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Just wait until they sell Downes at half time

Tomorrow evening, one eye on the match, the other on the transfer thread

Except our sales in recent years (apart from Lavia as the exception I think) seldom get to £40m.

Feels Sporsy. Hope so.

Tend to agree, Saintant. Yes JWP has come in, but with Shea Charles leaving, there's a potential exposure in midfield, especially if Flynn Downes goes off eating raw chicken or gets injured. We lack muscle in midfield.

Would be delighted with that.

Zach Abbott, we hope. Successful season, signs permanently, successful Prem campaign, sell for £40 million. It is the SR way.

25 and a half hours left until the window slams shut. Lots to be done, no less a GK unless we genuinely can't shift Ramsdale (which, as a fan, I'd be more than happy with).

Negotiations could have ended two days ago. Could be that Viking wanted £15m. Who knows, maybe it still happens.

Our 19 year old 5th choice defender been out on loan since he’s been here signed from another club is the SR group is our most expensive defender 😂😂

Where do we get the next 20m from in sales?

Yep, seems for money. He's never set the world alight here, and never will. What's odd is that is that IF we were a bit short of money to get a decent CB in, that we turned down £4m for him.

Perhaps selling some of them (Sugawara, Downs spring to mind ) by a sort of Littlewoods catalogue arrangement of paying over multiple instalments is the only way we’ll get rid of them.

I was trying to disprove this but it is, in fact, accurate. That's some doing. Depends on the option fee for Abbott (as to what we believe he's worth, or Forest believe he's worth) but yep, Kayi Sanda on £4 million beats Schlotterbeck and Wood.

It's a simple answer you would think - we could afford a certain amount after selling THB, but had a limit.

was the £4m being paid in £1 a year instalments?

Absolute bollocks hahahahha

You may well be right but, if so, it begs the question of why we have been trying to sign the Austrian or Norwegian centre back?

“Centre half, an 8, a right winger and a forward … if I’m being greedy a big mobile centre half who can play RB as well as CB. Konsa type profile.” So we’ve got the right back/centre half, centre half and the 8. Massively need one more forward IMO. Hope we do that in the last day.

Hey ChatGPT. Insert the Jim Carey "What, there's a chance" gif here, please.

The most expensive defender on our books will be Kayi Sanda. Makes you think.

When you start owing £90m + in transfer fees, you're a bit fucked in all reality.

I mean, we've seen enough of him to know he's clearly not good enough for our level, so i don't get how this is relevant. If you understand what I've said, I'm referring to judging players before they kick a ball for us, or without a reasonable amount of time to integrate. In fairness, some fans actually gave Dobbin 30 minutes before writing him off. Fair play for allowing him that time to settle. It's all getting a bit common here, Larin, Dobbin, Azaz when he joined, people were on his case after his early performances. Fellows, Archer. Last season, Manning and Bree copped a load. Even saw a bunch of crap when Peretz joined, although tbf, a lot of that was people taking issue to their understanding of his political views. We've clearly missed out on our preferred targets. Seems sensible to use a loan, rather than chuck 15 mil that turn out to be duds that we can't shift, like Downs... Yes we'd have liked a bit more experience, but lets give the lad a handful of games at least.

Will double check with the club to see if I still find it amusing and get back to you. Would also like to add that it would be worrying if ‘I’ll wait until I see him play to decide if he’s good or not’ is the same position the club are taking on any transfer they are about to complete.

Reading the Forest fans comments (who have actually seen him play) they seem to be resoundingly positive.