Tony's Tweets

[brian green]

Precisely old timer. The name of the game is a return to the Premiership.  If and when that happens and I believe Steve Bruce is the manager to do it, that is when the really big sums have to be spent to remain in the top flight.

[Dante Lavelli]

I like Tone, but so far the net spend this window is pretty low.

I believe it's called being smart with your money. Would it feel better to you if Lansbury cost 6m, Hourihane cost 5m and Thor cost 8m? We'd be getting the same players, just out of pocket by several million with a very healthy net spend.

No, but the quote was 'splashing the cash'  In the summer we spent some of the parachute payment and in this window we have pretty much broken even.

Like I said I like Tone, but so far we have hardly gone crazy cash wise.

The primary purpose of parachute payments is not a transfer kitty, it's to cover the existing wages during a period of shrinking income.

[Nunkin1965]

And it isn't all about throwing money at the team. That just doesn't work.

[eamonn]

What is it, something like this?

£6m Rudy

£5m approx Barnsley boys
£3.5m Lansbury
£x(3?)m Thor

[Old Kodjia]

This window has been absolutely fantastic.  We have bought in Hourihane, Lansbury & Bree for more or less the money we received for Gestede.  We had to bring them in now because they were all due to become free agents in the summer.  It is also clear to anyone that we needed a keeper.  This just leaves Bjarnson, who we bought in for less than £2 million.

Today we appear to be swapping Ayew for Taylor plus £5 million.  It looks like we could then be buying a striker for circa £10 million, leaving us with a total outlay of around £7 million (excluding any other money that may come in today)

A fantastic window and one that was definitely needed.  Its crazy that 2 weeks ago, many on here were moaning about the lack of activity.

[cdbearsfan]

I like Tone, but so far the net spend this window is pretty low.

I believe it's called being smart with your money. Would it feel better to you if Lansbury cost 6m, Hourihane cost 5m and Thor cost 8m? We'd be getting the same players, just out of pocket by several million with a very healthy net spend.

No, but the quote was 'splashing the cash'  In the summer we spent some of the parachute payment and in this window we have pretty much broken even.

Like I said I like Tone, but so far we have hardly gone crazy cash wise.

We've spent about £50 million, excluding sales.

Feel free to point out all the Championship clubs who have spent more.

[chrisw1]

I like Tone, but so far the net spend this window is pretty low.

I believe it's called being smart with your money. Would it feel better to you if Lansbury cost 6m, Hourihane cost 5m and Thor cost 8m? We'd be getting the same players, just out of pocket by several million with a very healthy net spend.

No, but the quote was 'splashing the cash'  In the summer we spent some of the parachute payment and in this window we have pretty much broken even.

Like I said I like Tone, but so far we have hardly gone crazy cash wise.

We've spent about £50 million, excluding sales.

Feel free to point out all the Championship clubs who have spent more.

Why would you exclude sales?

Gueye - £7.1m
Clark - £5m
Traore (?)
Callum Robinson?
Gestede - £6m
Ayew - c£7m?

Like I said I'm happy with Tone and yes hes spent a chunk of the parachute payment.  But your comment, made at this time of year, inferred we are splashing cash all over the place this window, whereas that is not the reality YET.

[mr underhill]

 only Newcastle come close, obviously, but the point is we spent the Benteke money plus one or two other sums very badly, then went and repeated the trick this past summer - mainly because we appointed the wrong management team. if Bruce had been here from the get go very few of RDM's buys would have been considered - with the obvious exception of Kodja and Chester. This window has been the polar opposite ; very good midfield acquisitions, a lot of fringe players gone, money in and little in the way of additional outlay. Chin up.

[peter w]

Just you, me and Dave W who hold that view I think Jon.

(CJ+DW+JC) x silent majority

If they're silent how do you know they're the majority?

[Eckybloke]

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[VILLA MOLE]

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glad that is all cleared up

[aev]

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glad that is all cleared up

Yep, thought as much.

[cdbearsfan]

I like Tone, but so far the net spend this window is pretty low.

I believe it's called being smart with your money. Would it feel better to you if Lansbury cost 6m, Hourihane cost 5m and Thor cost 8m? We'd be getting the same players, just out of pocket by several million with a very healthy net spend.

No, but the quote was 'splashing the cash'  In the summer we spent some of the parachute payment and in this window we have pretty much broken even.

Like I said I like Tone, but so far we have hardly gone crazy cash wise.

We've spent about £50 million, excluding sales.

Feel free to point out all the Championship clubs who have spent more.

Why would you exclude sales?

Gueye - £7.1m
Clark - £5m
Traore (?)
Callum Robinson?
Gestede - £6m
Ayew - c£7m?

Like I said I'm happy with Tone and yes hes spent a chunk of the parachute payment.  But your comment, made at this time of year, inferred we are splashing cash all over the place this window, whereas that is not the reality YET.

Sorry, meant if you deduct sales. We've spent about £50 million in total. I seem to have exaggerated though, it's probably about £30 million... an absolute fortune for a club in our position. And that's before you count the cost of hiring/firing management teams.

[Old Kodjia]

Well at least it means that we have our targets almost wrapped up.

The only thing left is to see who leaves.

Not sure if the -100% refers to Tish or not but apart from that, we have another one definitely going out and then one of 3 others going.  Looks like Westwood, Ayew and at least one more, possibly 2 more to leave.

I'm calling it now, the striker is Hogan.  I thought it strange when I listened to Bruce yesterday when he mentioned about previous players he'd signed from Brentford.  It just sounded peculiar and out of context when he was describing what a success story the club was.

[cdward]

I'd rather this than Randy Shunnamite Lerner's approach.

Lerner's transfer tweets from this time last year would have been a lot easier to decipher. 0%+0%+0%+0%=0%