Theregulars

hopefully accurate...

It would be really, really stupid to proceed without an additional midfielder. Whichever way you slice it, we'll need more than Bruno, Longstaff, Miley and an injury-hit Willock.

And you shall be

Good question. My assumption and read is that most on here prefer him to stay but understand the money side if he goes; some (fewer) think it's time to cash in. To me, this Summer feels like the earliest plausible time to move him on. I don't think the club has any intention of writing the season off and he's an automatic starter.

It's interesting how few people question / insult Luke Edwards when he tweets something we like.

I think he also legit liked kicking people, which was part of his charm if you ask me.

Fantastic, thanks man. Now to work out how to replace them….

Just a shit Freddie mercury

Didn’t we only sign 1 of those in the championship (Atsu)? Trivia equaliser

Another really boring question - has anyone found any way to fix / replace “northern rock” piping on early 00s adidas shirts? 3 of the 4 I have from the era, including the mighty gold/yellow sporting Lisbon disaster away, need nerd surgery

My man

Underrated, good enough value for money (£1.5m, if memory serves)? Technically a lot better than he got credit for.

Keen on 97-99 long sleeve home - links from here come with your usual recommendation? That Ajax one you recommended is still going strong

Season from hell. I fucking hate it.

It is, without doubt, player nationality that dictates performance and results. “He’d have finished that had he not been so English”

When we twatted our local rivals last week

I mean can we be certain that the information published is true? Perhaps we can, I don’t know, I just think in football if you have money and the will you normally get what you want.

Ok well let’s mark this page and see where we land. Think the ownership has been pretty consistent at buying where there’s a need.

I’m not sure, I don’t think FFP is actually real or definable with actual numbers. I imagine it will involve us needing to bribe somebody; football is astoundingly corrupt.

I’m fairly confident they’ll buy a midfielder.

If that’s true the club now needs to act and buy a replacement, we can’t bank on miley and Longstaff to take us into Europe.

If true they’ll need to buy a replacement now.

I find fees and player values totally abstract, and am so confident in the corruption of football that I don’t think any of it is true or matters. Against that background I don’t give a rat’s ass about fees, if a good player who looks likely to fit our style, manager and dressing room is there and available I’ll happily take them. I don’t know enough about Phillips to answer confidently, but I reckon he’d fare well based on the player he was and personality that I understood him to have. Not playing matches regularly for 18 months surely can’t render him ineffective or somehow low value? He’ll still have been training every day with one of the greatest football squads in the history of the sport and one of its most celebrated and decorated managers. Howe’s system is complex so I look at it as: 1. It won’t be alien to him in concept 2. he’s shown previously he can handle the demanding fitness aspect 3. he clearly fills an obvious gap that we have (not just defensive minded midfielder, but also just another warm body for the midfield rotation, especially with joelinton twanging muscle fibres every other week). From an armchair pundit and detailed observer perspective, it looks such a sensible move.

The inaugural hat-trick of incompetence? own goal, give ball away for tap in, blatant penalty

The message I really want the players to have is that, if they play their game and concentrate, their talent will win out.