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I doubt it. But Dubravka is under contract here for a good few more years, we're under no obligation to give him away to a direct rival for a pittance. We could have gone into the season with one of the best back up goal keepers in the league, but instead we'll do it with one of the worst ones. I absolutely get it from. Dubravkas side, but we should have told him and Man Utd to fuck off unless they were willing to pay us what he is worth to us.

Woat IMO. If not, just please keep this up and inject it into our veins.

As for "no one has a decent number two", Villa have Olsen who is still the current Swedish starting keeper and is much better than Karl Darlow. Chelsea have Kepa, the most expensive keeper ever. I know he's been dodgy for them but could still be reliably called upon. Palace have Butland and Johnstone, both who are much better than Darlow. Everton have Begovic, another former PL starter. He probably have faded a fair bit, but at his best a very decent keeper. Man Utd will have Dubravka, West Ham Areola, Spurs Forster. There are clearly a lot of teams that have much better back up goalkeepers than Darlow, and we're giving one of the best ones away for basically nowt.

£6m is absolutely fuck all these days man, especially when it's not even guaranteed It's the difference between finishing 9th and 11th, which is very realistic if Pope is injured for just five games this season.

Nah that's still shite for us. Guess the only upside for us is if De Gea gets injured, Dubs won't be able to play against us.

Nah man, the days of throwing games are over mate. We went toe to toe with Man City, granted the circumstances for this might be very different, but we haven't signed Pope, Botman Bruno and Isak to just throw our toughest games. Even Howe said in his pre City presser that these are the teams we want to compete against and they are the tests to see where we're at. Whoever is out, I want to see us go out there and try to play our game to the best of our ability, and if it doesn't work then tough luck and we'll go into the Palace game trying to do the same again.

Definitely reads like it's Joao himself saying it, even to the point of him sounding like an absolute wanker by talking about himself in the third person

Assume his pre Liverpool press conference is tomorrow?

Is have been fucking gutted if Tranmere got an equaliser and we went out because of it. Fucking well worth Bruno missing a couple of games in the league to avoid that embarrassment. We lambasted Ashley for sacrificing the cups, we can't now pretend that we shouldn't even be able to play out best players for ten minutes to make sure we go through our first round.

I wish that was true mate

Well I've got a massive problem with our two remaining keepers if Pope gets injured. It should have been Gillespie or Darlow being let go, we're in deep shit if Pope picks up an injury now.

God I hope we've got a replacement lined up. Don't want to have to endure watching Darlow anything this season.

We signed Alexander Isak, not jealous of anyone in the league and definitely not West Ham.

This is absolutely shite for us like.

Would it be worth watching the game back?

I still cannot believe we've pulled this off, and that Isak himself wanted the move. The fact that he turned away Real Madrid when he was 17 should tell you so much about his character. He wouldn't come here just for the money, he's very very much here because he believes in the project. He is as ambitious as they get in terms of wanting the best for his career, that's why he's come here, I'm sure he would have had better offers in terms of money elsewhere since last years Euros

Right, that's detention for you young man.

It's the biggest paper in Sweden saying it fwiw, not Ikons Swedish mate

Good lad

Sounds like someone is about to get some Rona-symptoms next week.

Definitely, but still a good player. So happy that we're not in the market for that type of player.

I mean, as much as I love Isak, it's not wrong to say he's certainly no Aguero. He's better Jo though, but Adebayor was a canny player Tbf.

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Would rather have Isak behind Callum then and Joao on the right.