Kanj

Mad to think we could have nearly signed carlos and Botman in the GOAT January window.

Cunha would be fucking perfect for us, man. He could play across the front 3, start wide right, play in JL's LCM/Attacking midfield role...would essentially do the ball carrying that Willock is so good at too + he's creative and can score

I'd be furious if we cost cut Bez. He was absolutely class with my son when we met him last season.

HTT no?

We actually tried to do the deal originally for Elanga.

My only guess is that the Saudi club have been given a word from PIF and they will sign him in the summer. Sounds like Dubz will get a little bumper pay to stick it out until end of season. All good to me.

No what’s tiresome is trying to over analyze what we saw yesterday. It’s insane.

We lost a football match on ghd back of a near unprecedented winning run. Shut the fuck up with unnecessary bullshit. This happens in football.

when you're the king, you can have anything.

If he comes on a free, replacing Wilson. Fine by me. Nobody really has senior backup strikers these days; offers us something different too. Cool by me. I trust Eddie and Mitch.

Suspect we will have a plan to deal with Semenyo and Kluivert’s drifting with Jerlinton and Sandro where we seemed to naive to that away from home earlier this season.

I’m all in on him now. Seems to have a cheat code on penalty kick saves, most incredibly fast on his line tbh.

Atlanta’s may be a good one to look at too for us- https://www.footyheadlines.com/2024/12/new-atlanta-united-2025-home-kit.html

Reviewing signings should be circular, but it seems like every player he signed has contributed in some shape or form, was crucial / critical at one time because Eddie and the staff picked (1) good professionals and (2) coached them well and (3) the system and tactics used helped further enhance abilities or limit the player’s weaknesses from being exposed. Ie: Targett for the loan spell and Wood for the few crucial goals in the survival season.

Every footballer is allowed to have a dip in form IMHO. I'm going to not rate the summer's signings. I'd class Targett and Ashby as the only ones are "misses" under Howe. Targett because he's been unable to play for multiple seasons due to injury, despite being KEY in our survival season whilst on loan and Ashby because he hasn't featured at all for us in his time outside of preseason. Karius is a "neither" as he basically has been free and deputized (argument he was poor in the final?). Minteh for the fee. Some would argue Barnes was not a hit if they think we should have used those funds for RW, but I'd argue he's a great squad player and has contributed when called upon with crucial goals. Trippier - Hit Wood - Hit Bruno - Hit Targett - Miss Burn - Hit Botman - Hit Pope - Hit Isak - Hit Loris - Neither Gordon - Hit Ashby - Miss Minteh - Hit (PSR safety) Tonali - Hit Barnes - Hit Tino - Hit Hall - Hit Kelly - TBD Ruddy - TBD Vlach - TBD Osula - TBD Fucking CLASS record in the transfer market.