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It's a good midfield like.

I used that as an indicator what a good judge of a player SBR was. He never had the slightest doubt Bellamy was a top player.

Think it actually rubs off on his team negatively, his miserable approach. probably adds extra pressure

There was a lot of doubt about putting that much money down for him after he'd had a flop first season in the Premier. There were doubts if he was just a championship player, although I think he spent most of his time in the top flight playing on the wing in that first season back.

Just hope he doesn't freeze being back at his old stomping ground. Hopefully he'll make them regret letting him go instead.

Quite excited to see what the Willock, Tonali, Joelinton midfield looks like.

Tbf, if it's just Leicester and Chelsea, they might just decide to punish Leicester twice.

Think it's more that they don't think the Carabao Cup is worth the bother. They can't really be dismissive of us since we've cleaned their clocks a few times under Howe.

So just Leicester then.

Exactly. I'll be astounded if he's given a new contract.

I think this is what Howe was alluding to when he said business decisions were overriding football decisions now. Or at least I hope it was. Howe is absolutely right as a coach to want to keep a goalie like Dubravka, he is still as good a back up keeper as any in the PL. But Mitchell would be absolutely right to take £6m for a 35 year old keeper if it's on the table.

Couldn't have put it better.

Would Forest get deducted points accumulated this season? Might be helpful for our CL campaign.

Hopefully that's what we are talking about here.

Might as well sign another 3 shit keepers for £20m if we are giving Dubravka a new contract.

I really like the crest as it is. I think the mackems trying to copy the basic design is testament to it's envy generating value.

It will be the other way round. Longstaff has never operated as the number 6, he will play ahead of Tonali if he gets the nod.

It's all about increasing club revenue, matchday and other avenues such as concerts, events etc. We don't have to do it, but should probably lower our expectations of winning stuff or being consistent Champions League contenders in the long run if we don't.

There's probably already one lined up, but will probably be for the summer, not this window.

Very intrigued to see how that works out. We'll obviously miss Bruno's ability as a conductor, but it will increase our running power and defensive rigidity. Ultimately it might result in us defending too much though as I can see the ball getting lost in possession a lot more than usual.

Not a fan at all of his style of writing, reads more like something you would have read in a fanzine years ago. It has it's place, just don't think it belongs in a broadsheet. Will be interesting to see if Murphy can use the current high praise he's getting to kick on for the second half of the season and put to rest all this talk of his form being patchy.

Forest are a good example of how it might pay to break the rules and take the punishment rather than accept the shackles imposed by the cartel led authorities.

Exactly. Fair play to them, they are having a storming season, and they do have a couple of really dangerous players in Elanga and MGW, but if they are still ahead of us at the end of the season, I would be disappointed.

If Forest won it, all it would do is undermine all the progress we've made over the last few years. Fuck that.