The Fish

They'll be after a 'keeper, but I'm not sure if their valuation of Maddison is £60m they'd accept £40m + Dubravka. They could definitely get a good 'keeper for <£20m.

Is that 20k over all of his accounts?

"No. What else've you got?" they'll want £60m+ and the substantial portion of it up front.

Is that just because he's white?! Maddison would be a great signing. So would Diaby. Or Sesko. 4 weeks left Gloomy.

Botman and Pope are statement signings. We have to be realistic and appreciate that clubs will ask for the moon on a stick from us, and that our new professionally run club won't do that. Trust the process.

Wilson has great movement in the box and isn't a slouch off the last defender's shoulder. You add Anderson, ASM, Bruno, Trippier to that mix and there are plenty of attacking players who would benefit from Maddison's style of play. Plus Sesko.

It is frustrating, but the new restrictions, a post-COVID football landscape, the delay in getting DoF and CEO positions filled, our transfer strategy vs our perceived wealth... This was always going to be a difficult window. As they will be for the foreseeable.

The world is terrible wykiki, the trick is just being ok with that.

And say we're 10th in January, we see that there's the potential to break into the European spots if we fill the missing piece of the puzzle. Suddenly Maddison has 18 months left on his deal, Leicester are struggling in 15th, we go back in with a £40m bid. Boom, Maddison, Europe and blowjobs from hot Slavic girls in your area.

We can, just not these pissy pants "What if the world was terrible and everything was awful, would you be happy then?" questions.

Yeah I'd love to see a striker come in. I think we could afford both. I don't believe for a second that if we fail in our bid for Maddison we'll shut up shop and go home. If anything, our pursuit of Maddison says we're not done, not by a long shot.

It's not that we can't spunk a shit ton of money on whomever we want, it's just that it makes more sense to keep that wriggle room for when it's needed. It's not needed right now.

Sure, but you don't start at £50m, because if you do, Leicester will demand £60m. And if we had offered £60m, it'd be £70m.

We've signed a top 'keeper, a hugely promising CB, and an uber-reliable PL left back, plus Anderson, Almiron both look good in preseason, so I'd be excited about the January window already. You've been sloshing around in a full nappy since before the window opened man. What is the worst that could happen? We'd be without Wilson for the first half of the season and play with Wood up front. We showed in the 2nd half of the season we could win without Wilson, win enough to stay out of the relegation conversation at least. Then, January comes around and he's no where near fitness? then we'll go off and sign some striker and pay over the odds for. We're not going down this season so, with all due respect, why are you such a little girl?

I don't think he's our best player. I think he's our most dangerous attacking threat.

£9 a month? That's as much as Amazon Prime, or Netflix, ffs. Ours will stay free because we do it for the love of it, yeah? (Plus nee fucker would pay for it )

Honestly, we'll no doubt do one just before the season starts. There are a fuckload of podcasts out there mind.

They're the same person...

That's one of the lads I do the podcast with.

That's what I do.

I said, "England have scored" to the Mrs, and then kept scrolling through twitter. Happy for them and it can only be a good thing for the women's game.

Ah, fair fucks, I got this wrong.

I think you underestimate how much his mother makes.

I don't doubt for a fucking second that he's spunked his entire savings on this trip.

He blames everyone but himself in that piece. Even says Huddersfield sold Stewart on deadline day in January 2000, but the transfer window didn't come into place until 2002, didn't it?