

We've kept our crown jewels....... so far. 28 hours to go.

Ohhhhh do the goalie-cokey!

There'll be fucking loads to spend next window.

Untold: Sign Stealer on Netflix is good. Sports doc about college football and a bloke implicated in stealing opposition teams signals that they send onto the field for each play.

It's not beyond the realms that us walking away is just all part of the dance. In 30 hours, we'll know.

If Hope's reporting is correct, then: Howe insists on Guehi and only Guehi. Palace won't sell Guehi. I don't see how Howe gets to walk.

Let's wait and see what happens in the next 30 odd hours before we start ringing the alarm bells. At the end of the day, most of the restrictions we're facing are external, and there's nothing we can do about them. If that means Bruno and Isak leave, there's really fuck all we can do about it. Obviously if we buy no one in the next 30 odd hours, we've totally fucked this window and these lads will be scratching their heads and asking questions.

I need to run some good patter workshops on here. There will be some compulsory attendees.

Parrish will play the media game better than us. Best not to get involved imo. The bloke is a broadcaster's dream, whereas Eales is basically David Brent. Parrish has said from the start that they don't need or want to sell and it would take something special for them to sell him. We obviously haven't reached that threshold. One thing is certain, if Mitchell doesn't pull something out of the bag in the next 30 hours, then he personally has had a fucking stinker for his first transfer window. I doubt the chairman will be looking on fondly.

Every chance Howe has said we can't sell him with no replacement, and we don't look like we can whip up a replacement in the next 30 hours.

The transfer window closes in 33hrs 11 minutes. Paul Mitchell: