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Shield around the badge replicates this does it not? I picked this up in Magaluf before it was released over here. Felt like royalty walking through the airport when we got home.

Our recruitment team and coaching staff would make it work by reinvesting the money and improving the team in multiple areas, I agree.

Being foreign

Better than Guehi (never seen him actually play)

Our better players have done well enough that the top clubs across the continent will be interested. If we do decide to move any for more financial wiggle room, the one rule should be to not sell to any of the top Premier League clubs, even if it means we have to get a little less money. That is the only thing I think we need to be very strong on. They banded together to make things difficult for the club to progress, and so let's return the favour and keep that going.

Is that Kieran Trippier's?

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.