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I don't get how that's a pen?

Shelvey off please.

Pleased for him to have nailed his role in the side. Contributes often.

Played some nice balls today, but otherwise I agree.

Don't get ahead of yourself.

According to Souness he's a maverick. That must be Scottish for GOAT.

Our forward play has been solid.

Murphy

Both sides look exactly what they are, two mid table sides with varying degrees of quality throughout. In fairness, both sides have looked bright and tried to get forward. Our defenders need cover though. Bring Schar and Lascelles in.

Oh and when NUFC say 25 million, it really means 15 million plus add ons etc. Don't be conned by these cunts.

Financially, its a no brainer. Over a 6 year deal he is incredibly unlikely not to retain his value or at least a significant portion of his value if he underwhelmed. He's also shown what he's capable of. If he can reproduce half of that over the course of the season he will have done well. Like I have said previously, he needs to get more involved when he's not scoring or he will get some stick. Saying that, as long as Shelvey is on the pitch, Willock will look like prime Viera energy wise.

Now we aren't loaning Willock, we will be 100% looking for loan deals.

It makes most sense for us, precisely because we have had him already and know what he is all about. As you say, other sides would be making a bigger gamble.

Good signing but has zero excitement attached to it because he has already played for us. Mind you, we could sign Messi with Bruce as manager and I'd be pretty underwhelmed.

Can't wait until we sign Scott Dann for free.

Don't expect the scoring rate of last season. His energy will be key on the counter though. If he takes 10% of a defenders eyes away from ASM, Almiron and Wilson, he will be doing a good job. He still needs to learn out to put his foot on the ball and slow the pace of a game down when needs be.

Pedant. Fair enough, we are still worse off. Willock is a good player but I won't be celebrating us standing still as a squad.

No Carroll, No Lejuene. When you don't improve, other sides will.

I suspect, this deal will allow any other transfers we have lined up to get the green light, albeit freebies and loans.

Still not on par with last seasons squad. Need another centre mid, centre back and striker.... and that's without showing ambition.

Says a lot about football that the world's best player will basically take the money and effectively retire. He could have done any number of other things; joined Juventus to play with Ronaldo, joined City/Chelsea and had a crack at the other best league in the world, gone back to Argentina for nostalgic reasons. He could have stayed at Barca and taken a small wage. Money shouldn't be in the equation either, the guy is a gazillionair, who's got a couple seasons left in him.

Good enough for a 3 year deal, not good enough to be given adequate resources. OK Mike.

Bruce getting a new deal is a clear sign that the takeover is happening. #positiveoptimism

Ironic that the lead singer of the joy division topped himself too.