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what exactly do you have against the generic small time football blather thread?
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1 minute ago, Dr Gloom said:
the other clubs which qualified for the champions league have
Arsenal have signed a back up 'keeper.-
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6 hours ago, wykikitoon said:
Wanking over 'Trent's first assist. Apparently struggled defensively, but 'Typical Trent assist, boom'
Great for a defender eh?
Are you sure you're not actually a liverpool fan that just hasnt realised it yet?-
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I'm not saying its been good so far, signing one development talent and thats all is hardly inspiring BUT
https://www.premierleague.com/en/transfers
A lot of teams haven't really done their business yet, I see a lot about how slow we're being and how we specifically are dragging our feet when everyone else is doing loads, but thats just not reality.-
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2 hours ago, toonotl said:
Justifies selling this side for another 100m-200m on top of the price Chelsea got for their team of sadsack lesbians.
She plays for Juve now, their values tanked-
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6 hours ago, Dr Gloom said:
could well be agent talk, who knows? but romano reckons we had two bids rejected and he is one of the more reliable transfer hacks plus joao pedro is a player we've been heavily linked with before so howe clearly likes him. it sounds credible.
i completely trust eddie but if the rumours are to be believed we are struggling to meet the valuations for the PL-proven players he seems to have targeted this time.
Important one to remember with Romano is that he's only reliable on announcing a done deal, his "here we go" bollocks.
His sources are ALL agents so he tweets incessantly about deals in progress etc. on their say so, getting people talking about deals that he is told to, in return he gets told a few hours before the official announcements about finished deals.
Unless he says "here we go" assume its an agent doing the talking.
Ornstein is much more careful and much more reliable and he's only tweeted about us being in for Elanga in the last month. Him and trafford are the ones I believe we are actually working on.-
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6 minutes ago, Kitman said:
There's every chance that the agents of these targets have been using us as leverage to parlay up their clients' wages. Not to mention the selling clubs squeezing up the transfer price. We don't really know if the likes of Mbuemo and Pedro were serious targets, a lot of it has been amplified through social media with no direct corroboration from the club as far as Ive seen.
I feel like Mbuemo was, but as soon as he publicly said he wanted man u and 250k a week we just went "fuck that" and moved on.
Given our wage structure I am perfectly happy with that, as much as I rate him.-
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21 minutes ago, OTF said:
You're making it sound way worse than it is and way less complicated also.
1. We're not going to upset a harmonious squad that just won a trophy and qualified for the champion's league by bringing in players on huge wages. This rules out many options, but it's likely the right move.
2. The summer transfer window can be a slow burn (yes I know we already have one of those). Sure some business gets done early, mostly by clubs that have few financial restraints, but most happens towards the end as teams selling quality players need to confirm that they can replace them. There's always that domino effect as well as bigger moves occur that money goes back into the market and more players move.
3. We are an attractive prospect to both domestic and international players. We have champion's League, we have a manager who consistently gets the best out of players. We have a slew of internationals in our team both for England and other countries who have earned or maintained their positions whilst playing here.
4. On Trafford, he is a long term target. He wants to come here and he will come here. The clubs have to do the dance on what that final fee is. Every pound saved there is a pound that can be spent elsewhere. It's PSR that means we have to move like this, but even under those constraints look how far we have come in four years. Not getting him earlier hasn't hurt us at all as both Pope and Dubravka had some incredible spells/games through this season.
5. Ability is only one factor in signing a player, we also want to ensure they have the right attitude and are coming for the right reasons.
6. Hardly anyone is taking the piss. Chelsea very obviously are, but few others run the risk. Aston Villa took a bit of gamble and having missed out on CL next season are going to have to take action to at least give the appearance of satisfying PSR.
7. Who have we missed out on that we desperately wanted here?
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Were we ever actually credibly reported as being after cunha?
Mbuemo still plays for Brentford tbf, he's gone nowhere yet. Though it seems we've moved on.
Delap had most of the league after him because that release clause was buttons and he went where he'd be first choice.
I get where you're coming from KD but Im just not at panic stations yet. Our best business has never been public and I feel like a lot of our fans who are panicking just aren't quite used to us being linked with anyone moving yet since Ashley left.
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9 minutes ago, Kid Dynamite said:
Had a lump in my tit. Had to go to the breast cancer clinic to get it checked out. Thankfully it was nothing and the doctor reckoned it's probably off eating too much fake protein in shakes/bars/yoghurts.
The experience at the clinic was probably the most emasculating of my life though. A young lass had to squeeze my pec (moob) into a breast scanner, then I had to sit in a waiting room full of elderly women for 2 hours staring at a wall and getting side eyed, before the doctor asked to examine my balls in case I had a lump there too.
Drove myself home after and didn't even put the radio on. Just sat in silence feeling violated. FML
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Bit of a minor board maintenance thing but can everyone please check their TT emails are up to date?
With a load of DMs floating about lately for people to get access to the discord the admin mailbox has had a ton of "undeliverable email" notices when people receive DMs and an email goes out automatically.
@Gemmill @Kevin Carr's Gloves @Toonpack & @spongebob toonpants you're the most recent ones I can see a few for. -
I've said it before and I'll say it again. PSR is the VAR of the transfer window.
In principle its a good idea, and if it was executed well (and fairly) it would make things better, but as it is it doesn't and any chat around it is diabolically boring.-
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11 hours ago, The Fish said:
Thank god for the PSR rules protecting the competitive nature of the sport.
tbf, Its been shite for us but brilliant for the player.
He'd have played a fraction of the games for us last season as he did for Forest and its playing those games (and being used differently to how we saw him) that has led to him flourishing.-
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1 hour ago, strawb said:
Mental to me that some randoms from shite leagues are more exciting to some people than proven premier league players.
We have seen what Howe does with run of the mill premier league players (like Burn) he turns them into international players. Are all of our first 11 internationals now? Apart from Murphy who should be.
We have the best manager in the league at developing players. He has targets that he thinks he can develop. We should give him the grace the buy the players he wants and develop them.
Its the mystery of it, its more fun.
Unless you're signing a properly world class player from within the league then its someone good from here vs someone you know less about from there.The second option is less known and therefore more exciting.
We've lost a lot of that now with wall to wall football coverage and stats and whatnot but it's like how watching the world cup or euros when we were kids was more fun than it is now because you had full countries turning up with players you know nothing about and then some of them would be signed by teams on the basis of that tournament performance alone.
It was just more of a laugh which for me at least is what I want football to be.
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31 minutes ago, The Fish said:
Is it ok to say that Elanga, Pedro and Trafford don't make my downstairs bit all fizzy?
I guess it's the football hipster in me, but none of them are particularly exciting. Well, Trafford, maybe? But Pedro and Elanga are just... yeah, Ok, I guess.
Totally agree, I am still an advocate for us doing something stupid just for fun.
They'll be decent signings at minimum though and Elanga in particular gives us a ridiculous amount of pace on the break and an extra mate for Isak so it seems a smart buy.
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At 30 million he'd be the 6th most expensive keeper of all time. It is odd how low value the position seems to be.
Buffon is still in the top 5
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Lost 5-2
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What a season the lad had.-
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On 09/05/2025 at 22:03, Andrew said:
No , we got absolutely murdered in both games.
tbf both were against last years league winners due to a scheduling issue and we're now being split into divisions so we're going in the "aw, they're doing their best" division while they go in the proper one.
We won the league
Just got home from the last game.
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AUCKLAND CITY FC HAVE GOT A DRAW AGAINST BOCA JUNIORS!
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Planning to start on the evening of the 7th for me, which will be Monday morning for you.
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Rightyo, now that the outage stuff is sorted it is time to do some proper maintenance and upgrades on this place.
I'm timing this to coincide with the usual annual bits n pieces like site renewal and security certificates but a full board software upgrade hasn't happened since 2017 or so so this is a biggie.
Since I am unsure how long this work will take I am not going to put a full timeline on it, it might be a day might be the whole week.
Most regular users are now on our backup Discord, which will be TT for the time we're down doing this work.
If you aren't yet please DM myself or one of the other mods/admins and we will provide the link for you.
Any questions chuck them in here or DM me.
Cheers!-
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Distracting from the other headlines within the US?
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Thats a transfer rumour I can get behind!
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