Andrew

Im not having us bumping this like J69s Sutton/Shola prediction.

Quick clarification. Vernon Reid is not dead?

I'll take that bet!

From a 16 year old account with 26 thousand posts? Nah, thats a real one.

He was 32 million (with 8 mil in add ons) which makes him our 7th most expensive player of all time. Negotiations are "complicated and on standby" which means we've gone back and said he'll cost them a fucking fortune. You don't have to be angry about absolutely everything, its pretty normal for teams to want to sign high performing players.

You never had to work out a notice period?

Its some stretch to blame our outgoing DoF for another team wanting to buy one of our players

That's why it's goooooood

It is, but unless a Saudi move comes up he's got no football ahead of him next season if that doesn't change. No one will keep him on his man u wages.

There it is! Only ever performed overseas, huge wages and price tags following him around, known to have a bad attitude. Its PERFECT!

That is a surprisingly disappointing list of players, none of them are bonkers enough. Maybe Arda Guler, young, almost definitely wouldn't thrive in the PL, has the real madrid and "performed well in an international tournament" cred to bring in.

I know we wont and I know why but part of me does want us to go for something stupid. Every club that got the big fancy new owners did it at some point, the big signing that sort of worked sort of didn't. You can't do it now but I want our Robinho or Mutu.

Agreed, we're a ways off dropping 100 mil on a player anyway and considering that Florian Wirtz is looking at moving for not a whole lot more than that the idea that pedro will is laughable tbh. Its superstar money. And its a "we're not selling" price tag from brighton. When we eventually do spend that on someone, it'll be someone we're properly excited about. West Ham were on about 70 million for Kudus as well, another price tag no one should pay. I do think theres a real player in there though tbf and if we signed him (without totally fucking our ability to spend elsewhere) I'd be pretty happy with it.

I bet they fucking do. He's still fairly young but hes had four PL seasons and managed double figures once. 100 million my arse.

Craig Hope suggesting we're looking at Joao Pedro today, versatile but spent most of his career playing through the middle. Fits the bill and we wanted him before he went to brighton so its an easy link to make, they don't sell cheap though.

It's a shame because he is clearly a good player, but I maintain that anyone choosing Man U over us (or quite a lot of other teams) currently is self-sorting into the "not worth our time" basket. Yes top players will always back themselves to succeed but they're picking a sinking ship because it was good a decade ago, they're either thick as pig shit or have terrible greedy advisors around them and we don't need that. There are other players.

Chris Harris scared the shit out of him running him round a racetrack in a 911 a wee while back, that was a laugh.

Yeah thats a bit naff

Yeah you had the idea two days after Rayvin first suggested it and then also did all the work setting it up. Bravo!

Ok I mean, we know there are issues but thats a bit much.

Im in the phone market where I don't want to be after realising that myself and Mrs A's phones are three and a half years old and creaking a bit. Having become Mac people over the last couple of years with laptops/desktop computing I'm strongly considering going iPhone for the first time in 6 or 7 years. Probably 15 as I couldn't give less of a shit about apple AI or whatever. Of all personal tech I do like, I find phones really boring to shop for.

I want to make it clear that I had done this before you asked

In the meantime, get on the discord! I really can't recommend it enough especially since I'll be on holiday for a chunk of June and may not notice if this place drops particularly quickly

Yeah, we take auto backups every 5 days or so, one was done today and the board went down immediately on running it, so I had to step back a little further. Some proper work needed, which I have pencilled in for July so I can properly plan it and get it sorted.

Woken up to a load of deleted messages in my football group chat with mates from home. Apparently our resident liverpool fan has had a HUGE rant about Alexander-Arnold leaving liverpool and has deleted them in embarrassment when he was informed that not only does no one else in the group give a shit but that practically every non-liverpool fan in the country thinks they're being a bunch of twats by having such a problem with him leaving. football is brilliant.