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Get in little hobbit

Absolutely hate Chelsea and this whole PSR thing is a fucking farce

That seems to be from a quite shitty source.

Howe has squeezed everything out of our players and masked their deficiencies. We have been lucky that teams such as Chelsea, Spurs and Man Utd have been below par since our ascension. A poor season could result in lower bids from clubs, next summer, to unsettle our ambitious players such as Isak and Tonali. We have to keep evolving in the transfer market and tactically to compete until our revenues enable us to offer elite wages. Bournemouth took calculated risks(with little outlay) on highly rated youngsters such as Kerkez and Huijsen who integrated into their first team almost immediately. We have got to do the same if we can. We can’t compete with Chelsea, Spurs (Maddison went there instead) and Man Utd for players but we can blow Brighton, Bournemouth and Brentford out of the water for talent - we should be doing a ‘Chelsea’ on these clubs’ targets.

It's still early like

Yeah, from what I've gathered, from other people on here and elsewhere, is that the Saudis take an age to get decisions made/approved and it's not a unique problem to NUFC. Just raises the issue of the board members being aligned and ready to move in different directions without needing the official nod every half an hour. There's so much to be positive about regarding the club: Fantastic young English FBs in Tino and Hall Solid keeper/CB and could get even better with Trafford Best CM in the league according to a lot of people/neutrals World class CF in Isak Brilliant manager in Howe Fans completely united behind the club First trophy in 60 years Champions League football again Money to spend by all accounts Yet we can't seem to get any shit done off the park. At all. Really fucks me off

Cmon England!! Kickoff countdown 🤢🤮

Yeah I think every decision has to be run through the big wigs of KSA. Our Amazon documentary had a bit of an insight into that with the Gordon deal, top brass have to sign off on every detail, I imagine that slows things down significantly.

Sign a player teenite or August 31. Don't care. Won a trophy.

Nice of our owners to send a massive lump of cash to the team that have been sniffing around Isak all summer Maybe they can find a few million down the back of the sofa for a training kit sponsor while they're at it

It's just dawned on me that, in the final stages of the League Cup, we played nearly 5 hours of football against the best two teams in the country, and conceded only one goal - against Liverpool, during stoppage time. Our manager sure knows how to organise a defence.

Hopefully we do have a good number of alternatives lined up in case we don't get our prime targets. Just going off last season and Howe's quotes I'm not sure we will.

Saudi ran projects 101 tbh. It's becoming more and more obvious to me now that we threw the baby out with the bath water when Staveley and Ghodoussi left.

We know all that because we are familiar with Britain and most of the major cities. For foreign players the capital city will always hold more glamour because it's recognised worldwide. It's not a huge deal, but in a decision between two clubs it might make the difference. Plus Chelsea is one of the more attractive London clubs location wise. Even if you hate them, objectively that's true.

Need to hang those Always Be Closing posters around the office... come on deal makers, make a deal

Thats suicide going into a huge season. We need to be able to rotate or we'll struggle big time

I'm dreading the moment people, maybe legitimately, start kicking off and openly question if the people currently negotiating for players are actually capable of getting a big deal done for a player we want. Could be completely off-beam here but we seem to move so slowly in virtually all aspects of running the club. Obviously none of us know this but the speed and urgency we seem to operate at comes across as a bit embarrassing. Whether it's signing a big player or replacing a key exec or getting a decision on a stadium or training ground it always seems to take an age to happen relative to how other clubs operate. This isn't a toys out of the pram post by any stretch but the failure to follow up on the most successful season in decades is frustrating. The momentum seems to have been killed in the last 5 weeks as we've essentially stood still while others have moved quickly and strengthened. Not saying it's easy but other clubs seem to be dynamic and reactive to opportunities and benefit directly from it. We seem to be just plodding along

Just stick with the players we've got if last season's saga with Guehi was anything to go by. I think Howe does tend to stick with his very small pool of players he wants in, if we can't get them then we hold fire and maybe just sign young hopefuls.

The closest comparable player on the continent I've seen us linked with is Guessand at Nice.

So long as they keep their stinking greasy chicken fingers off Howe.

Reckon they'll buy Isak next. Maybe put a cheeky bid in for St James after

Brilliant. Thank you.

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Makes no difference, they'll buy Pedro too.

What channel is the u21 final on?