Kitman

What's the stat for aimlessly dribbling into a blind alley and giving the ball away? Or is that just general "creativity"?

Still younger than me. Happy birthday old timer!

Btw "mum's attic" is not a euphemism, MF

Tbh I don't think most of the window lickers on RTG have been out of their mum's attic, let alone out of Sunderland. So it's natural that they have zero perspective on, well, everything.

So many links and none of them his. It's almost as if he sits there googling transfer news all day...

He'd be running away as fast as his bone spurs would carry him, leaving his troops to carry the can

shame, I used to think of you heil-y

It's plainly a conspiracy to keep their trail blazers out of the national team. I suspect its that shadowy cartel of tyneside businessmen again...

Apparently it's a race. A race to prepare a bid to get it over the line. Unless it's wide of the mark

Presumably it'll Poles apart

But he did have Joseph Go-balls okay, okay I'll get me coat

I think I'd prefer to go to Craven Cottage tbh. I realise it probably isnt a 10 minute walk away though.

I assume Diaby could be first choice on either wing

Just apropos of nothing, atm our signings seem to come out of the blue and the players we are supposed to be in for invariably go somewhere else. I had never heard of Tonali and didnt see anything to link us with him until his agent confirmed he was about to sign. Which makes me think 1. All the ITKs/media wittering on about our supposed targets/enquiries/offers are just speculating and dont really have a clue 2. A transfer is going to be pretty much done and dusted before we hear a whisper about it 3. The more we're heavily linked with a player in the media (Maddison, Szoboszlai etc) the less likely it is we're actually in for them The club seems very tight on security of info these days, not only targets and negotations but also transfer budget, wages etc. This leads me to conclude that any intel thats in the wind about "preparing a bid" is crapola, probably put about by the player's agent to put pressure on another club's negotations.

Al-Ettifaq. Or in Gerard's case, Al-gettaefuck

Oh righto. That family needs to branch out into other jobs lol

Thuram has gone to Inter according to the Beeb

Maddison just looks like a Spurs player to me. I can't define what that is, and he's plainly a good player, but I suspect he wouldn't have thrived in black and white.

At the last count we seem to have bid 50-60m for at least 5 players. That seems unlikely. Maybe they're just "preparing a bid", paper parlance for "here's some horseshit we made up yesterday over lunchtime pints"

MF only has autocock

North Macedonia sounds like a made up country. The sort of place the baddies come from in an Enid Blyton story