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Fingers crossed that’s the end of their interest in Maupay

At the moment, deals for Watkins and Maupay are off. Palace failed to meet our asking price, even after we lowered it after Watkins asked to leave. They could obviously come back with another offer but that deal seems to be dead for the moment. Brighton who had previously bid the most for...

Good fee, but like us it’s a shitty time to lose your best players.

We’re signing Joel Valencia, 24 year old Ecuadorian winger/forward for £1.8m, was Player of the Year in the Polish top flight last year. Medical today. Probably means one of Watkins / Benrahma / Maupay will shortly be leaving.

That’s a really very strong defence. Just need to keep Diedhou fit really.

Yep you would have got a share of the £3m we got when they went up.

You seem to have a real issue with me at the moment? No real reason for it either. Profit and cash flow are different anyway, plenty of companies that turn a profit have cash flow issues, particularly football clubs (and particularly smaller ones where incoming cash is very seasonal). Anyway...

We’ve tended to do it in the past to take advantage of any cash flow issues at the previous club (Oldham sold their sell on for Tarkowski to us for very little). To be fair I haven’t seen anyone mention it of late, so could be I’m remembering incorrectly from last summer.

I’m not sure - but didn’t we buy out of the sell on clause a year or so ago? If it was straight up cash I think we’ve been asking for £14-16m including add ons.

Not certain at the moment. There's a fair amount still to be sorted out - the way the payments are structured is very much in Palace's favour, and there's a disagreement over how much Sorloth is worth (especially given he doesn't immediately slot in to our usual way of playing). Reckon it'll...

Crystal Palace have bid cash plus Sorloth (striker they signed from our sister club in January) for Watkins. Likely to be accepted.

To add - lots of these clubs who have “gone for it”, kept their players and racked up debt, don’t even own their own stadiums anymore. We’re going to see quite a few clubs at this level in trouble over the new few years because they gambled and went for it.

We’ve finished in the top 11 every single year, that’s essentially flirting with the play offs every year. We’ve also spent more than any other Championship team this year, and hopefully aren’t done yet, that shows a lot of ambition. The Benham comment shows how little you understand what it’s...

I’m content that for the foreseeable future I’m unlikely to see my club go out of business. Something a lot of fans at this level with their billionaire owners just won’t understand. Having been close to seeing this multiple times, I’m delighted that the club is on a safe footing. The simple...

Sounds like a couple of clubs have been getting close to our valuations for Maupay, Benrahma and Watkins - small possibility we lose all three this week. If we did sell all three, current bids would make us £50-60m in total (depending on various add ons). Replacements lined up but always...

Well done on your one lucky season paying off. Countless examples of clubs spending beyond their means and getting nowhere.

Better the situation we find ourselves in now than running the club into the ground with debt by refusing to sell any of our players, and giving them overinflated wages. Sawyers had one year left on his deal, we can’t afford to give him the wages another team can so he’s going to go within 12...

Shame to see him go, but hopefully we can bring someone better in.

We’ve spent over £10m this summer, I wouldn’t call it treading water. We’re a much better team now than we were when we first came up, but you need other teams to have bad years, and a bit of luck to go up.

I mean, we’ve got into the play offs once, finished in the Top 11 five times in a row, and had a bottom 6 budget or lower in all of those seasons. I’d say that’s competing with the big boys.