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think it comes down to wages. if west ham were paying him the wages that a top 6 club would, there is no need for a release clause for anything other than footballing reasons. it’s more of an issue with us as we won’t pay the top salaries, so he’d want a way to leave and get that elsewhere

accept the club don’t like release clauses but there’s lots of different ways to play it. could have one that becomes active after two seasons, for example. or a facilitation clause like mac allister had, whereby there was a base amount guaranteed but then further possibilities with add ons...

…well ajax appear to be trying to buy a replacement

if it was dead and buried wouldn’t naylor have told us by now? isn’t that his specialty?

yes but it’s not something that’s going to magically fall into our laps. we’re going to need to be forceful at certain points, in order to make that happen, like we are now

luckily our recruitment team look beyond goals nowadays when it comes to buying players

and actually, his last update was that the deal was ‘on course for completion’. so hold the nerve!

so let me just check i’ve got this right: we should only be interested in players falling over themselves to sign for us, and if they aren’t then they’re dickheads. is that the line we’re going with? makes us look a bit…leedsy, doesn’t it?

would we have been in contact for weeks if he wasn’t interested? surely that would have become apparent fairly quickly. ajax putting a clock on things could actually help us. it’s not like the nunez situation, where we were directly competing with benfica all the way, and the player was set on...

perhaps not like for like, but we do need someone who will match caicedo’s defensive output. and I think Kudus would be wasted there. watched him with ghana at the world cup, looked very average playing deeper in midfield, but was utterly electric once moved forward. small sample size...

would love this deal to happen but feels like the whole personal terms things may really just be him stalling to see if a bigger club comes along, which means him playing today makes sense

because for all his excellent qualities as a manager, he’s a yes man. he’s not going to cause trouble or walk unless he gets a better offer

which is what we need a little bit, i think. we’ve got loads of ‘steady eddies’ who give us 7/10 each week. that’s the spine of the team right there. what players like kudus give us is the ability to offer that bit of something extra when we need to break a delicately poised game, which is what...

One of our top targets according to Romano would be very expensive, likely €40/50 million, but he was Ghana's most interesting player at the world cup and has good goalscoring stats for ajax, offers us cover on the right, he can also play attacking midfield and as a false 9.