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  On 22/08/2024 at 11:28, Gemmill said:

Mbeumo again. :lol:

 

The bloke is 5 foot 7 man. We're not going back to the Ryan Fraser dwarf on the wing days. 

 

And you don't want to spend £70m on Guehi but you'd like to spend it on Mbeumo?!

 

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The only person who has ever linked him is Gloomy tbh, think he fancies him 

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  On 22/08/2024 at 11:26, Gemmill said:

As in other windows, we are focusing on the SPECIFIC players we've identified in the areas we need to improve. We totally do need to improve the defence btw. 

 

I think we know we won't get Guehi when he's signing pre-contracts, cos we won't pay him the sort of wage others will offer in those circumstances. We want him, and it's now or never, so we're paying his post-Euros cost because that's how highly we value filling the right sided CB slot with a young bloke with PL experience. 

 

If one of our right wing targets is available for the right money in this window, I'm sure we're currently trying to sign them too. 

 

The idea that we are somehow foregoing [UNNAMED RW] by "wasting" the money on Guehi is stupidly simplistic. The notion that we can just take that money and apply it to a different position when we have no idea what the targets are that we have in that area, or what the wage demands would he for a £70m [UNNAMED RW]. 

 

We don't know who the RW targets are and what their cost is. But it sounds like we are actively trying to bring one of them in AT THE SAME TIME as we are trying to sign Guehi. Maybe it's not one or the other at all. 

 

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And that's fine, but if that specific player is proving too difficult to sign, it makes sense to step away from the pursuit rather than eating further into our PSR wriggle room, and thus potentially losing out on another specific target further down the line. Guehi was targeted because they think he's the right player now, but if the price isn't right (which I don't think it is) we should have alternatives.

 

I would be surprised if we weren't negotiating for several players, for various positions, Nothing to stop us signing a RW, a CB and some youth player on the same day, barring the difficulty of the selling team. Because, say we have £120m to commit towards transfers, and we value our targets around £65m for CB , £40m for RW, then £15m for a promising kid. Suddenly CB costs £70m, that means we either don't sign the RW target, or don't sign the kid.

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The other good thing about him is he can cover CF too. Did a good job there last season for Brentford when Toney was out - bagged me loads of points in fantasy football 

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  On 22/08/2024 at 11:03, Dr Gloom said:


 

There’s nowt wrong with our CBs. The same defence was watertight the previous season when the players in front of them weren’t all dead on their feet. There is plenty wrong with our options at RW.

 

I’d much rather spunk £70m on Mbeumo or a Bowen and get a stopgap signing or loan at centre back rather then the other way around. But it looks like the powers that he disagree. 
 

Unless they’re keeping their powder dry for a £120m splurge on deadline day - seems unlikely given psr but if we shift Trippier and Miggy for decent money, you never know 

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Well nowt apart from the small matter of only having one and a half (Kelly) for the next 3 weeks.

 

Chris Wood was our last stopgap signing, we don’t do those any more.

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