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Yeah, that’s nonsense. We aren’t buying a midfielder that’s better than Joelinton, Bruno or Tonali. So you’d be happy with Willock or Longstaff coming off the bench or starting games if any injuries? our bench options are largely terrible and I’m not against upgrading on them if we can afford it. Signing Ramsay wouldn’t be for non sporting reasons

We need depth too. Our bench is often poor compared to our opposition. Ideally Willock would be sold with Ramsey coming in.

Also Chelsea & Man City have only done their business this early coz they are in the club World Cup

Left Bordeaux

We’ll never be able to give Isak the wages he’d get at Liverpool etc so ultimately PSR will force it eventually

Yeah, you don’t get it. PSR and the outright unfairness of the system would be the last straw. As you point out we had Ashley stopping us compete and then we get in a position where we can and PSR stops us compete. That’s the last straw

I’m not saying it’s happening, just saying if it were to happen it’d be final straw for me tbh

Adidas are absolute miles out

Reckon if Isak goes to Liverpool with even the slightest PSR reason I might well be done with football. The whole thing is a farce

I actually feel for him must have been an awful time for him. If it was his own doing he’ll have to live with that. None of our business

Absolutely

Not that we didn’t already know but certainly makes a lot of sense of his poor spell at that time. Would be hard for most people to deal with

Sorry, I meant bad is in no where near as good as the originals they were trying to copy

Again tho, after Cardiff changed their kit to red and the subsequent backlash the FA made a rule that they have the power to block such moves. It’ll never happen so pointless worrying about it

No, they can’t just up and change it like the crest. A name change etc needs approval from the FA which would be highly unlikely. The Hull City name change was rejected by the FA

They were boring & bad remakes. Not awful but very unremarkable

This is what I hate about Adidas it’s absolutely garbage. All shirts with the same boring template.

I’m really not arsed about Joao Pedro and certainly not for the money mentioned

They don’t

I don’t recall but the point is I’m sure that deal would have been relatively easy to do. Didn’t Burnley just get relegated? Again probably an easy deal to do. things will start moving in late June, july

Target was a loan made permanent, pope was late June, Minteh wasn’t a first team signing and Kelly was a free transfer. the reality is we start making moves in July for whatever reason.

Howe can say what he likes but it’s far more likely things are being put in place to move early July after PSR enters a new cycle.

Do we ever really sign players in June? Isak, Livramento, hall, Barnes & Tonali were all signed in July & August. Botman and Pope were signed in June but it was in last week of June