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£52M, apparently.

Davide Frattesi from Sassuolo, anyone? Doing some stats scouting with players I think we should be trying to sign the most similar, younger versions of. Frattesi comes out closest to Gündogan, in a group also containing Wirtz, Bellingham, and Odegaard, for one of the wide CMs. Zubimendi (Sociedad), Sow (Frankfurt), and Samed (Lens) are the DM shouts most equivalent to Amrabat and Caicedo.

From all recent reports it seems that Ashby from West Ham is nailed on for this role. Suppose learning from KT for a couple of seasons would be fantastic for any young RB.

Cheers LFEE, I'll get it in the tickets forum.

From the summer, am I right in thinking that it was Ashby, Ekitike, Harrison, Maddison, Joao Pedro, and Pulisic that we made concrete reported offers for and didn't manage to get them?

Let the daft sods keep believing it's all down to luck, for me. People are absolutely clueless.

Aye, yesterday's coverage was an absolute joy because of him. Probably unbearable for the neutrals, or Leicester fans, but fuck it. He saw the writing on the wall when he left and won an FA Cup with Man City. Can't knock him.

Trippier clearly tells him to fuck off out of his space, btw

But just for accuracy's sake, here's his career playing positions to date. I'm certain he could excel in either of the wide CM slots for us based on his qualities (*but most likely on the right).

Not really for us to worry about, to be honest, but maybe you're right and we aren't still in for him? However, this time last year I would have been adamant that Almiron wasn't a right-winger and just look at him now.

This, exactly. Perfect game for Maddison to be sitting in the stands in his Disney fleece watching yesterday.

If we want to sign players this January window, the options we'll have compared to the last one will be significantly, significantly better. There can't be too many players we're not in the conversation for, these days, though obviously we're now competing with far bigger clubs than we were before. I'd be surprised if there wasn't at least one Bruno-esque buy, given our position.

Remember when people were flapping that we’d “wasted” £10M of our very strict summer budget on a position we didn’t need to strengthen? On someone no better than Dubravka, too. Magic. He’s even getting better with his feet now Eddie’s had six months with him.

He’s been so, so good this season.

Top posting.

Thoroughly enjoyed that. Shall we get the Leeds thread started @HaydnNUFC?

Since that fucking Liverpool game away from SJP: 1-4 0-0 1-2 1-4 0-3 And the first time we've won three away on the bounce since 2001, ffs. In my time as a supporter I don't remember us being so comfortable away from home performance-wise in every single game.

Soumare put in one of the worst shifts I've seen in some time. He's fucking rubbish.

He's obscene.

Man City win FA Cup 5th & 6th = Europa League 7th = Conference League Man Utd win FA Cup (and finish 6th) 5th = Europa League (6th = Man Utd/Europa League) 7th = Conference League Man Utd win FA Cup (and finish 7th) 5th = Europa League 6th = Conference League (7th = Man Utd/Europa League) Man Utd win FA Cup (and finish 8th or lower) 5th = Europa League 6th = Conference League 7th = No European qualification (8th+ = Man Utd/Europa League) [credit @Keegans Export]

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