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I was actually referring to the most revelevant teams Sociedad and Brighton, which is 1 in 3 but of course you already know that. I'll be honest, I couldn't give a tiny fuck what opinion you hold.

Stop changing the rules. I was right, you weren't, take the L like a big boy.

Absolutely right.

Was actually looking on their forum but couldn't find anything about what they think. More than happy to listen if you can show me?

162 appearances 61 goals. So pretty much 1 in 3. Thanks for coming.

105 games 33 goals for Real Sociedad. 1 in 3. Should have checked.

16 goal involvements in 27 matches is poor?

Similar goal ratio to Isak, at a similar age to when we bought him. Also if you think Joao Pedro is all about goalscoring or indeed that's what we should be looking at, then I don't agree. We need different profiles and different options. We might want to play 2 up front. We might want to play with a number 10. For example, Roberto Firmino was a 1 in 3 striker for Liverpool, played through the middle but his game was more than goals, he was the facilitator of the side. I'm not saying Joao Pedro is in that bracket but again, he's 23 and has tonnes to work with. 70m is too much though, I agree on that.

I'm a big fan of Joao Pedro, he's much more a support striker than an out and out number 9. He's physically capable of what Howe would want. He's played on the left and as a number 10, so he's versatile. His goal record is something like 1 in 3 but that doesn't include assists or his all round contribution to the team... ... most crucially he's 23 and we have one of the best coaches in the world who could turn him into a monster.

Because it's about club wealth, not owner wealth, and club wealth relates to revenue which certain clubs have managed to monopolise that market, some through a long tradition of being big clubs (Man Utd, Liverpool, Arsenal) and others through landing on the gravy train at the correct time (Man City, Chelsea, Spurs). These clubs pulled the ladder up on the likes of Newcastle and Villa.

I'm someone who doesn't mind us spending top dollar but 70m for Joao Pedro is excessive. If it was less than 65 I could see it. He's another player who can play across the front in a few positions. He'd also be a potential future proofing on the Isak front. Touch wood it isn't an issue for now, but it would be nice to know if either Isak gets a long term injury or he gets sold in 2/3 years, it would be nice to know we have some quality in that area.

Our fans will whinge about both, despite both being very good players.

Local journalists notify us AFTER someone else has already broken it elsewhere. If being a journalist is reading someone else's exclusive and having it "confirmed", then I guess we are all journalists. For example, Tino Livramento was linked because of a local Southampton journo, not a local north east journo.

No they don't. They can claim all they want that x player is a target and that x player chose to go elsewhere. If it's Ornstein/Romano fine but local journalists very rarely get anything right. Of course it suits some of our fanbase to grasp towards whatever negatives the can, in order to find something to criticise the club about, based on fuck all.

Fair enough on Diaby but ultimately he wasn't good enough. He was regularly left out of their side and quickly moved on. We didn't overpay on Tonali. The only people who said that at the time were massively jealous from what I remember. I agree entirely on the last part though.

The reason the athletic don't know about our transfer targets is because they are serious journalists. Random transfer rumours and gossip is normally assigned to the gutter press, hence why Hope and Edwards are all over it.... and yet are still wrong.

Apart from Brennan Johnson, who we aren't signing and isn't cheap, how do we know any of these are good enough for this league? I'm not saying they are/aren't FWIW, but I'm not the one signing a multi-million pound cheque and basically staking my job on them. We were told Moussa Diaby was class, along with countless other players and it turned out the foreign football experts were massively wrong. If we are signing from abroad, let's go for someone who is of real pedigree like Tonali and Isak were, or don't bother at all.

Madueke would be an absolute beast under Eddie Howe. He has a bit of everything in his game and I could see him putting in some incredible numbers. On Elanga, he'd be a very good player under Howe. He wouldn't transform the team but we'd have 2 very good right wingers instead of 1. He's also got scope to improve. He'd not be one of my top choices, but I wouldn't cry arse if we signed him. I suspect he'd do very well.

Kudus please.

Gonna be weird having a CEO with a Canadian accent.

Idiots on twitter who make things up.

Whilst I'd like us to sign more technical players, they must be able to do what Howe requires physically, particularly relating to our press. Switching high pressing players for merely technical players would 100% ruin an Eddie Howe side. It would be like asking Pep to have mainly physical players. That's why Tonali was the golden goose. We found someone physically and technically capable of both.

I think hes referring to the PSR deadline, where we might be able to go shopping for a half price bargain, rather than going after a priority position.

When talking about positions, the usual caveats apply, there's always a chance that one of our long time targets in another position becomes available, in which case we might move because we have to. Yes I'd be astonished if we don't sign a RW/CB but it may well be that we sign a quality CM first and then have to wait until we've shifted Willock/Longstaff before getting a CB, lets say. If the CM was someone in Tonalis category, it would be worth it.

Yeah and how many pens would his play directly contributed to the awarding of the pen. We absolutely kill teams on the transition with him in our side. He should be our number 1 target. Not to be a debby downer but I don't think we will get him. I'd be stunned if the usual hawks like Chelsea/Man United or even Arsenal don't get him, if for no other reason than to stop us from getting him.