aimaad22

I could swear I saw the tweet from the club handle just a couple of hours ago but can't find anything now. It was a) a parody account or b) hallucination Either way my bad because why in the world would anyone dream up a Wilson contract extension

Wilson has signed a new contract hasnt he

Between last summer and the general lack of decision making at the club I understand why people are a little jumpy right now, it's going to take a decent signing or two to restore confidence but there's plenty of time for that to happen.

If he didn't want to come here I'm not fussed at all we've missed out. We absolutely need to keep the dressing room spirit intact. The important thing is the club moves fast on other targets now and not dally till the end of the window.

You know what's going to happen: Chelsea, Villa, Tom, Dick and Harry will all sell themselves their women's teams, hotels, arse wipes and used towels. By the time we're ready to do it the rules will have changed. The pace of decision making at this club has to improve if we have any hope of catching up. Not that they could have done anything in particular about the women's team.

Oh, I'd be delighted too. I suspect we may get only one of Pedro and Elanga though.

I think the thought process is that while Elanga and Pedro are very good its doubtful if they can be consistently world class. Whereas with a relative mystery buy from Europe you're looking to see if we can find another Isak/Bruno/Tonali for the same price. Man City seem to be going down that route now with Reijnders/Cherki etc.

Is it too much to hope we have a buyback option on him given he'd love to play here again? I don't anything like that being reported at the time though.

I get what people are saying about Elanga, may main concern is him not being a one season wonder. But he's certainly got the attributes to be a consistently great player. If we get him for around 50M it's a great buy imo, proven at this level, hard working, very much fits into how Howe likes to play, will provide the dept we need with CL games etc. If we pay north of 60M you start wondering if we're getting value for money. I hope there's enough interest in Longstaff/Willock to generate a 25-30M fee allowing us to strengthen in CM too, maybe get an upcoming creative playmaker from Europe to get the juices flowing here

I'm guessing we're trying to get the women's team to the level where a price tag similar to Chelsea's can be justified. Or maybe our execs need another 2-3 years to think about the stadium and other decisions can wait.

I'm not sure who's the more consistent of the two, they're both great on their day but can blow hot and cold. Semenyo always does well against us but from what I've seen I think I'd prefer Elanga overall. Not sure either is worth over 50M.

I was speaking relatively. Other than Ukraine and the Middle East, Pakistan and India were flying hundreds of planes at each other about a month ago and who knows how long till China decides to test out it's capabilities on Taiwan. For the most part we've seen proxy wars, insurgencies and terrorism in the last few decades. The US and allies bombing countries that had little ability to defend themselves. We've now got far right nut jobs in charge across the world and whatever semblance of moral, stable US leadership/hegemony is evaporating fast. The thinking clear across so many recent incidents and escalations now is if you want something and think you can get if off the smaller/weaker guy, do it. To hell with international law, UN charters etc.

Anyway, only time will tell how effective these strikes were and what Iran does. The only guarantee at the moment seems to be that the next generation is going to grow up in a less safe world than we did.

Given what has happened in the last few years, if you think Iran is more dangerous than Israel, nothing I'll say will convince you otherwise. Yes they've engaged in proxy wars and deserve criticism for it but the list of countries that have done that is long and hardly reason to believe they'd use nukes willy nilly.