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Was with a few Forest fans over the weekend, who although said he's a good player and works well in their system, he's very much a player that plays on the break. He's less effective when teams are sitting in and ceding possession to us. Which is something we struggle massively against. Interestingly they also said Gibbs-White is also overrated. Goes missing in games and while there's flashes of brilliance, it's a little bit more sporadic than they want.

It's us or Chelsea atm. It's a stonking fee and he's not done enough to generate interest from abroad at that price.

Unless they do illegal things we should stay out of our players private life. I don't want to comment on his personal life.

Guess they got an offer they couldn't refuse.

We try to win now. Will be hard to get used to, I understand.

fwiw I have it on very good authority that it wasn't just him slagging about, and his wife treat him like absolute arse. Like almost abusive. Still not a good look to be seen with Geordie shore tarts, but hey ho. Less said about the outfit the better but footballers with money...

I genuinely find the outfit ok, but for someone like Tino. I do think there is a thing of dressing age appropriate.

Karma struck him so hard that day

FFS @Mole! Imagine suffering through the Ashley years and then tuning out when we’re regularly qualifying for the CL and winning trophies!

He's right though. Getting annoyed by what a grown man is wearing is weird behaviour. I'm finding it funny that a married man with 3 kids is in Ibiza/Marbella with tarts rather than saving his marriage but what do I know.

Fuck sake, do you have the same outfit by any chance. Come on man, it looks like something my gran would knit for a neighbour's new born. Except in large. He's also being pictured wearing it with a fkn awful individual while still married. He deserves all he gets the fkn idiot.

Very good and valid points as always. Question two, would you prioritise your signings/should building around this. Unless we are pulling rabbits out of hats I don't see how we do. JP Trafford Top notch CB Top notch RW With our budget. I do concur with your thoughts though, I definitely could see Eddie wanting to press in a 442 and defending deep in a 451.

Howe was staunchly 4-4-2 when he was at Bournemouth, right? Took him quite a few games to try 4-3-3 with us, from memory.

That's what Ashley did to a lot of people. Bastard!

I could definitely see us alternating a lot more between 4-3-3 and a 4-2-3-1 if we did sign Pedro. It gives us much more options against weaker sides. I can't see why we'd sign him unless we were leaning towards that idea. I think Howe would like the idea of somebody who can be more of a creative link between midfield and attack to change things up but I don't think he likes pure #10s in terms of lacking positional flexibility. Plus they need the physicality. Somebody like Pedro is perfect if you look at it that way.

I’m not a big booer but if he joins a PL team and acts the cunt against us in a game I’m going to be primed to deliver some heavy boos

If there's a Fofana or a Sarr they want him

Am I still ok to have a go at blokes with pony tails?

Yeah reckon we are switching systems?

We’ll know by end of June whether Ramsey is signing for us, so not long to go on that one

Depends on how much we're considering adapting the system. I think Pedro effectively replaces what Willock offers if we were looking to switch to more of a 4-2-3-1. We've had squad depth but not enough quality/flexibility for a while - hopefully we're looking to address that this summer.

I think Waugh isn’t a bad journalist as he won’t just write any shit but what it does tell you is that the journalist know fuck all about what is happening

Without a doubt, but it's questionable weather we would receive any decent offers. And plus even if we did our squad would have a gaping hole in central midfield to be filled.

Thanks for sharing, really appreciate the insight. Has there been any indications from the Brighton side which teams are in for him? Does it look like Newcastle are in the driving seat or are there others sniffing around (Probably Chelsea)?