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This guy will be a future England number 1. Great shot-stopping and very good distribution; not as good as Pope with regards to handling crosses but I’d argue Nick’s the best keeper in the prem at holding onto a ball under pressure. Good signing at a fair price imo.

Gillespie and Ruddy are basically training assistants, and Odysseus was only signed as a PSR fiddle. Only Pope and Dubs are really first team keepers.

as long as you put a comma before the 000. Personally pefer k, or 'k as a table heading

Gillespie and Ruddy (or Forster/Krul likely for next season) are neither here nor there but realistically Dubs and Pope will be off this summer or next so unless our Greek God turns into a decent number 2 we're looking for an understudy for the likely England number 1 next summer at the latest. That isn't going to be an easy task at all

Pardew's a narcissistic, lying, snide cunt. Yet, somehow, it was Bruce's appointment that tipped me over the edge and pack it all in. 14 fucking years man, fuck me.

I wouldn't give Wilson a packet of Skittles. Time to move on but thanks for your service.

All up for this. However, whats with all the keepers. Seriously. Trafford, Pope, Dubs, Greek + Gillespie and Ruddy. Madness. Guess at least 2 have to go from that list, most like dubs and the greek. I would keep pope, good to have 2 top keepers and keep the other 2 for training and so on. Think we could get 5-10M for Pope however?

Did I not hear Leeds were interested in Pope? Sure I saw that on SSN last night.

It's Dan's lankyness that gives the illusion of being taller than he actually is.

Good news if true. My main concern with this transfer was would the price get dragged up and the process dragged out impacting other deals, £30 million seems like a good deal for us. Like others I can see/hope Pope stays for another season as he's a very good keeper and this gives Trafford more time to settle in.

I giggled too. A very witty response 👏 👌 👍

Are Chelsea in for him like?

If our scouts like him - I like him. If we keep Pope I don't think he comes straight into the first-team.

Or send Dubs or the Greek the other way and keep Pope for one more season.

I don’t care.

Not sure Pivas will as I think he may still be ineligible for a UK permit. So imagine it will be back out on loan somewhere again.

Christensen is elite but far to injury prone.

I think it is a quandary working out who to sign at what price, but I don't think it is on those binary terms. I think the point is that, for where we immediately want and need to get to, at some point we are going to have to pay asking prices and those prices are likely to be high because the players we want and need are good. Any other team thinks that we have loads of money and knows that we have an urgent need to retool ahead of the coming season. I am sure there will be circumstances to exploit (e.g. other teams in PSR bother) or players that are, by some metric, undervalued. I am also sure that we are going to need to handover significant coin if we want to make significant improvements to the squad. I don't think that is the same as saying just spend whatever, now; but I do think it means that to do this season proper justice we should have some serious squad improvements in by pre-season or during its infancy (such that another summer long squabble about prices, like Guehi last year, does not hamper things). I am incredibly keen that we hit the ground running and prepared next season. With timely improvements we can give a good account of ourselves on all fronts. Heavy spending in the next 2 months is required to make that realistic in my opinion, so at some point we're going to have to do some of it.

Could see Pope going back the other way, would make sense for both parties imo

If Pope could kick, he'd be up there with the best in the league I reckon. How has he not improved? So irritating. Comes across as such a lovely chap as well. Maybe it just get's in his head too much.

Pope’s out of contract next summer. Debatable how much we’d get selling now, so we might think it’s worth the hit of letting him go for free next year, after a year of making sure Trafford has had to fight to be number one.

No it's not. You sign which ever scenario has the most quality. Pointless signing 4 knackers on the cheap because of fan pressure. If we can get 4 players at good value, great. If not, get the wallet out and make sure what we do get is top quality. It's always quality over quantity, unless we can do both.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-14793871/Duncan-Ferguson-reveals-current-England-international-battered-training-ground-boxing-match.html Apparently he stopped sparring, maybe we need to get him back in the ring.

Could see Man United or Spurs coming in for Pope if we got Trafford. In fact, any side in the league who's got a duff keeper will be looking at Pope. I think the plan is to have both for a year before moving Pope on next summer.

I'm sure the club can pay these inflated prices, BUT that will mean we get less players in. So 4 players at around 30 - 40 million, or 2 players at 60 - 70 million 🤔 It is indeed a quandary.