The club are fuming with Monaco calling them unprofessional etc etc. jokers

Surely they can’t do that. Unbelievable!

Wow. Cant beleive it.

Enzo said he was leaving months ago. Replacement shouldve been tied up weeks ago.

So much for this dopey c**t of a sporting director with such strong links with Monaco. Its appalling standards and they need to be blacklisted by us and Stewart needs to binned off as well.

This seems ridiculous.

If Enzo goes and we don't have a midfielder in that's criminal mismanagement.

So they eventually sold Balogun to Everton. f**king w**kers.

What a shambles, lined their pockets with Bakayoko, Disasi, Badiashile, and then f**k us over now. Never again.

w**kers.

Got to feel for Camara in all this. Treated like sh*t.

f**k. After all the co-signs, was fully sold on this one.. devastating end to what has been a great window.

Absolute cowboy behaviour from Monaco. I'll be delighted if the Balogun deal fell through.

We should never deal with Monaco again, and Stewart should be sacked too.

Leave everything to the last minute you have to expect problems. Should have been sorted weeks ago.

Blame our useless directors for trying to bring in a midfielder at the absolute last minute.

Sack them.

The deal was contingent on Balogun to Everton not going through. Everton decided they weren't happy with something in the medical and tried to get Zirkzee and Tammy to sign on loan but neither player was interested. So they managed to negotiate a lower fee for Balogun last minute apparently.

Wasn't there a written agreement between the clubs?

Got to get 3-4 months out of Henderson now, probably playing every week. Can it be done?

Just now, 2211 said:

Wasn't there a written agreement between the clubs?

Who knows? Clearly nothing that was concrete enough to be enforced.

Just now, SimonH said:

Got to get 3-4 months out of Henderson now, probably playing every week. Can it be done?

??

We have Caicedo, Lavia, James and Barco who can all play in midfield.

Henderson, who is a perfectly valid player, is our 5th choice.midfielder for two slots.

Henderson will not need to start a single game.

Crazy situation, most dramatic deadline day since Torres id say.

Football doesn’t seem to operate on normal laws but surely a full written agreement constitutes a contract in the normal world.

Unfortunately the midfield options are looking a bit precarious,a defender(s), a relative novice, a player who seemed washed up 3-4 years and Lavia who hasn’t managed 20 league games in a season.

What just happened. This is a disaster.

Have to recall Essugo to have any sort of depth.

11 minutes ago, big blue said:

Wow. Cant beleive it.

Enzo said he was leaving months ago. Replacement shouldve been tied up weeks ago.

11 minutes ago, big blue said:

Wow. Cant beleive it.

Enzo said he was leaving months ago. Replacement shouldve been tied up weeks ago.

We can bitch about Monaco but ultimately this is what it boils down to.

Embarrassing that, apparently we had the option to cancel the Fernandez deal but still allowed it to go through without replacing him

2 minutes ago, bisright1 said:

??

We have Caicedo, Lavia, James and Barco who can all play in midfield.

Henderson, who is a perfectly valid player, is our 5th choice.midfielder for two slots.

Henderson will not need to start a single game.

1. Injured

2. Likely soon injured

3. Likely soon injured

Time for Reggie Watson to step up

5 minutes ago, PhilH930 said:

What just happened. This is a disaster.

Have to recall Essugo to have any sort of depth.

Yep. I think that would be wise for coverage the first half of the season.