Idrissa Gueye - now gone

[PeterWithesShin]

Seems strange Xia bragged about how much money we were going to spend and yet he's operating a sell to buy policy......

Or it's common sense when your squad is too big to shift some players. As a second division club should we just not care how many players we are paying each week?

[peter w]

He's not. Di Matteo wants to shift players out of the squad so he can see what we have and then can add to it. It doesn't mean that we've stopped negtiating transfers but spending the next few days concentrating on shifting some out to free up space. Nothing really untoward in that.

[PaulWinch again]

Seems strange Xia bragged about how much money we were going to spend and yet he's operating a sell to buy policy......

Shock horror you arrive with negativity. We've bought players without selling any so far, but first player we sell and it's the sell to buy line. Were you expecting to keep the whole squad this year? Oh and it's an activated release clause.

[Richard E]

Wyness has just said on Twitter that we do not welcome any interest in this player.

[Dave]

Not a huge surprise, given he chose to join us over Southampton. Guess Koeman still fancied him.

[Dante Lavelli]

Wyness has just said on Twitter that we do not welcome any interest in this player.

Welcome?  Implies that the clause, if it exists, has not been met.

[PeterWithesShin]

Obviously what we should be doing is, for example, buy another striker for say £10-15m without worrying that we already have Gabbby, Rudy, Ayew, RHM, Kozak and even Sinclair. It's not like having too many players has caused the club any problems recently.

[Clampy]

Seems strange Xia bragged about how much money we were going to spend and yet he's operating a sell to buy policy......

But he's not but thanks for today's slice of misery anyway.

[LTA]

Seems strange Xia bragged about how much money we were going to spend and yet he's operating a sell to buy policy......

Shock horror you arrive with negativity. We've bought players without selling any so far, but first player we sell and it's the sell to buy line. Were you expecting to keep the whole squad this year? Oh and it's an activated release clause.

The bottom line is that our squad is still far from good enough with just over a week before the season starts.  Lerner and even Ellis would be getting it in the neck with this amount of inaction.

I dont trust Xia at all.  If the money was there, you would strengthen first and sell at the same time.

[Clampy]

Seems strange Xia bragged about how much money we were going to spend and yet he's operating a sell to buy policy......

Shock horror you arrive with negativity. We've bought players without selling any so far, but first player we sell and it's the sell to buy line. Were you expecting to keep the whole squad this year? Oh and it's an activated release clause.

The bottom line is that our squad is still far from good enough with just over a week before the season starts.  Lerner and even Ellis would be getting it in the neck with this amount of inaction.

I dont trust Xia at all.  If the money was there, you would strengthen first and sell at the same time.

No you wouldn't , because this is real life and not the playstation.

[PaulWinch again]

Seems strange Xia bragged about how much money we were going to spend and yet he's operating a sell to buy policy......

Shock horror you arrive with negativity. We've bought players without selling any so far, but first player we sell and it's the sell to buy line. Were you expecting to keep the whole squad this year? Oh and it's an activated release clause.

The bottom line is that our squad is still far from good enough with just over a week before the season starts.  Lerner and even Ellis would be getting it in the neck with this amount of inaction.

I dont trust Xia at all.  If the money was there, you would strengthen first and sell at the same time.

How do you know we're not trying to do that? Why is your default position to assume the worse?

[Percy McCarthy]

Seems strange Xia bragged about how much money we were going to spend and yet he's operating a sell to buy policy......

Shock horror you arrive with negativity. We've bought players without selling any so far, but first player we sell and it's the sell to buy line. Were you expecting to keep the whole squad this year? Oh and it's an activated release clause.

The bottom line is that our squad is still far from good enough with just over a week before the season starts.  Lerner and even Ellis would be getting it in the neck with this amount of inaction.

I dont trust Xia at all.  If the money was there, you would strengthen first and sell at the same time.

We've bought three, how many have we sold?

Genuine question.

[Dante Lavelli]

Is that what we did, bought three players and now start shifting them out?

[LTA]

If promotion is the targer, then much more should have been done by now.  This team as it stands will be a mediocre mid table side.  Hardly world domination material is it.

[Clampy]

You're only annoyed because we're winning.