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Worst I've ever seen City play.

I'm 36 and I've seen them win fuck all too. Your extra 20 years counts for fuck all. Let's just thank the lord the club doesn't employ "realists" or it would be another 50 years before we win something.

Genuinely seems like it could be done next week. Likely to let the lad go and have a holiday.

Give us 15m, sounds fair to me. 18m for Miggy. Plenty of FFP wriggle room back off that. Perhaps even a 5m for Krafth/Targett too...

Please just play Joelinton, Trippier, Pope and Schar if he's available. We will get a draw at OT and that will do.

He will probably get slightly above what he otherwise would have had we paid a fee for him, and it will still probably double his current salary. What does "turning sour" look like? He's a good CB at present and I can't see a scenario where he gets worse.

Chelsea and Man Utd aren't beating Brighton. One of them might but both won't. Either way, if we actually play our best players at Old Trafford, we stand a great chance of getting a draw. Man United aren't winning the FA Cup.

I'd say we are still at frontrunner stage, rather than agreed stage. Much easier to keep the concrete stuff quite when there is no selling party and also no real rush.

More than anything, just look at the size difference compared to every other player on the pitch.

He quite significantly better than Lascelles and Dummett isn't even a conversation. What stands out the most is that he's fucking massive. Like, remember Papa Bouba Diop. He's also quick and can play out from the back. On the downside, he sometimes has lapses in concentration but he's also coming into a club which has an outstanding coaching set up, so you can assume he will get better.. even if just a little. It's also a cracking deal, regardless of what his agent sponges out of it.

This "journalists know nothing" stuff needs to stop mind. Pretty much all of our local journalists have broken news before, stuff that was literally an exclusive. For example, I'm fairly sure it was Edwards, via his paper, that broke Popes transfer. They've also had some clangers but that's the nature of the business.

IIRC, it's quite common place for these sorts of deals to get leaked on the lead up to the last game of the season. Often players want to say goodbye to the club and fans etc. Be pleased if this one gets wrapped up early. Allows us more wriggle room elsewhere. We can publicly sign a pre-contract with him right? Like "Tosin will officially join on us on July 1st"?

He's already decent, an his career is in its infancy. Really promising.

Neville right now. Insufferable.

And to add to it, the commentary box consists of a man United fan boy and a man who insists on saying the full name before every shot.

This is just classic. For once I want an arsenal win and they turn to shite.

Krafth was decent, considering my expectations of him. Half expect us to get an offer for him in the summer and we should move him on, if we get the chance. Again, an Emil Krafth, who can play competently at RB and CB should be a no brainer for an emerging PL side who just wants to get a foot in the door. From our point of view, every little helps from an FFP perspective.

I was at the match yesterday and my overriding feeling was that we played a good side yesterday, who has just found their way back into some form and has some confidence. Their defence barely gave Isak and Gordon a sniff, certainly early on and they looked solid once behind their block. What didn't help was, and this is a reoccurring theme when we don't win, our poorer players were awful. It's one thing saying Isak was quiet or Bruno misplaced a couple of passes but Murphy in particular was awful. Tino although certainly not a poor player was done a couple of times, Hall was OK but made a few poorer passes. I actually thought our centre halves, and indeed our man for man tactic worked for the most part. We forced their keeper to punt it down the middle and while some thought it was an error, I felt that they never looked dangerous from them balls. Overall it was a sub par performance against a very solid side, who I'm 100% sure will aid us in our European quest. Against Man Utd, we need to see changes. Trippier, Joelinton, Pope and Miggy/Barnes all to come in.... and Schar if available (we chronically missed his distribution).

We've already got Barnes who isn't getting games in the same position. The only way we sign ESR is if the deal is too good turn down. I could see a scenario of a loan with an option but doesn't look like Arsenal will want that.

So 7th then.

That's pretty much guaranteed

How?

Wey not now.

Forest left back on holiday. He's shocking whoever he is.

Looking like a good point today