I'm not getting hard for this transfer at all. Seems like an utterly pointless signing to me. The only way it makes any sort of sense is if behind the scenes Saka is refusing to sign a new contract and wants out. It's now or never if we're going to sell him and bring in the monster money. Next year he'll be down to his last year of his contact.

He was more productive last year than Grealish ever was and is younger so he's certainly worth 100m at least. Even at that it wouldn't be worth it to then spunk 70m on this Raphinha fella. It was only a few months ago Martineli wiped the floor with him while he had to be subbed off.

It's a strange window so far. Going into the window the best part of the team was the nucleus of Saka/Martineli/ESR/Ode. The way we play they can't all play at once anyway. So now we've added Vieira to that mix. Who seems to be a combination of Ode/Saka. So it's more congestion in there. Not to mention that Marquinhos fella brought in that looks another Saka style player. He's not a mere youth product. He's come in as a 19 year old with 40 odd games under his belt and signed for several million. Where is he supposed to get games at this rate?

I like the Vieira signing though. He genuinely looks like one of the best young prospects in his position. Could be a new Carzola. so it makes sense to snatch him if possible before out of our range.

Gabriel Jesus. Another odd choice considering what we have. He's not a central forward. He plays on the left cutting in. By all accounts we're gonna try him down the middle. Seems a lot of pointless reinventing the wheel craic to me.

This window has shades of the previous window where we finished the season with a brilliant showing from the cb's only to then dump one and bring in a short arse ball playing one while bringing in a brilliant right back yet somehow make our defence much worse. Conceded 9 more goals.


In conclusion. Raphinha - meh.