Typical BBC blame Brexit and for very average EU players that is true they wont get a visa.

The alternate theory is that clubs are really feeling the financial pinch and do not want to go bust. The smart move is to wait until the summer when hopefully the financial implications are clearer.

It may be that salaries and transfer values will fall as it is a buyers market so unless necessary why buy now when you could get cheaper later.

It's why I am not bothered about some of our players being out of contract. We maybe be planning to let them go anyway and if not I expect most will be offered less than today.

One more point

Allardyce said the other day that because of Brexit some deals they were looking at couldn't happen. As it stands, it is smaller clubs like ourselves that stand to potentially lose out more as we often have to look for potential in players like Jach and Sorloth, but those players may well not get in now with the new points based system (maybe it is a good thing after all!) Like much of Brexit it is hard to tell what will be a positive and what will be a negative as nothing seems very clear as it stands. Given the impact on clubs finances, it is obvious that COVID is also having a severe impact, but there isn't really much to say on that which isn't already obvious. What appears to be a great deal for Mateta is, however, probably borne out of the state of play, so maybe there is some light in what is a very long, dark tunnel.

Seems Big Sam/Baggies are already negotiating a deal with the 'arse' for him.

I'm a blind man, i'm a blind man, now my room is cold,
When a blind man cries, Lord, he feels it from his soul.
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Whenever I have seen Maitland-Niles play I have not been impressed.
He was certainly very disappointing when we played Arsenal recently.

Jesus, its Jesse Lingard. He would have been a waste of money.

I’m sure we can’t have another loan as we have two already- Batshuayi and Mateta.

It’s a shame though as I do like Maitland-Niles’ style and versatility.