Plymouth for £2m, apparently.

I presume Germain will be Park's choice - 'cos he thinks he's found another cheap gem like Ohashi. I think the problem is it's either / or, which is where Waggot comes in.

This is the same dude that's apparently saying "Bring me Dembele, or bring me death" behind the scenes and publicly praises Pears - so y'know, I'd take what he says in interviews with a grain of salt.

I don't think it's smokescreens. We clearly have a miniscule budget for a Championship team - make no mistake about it, most of that £40m has been earmarked for running costs. We'll be one of several teams in for Travers and Rushworth (if they're both available for loan), but we almost certainly won't be offering the most attractive financial offer. I suspect both PL clubs will leave it down to the player to decide. We'll also be haggling over the fee for players like Dembele (£1.5m is a huge portion of our budget I feel [£10k a week is £520k, so that's the wages for 3 players right there]) and Birmingham et al are sticking to their guns. I think we'll get 4 in before the window closes. I don't think we'll have been linked to 3 of them though prior to their signing - they'll all be loans is my bet.

Absolutely no chance we spend £15m. I'd bet my mortgage on it.

His 'highlights' video on YT makes much more sense now - it's all tackles (including Gallagher bottling a 50/50).

Isn't Hall a winger?

We need one CM if they bring in a RW. JRC is a CM in my opinion - that would leave us with four. I can see why Eustace would move Buckley on - I doubt he's cheap anymore and I don't think he trusts him. He's so inconsistent.

Just listened to his podcast whilst out on a run - he added nothing just "approach seems to be scattergun, but there will be a flurry of transfers again this week like there was when we signed Gueye et al all in a short period". Didn't add any new names, just ruled out Ruddy as one he'd not heard. Clearly he's not plugged in.

He definitely has more options in attack with Gueye, Yuki and Weimann. It's still nowhere near enough, but it's more.

It's an opportunity to blood the youngsters, so Duru should definitely start. I think the rest are either on loan, injured, or have gone backwards (Batty I'm looking at you) so it should be an opportunity for squad rotation. There's no money in the Carabao Cup until the later rounds and, quite frankly, with our tiny squad we shouldn't be adding more games to our schedule.

Depends if you were her husband or not.

Ruddy is better than Pears - however we've just banked £40m, we should be aiming for much better than a GK that's happy to retire on Newcastle's bench.

Wigan can ask for whatever they want - they have a billionaire owner. Granted, he wants Wigan Athletic to wash it's own face because he only bought them to get his hands on the stadium for his Rugby League team, but still...

Unless it's not a cheap punt and those wages tied up in Germain are then taken away from a player he actually wants. He's said multiple times that he wants 4+ players in that will all start (or at least massively improve the bench). Maybe he just sees Germain as a bench filler and that role can be taken by our two Academy prospects instead?

Fun fact - Transfermarkt has the Birmingham City squad as having a higher overall value than the Blackburn Rovers squad.

It isn't his job, but he can also do exactly what JDT did with Telalovic and refuse to play him.

Someone just paid £1m for Wahlstedt. Nobody is giving us £1m for Calamity Pears.

We had a Chilean superstar for 18 months and did nothing with it. I wouldn't worry about the marketing with these guys in charge.

I've just realised the Sigurdsson goal was almost a carbon copy of the Hedges goal at Norwich - ball played in to Sigurdsson / Hedges in the middle of the field on the break, they lay it off to Gueye who carries it upfield and then puts them through for the goal.

I don't think Gueye's shooting is good enough for the Prem, but he causes chaos in their back line when he comes on. A real gem of a find.

He was in twice with better passes (both, ironically, by Dolan) and nearly nicked in at the far post from the Wiemann flick on. I think he's like Watkins as a #9 - will run the channels all day, but you can't really play it up to him and expect him to hold it up. If we surrounded him with pace he'd look much better as the #9 because his positioning is exceptional (for this level).

Out of him and Rushworth I'd much prefer Rushworth. It's pathetic we're dealing in loans though. Absolutely criminal.

They've sold a few of their better players this summer - but yeah, they need to just look ten miles down the road to see a light squad.