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He looks like he has some pride and seems irritable at the slightest negativity or criticism. It is a World Cup year. He’s 25 and not playing a year of football. There is enough there for him to at least ‘give a fuck’ I believe. He has burnt his bridges with the purple rats, and that situation...

O’Riley is a decent player but had a pretty serious ankle issue last season and then couldn’t get playing time after under the new manager. Shouldn’t be the priority however, we are struggling to shift David Luiz and have enough for the roles behind the front man. Surely a centre back and a...

That’s not saying much. I’d rather have Iaquinta and even Borriello than Susan.

This is all very possible. Personally I’m holding off on judgment/expectations for the season until the end of the transfer window and we’ve likely sold some pieces and shopped in the bargain bucket. It could get ugly quickly with a few losses, as the players remain psychologically fragile. If...

The longer it takes, the less chance we have of keeping him and a club with money puts the cash down. Meanwhile we may offload Dusan for peanuts and be left with Milik as a back up to David. It would be up there with that season where Morata was our starting striker with Moise as back up. Those...

Your expectations are setting you up for failure.

This is the problem with having no clear identity, direction or stability. We overhauled the team last season and bought full backs, small defenders competent carrying the ball out, wide midfielders for Motta, and now have moved to a completely different style of vertical direct football with...

He worked hard and looked like he gave a shit by busting a gut on every opportunity he was given on the field. Something we can’t even say about half of our starting 11.

And yet with the added benefit of hindsight those penny pinching days ended up being better for us than when we started pissing away money on big fees and wages with the likes of Chiesa, Vlahovic and De Ligt.

The first home game was decent, one of the really early ones against Empoli was a stand out for me. Yes it’s Empoli, but he showed immense composure on one of the finishes, he ran the channels, showed some physicality and even flew into a tackle on the touchline late on and celebrated it in true...

Yes, the Sancho pursuit in my opinion is likely centred around them taking an unwanted player from us to inflate the books on each side.

The wages will be too steep to be able to sell later if he flops, so that’s the risk. Here’s hoping for the best, and it can’t be any worse than the last two forwards we’ve bought.

If he didn’t demand a big wage and his agent didn’t ask for that commission, then we wouldn’t have pissed away 60 million on Koop.

Players who do want to play like Weah and Mbangula are shoved to the stands because teams show an interest in buying them. No one is queuing up to buy Vlahovic and Kostic for evident reasons.

In combination we have already fucked up the next game as they will have no confidence having been made to look like amateurs here.

Has Koopmeiners always been this slow? We thought Danilo’s legs had gone but Koopmeiners looks worse.

The bigger issue is communication across the whole back line, it was present all last season. They were all likely silent there and no call made to tell him there was no pressure.

We all know how this story usually goes for us. When selling someone, it’s ends up about 20% lower than the reported fee. When buying someone, it ends up around 10-20% more than the reported fee.

I don’t believe I have seen a worse defender than Kelly play for us. We’ve seen shit ones in the past, but this guy does not have simple football basics I would expect at grassroots level. He’s timid, can’t get tight, easily beat on 1v1s, ball floats in easy behind him, can’t jump for headers...

Uomo di merda. Just stop playing him at this point and allowing any potential suitor watch him try to play football. A very realistic possibility he leaves on a free as he will reject Saudi and Turkey. Mid-table premier league won’t give him the wages he and his genius agent think he’s worth now.