thomas

i just need an edwards downer tweet saying his sources say "no deal is close" and i can achieve release.

never heard of this Variables lad but i'm all for a cheeky swap deal.

I'm definitely not rattled by someone agreeing or disagreeing with my views on a journalist, but if i could just have 3 hours of your time i'd like to explain in excruciatingly stupid detail why i think they're wrong ...

why is boxing called the "sweet science"? Anyone who can answer without searching can be my friend for a day.

reckon that's the top end of talent who'll join a non-CL side, and also operating in our (current) wage structure.

someone put frosty the snowman's magic hat on a shat-on journalism diploma and Luke sprang to life

i will never stop abusing northeast journalists try and stop me

It looks like a ready made stand-in replacement for Wilson was never a top priority. Maybe they (Howe and co) thought they could keep him healthy (unlikely). Or maybe they thought they could get by with Wood in any case (more probable). We'll likely never know the rationale. After Botman, it did look like their priority was getting in attacking options up front for whoever they decided to play there, but none have materialized. TBH I understand frustrations overall with their slower, conservative growth strategy especially after we get told we're "the richest club in the world" and our strong finish last season + good start to this one. It'd be nice to go hog wild, pedal to the metal and just see where we can go. But, my joke post above aside, I don't think failing to do so is malicious or incompetent - a place where a lot of vented frustrations eventually wind down to accusing them of. And I think it pays off in the long run.

how long's a scan normally take, anyway? #worrying. their inability to build a perfect squad to account for something like this in one window suggests, as i have been correctly saying all along, that the regime is in over their head and don't know what they're doing.

it'd be hard not to. And I don't even particularly dislike Wood, he's just Shola mk II.

yes.

This might be the year his legs finally remember how old they are.

he fired off that nothing tweet like we're still owned by Ashley "they're still working but nothing close" was a good day's work last year, if you knew nothing.

hot stuff, coming through

go back on vacation luke

cash in from his transfer presumably helps the books look better to potential buyers I guess?

i was born ready for this. come home lucas

this doesn't clarify anything (fuck skip bayless)

dark mode is a blessing because it lets me scroll past the chaff until i'm blinded by a tweet, for good or bad

Aye. And I count myself squarely among the "we're here to build slowly, let's do that" crowd, but 1 or 2 more really would elevate us. Still think top 6 would require some serious luck but I've seen enough in 3 games now to believe it's more like "winning bingo" odds than "winning euromillions" odds.

I stand vindicated.

first half showed we can compete against the best in the world second half showed that we can only do it for about 45 minutes seems to be a solid starting point to argue for further strengthening in what's left of the window. and i think the regime would be receptive to it tbh.