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Bruce will be straight onto his lawyers 

Sneak preview of originals this year too

Jonas!

5 minutes ago, Interpolic said:

 

So he's playing... chess? 

Thank you, lord thank you. It’s as jarring as when Americans say “I could care less”.

All part of the plan to convince them to buy Pedro so we can nab Madueke on the cheap, cracking use of smokescreens, stalking horses and stupid journalists. 
 

On a serious note yeh it is a bit gutting but what can one do if those are his and his former club’s preferences? If you give me the choice I put my future development in Howe’s hands every time. Hope he enjoys his trips to the West End and 02 arena. 

All I see is a sense of drift at the top, and yet another window of nothing happening. 

I bet you won’t be done 

Just now, Weezertron said:

This isn’t meant to be jab at Howe, but I’m sure he’s OK with it given he is somewhat responsible. 

Difficult to know for sure, but is he? Is he the one in charge of deciding wages / transfer fee? Genuine question. We seem uniquely transfer constipated.

Wonder what he makes of the same squad 1 week before pre-season.

1 hour ago, Joelinton7 said:

But I thought Forest were massive now. They were gutted at no CL and couldn’t imagine lowering themselves to play conference league football. What happened. Guy prob saw how much of a fail Gio Reyna’s move there was and thought fuck that.

I think anyone with a meaningful choice takes Turin over Nottingham, despite its “lace quarter”.

So a green and white hooped away kit for a team that plays in green and white. 

2 minutes ago, TheBrownBottle said:

Likewise, and no issue with people saying that there’s players they’d like to sign or not.  But ‘hoping it doesn’t happen’ is such a twatful sentiment. 

I love the word twatful and will henceforth be stealing that 

Jesus wept man

32 minutes ago, bhoywhonder said:

 

Exactly this. I could pass any number of board members in the street and not notice. They just never have any presence about them. Even the likes of Llambias and (shudder) Charnley were at least visible and communicative. 

Charnley communicative? Pull the other one 

9 minutes ago, KaKa said:

 

Howe now has the people he trusts the most in charge of transfer negotiations.

 

It will be up to him to let them know when to pivot to other options, if things are at a point of no return.

 

I think it will be fine.

Ultimately I think and hope you are right. I accept that they may be waiting for prices to come down, but I also accept the clock ticks each day

2 minutes ago, LFEE said:

We’ve some but can’t overspend to get all our targets.

 

If you’ve only £4 and you need 3 apples and they are £2 each because in season and it’s a busy start of the day with lots of shoppers out who have £6 and more. You need for their price to drop at the end of the day hoping their will be three unbruised apples left or just buy two apples knowing ultimately that’s insufficient.

I’m not sure the comparison works, it’s too simple.

The club has had a long time to identify targets and to do the research necessary to consider whether they’d be interested in joining and at what wages, and it has been open to the club to ask agents about asking prices. As soon as an expensive target (apple) is off the table, you move to the next one. You don’t really need that degree of research, discussion and strategy about your apples. You also don’t buy apples to complement the pre-existing set of apples you already have at home, you normally buy them because you want / need new apples. 
 

Im ok with price haggling at this stage but my concern is that it continues so far into pre season that we’re deprived of the impact of new players in the squad because it takes Howe a while to trust and involve new players. 
 

It doesn’t help that we’re seeing a second consecutive summer of boardroom uncertainty and confusion as to who is in charge of getting players through the door. Coupled with what seems to me to be a bit of drift (eales still in post, Mitchell still in post where doesn’t appear to be a reason for it, no replacements for star key and ghodoussi) at boardroom level and there’s plenty room for chin scratching now.

19 minutes ago, LFEE said:

You’ve just named the teams with all the PSR headroom. Everyone else is quiet.

I think people's point is that surely we now have PSR headroom?! We've been inactive for 2 years. We have been told by Eddie that we have PSR headroom. 

The squad is badly under-prepared for the campaign ahead, and the campaign starts on July 7th. 

I think Isak is quite rightly exercising some leverage to get the club to sign players. It’s totally in our gift to show him we’re seriously ambitious

8 minutes ago, KingArthur said:

We need a RW that would instantly improve our XI. Not someone who is very expensive, has little experience and may come good in few years. 
 

Murphy is not good enough for top4 challenge. He is a good lad but we have to be realistic. RW has to be top player. We dont have time to wait and hope. 

He was good enough for it in the season just gone, although I do agree we need another…

Orange numbers would make it great, but will be white I imagine. Otherwise looks crapper than original.

Wonder what Shefki Kuqi is up to

Perhaps different players just have different priorities, circumstances and opportunities that align at different times.

2 hours ago, Harry 209 said:

In fact with long sleeves you would just assume it WAS a goalkeeper top if you didn't know in better.

But literally everyone wearing or seeing it would (and does) know better

Quite like it, simple but effective. That in long sleeve will do me nicely.

51 minutes ago, Collage said:

He's a journalist. If that's what you think a journalist should be doing...to me it's very strange. Fortunately I don't have X/Twitter anymore so what I read from him is on here.

gbandit sums it up well some posts up. Edwards is boring and has nothing to say.

I don’t really think most journalists are journalists these days, no. I don’t think what I said constitutes endorsement of the standard of his information-sharing, and yeh I’d rather he provided concrete information or wrote interesting opinion things. But watching him poke fun at people scrabbling about for minute-by-minute transfer updates like crackheads rustling through a bin is quite funny, because he’s taking the piss out of their eminently pisstake-worthy behaviour. 
 

If you actually get riled up or offended by a regional football writer not giving you the hit you crave then you’ve bigger problems than Luke Edwards, in my view.