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Lewis O’Brien - £10m release clause now Huddersfield haven’t gone up - there won’t be many better deals to be had in this window.

Rumour has it that we’ve made an offer for Greaves at Hull (along with Lewis-Potter) who is a left footed centre-back.

Spot on - the right players in need to be young and hungry. If not young and no resale then the deal needs to make business sense e.g Tarkowski on a free as long as the wage demands stay within the structure - if this allows us to then sell Keane, it’s very good business.

Sell Gray - sign Sarr from Watford off the back of a poor season - I think he’s class and could be the right time to swoop.

Oh go on then… he’ll cost you though!!! https://www.toffeeweb.com/season/21-22/rumour-mill/42211.html

Didn’t Purslow (Villa Chief exec or something) help create/write the rules of FFP? Think he’ll be pretty clued up on what they can/can’t do.

He’s been great but anything around £25m and we’d be mad to turn it down.

Left footed winger is a must - I’d have him in a heart beat but think there’s better for what we’d have to pay (unless there’s a release clause?) Good player though.

Reported £175k per week to jump ahead of Champions League offers. There’s a few Villa signings of late that have made me think they’ll fall into our trap - Digne, Coutinho, Ings - around £20m each on big wages and no resale. Way over the odds on Kamara’s wages and talk of £120k a week on Tarkowski - don’t get me wrong - I’d have Tarkowski here but not as a top earner. It may not seem much (in footballing terms) but £90k for Tarkowski, I’m happy with - £120k and you’ve got to think what other players are going to look at that and want parity.

We need to stop being so dismissive of players the minute they hit a tough patch - they are only human and have the same worries and woes as all of us. https://www.instagram.com/p/Cd6X9odMcqV/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

This needs sorting… Hopefully we get Anthony Barry too - Chelsea’s set piece specialist coach who happens to be an Evertonian with a young family wanting to move back up north

Fans put on a firework display for Chelsea and Brentford so 2… just trying to make them feel at home - I bet there’s always something going on in London. Ungrateful fuckers!

It’s happening…

Hence - ‘when he plays’ - because he doesn’t play enough for what we pay him, I’d sell him. That was the point all along.

When he plays, he’s our best CB by a mile - maybe our most important player hence why we’ve been so poor this season.

I’d sell a lot of players - some controversial: Pickford - peak price this summer in my opinion Mina - best cb but wages far too high for what he brings Holgate or Keane (even both) - done well recently but we need better Allan - need to get something back for him this summer Gbamin - may be a good time to sell on the back of regular playing time at CSKA Doucoure - as Allan but not as desperately Gomes - not good enough Simms - sell on the back of that loan spell Richarlison - new contract with big release clause or sell DCL - for the right price but only £50m plus Rondon - no reason needed That makes for a busy summer!!! I think Tarkowski is a no brainer when you consider Lampard wanted him at Chelsea - I think we actually need 2 centre backs. I love the idea of Gallagher on-loan and would ask about Broja too (maybe Colwill, Gilmour or Ampadu) on a low purchase/buy-back deal. Nketia could be an interesting option in we could get him on a free. Lewis O’Brien and Brennan Johnson are players I like from the Championship - NDiaye at Sheff Utd looks a player too. My wildcard is Zinchenko though - think he’d flourish here in a more advanced position and offer decent versatility too. Left-footed is high on the priority list for me.

Put him and O’Brien from Huddersfield together and we’ve got our best partnership since McCarthy and Barry.

This is massive - there’s been so many: Fred West at Norwich Harold Shipman at United Adolf Hitler at City Klopp at the Shite … but we were most unfortunate to have the most unlikeable of all in Benitez. So Benitez but Klopp is a close 2nd.

Seen a few clips where Lampard calls Seamus the ‘best person he’s ever met’. Seamus is clearly a great bloke and is obviously a huge part of our club. I personally think he stays and I would back that decision - I think he’s played far far more than Lampard would have hoped and he looks knackered as a result but I don’t think he’s finished here.

Couple of games early but I’m having this!!!

One positive - our hate for Tapas Tits and the shitty state he left us in has united us all and Frank looks to be a very astute appointment on the back of this. Onwards - may ‘Agent Rafa’ (makes me sick when they say that) be a tiny little shitty stain in our history - 3 points today and we can almost forget it ever happened!