James

Bah I was about to start this Fred

All I can say is that women’s football has gone a long way, both in the world and on this forum, I recall the time I received a threatening PM for trying to start a ladies football thread

yes I don’t get it when people are saying he should play for pride and glory elsewhere. what is he meant to do as a squad player for Everton or Norwich that will lead to pride equivalent to the £2m a year he would thus lose out on.

No way Krafth earns more than Fraser

Fees are so crazy now, and yet to a kid when we signed Barnes it must have been like when we signed Damien Duff for £5m

if that is true I hope Sandro doesn’t check out the most recently watched YouTube videos on the SmartTV that was left behind

When he came on I remembered all our recent Leicester games and thought…big mistake

Have a feeling Longstaff and Botman even booked the table for him

There was an article over the summer about Eddie Howe’s time doing his coaching badges in Ireland and it was very notable that whilst the instructor rates Eddie as the course’s best ever pupil, Gary O’Neil was second.

If we win the internet will break as journalists try to retrospectively unpatriotic their start of year predictions

After Saturday, any chance of the likes of Arsenal or Chelsea thinking we are a good choice to loan a player to is no longer zero - it’s negative.

So how are we looking? Would anyone from Spurs get into our first XI?

Surely this doesn’t need its own thread, all feels a bit RTG and could have gone in the first team squad thread?

The European Super Cup Final is a dynamic I hadn’t considered

He is the sex

Can’t get Barvey Harnes out of my head since I saw it on here.

we’d probably end up paying 50% of his wages in that deal

Great result but tellingly against a good team which makes me very excited for the season ahead

Completely unacceptable that we are 14th right now

Most of the episode felt like getting ready for when the cameras really started rolling. my main bits of interest were: - Anything with Al Rummayan in - Darren Eales showing some research that the successful clubs have the biggest player wage budgets - but Al Rummayan telling him to not forget the manager. Now compare this to Lee Charnley’s research. - Staveley asking PIF to approve an extra £5m for AG via their head of European investment - and getting denied

Saw Joelinton on a big billboard in Manchester alongside Haaland and Rashford. Shows how far we’ve come

Sholo Ameobo

I think there is a clear and obvious strategy this window aiming at consistency of our performances. Barnes improves consistency on the left whilst Tonali and Livramento mean that losing Bruno or Trippier will have less impact on performances.

Chelsea lawyers are watching

Especially when we know Howe actually works to improve players unlike Mourinho or Conte who just use and discard