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Harvey Elliot is some fucking sub mind.

I think I'd caveat that by saying they are clearly two players who have more experience.

He generally been the most mature player for England. Very selfless.

Erm, Harry Maguire regularly plays for England.

Was a pen all day. Ref bottled it.

Spanish are dirty cunts.

Your post is just a blank space, bar the letters and words.

Yeah, I think Joelinton will gradually end up more central. We need depth in the centre and while Willock finds himself in wide areas, he rarely starts in that position. Isak needs to find his groove up front. Also, I think ASM will be sold. Seems inevitable to me.

Doing a bit of Dennis Wising. He's a striker basically. Natural goalscorer. Two good feet. Instinctive. Fox in the box. Direct. It seems like everything is about the quickest route to goal. Perhaps he doesn't dribble past people but he seems to power past people, on the shoulder. Perhaps finding a left forward, rather than a LW, is another string to our bow. I feel like Barnes is entirely different to our other wide players.

Should send Fraser the other way. For nowt.

De Gea officially gone. My guess: Chelsea.

Be mint if he starts for them every game.

Ornstein or nothing for me these days.

Whilst I agree, how hard is it for our journos to ring up their journos? All seems weird.

Still calling bullshit on this link until some others stand it up. So far we have the telegraph and other than that journalists talking about "reports", which just refers to the telegraph anyway. Nowt from Edwards, Hope, Downie or any other journalist to confirm these reports to be true.

Be a right cunt if the staff were forced to eat in the cupboard. Probably eat at different times.

Yeah i think what is lost in all of this is that Barnes will get better with us. He will be better coached, fitter and playing with better players.

It's no surprise you are underwhelmed if you thought we might sign Gvardiol. Any player who gets linked to Man Utd, Liverpool, Arsenal or City, we just aren't signing. There's no surprise we dropped out the Szlob race as soon as Liverpool showed interest. Barnes is less exciting than a Diaby but it might just work out a smarter move for us.

Fucking hell, that was pure Freudian.

We've got like 50 games next season. Having Barnes there for when we have a Thursday-Sunday and we need someone good to come in, is smart business.

Just a different club isn't it. Also.... erm..... where the fuck is Jamal Lascelles.

Nobody. Which is odd. You'd almost think we weren't looking at left backs. Yet we were linked with Livramento. Sometimes I wonder if the players we'd like, just aren't available. I mean, there's nothing you can do if the quality you want just isn't out there.

What ever happened to Leicesters young left back? Was meant to be promising. Luke Thomas..

Anyone else notice that his lass looked to be carrying some sort of pamphlet or welcome pack? (Probably a list of lads numbers that had been thrown at her). We are such a well run outfit now. I would give my left nut to find out what Eddie and Sandro talked about. Their embrace was lush and seemed like they were familiar with one another. Also, was that Howes scout brother/cousin or whatever? Seems a good idea for Howe to have his own man on the scouting team.

I presume he means that our defence is stretched thin. Removing the chaff: LB: Burn, Targett LCB: Botman, Burn RCB: Schar, Lascelles RB: Trippier, Krafth For me, Lascelles sticks out like a sore thumb. I can just about deal with Krafth or Targett playing, provided that our other defenders are available but when you start taking out 2 players, it becomes a bit chronic back there. Let's imagine we had the luxury it signing 3 new defenders: LB: Tierney, Targett LCB: Botman, Burn RCB: Schar, Andersen RB: Trippier, Livramento Now your talking.