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It'd be really hard, but I trust our recruitment team. I don't think we could replace him with one player, I think we'd need two attacking players to replace his goals.

For me real genuine talent is like HBA. Just born with a gift and a ridiculous touch. Meanwhile players like Doku and ASM have more “learned” the skill imo (while also having very quick feet physically)

Keep seeing the Isak thread top of the forum list thinking something has happened. Ben Jacobs (lol) and some liverpool fan (lol) account are the only 2 i can see talking about him leaving.

We need a signing like 🤣. I have to say I agree with TCD in the sense that I don’t get the distinction when people say talent and athletic ability as separate things. I personally don’t see where technical ability ends and some form of physical attribute starts. It feels like a very blurry thing - vision, passing, movement, ball striking are all acts executed via an elite athlete, and can be trained.

Finding a 20 goal striker (every season) isn't easy, you know? We have Isak. In the EPL, there's Haaland, Salah, and Isak – replacing him will be tough.

I'm surprised that people consider talent - learned. It's the opposite to me. Another definition: the natural endowments of a person I think Gordon and Elanga have limited technical talents. I don't see great natural ability in them.

We could for PL purposes.

There's no point flogging Joelinton to Saudi, we cant declare the profit due to APT rules.

Is that what Romano's exclusive Mbappe news was the bellend 🤣

talent /ˈtalənt/ noun 1. natural aptitude or skill. Talents are natural skills or aptitude. Athleticism is a primary talent. I think the players are as technically talented as ever. It's just the tactics are more structured and defenders are more physically gifted. Zidane was 6'2, strong as fuck and deceptively fast for example. Tactics in his day were largely - give him the ball and do what it do. He didn't have to track back, mark anyone, press anyone. Just focus on balling out.

I enjoy watching Isak play and want him to stay. However, I think he may be a psr busting player who could break the glass ceiling for us. If Liverpool signed him for around £130M. It really changes the optics. We're a club who sell our players for a lot of money. Longstaff to Saudi for £25M, Joelinton to Saudi next summer for £65M. We'd have £200M+ to spend this summer. I don't want it to happen, but it'd put us in a strong position.

One odd way of comparing, but still relevant as a point. Elanga is a race car for the strip. Kudus is one for the track.

Well they’re all important attributes in a player but ‘talent’, to me, infers a high level of a learned skill.

You hope we mount a title challenge, and Isak?

Aye I loved it, why I decided to deface it by having "Inches" and "12" on the back, I’ll chalk up to youthful exuberance (As well as bare faced, over confident, deception 🤣)

The shirt designs for next season feel malicious.

It's the basis of the modern game. Not sure it's talent necessarily because I don't think it's something that can be learned. Honed, yes. I had this conversation with a mate a while back. The game is undoubtedly worse from an entertainment POV than it used to be because you no longer have players like Berbatov, Cantona, Ginola, Gazza, Zola, Bergkamp, Figo, Zidane - the list goes on. The technical side of the game has all but vanished because that type of player wouldn't fit into the modern game, which values speed and athleticism over everything else. Elanga is the epitome of the modern game - fast, effective, direct, athletic but sadly, not very exciting.

In 1995/96 we signed four top players, Hislop, Ferdinand, Ginola and Barton. All first team. Then we also signed Batty and Asprilla. Thats six first team players all either one of the best in the country or one of the best in the world for their positions. That’s the level of signings we need for this summer to challenge for the title. I don’t mind if a purple like Gordon has to go (it’ll be like our Cole departure).

Do people think athleticism is a talent? I do. But a lot of people almost don’t. Size, power, agility, balance, strength, speed, engine etc. all talents. I agree about Elanga vs Kudus btw. But Elanga’s physical talents are genuinely next level.

It’s orange like.

It’s nice, the shield behind the badge is a bit naff though.

Idk looks more gold to me

It's not just the imbeciles on RTG either. As far back as the '80s, on the back page of their programmes, they had "The Lads" above their team line up instead of Sunderland