Dman

So as things stand, we've broken even and have PL money coming in as well. Why do we need to sell Tella, Che and Sulemana then?

Please can everyone stop banging is pointless drum. We might spend a bit of money to replace him, but it'll clearly be absolutely nowhere near the same level of quality. With every person who walks out the door, our squad gets weaker and weaker.

Piroe is 6ft and has a physical presence. He can play up front alone - he and AA aren't the same. I still do not see any valid argument as to why a club who has made £150m couldn't buy before they sell.

I genuinely cannot be arsed to check, but it's probably similar to Leeds and Leicester who have seemingly (despite us being told how skint Leicester where at the start of the window) spend money. SR are wolves in sheeps clothing. Rasmus is a complete and utter fraud and on current display are no better than the Chinese bloke who, because of law, couldn't actually spend money.

I cannot wait for us to rock up at Leciester in 2 weeks time with the mouth watering prospect of Edoize, AA and Fraser as our front 3. Something that will strike fear into every single defence in the league. Incredible their manager decided to turn us down, when he was guaranteed to win the net spend trophy and have a front 3 like that

We've only made £150m already this window, shifting these will free up money to bring in replacements!!! We simply cannot afford to buy before we sell, no sir. Especially not after spending £15m on Charles

Its great news isn't it!! Another £30m (which realistically we'll end up selling for about £25), in Sport Republics pocket to help fund that Turkish sides stadium improvements. With Tella, Che and Sulemana gone we're going to have an amazing attack of bang average players who work hard! Who needs match winners anyway, massively overrated!

FWIW, as one who'll likely be seen as a 'doom monger', I actually lie somewhere in the middle. I've been pleasently impressed by Martin and I actually think our transfer business has been pretty decent. Love Downes, Charles looks like he'll be a really solid player and Holgate and Fraser look to be solid, handy, sensible additions. I've major concerns that we're selling all of our goals and I don't trust us to replace them. I think we've majorly fucked up in letting Piroe go to Leeds and I think we'll end up with some no mark for more than we would have paid for him anyway. Which'll cost us promotion. Personally, i'm not expecting us to get promotion this year, I think that'll go to Leicester, Ipswich and Leeds.

The trust frequently share bits with each other. However, loose lips sinks ships, hence why we need we need to remain exclusive. Information ranges from training ground to board room. All i'll say is there's a reason why members of the trust are fairly negative at the minute.

The coincidences just seem to follow that account. Very unlucky!

Why? its been painfully obvious that would be the case.

Why on earth does the club, who've made the best part of £200m, have to sell before they can buy. Fuck Sports republic.

I suspect Genk are pretty keen he comes here if that bags them Onuachu. Don't know anything about this bloke though, so not too bothered if we don't get him. We've got enough depth on the wing anyway, even if / when Tella is off.

Oh he has been me as well - guessing you get the usual laughing emoji to every comment also..? It's 100% him. Mickyboy made a comment about a post a 'former' poster made about bertrand in about 2018. The same comment Always use to make and the same one which caught Chapel end out. The numpty isn't even smart enough to hide it 🤣

Lets hope its the former at this point. Just seen Bournemouth are in for Daka - would potentially rule them out of the race for Adams? Unless Solanke goes.

Personally, I'd rather we kept Che. He's proven he can score goals at this level and has saved us in pretty much all 3 games this season. Unfortunately, keeping him looks unlikely, so we need to look at next best options. One of those being the man who score a fair few under our new manager in the same league, just last season.

Clearly not the only replacement in the world, you're making it up that anyone has said that. He was absolutely the most obvious and arguably least risky move we could have made. Also, according to @Pilchards, whom imo is a genuine ITK, was our number 1 target to replace Che. The evidence suggests we we're in for and interested in him (much like it was that we're open to sell Che), but if you don't want to believe that, you do you.

Sorry, little to no time to replace adequately.

We agreed a deal in principle with Everton, until they had no money to give us. We're clearly not going to give him away for nothing or way below our value, but that also doesn't mean that we aren't willing for him to go. Reports suggest we are and that the player wants to leave. We were allegedly in advanced negotiations for Piroe. Loads of reports have suggested he was our top target to replace Che. We obviously didn't want to sign him whilst Che was still at the club, rightly or wrongly. Lets agree to disagree then re-asses in a weeks time 👍

We rejected an offer from Bournemouth for £10m earlier in the window, then couldn't agree a deal with Everton for £15m because they had no cash to give us up front.

I've not made that assumption at all. We'll bring in a center forward, I'm certain of it. I've no confidence they'll be any good though

FWIW - I'm not doubting he wont be replace. He'll be replaced, but it'll be by our 2md, 3rd, 4th choice. Not someone proven at this level in our exact system. Missing out on Piroe is a fuck up by the club, its as simple as that.

Pretty simple. You We're very open to Adams leaving. It wont take a lot to get him, £15m with £5m of that upfront. We accepted a bid, until it became obvious that Everton have no actual money to pay with - that doesn't mean we haven't 'softened our resolve' on him. We're wide open for him to leave. Because we wanted Piroe, didn't mean we were going to let Adams walk away for basically nothing. He's obviously going though, we know that, we should have had a plan in place to anticipate that.

Because we've not accepted a ridiculously badly structed deal, doesn't mean we're not completely open to selling him. All we asked for is c. £5m up front (allegedly). Does that not sound like a club who's pretty soft to the player leaving.

Which is fair and I've said, missing on Piroe means we cannot now sell Che. Unfortunately, we all know how this ends. More than willing to eat my humble pie if it doesn't, i'm really confident it will though.