Andrew

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He's actually been here for a few months now.

Having read that I think even I perhaps under rate or under appreciate how good he was.

CT is the true geordie?

Fuck you.

Yep, he's had an excellent season for burnley but wanted a 2 year contract renewal, burnley were only willing to give him a 1 year deal so off he's gone. Bad business for them imo, his experience and quality helped them massively and their midfield without him is lacks the ability to stay up by a very long way.

Glad we swore off them for at least another 5 years after reading this really

Aye the scheduling of this is total nonsense like. For us no Rooney, Smalling or Rashford for them no Turan since his club is playing in the cup final later today.

Chris smalling isn't very good.

OOO did that strike a nerve? I was joking as it happens since I assumed you'd copied that off some gents fashion website for the sort of person who buys chap magazine unironically but now I'm a bit less sure. You're the one posting about $200 dress shirts and getting your work wear made annually.

looks like someone needs to check their privilege

I was wondering if you were going to do any more with moving oop north in the near future. Also possibly finished now we're not in the PL?

We did sign Riviere off the back of him being Monacos top scorer in ligue 1, he outscored Falcao and James Rodriguez that season.

Charnley : We want a really good striker Graham, make some recommendations Carr : Lacazette is excellent, get him Chanrley : Nah, far too expensive, got anyone who we could get for less? Carr : Gignac is pretty decent too, he'd be a good shout Chanrley : Bit rich for our blood there G, anyone else? Carr : errrr, Nolan Roux had a good season last year, probably won't quite make the step up though Changler : £9 million is quite a lot you know, who might be available in the 5-7 range? Carr : Well, Monaco want rid of Riviere, he should be about that, hes got a bit of pace and had a decent return last year. Cjha=afh : SMashing! we'll get that sorted. Recommending players based on the criteria of his bosses is his job, not just recommending great players, he can't just say "No, I won't recommend anyone if you don't get my first choice" or he just gets sacked. Your job is to do as your managers say as long as it is within your contracted job description, a scout who won't recommend anyone isn't getting paid any time soon.

Cabella and Thauvin are his major failures imo, players like Gouffran and Riviere seemed like the 3rd/4th entries on his list when he was recommending Aubameyang and Lacazette but the board couldn't do the deals. If you need players in and they work their way down a list, eventually the options aren't going to be that good. Gouffran actually looked quite handy when he joined us, pacey winger/forward who could get a few goals, he is now a pedestrian defensive midfielder (or something like that) that is not Carrs fault, its the coaches.

No one agreed with you? Really?

Was that not for that gay couple kissing that appalled him?

Well, with all due respect to people who would make that argument, that is a fucking stupid argument.

And we get called deluded

Aye he's been one of the few good people working at the club in recent years, badly let down by the people he reported to. 71 now though and not rafas man. Mad that some people give him shit for the players we sign when he spent years recommending really good players and ones who've gone on to be incredible and the board have tried to be clever and missed out time and time again

Well, they don't have a manager at the moment, though Roberto Di Matteo is being bandied about. So when Rafa confirms he's staying and that happens there will be 2 champions league winning managers in the championship

Villa have confirmed their sale to a group of Chinese Investors. Could have a big impact on the league next season

that third

The only reason Agger is being linked (by a spanish paper) is due to Benitez, its lazy as fuck. He went to Brondby when he had a lot of other offers because he wanted to play for either them or Liverpool and no one else, he won't be coming here.