£25 million is a ludicrously high amount to pay for a guy with no EPL
Experience. What we paid for Eze is about the right amount. Villa got shafted in the Watkins deal. There are lots of great young wingers in Latin America if the scouts can only be bothered to look

It seems one of the problems with South American’s is the multi ownership issues

One way to look at it is if you wanted to buy Maupay, or McBurnie who both play as forwards for Prem teams then you’d have to pay over the 20m they were bought for and in my opinion Benrahma is a far better player than those two examples.

I think to the right team he’s worth 20-25m...he might not feel like he’s worth that much to us because we’re not entirely sure where he would play.

Remember both Wilf and Benrahma can play both left and right.

Far less risk buying a player that has proved they can adapt culturally and have proved themself as quality in English league. Players from South America, no matter how good on paper are massive risk, many don't adapt to life in England or the physical game here. I'd take Benrahma all day.

We have about a month to see what the outcome is. However your trust that any AWB money is reinvested right back into the squad is fairly optimistic!
Wilf stays, we won't sign Benrahma. Wilf goes, we will. I will be very surprised if we sign Benrahma and Wilf stays. Just my opinion (I'd be delighted if that was the final outcome post transfer window!)

I might be totally wrong here and can't be ar5ed to check, but I don't think Hodgson has ever played a new signing from the start of the first game they're eligible to play.

Why Eze and Batsman didn't start on Saturday baffled me. Batshuayi played for Belgium during the week, was in red hot form, scored two and was effectively dropped.