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Isak a signing no fan would have made? Last summer you'd have been hard pressed to find a fan who wouldn't have wanted to sign him. There's no doubt he was an unusual signing given the way we've been set up to play i.e. sod all width and little or no early delivery in from the wings which Isak thrived on at Newcastle so you can lay that at Hughes' door. I hope rather than assume Isak will come good. I'd disagree that he was coming into form just as he got injured, goals against Spurs or not. Wirtz will prove to be an excellent signing but our recruitment last season was muddled at best, leaving the squad very unbalanced.

Correction at the price point Isak was at and how he was serviced at Newcastle i personally dont know any fan that thought it was good business.

Most teams fans don't really care about the money spent on their own players. That's for fans of other teams to use as a stick to beat any signings.

We couldn't have had Cunha because he agreed to join United in February last year and publicly said he only wanted to join United.

Seymeno was good last year but I don't think Bournemouth would have let him go last summer. Didn't he release clause only come active this January?

Had you even heard of Rayan last summer? I can't recall anyone mentioning him and links to Liverpool.

We needed a top class striker to try and move away from our reliance on Salah for the majority of our goals. Isak was by far the best option for that pure goal scorer role. I stated many times I'd prefer Alvarez but Isak is an excellent player and the second best striker in the league over the last few years behind Halaand.

We're fans, not businessmen. That makes no difference to us. We trust the club to judiciously spend the money they generate. Isak was coming off several excellent seasons at Newcastle and had run us ragged in the Carabao Cup final. His price reflected his worth to Newcastle and we were happy to pay that.

And here you're making it sound like Cunha and Cherki have been unqualified successes which they really haven't been. I think they're both streaky players, especially the latter. The club weren't willing to offer a 28 year old Diaz another contract and still got a decent price for him. We always appreciate players more when they're gone than when they were here - Diaz split opinion with some wildly inconsistent performances. What we absolutely should have done was to sign a replacement for him but that's down to the club.

Again I'll quote you back when it happened:

On deadline day "at least Isak is done"


A few weeks before that when replying to a comment saying "I'm starting to think if splashing £130m really necessary for Isak" you said:

Today: "no fan thought it was good business"

Come on lad drop it already

It's literally earlier in this thread let's not pretend trawling the entire history of boards is happening

I'm not saying there weren't reservations from fans about the fit or the fee, but hindsight is being used pretty disingenuously here to claim that we all knew it wasn't a good idea when that wasn't the case at the time for all fans at all.

It might look like bad business but I wouldn't just be using goals in the Bundesliga as an a barometer of success. Salah also wanted a new contract, got one and look where we are now. Granted, his drop off was likely to be steeper but that's down to the club. They'll get some calls right and some wrong. Looks like - in hindsight - they got more wrong than right last summer but that's not really what the majority of the fanbase were saying last summer and why if Hughes actually does go off to the Middle East, he won't be hugely missed.

Clubs like that can afford to take more risks with players like that though. Did you see how Rayan performed in his first few appearances? If he was at Liverpool he'd have been instantly scrutinised. The Brighton's and Bournemouth's get to give these types of signings a go with much less downside.

I always remember how hyped up Joao Pedro was when Watford signed him. He started making appearances in the PL and was honestly muck. Couldn't hold up the ball. If he had gone to Chelsea at that age he'd be off in the Portuguese league right now because it would have been an instant failure at this level

Instead Watford carried on without anyone really noticing much and Brighton signed him without any top 6 team being interested, because why would they?

Now look at him. Finally proved himself and got the move to the club

Mo Salah is another example. Barely any appearances in the PL at Chelsea because clubs at the top of the table need players to hit the ground running or else they get rid asap.

Dominic Solanke for us is another one. 1 goal in an entire season for us. We couldn't wait for him to come good.

There'll always be players at smaller clubs who break out straight away and we'll always think sure why didn't we just buy him at the time for 1/10th of the price he is now? But reality is it's a gamble and there's plenty that don't work out and occasionally those clubs strike gold

Our midfield has been poor this season. The balance looks off and has done for most of it.

Slot playing Wirtz in a front 4 of attackers was a red flag early on in the season. Teams were walking through us in midfield.

There's no way all these players are poor. I think the opposite, I think the system is killing us. A change is needed quick.

The worst scenario is Slot stumbling on and then missing out on CL qualification.

He needs to go in the summer regardless, but lose on Wednesday and the knives will be out bigtime.

I'm bored and click bait sucked me in. Football365 reporting Alonso has demands of 3 players. Barcola up front, Adam Wharton in midfield and Bastoni in defence. Anyone like to hazard a guess at at how much that would cost ?

Bastoni is never coming to us

Players becoming homegrown next season:

Stefan Bajcetic

James McConnell

Tommy Pilling

Kaide Gordon

Isaac Mabaya

Luke Chambers

All have played for us at senior level (bar Pilling who played against Bilbao in preseason last year) but all have also been out on loan to crap teams without doing much of interest (again bar Pilling who hasn't been loaned before)

I don't think any of these players will play for us next season but if any are at the club they'll likely take up a homegrown spot just because why not if the slot is free.