The impact of 115 on our transfer activity must be related to the fact the case has gone into the decision processing phase. Our defence to the avalanche of shit has been we are highly profitable commercial entity that is self sustaining. This is the most delicate time of the whole process, no doubt the Panel are scrutinising us. The optics would be awful if we splurged eg £150m in the January window. It could sway a panel members mind, the wrong way. That's why we need to be creative with buy backs or loan recalls (NOT Phillips) or loan deals that could alleviate the slump. The priorities are ANY defensive position, DM and Haaland backup. For example, someone mentioned Americ Laporte on loan for 6 months, highly speculative but the type of short term solution that's needed to get us to May and, pls God, UCL qualification....