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Benteke was a young proven goalscorer, once upon a time. Then he went to Palace.

Not so sure, £21M was the loss Potters first year, club stated it expected increased losses for the following year as it increased the playing budget, but then Covid hit and the loss was £67M in that year. No fans in the stadium last season would be a loss of c£20M in expected revenue, but I...

Trying to find the evidence for it, but I can't at the minute. There is a good chance the rules are tweaked and different this season, regarding PL sustainability, but the point remains, there will be some constraints on what Tony can do, not just what he is willing to do. I believe the UEFA...

The sustainability rules allow for £105M total loss over 3 years, they take the last 2 years actual accounts and a predicted Profit and Loss account for the coming season. Losses were £88.4M over the last 2 seasons that there are published accounts for, we would likely already have above the...

We could have bought Ivan Toney 2 seasons ago, but didn't. I bet he has a better season and future career in the Prem than Edouard, and is on less than a third the wage currently I would think. Edouard is decent, but not good value, I am happy the recruitment team has a better handle on the...

I don't think there is an absolute rule of a wage we will not go above, but there is an overall budget that if we go over could result in a transfer embargo. My suspicion is that the large number of players that went out on loan this season was in part to make room in the wage budget for a new...

Today, against 10 men chasing the game, in the last 10 minutes of the game, with fresh legs, he looked a decent buy. I suspect he will have a decent enough season, but todays circumstances surely gave him a bit of an advantage. Connolly bagged two against the same opposition a while back, but...

Bas Savage I think

Saying he is better as a supporting striker, and those stats doesn't add up to me? Better with a supporting striker, seems to be what the stats say to me.

I think Andone was looking to get out before Potter took over, and perhaps the interest his agent had generated and his attitude at the time meant Potter was happy to let him go, keeping him against his wishes would have created some tension. If Andone is wanting to hang around, it is a...

I am not disagreeing with your point, but I think Leicester were also interested in Jahanbakhsh just prior to us landing him.

Zamora was not the only case, or the most recent, just the most memorable because Naylor really went to town on putting it down to wishful thinking of naive/foolish supporters.

Maybe so, but you stated "thats not how transfers and money works" as if it was always, and will always, be the case that players in, is not dependent on players out. It might also be the other way round, that if the Ben White deal goes through, there is a player at a price above Edouards fee...

If Ben White sale does not go through, there is less money, but also less interest in signing a new CB, without knowing the clubs budget, targets, and priorities, it is not possible to say what is dependent on what with the certainty that you are using at the start of your post. When you state...

You don't think any bids/signings are dependent on other signings? We can't count on Ben White transfer money until the contract is signed, and therefore we may have substantially less money to spend, or different priorities depending on if it goes through or not.

In the absence of any other decent striker rumours, I shall attempt to keep hope alive on this one. We had no interest in Andone at £25M, but were very much interested at £5M. Perhaps Edouard's contract makes his acquisition easier if there is no Champions League football at Celtic, or maybe it...

They had Henrik Larsson as recently as we had Leon Knight

I thought he worked at the Athletic, who have a Naylor for every club, are they not allowed to talk to each other?

I think Edouard is a similar type of forward to Welbeck (who is a 6'1" unit)

He seemed to have a good relationship with Gus Poyet, having been matey with Poyet is probably not useful all the while PB is in charge.