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Considering that's where he's played his entire career, I don't see why he would not be happy with playing there.

I think his goals last season is more likely to be a freak run of goals rather than what we can expect from him going forward. The previous 7 seasons the best he has put up is 3 goals in 33 games. His natural game is further back on the pitch.

Bruno > Jesus

No thanks No thanks No thanks No thanks

Of course it's about competition. Pope will probably start, but if Dubravka is doing better than him in training, and does well when he gets a chance at playing I'd be extremely surprised if Dubs didn't get a chance to hold down the spot in the next game. I don't think they've given Pope any guarantees about playing either. That would be silly.

Not "imagine turning our/your nose(s) up at xxxx"?

Awesome in his first match and then injured never to be back to his best again?

It would be harsh on Schar too tbf In terms of partnership I could see Howe at least trying him with Lascelles too as his strengths compliments Botman more than the others.

Really exciting signing. Can't wait to see him in action. Will be interesting to see how our defence looks like after a few games. Can see arguments for playing him together with Schar, Burn & Lascelles.

I think he's had long term plans beyond his playing career in mind when he came here.

But what shall we do if the new strikers doesn't bed in well and Wilson gets injured? We should look to buy 3 strikers, maybe 4 just to be on the safe side as a bare minimum.

It is

It's important to note Man City had a takeover shortly before Mansour came in, and had already brought in some decent players: That's the level we are starting out at imo. Not at the point where they got taken over by Mansour.

It's only football and it doesn't really matter how much we pay for players as long as it is sustainable and the players improves us. However, I find it more bizarre that a platform like nufc360, who should be aware of these things, posts inaccurate information which many will believe. All just to score some "win" about how good deals we can negotiate....?

Dunno. Just annoys me that there's still people trying to make it seem like we paid less than we actually did for these players.

Excluding major add-ons for staying up on Trippier fee, ignoring initial loan fee for Targett, using the lowest fee quoted in media for Burn to make a weak point.

and? You saying relegated teams don't have decent players?

Mitro scored 9 in 34 in his first PL season at 21, in a worse side than Broja at 21 who scored 6 in 32 at better and more attacking Southampton.

I'd be very surprised if we gave any players any guarantees about playing. We didn't with Bruno. Why the hell would we do it with with Pope? Obviously he'll be confident that he's good enough to keep Dubs on the bench, which I'm sure he is.

Very meh signing but he seems like a great guy and is probably a slight improvement on Dubravka, so should be a healthy for both of them to push each other in training.

hahah, no way are we recouping any fee for them two. Maybe offset their wages towards Pope at best.

Bit harsh considering most fans weren't old enough to work at the time...?

They should increase the number of substitutes same way the PL has and increase the budget/lower prices for players.

If we can't gamble on young talented prospects to take us forward now in the hope they become the foundation in the future for a team competing for trophies, when will we ever be in a position to do so? We have no european competition, we have no expectations to do anything other than improve on last season. Edit: and we have an old ass squad that needs the average age trimmed significantly