The College Dropout

They were a Emi Martinez sending off away from back to back CL qualification. Their biggest mistake last season was not going for it in the summer, they left themselves too much work to do in the second half of the season.

Yeh it's barmy to me. I've liked how aggressive Volla have been with PSR but that's stupid. That's Isak level wages.

The fact his own contract situation is in the wind is another factor

Thing with Botman, you would only want to give him 1 extra year. With the injuries you would be uncomfortable giving him a fresh 4 years. 3 is fine.

While this is all true - part of being a professional is respecting your current team and fans.

Aye im fairly cold to this stuff. It is just job for these boys. While I don’t personally care about it. I don’t like what it represents, the messaging. It’s disrespectful to the fans and perhaps his own team mates and manager too. Stay fit, sign a new deal nobody will care.

It’s not the same though. Nobody cares if he loves Isak and he went to his house to pop champagne for the move. It’s the public congratulations that is weird. It’s a public declaration that he stands with Isak when he knows the fans do not. And some of his team mates too.

I don’t really care but it’s not a smart move. I doubt many others will publicly do something like this because they know how it will look to the fans. We know they are best mates. I don’t expect Botman to be one that rejected Isak like some others in the squad may have. But if Botman cares about his rep among the fans he shouldn’t have done that. I rarely put my feelings into players. But even I’m side eyeing Botman for that. Lads only got 2 years on his contract himself.

If it was such a major injection for PSR we would have done more business in the final day. Squad is still a CM and a LB light.

Rashford is genuinely a top talent though. Over 150 career goals. Multiple seasons scoring 10+ goals in the PL. Rashford has been awful at times but he’s proven himself. That game against PSG he was brilliant last season. People need to put some respect on his name and his career. Jadon Sancho is an inferior talent and has never done anything in the PL consistently. I wouldn’t believe any club in Europe would pay him£200k per week outside of Juve or someone.

80% of Sancho’s wage is the opposite of PSR desperation. I genuinely can’t believe they would pay Sancho £200k odd per week. That’s what £10m? Plus a loan fee. I mean.. I actually don’t believe it. Romano must be chatting shit.

Sancho deal is crazy. I can’t believe it.

He had about £30m left of his amortisation. So if we clear £100m then it’s £70m net. Woltemade and Wissa will cost about £35m per year. So Isak covers them for 2 seasons. I thought it would be more like 3 seasons. It’s not the PSR silver bullet people think it is. And few of our bigger signings will be unless we get a premium. Thats because a majority of our big transfers were bought at a premium in the first place. And then we replace them with premium signings. Our entire transfer approach isn’t going to be overly fruitful long term from a PSR perspective. It does need to change.

5/10. Howe can make it an 8/10 though. He’s that good.

Massive shame for the lad.

I said this last season and people laughed. Maybe 2 purples and some solid signings away from being one of the best squads in the world.

Woltemade has played a lot at AM/10 so yeh.

Is that true about the agent? yeh he cost them the spot.

We were a shit show tbh

They bullied us for Clark and even sold him for a profit.

Would love him here with an option. Saying that - he's never been as prolific as Wissa was last season

They bully the likes of Fulham for their youngsters. Barely play them, sell them for 5x a few years later. Their own HG get sold with a premium too.

He's going to Spurs? I would've liked him here. I really liked him in the WC.

He’ll also not have to do so much work off the ball. And he’s got a £80m backup that will need minutes.

Fee is whoa but I like Wissa a lot.