I'm fairly sure those clips are sped up a bit, some of them don't look quite right. So I wouldn't read too much into the tempo.

He won't be free, he will cost compensation due to his age. Awful goals record in League One for a striker. Never hit double digits.

It's the three club rule. Though I imagine it's done with 2 clubs on occasion.

Big risk to only give a 2 year deal as well. If he is up to the level you immediately need to start negotiating a new deal, with a significant rise, when the season ends. I think a 4 year deal would have been a risk (that said he may not be on much), but I don't think a 3 year is too much risk.

The flipside of that is he would have signed a contract if we hadn't lowballed him.

He's discovered the outside.

Because you've watched his games?

Seems strange to sub a keeper 58 minutes into a friendly. Not like keepers can't handle 90 minutes.

He's a bit old for that...

No, their starting keeper Dibusz stayed on. Sweden won 2-0.

Dunno if it's been mentioned, but De Neve appears to auto qualify for a work permit, with 18 points (15 needed). So he won't take up an ESC slot.

We'll Neve sign him

That increased wage that no fee brings just gets swallowed up by the player wanting a bigger wage because they know you're not paying a fee.

And then tells us to judge after 10 games, and then that any players who haven't been totally atrocious are good enough. Then says the next window will fix it and cycles through the exact same pattern in January.

Essential costs vs transfer costs has utterly no relevance to an anti fraud or money laundering unit. Their remit is to deal with fraud, and money laundering. As far as has been heard, there is no official allegation by them of impropriety over transfers, and even if they suspect it (which we almost all do), the judge isn't on the anti fraud or money laundering team. In theory at least, he should follow the letter of the law. Government pressure notwithstanding, he would still have to be able to justify, legally, not permitting transfer funds but allowing electricity bills. There's also a very solid argument that transfer funds are an essential cost of running a football club.