Andrew

Its frustrating seeing him run forward and Barnes already miles inside off the flank leaving him with fullback and winger to deal with.

The botman injury was handled like shit when it first happened, he was somehow allowed to override the specialist he saw and not have surgery iirc. And here we are now, he hasnt been consistently fully fit since.

That particular deal will never happen, swap deals are rare enough, but three players as makeweights? No chance. If nothing else theres no way we're going to take on three players with PSG wages.

Victor Gyokeres signing confirmed.

And somehow there are people spinning it as a negative?!

Quite literally no club that needs a striker can afford him unless he goes to Saudi which he won’t. If he doesn’t agitate for a move to bring the price down a bit, which he might the you never know, he’s not going anywhere. With the way club finances are nowadays, players like Isak dont just go on the market and move.

If Joelinton is back I would do that. That was pretty much how we played when we finished 4th and Willock and Isak have shown some good chemistry too.

He only spent one season at atalanta and got 9 goals. It was mental of them to drop 70 million on him but it was about when haaland, isak and nunez all moved and they HAD to sign a big money striker to keep up appearances.

CT is the mug writer these days

Play the reserves, break as many of their players as possible, take the 3-0 loss for too many red cards.

Blimey, didn't know that was a nickname he'd earned

Agree with that, wouldn't be surprised if we kept Targett and Lascelles from that list as well. even if they never play you need a squad. If you let Targett go for example what do you do for backup for Hall? You'll be hard pressed to find another experienced pro at targetts level for less money imo. He's had some terrible luck with his fitness but hes a capable premier league player when hes fit.

Pretty much, the series X has a disc drive and some beefier hardware inside.

Still agree with this, its the best bang for buck option by a long way.

Hes not.

We need to get that done before the online safety act comes in though. Ffs.

Tough one for PaddockLad that, sorry mate

That cup already exists Wait...didnt they win it a few years ago?

Yeah it'd honestly be perfect if that was the case 😅

Is that for the league cup? Everywhere Ive looked says KO time is yet to be announced, where have you found it?

Not surprised, they've absolutely fucked the development of it. Hopefully their record means that Sega give them the chance to get 26 done and released.

Based on previous signings I reckon Howe might not be too keen on short term loans. He doesnt give players game time until he considers them ready to play his way, a half season loan might only have that for a few games.

I really do wonder how you replace Trippier considering Tino is number one in that position now. If you go younger than Tino you're getting someone who is likely very raw and not ready for first team football. If you go older you're looking at someone who is either happy to be a squad option and isn't really good enough or someone who might stifle Tinos development by being better than him right now, who may also cost a fucking fortune. At 22 and 20 Tino and Hall could literally be our first choice full backs for the next decade or more, when have we ever had that? How do you build a squad to back them up?

Thats fair enough, I would expect it to be a new ground tbh, even then I'd expect 60-65k capacity, its the done thing lately. Now also to be fair, I didn't say grounds turn over little money, I said bums on seats do by which I mean regular punters through the turnstiles. Matchday revenue is built so much on the more expensive box seats that increasing our capacity in that regard matters much more than increasing regular capacity.

You're assuming that the intention of a bigger ground is to turn a profit for the owners in terms of ticket sales. The commercial income would skyrocket with a 60k ground with an improved corporate set up even though the relative increase in seats is fairly low. Bums on seats is important for atmosphere and optics but it turns over surprisingly little money for PL clubs. Infrastructure costs are not included in FFP/PSR, match day revenue is. So its an outlay for PIF that won't return them any cash in the short term (though it would increase the clubs resale value) but would translate into spendable money for the club within the current regulations which means we get better, we get bigger, we get in the CL more, they can entertain their fancy pals at their state of the art PL ground on european nights and they can continue to launder their reputations. We're not operating like a spurs or west ham in this regard. Its not about the money, its about sports washing.