30 Aug 2026 15:57:38
Like most I'm very happy about Armstrong staying.
If Ndiaye goes, which looks likely, then hope we get top dollar, however a player is only worth what the purchasing club is prepared to pay.
Richie coming back is good.
Grealish would be great.
Dibbling will get more minutes to grow.
Tete is a decent rb, good experienced player, most on here were happy to go after him last season.
30 Aug 2026 16:08:46
Last season we were getting him for nothing. Can only think the other twenty we were going after didn't want to join us.
30 Aug 2026 16:29:21
If figures quoted by usually decent journos are to be believed, we are not getting top dollar for him.
Pleased with Richarlison coming back generally, but the fee is scarcely believable. Our transfer team are a total embarrassment.
Tete is fine - but he's nearly 31, injury prone and can't get in the Fulham team. You say most on here were happy going after him last year - when he was free.
Since then he's taken the decision to reject us once and he's now costing nearly £10m. Doesn't feel quite the same.
Following calamity Kinnear's interview the other day, I wonder if this is the number 1 right back they've been targeting and holding out for. ???
Mediocre club in every way I'm afraid.
30 Aug 2026 17:18:09
I like that Calamity Kinnear will use that from now on if you don't mind.
30 Aug 2026 17:51:22
Toffeegarner, if your current employer offered you a better contract to stay, not have to move the family to another city, and all the extra that goes with it, would you take it? I'd have done exactly the same as Tete did last season. Yeah, we nearly got him for free, but we didn't.
You mentioned the transfer team, same team that bought in.
Hackney
KDH
Grealish
Dibbling
Tim
George
Barry (still on fence ha ha)
Norgaard - will be very very good for us.
Johnson
Rohl
Aznou
I'd consider that not bad at all.
30 Aug 2026 18:14:44
Yes, there's some decent signings there. KDH, Grealish, Tim, all done enough to say at the very least they've been worth the outlay.
The rest are far too early to say - I hope they all turn out to be great signings. Of all the ones we had last season, Moyes didn't consider a single one of them good enough to warrant many mins on the pitch - now I really like most of them but can hardly list them as successes at this stage.
Hopefully Dibling will come good and we have to be patient. But consider that he's older than Armstrong and consider who looks the better prospect and who is already deemed ready for lots of Premier League minutes by our manager.
Now square those facts with our transfers team trying to sell Armstrong for less than we paid for Dibling (plus there seems to have been another jump in fees being paid this summer, so that exaggerates how baffling it is even further) .
We've got 8 (eight) central midfielders when we only play 3 at a time. Why?
We've needed a right back for 2+ years and, despite apparently prioritising it this summer, we've got right to the wire to sign Fulham FC's back up.