So we have Forest to thank for that. Forest sent a legal team to fight against the Palace appeal.
Bit of a mess from all sides. Bit of an arbitrary March 1 deadline set by UEFA and Textor and Palace should have known the consequences long ago.
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He would for £40m. They said that.
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Could be the Guehi replacement or maybe not, at least a new CB for Palace
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Is that our Sissoko?
Hopefully he’d be easy to deal with…
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Maybe, but we’re not dealing with him.
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Yet. Apparently he’s the head of an agency. No doubt got several swords in the fire
We left it late to try get him cheap seems its not worked.
How’s it not worked? The window is still open and they haven’t rejected our bid.
In fact the suggestion was it was 40-45m we’ve already converted that to 35m plus add ons apparently as an offer from them.
I expect this gets done.
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There was plenty of talk saying we believed 25m was about the right amount. Now is 35m with 5m in achievable add ons.
I don’t think I ever remember 25m, in fact we put a 35m bid in after the community shield and it wasn’t rejected outright according to Joyce so I assume that was always the figure.
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Agree. Isak is out of our control but the Guehi, Tsimi and potentially JoGo business has underwhelmed, tbh.
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It’s always been them wanting 40m and us offering 35m.
Obvious thing is to agree on 37.5m
No idea why that should take all summer.
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Guehi for 40 is still cheap for a 23 yr old of his ability and potential, not as cheap as we were aiming for, but still cheap.
Tsimi or Robbo was always gonna go this window - Tsimi on loan means he comes back next season when Robbos contract is up as the back up lb. Saves us from looking for another lb next season to come in as back up.
Joemez I would prefer to keep, but if we get a decent fee I suppose it would afford more game time to Leoni albeit as a FB in some games (which used to be a standard means of getting a young CB game time)
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If we are getting middling offers for Gomez, I’d rather have him in the team. No point selling him for 10-15m.
25-30m, Then yeah
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And for a 25 year old? 
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Still cheap tbh
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First i’ve read of that or are you talking of Gomez tather than Guehi?
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Has it? I thought it was £45m+ for much of the summer.
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Here’s one for the conspiracy theorists among you: what if we’re waiting until the last minute to wrap this up so we don’t have to face any last minute bids for Konate from Spain?
If we’d sorted Guehi earlier and he’d come in and taken Ibou’s place, certain parties may have seen an opportunity to swoop for an unsettled player in the last year of his contract.
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There was a Joyce or Ornstein tweet saying the club 25 was about right.
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