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Lou3000

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To be fair, on the eve of deadline day owners have to be on the phones negotiating into the late night, no? I would hope DL wouldn’t be calling it a day at 6:00 haha.

Well unless Danny boys has the keys to the social media manager's office, I don't think we're going to be seeing anything today. Any announcement is likely going to be tomorrow. That's what I meant by it being a waiting game now.
 

Univarn

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Well unless Danny boys has the keys to the social media manager's office, I don't think we're going to be seeing anything today. Any announcement is likely going to be tomorrow. That's what I meant by it being a waiting game now.
We've had announcements much later than this in the day but I agree that tomorrow seems the day at the moment unless something changes at breakneck speeds.
 

theShiznit

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Levy's got something cooking.

I see we have saved a bit of cash to up our offer for Grealish...

We're currently putting seeds down on the new pitch ;)
 

Fredo

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Well, at least I'm buying my first car tomorrow so if we fuck this window up it wouldn't be TOO bad.





I will probably crash it just past 5pm.
 

Joeyboey

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It’s all gone quiet on the Dembele front (thank god). Nothing since earlier. Can’t even comprehend making no signings whilst losing Moussa and potentially Toby too.
 

m*****73

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Think it's fair to say at this stage that the only signings between now and 5:00pm tomorrow will either be overpriced (like Sissoko) or players that the selling club is desperate to offload (like us, with Llorente, Janssen, etc.).

Thinking about making a HG signing where the selling club has less than 24hrs to find a replacement is incredibly optimistic.

Disappointment > Confidence
 

theShiznit

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Just have to think of Deadline day as a really shit M Knight Shyamalan film, just laugh at the implausible twists and turns then at the end get told the Window was closed all along :nailbiting:

Then you have to rewind it and watch the whole thing again, and see it actually did make sense...
 

spuradik

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23hrs to go its over.

Until the season starts and we start drawing games we should be winning and losing games when we shouldn't. Then the season starts to feel long.

It wasn't long ago, when in April several on here wanted the season to be over when we just made top 3. Matter of fact we hadn't been in the top 4 for more than half of last season. This time it's going to be different. Chelsea had one of their on/off seasons last year, and Arsenal were shackled by Wenger. It's already apparent who the top 3 are going to be; City, United and Pool. While we'll struggle to make that 4th spot against the like of Chelsea and Arsenal.

Massive missed opportunity this window.
 
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You bunch of miserable gets.

There's still 24 hours left. For Keifer Sutherland, that's 6 months of storylines.
 

adamsky

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We gave Toby the contract that has put us in this position.
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Tbf, it probably looked like quite an astute clause back when that contract was signed. We paid around £13m, had him for his peak years and thought getting £25m for a 29 year old CB would be a good thing. I am not sure anyone saw the huge inflation of fees coming
 

Hoopspur

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Is it not possible we may have one or two already just about signed up? And at least we can announce maybe 4 new contracts tomorrow (y)
 

ShaunL84

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Not looking promising.

Seem far too quiet for something to happen out of nowhere. Even Son was a process that took a couple of days.
 

Maxtremist

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I remember at the start of the day when we had multiple ITK that was generally positive.
That was good.

Since then we've what... had negative ITK about Villa being dicks but still the feeling that we'll get Grealish over the line.

Plus nothing to say we might land another signing as well.

I may be wrong but looking at what's been said ITK wise and all I'm still leaning towards a busy and hectic but generally good day tomorrow.

But fuck me I can't wait till we're back to just playing football.
 
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Is it not possible we may have one or two already just about signed up? And at least we can announce maybe 4 new contracts tomorrow (y)

Absolutely.

I bet Levy is one of those people you play pool against, and you think they're playing badly but they're just selling up all their balls, so when you get on the black they suddenly clear up from nowhere.

Really wouldn't surprise me if we had a few lined up and ready to pull the trigger on, pending small details. We pull out plenty of TDD deals that have clearly been agreed for a while.
 
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