00:00 Obviously, the transfer window is about to shut.
00:01 What's happening with Alex Iwobi and his future?
00:03 Yes, look, there's a few circling a few of our players.
00:06 He's one of them.
00:08 There's nothing in agreement yet, but there's him and Tom Cannon,
00:12 similar sort of situations, a number of clubs circling their situations.
00:17 With that in mind, would it weaken the squad terribly if Alex were to go?
00:21 What do you have to weigh up as regards whether you allow him to go now?
00:24 Because obviously, he has only got a year left on his contract.
00:26 Yes, exactly.
00:27 The obvious thing that's been, I think it's been apparent, although I still had to spell it out last week,
00:31 it was a bit odd, the club have to look at the business side of it.
00:35 And there is a business side of it, quite obviously,
00:38 with a player with a year left, Tom slightly differently.
00:42 Money's not free-flowing, so it has to be looked at.
00:44 Is there also an indication then that you're maybe confident of getting in a replacement, being a winger?
00:50 You can be as confident as you want.
00:51 The fact is, it's got to be done.
00:53 Deals have got to be done.
00:54 There's got to be money available.
00:55 So, if anything happens with them two players, then we'll quickly assess what can be done next.
01:00 We've already seen monitoring situations for our own, I mean, not about them,
01:03 I mean, of our own avenues we could go down.
01:07 But at the end of the day, you need the finance to make them work.
01:10 So, we'll find out over the next couple of days, obviously.
01:12 I take it you work into the wires as regards bringing players in then as well.
01:15 What is the priority?
01:16 I mean, is it a winger?
01:17 Is it a midfielder, a centre-half, even another striker again?
01:20 Well, I think the obvious one, if these things change with Alex,
01:25 with Tom, is the wide areas, because of the injury side of things as well.
01:31 The front area, I mean, we're trying to find that balance.
01:34 You saw with Yousef, I made it clear the other week, he's a young player learning.
01:38 You saw that good experience for him.
01:40 It's going to take him time to adapt to what it is.
01:43 We're better, he's longer in his learning, obviously.
01:46 Don't come back to full fitness.
01:48 And it's seen what's available.
01:49 You know, the market's unforgiving at the best of times.
01:51 So, we've been trying to stay on situation, seeing if they open up.
01:55 Obviously, it's been a delay because of the finances.
01:58 That's been tricky.
01:59 We are managing to, so far, whether it's loans, whether it's signings,
02:03 to find our way and it's very difficult.
02:06 I meant to mention Damari as well.
02:08 I mean, if he goes to Saudi, then there's a few more days beyond.
02:11 Just another one, there's a couple of situations swirling around.
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