Liverpool pushing the price up, for a player that they were never going to buy, was hilarious. It did occur to me that there might have been a bit of quid pro quo over MacAllister going on.
Not sure about Lavia. He sounds like a bit of a cunt.
Don't forget that they raised well over 200M at the start of the window selling Mount, Havertz, Loftus-Cheek, Koulibaly, Pulisic, Ampadu, Mendy and Kovacic, several of whom were homegrown and thus were pure profit, as well as dumping a ton more salary with players like Azpilicueta, Kante, Aubameyang and Kepa going on frees. Their net spend this summer is probably lower than ours was last year.
Percy reports that Brighton have had 4 bids rejected by Derby for Cashin, their young centre half, and that Derby want at least 3M and the player on loan for the season. Suspect they'll probably get both as well.