Polarboy

Matheus Franca, that Brazilian we were linked to more than once, is away to Palace according to Romano.

Darlow is bottom half of the PL level, which is pretty decent. He'll be one of the better keepers in the Championship. 400,000, if that's what the fee was, is pretty cheap given how crazy the market is.

Yeah, Miley and Anderson are going to save us a shit ton of money. Miley oozes class on the ball, and Anderson has shades of Rooney about him with how aggressive he is and his strength on the ball.

Barnes is looking very good. Our best player so far. It's like night and day between him and ASM given how direct he is. He only has one thought when he gets the ball, and it's what's the shortest way to goal.

Watford have an option to make it permanent at the end of the loan according to Downie.

It was only a strain as opposed to a pull, so nothing major. They were just being extra cautious given it's preseason. But aye, we definitely need the pacy RCB and LB that are supposedly on the list of positions we're targeting.

Since when has Given been working for the club? I seen him in some of the videos for the US tour in club training gear.

Fulham are supposedly close to signing a left back from Ajax for 18m. So you'd imagine Robinson will be on his way as I can't see Fulham signing 18m of cover for a left back. Whether we're at the head of the queue for him remains to be seen. The only wrinkle in it is that Robinson signed a new contract recently, but perhaps that was Fulham trying to secure a top price if he gets sold.

It's very likely West Ham are going to largely waste that Rice money. Every other club knows they have it burning a hole in their pocket. 35m for Gallagher would be fair in my mind. He might go on to be consistent enough to warrant a higher fee, but there's enough uncertainty to keep the price lower.

Just seen Ginola saying the same thing happened to him and wishing Hislop well on twitter/X. So unless he's mistaken perhaps it was more serious than heat stroke given Ginola had a heart attack.

Apparently a number of Championship clubs are interested in taking Kuol on loan. If we can get him some regular game time in the Championship that would obviously be a massive step up, from whatever was going on at Hearts.

Yeah, seems like it was just heat stroke.

I see big Shaka collapsed. Hopefully it was just the heat and it's nothing serious. Edit. Just thinking that this video is intrusive, so post a Jaysus if you think I should delete it.

If you just think about Villa, they've gone from Dean Smith then Gerrard and nearly getting relegated, to one of the elite managers in Europe in Emery, and signing players like Diaby, Pau Torres, and Tielemans. They've also added Monchi as director of football who worked with Emery at Villareal, and he's supposedly elite when it comes to player recruitment and identifying players. Great time to be a Villa fan. Great first half from Anderson, again apart from that one fluffed effort. I know it's only preseason, but he's giving Howe plenty to think about.

Good finish from Anderson there. He made up for falling over for the earlier effort.

https://www.nufc.co.uk/nufc-tv/latest-videos/harvey-barnes-the-first-interview/

Barnes has been confirmed. So he'll be on his way out to the US as we speak.

Holt's morals seem a tad selective.

The fume from Chelsea fans about Brighton not rolling over on the Caicedo deal is amusing.

The problem is the sell on clause that Chelsea have with him. They get a sliding scale percentage of any sale.

Here's the dates and kickoffs for any that didn't know them.