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Would quite enjoy it being someone totally unexpected if it blew all the media speculation out of the water.

At this level you'd expect the interview to be two-way i.e. the candidate would be scrutinising his potential employer, so while I don't think this is the case, it's conceivable he impressed us but we didn't impress him. As has been discussed, the structure of modern football clubs is quite nebulous e.g. two people can have the same job title and have very different areas or grades of responsibility. It might just be he was hoping for one type of position and we're offering something different. Or it could be Twitter rubbish!

Apart from Alex Murphy, I don't remember hearing anything positive about any of them.

I'm under the impression the publicly published xGs are a pale shadow of what clubs calculate internally.

The undead

Thought the same thing. He was having a crap season on loan the last time I checked, I think?

Worth mentioning that's yet another time he's successfully pressed a defender and directly caused a goal...

Agreed, but I wonder if we just couldn't identify a RW that we wanted, could afford, and could secure the deal for. I kind of hope that was the case, anyhow.

I'm not so sure... Enough people carry on like they've got BPD.

I actually feel bad for him for how much he feels he needs to try and prove he truly cares about us and the club. It shouldn't be this hard to convince people!

Yep. Think it's about taking over the place.

The worst is over

This boy is trouble

Tremendous

God loves a trier. Manages to shin a long ball over for Barnes to head in, and then swings a peg at the ball so it bobbles into the path of Isak to finish. He'll take credit for the assists of course, and it's good he keeps having a go, but dearie me he didn't know much about it

End of last season, but yeah.

I was wondering if we could sign him and have them play 45 minutes each at full intensity

Pretty much what I'm already planning on doing if and when we get one in our team

Thought he'd been stabbed.

Will be very sorry to see him leave, I'm very fond of him. Unless we're much more worried about his physical condition than we can reasonably accept, I'd hope he's moving on because we have a bigger upgrade than Ramsdale in mind. If it does happen, that is. Certainly indicates we're having a proper reformation of our setup this summer.

Big game required from Barnes then...

Awkward.

Honestly, I think it's just the timing. It's not far away now, so they've got other things happening like Bruno and Murphy commenting on their goals/assists against Spurs in prior matchups, as well.

Yes, I'm sure it was a coincidence. He's already been doing promotional stuff for Australian TV (an interview in which, as I recall, he made noises to the effect that travelling out there immediately after the season finished wasn't ideal...).

Have there ever been any high profile consequences from on pitch conversions being lip read?