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Carroll put in a transfer request on the day. I think at the time there was some sort of confusion, lots of people kind of suggesting that that was because he had been…forced into it, I guess? Strange day.

He's a horny fucker. Anyway, hope he stays for another year at least. Class act on the pitch.

Yeah think was heartbreaking for me too knowing he was so happy to leave us for Liverpool. Its one of the reasons why I hate Liverpool so much now 🤣

Development, regular game time. Back to us on a free when his contract runs out!

It's the bots and the algorithm that are the real problem.

Re hash the same wording and throw in a sprinkle of make believe and you can get a week or two out of the same bollox. Just voids to fill, especially when there is no football on.

Maybe they will once the dust settles on the first wave of targets and prioritise shopping smarter.

Put the money towards Ederson from Atalanta.

Or Cal Wilson!

It's got nothing to do with Ashley. Losing our best players would be a disaster. What's happening in reality is that we've not made a signing yet, like everyone else in the league not pinned down by PSR. And that's if you believe Trafford isn't definitely happening.

It's early doors. I'd love us to get business done early, like Liverpool have, but I think we'll see the market move properly in July

That's interesting and a bit heartbreaking. I can remember making this post and then much later thinking I was stupid for ever thinking it, knowing more about what Ashley was like. Guess it wasn't that far wrong after all.

Good points

We haven’t signed DCL ?

It’s clear we want game ready players and that means going after players that teams don’t want to sell (or at least want full value for) and that will always end in a saga of sorts for the most part. We aren’t Liverpool, Chelsea etc where we can overpay and bully with our PSR headroom and the margins for a signing not working precludes us from too many unknowns at cheap price like Brighton or similar to after.

You say that as if he hasn’t already checked out weeks ago

Last years teams didn’t buy - already Leeds have made two supposedly good signings and Sunderland have sold two and bought one so are reshaping their squad. Leeds apparently have around £100m to spend and with the Bellingham, Brighton sale (can’t remember his name), new shirt deal and money apparently Sunderland’s owner is giving them they could have around that as well (they’ve just spend £35m on a new attacking midfielder though) so I think this year is vastly different to last. Burnley need to think long and hard as they may have finished so many points above Sunderland but Sunderland moved down a few gears quite a few games when it was clear they were finishing in the playoffs regardless. IMO this is why I believe Burnley will sell Trafford- to get the money to pump back into the squad.

Let’s be real, it’s less about journalism and more about traffic now. Sports media runs on ad revenue, and that means clicks are king. Outlets make more money by pumping out constant content like hot takes, sensational headlines and shallow analysis because that’s what drives engagement. Depth and quality don’t pay nearly as well as outrage and volume so why spend time on thoughtful reporting when you can churn out 5 quota-filling guff pieces before lunch and kick your feet up while ad dollars roll in.

Thus far is kind of important in the sentence. If someone wants to share the successes of this window so far I'm all ears though.

I do agree with the points that we open ourselves up to drawn out transfer sagas and paying inflated fees with the type of targets we seem to be aiming at. That said I think we’ll see movement next week and you’d hope the club will quickly move into other targets if the selling club won’t budge on price and we won’t go any higher.

I'm not stuck in a Mike Ashley-esque time warp where "holding on" to players is like a new signing.

Also, there's always mitigation. It's called PSR.

Still think him leaving was the best thing that could have happened to him (for his career).

He was grinning ear to ear in those long shot clips of him after he got off the helicopter. He was absolutely buzzing and so he should have been. He did nowt wrong.

They’re doing a Chelsea and selling the women’s team to themselves. Don’t hate the player, hate the game and all that.