thomas

M. Night Shyamalan twist here but what if all these transfer shenanigans are completely normal, only we've been living under the Fog of Ashley for so long we'd forgotten.

people like to meme but i'll remind them the Positivity Thread is undefeated. We do not forgive. We do not forget.

Same. should be a poll. with consequences.

love owt like people posting "tick tock" like we're watching some bomb timer shave off the seconds in a crime thriller

literally pocket change when weighed against the risk of relegation. Funny though, I'm still so in the Ashley-era mindset that I almost instantly gave up hope at "3.5m"

Really don't think the pitiable commercial/retail revenues of the last regime will continue under the new ownership, so it's a bit early to come to that conclusion.

if they use this to fund a move for botman i'll be severely conflicted

We weren't even that well liked before, tbh. How many years of brainless "the fans expect champions league every year" comments did we deal with? Or the disdain for being "Everyone's second team" or "having great away support" commentary from pundits ... as though we invented those labels for ourselves? I'm done giving a fuck what anyone else thinks.

If you buy in to that idea - which I don't - then the inaccuracy argument still goes both ways: if you can't accurately judge him then you can't just assume he's better than the poor results. He could be worse than the results. It's time to move on.

Reappointing Rafa would be a backwards-looking move of pure nostalgia. He's firmly in the Mourinho zone. Will always love the guy but his time has passed. You're desperate to feel the same way as his first time around but it's never the same. No thank you.

Opinions are not inherently valuable or deserve respect. If I have the opinion Chris Wood is better than Shearer I should receive pushback for having a dysfunctional brain. In a similar manner, yearning for the return of rafa is not an inspirational viewpoint and I refuse to entertain it as meaningful. I love the man for what he did here but a return would be horrible. Also I'm usually hyperbolic for the sake of levity, sometimes that doesn't come across.

anyone wanting rafa back is an unhinged lunatic and it's not up for discussion

genuinely laughed out loud at him popping up like "you want some?" when pedro came over gums flapping

eat my fucking dick

we had like 5 good minutes and the drugs wore off

I mean, who says we weren't? Just because we're just now hearing about a deal today doesn't mean it was only set in motion 4 hours ago.

if Y is "actual goal contributions per 90", X axis is probably the "expected goal contributions per 90" stat seen in those little detail boxes. upper-left players are the overperformers.

Burnley will find some kind of cloggerball savant that scores 12 for them and wouldn't have worked under howe, and wood will score 8, and everyone will fanny about saying how we should have signed their sentient brick wall instead for that money

i hate our discount stephen merchant lookalike tormenter

are we seriously doing a deep dive on how furious burnley are holy shit it was a throwaway comment. "well yeah they're pissed but not too pissed, some seem delighted, I'd say he's well overshot with that remark here, I've started an informal poll and asked some of their fans to join, we'll get to the bottom of just how furious they were soon" breathe everyone

Every party involved knows what he's here for keep us up, get a fat wad of cash. Not worried about any contract length - if we need to free up his roster space to sign mbappe they'll cut him free, loan him out or pay him off, it's not that deep.

Wasn't there some kerfuffle about all the social media scrotums nicking it off here and posting it on twitter? it might suggest it if not, as you say. Want to see how this week plays out.

I still put a lot of stock in his posts mind. Not sure what's up with this week.

ando7 said to watch this space and by god I'm-a watchin'.

I would have imagined agents/talent companies/clubs etc have large lists of contacts and when they need to make it known their player is unhappy/looking to leave/etc they can make like 5 calls max and word spreads through the football world. There's probably 500 different agent whatsapp groups. Absolutely no need to "leak" a rumor to the press and hope an interested club catches wind the next morning like it's 1975. I think if anything the rumours the general public gets are the byproduct of communication like that and we're basically always getting late information. Or maybe I give them too much credit.