Rich

State of this man's facial hair. He looks like he's just been on a Year 10 sleepover with his pals.

It may never be as good as this again week-to-week, I’m almost certain of it. The polish is even wearing off a bit now after the high of last season’s bounce back and the electric start to this one. A couple of signings could cure that, of course. But soon it’ll just be expected that we spend £100M on players, should be winning every single game and winning trophies, ala Manchester City. It’s inevitable.

Aye, this is it. He wouldn’t be on my list at the prices quoted, but I do accept that I’m hardly qualified to judge. With the team we have in place they’ll have seen every bit of footage, done endless background checks, watched him live multiple times, and have financial models working out his market value. They’ll also know our precise position in relation to FFP, which none of us have clue about. If the finances work, we’ll do the deal, if they don’t then they’ll move on.

When you look back, though, it’s largely the same crowd that thought Howe was a poor appointment, Pope wasn’t any better than Dubs/a “waste” of our transfer budget when RW was much more urgent, Burn was massively underwhelming, that we shouldn’t be signing Villa’s “backup left back” (I definitely underrated Targett myself, mind), and that our summer business was “very disappointing”. Some of them have been wrong to be negative on almost every single signing that wasn’t Bruno or Botman, Wood perhaps excluded (even though that’s up for debate), but it’s a win-win position to take. We’ve got one in our office that is just unhappy about everything. I keep reminding him that we’re breaking records almost every week and now on the verge of Wembley, but he’s still fuming about Gordon and us not signing Perrone, Santos, Fresneda, etc.

Club/player pissed off about false reporting?

If he is to move it’ll be after Chelsea sign a central midfielder or two, he’s been starting recently due to their injuries.

Even Jones knows.

Squid Game

Beautifully put.

Assuming everyone would bring Isak and Maxi in for this? Wilson and Willock benched?

Came alive with some movement ahead of him. He doesn’t get enough from Joelinton and Wilson, although the game did open up a lot once they were behind. He needs players darting about for him like Miggy does.

He’s got electric boots. A mohair suit.

Daichi Kamada?

If he comes, I do think we’ll end up loving him. He basically just needs to cut out the diving and simplify his game. We’ve still got Murphy getting minutes every game, ffs

He looked a bit swift, didn’t he?

Christ almighty

Even HeronsForGoalposts had to be impressed by that cameo.

Played a massive part in the goal and was comfortably better than Botman once again. What a lad.

Bruno knows.

Best match thread maker ever. HOWAY THE LADS!

It’s FA Cup weekend.

Howay then @HaydnNUFC, you know what to do.

That’s him benched now, surely?

How was that only 1, man?

Was that not at least five yards closer?