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I’d love this one.

Loan obligation to buy would help both clubs.

Kind of goes hand in hand doesn't it? Players who are more adept on the ball are able to both keep possession better and find the best pass when needed.

It’s Brighton. They will do a Crystal Palace on us, then sell him to Chelsea regardless.

£70m. Plus he wants to be the main striker.

All this heartache will just make the triumphant return that much sweeter.

I think they are all at it, but sports direct and the sofa ones take the piss a bit more than everyone else. back in the olden days I had a summer job in Woolworths. They had a couple of shelves at the back of the shop with all sorts of stuff on. I was told it was back there as no one would pay that price for the stuff. But there was some law they had to sell something for a certain number of weeks before they could then say it was the RRP and have it with a sales price on. Every Woolworths had these out the way shelves with different stuff on, so in however many weeks time they could roll out that stock at the fake sales price. the worst ones now seem to be online places that have the countdown to end of sale. then another starts the second it finishes. All the protein shake companies seem to work like that.

What's the expected price here?

Collect all the Anthony’s.

Sounds a bit like our resident manc…

Most of the people arguing keeping possession isn’t important complain about our ability to keep the ball in every match thread.

I didnt say anything about overall wage bill...i meant for one player. Maybe living in the south of France for a fortune is nicer than earning a fortune for turning up at a wet Wednesday in Stoke

Honestly expect loads more of these transfers and no big ones. Give them a season or two and then ease them in. Cathal Heffernan is one I completely missed.

Most are suggesting we need a player to break down low block teams rather than teams that are pressing us though

Surely the point is we can and should aim to be higher?

But we play direct so we shouldn’t be high up on that metric.

against teams that press us, yeah we do struggle imo. In terms of build up, for passes completed outside of the opposition 3rd we rank 11th in the league with an 83.33% pass completion rate. For reference the top 4 teams are Man City (90.5%), Arsenal ( 86.95%), Liverpool (86.73%) and Chelsea (86.58%). It's definitely something we could do with improving on - the likes of Murphy, Gordon and Joelinton all frequently give the ball away pretty carelessly.

Enzo Fernandez Moises Caicedo Were about that and he's much better.

Yo momma so dumb she bought a sofa at full price

Been called up for the U21s Euros finals. An odd one but it should be good for him.

Such a disappointment when you see he hasn’t keeled over.

I think there is a pretty lazy narrative developing regarding our shortcomings. Everton and West Ham at home we struggled not against the low block but the fact that these teams had strong physical players able to match our centre backs who then led quick transistions. Brentford away illustrated this again but in a game where we had plenty of chances to score. Bournemouth at home was our inability to cope with the press not the low block. Similarly Brighton home, combined with our inability to score chances in that game. I understand the clamour for creative wingers but we forget that we have good ball playing full backs, centre halves and midfielders (Bruno & Tonali). I expect to see greater output from our fullbacks next season.