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Dan Burn can play are RW too, but he's not particularly good at it.

Why the fuck would they Be lucky if we could give him to them for free with a wage contribution on top of it.

RW is the most important position to improve imo, second is to get a more reliable option to Isak up front. CB would be nice, but isn't a very high priority for me. Schar and Burn are reliable and rarely get injured and we've got Kelly now who can fill, and in emergency Alex Murphy. Botman & Lascelles is back towards the end of the first half of the season. I don't think its worth spending a lot of money on a CB if it means we can't get the targets we want for RW & ST just to have additional cover at CB for 3-4 months. I'd be fine if we waited with getting another CB in until next summer.

Sad thing to happen to the club responsible for gracing us with Gabriel Obertan, Yoan Gouffran and Henri Saivet.

Dovbryk would be Moyes wet dream. Not sure about Lopetegui.

Not really. They just have a better foundation for dealing with it.

I fear it could turn out to be a massive mistake to sell him, but howay it's one goal in a friendly against Kashima Antlers. At least wait until he's scored a few in the league before we start jumping the gun about him being the next Salah.

In hindsight it wasn't due to the unprecedented amount of injuries + our main signing of the summer getting banned for 10 months. When the summer window closed I thought it was pretty decent though.

3 of the players have already played for Villa so assume they wouldn't require much bedding in. Think they are doing smart deals to bulk the squad ahead of a busy season. Probably looked at us last season and identified beefing up the squad rather than just focusing on improving the starting 11 as a key factor in being able to be competitive in all competitions.

Means fuck all though, doesn't it? At Yoro's age, Branthwaite had just finished his first season in league 2 for fucking Carlisle, featuring in a grand total of 9 games Yoro on the other hand has just played a full season in Ligue 1, helping Lille to CL qualification.

That's not progress. They hired Gareth Southgate as manager Honestly, it's a bit insulting.

Probably the worst dicussion on this forum at the moment, and that says something. If you are truly worried that the FA would be able to get Howe, or that Howe would even consider it, your brain is objectively speaking fucking broken, maybe beyond repair, from years of eating shit as a NUFC fan. This thread should be dead with the exception of the occasional "he's class isn't he"-post up until the season starts.

Gareth Woke Safegate will continue to be England manager as long as he wants if he keeps getting you to finals no matter how uninspiring and boring it is. Unfortunately. For you. Can always pray for a disasterous start to the season for Ten Hag and Jimmy offering him money he simply can't turn down at Man Utd.

Has Saka ever played an overlapping fullback through instead of cutting in hoping that the overlap takes a man off him?

That video was exactly what I needed after 1.5 days of a big wall of commentators and news outlets having their say on the Trump assasination attempt in my feed. So excited for this season.

We only got 35m for Anderson because we bought Vlachodimos for 12-13m.

Paul Mitchell brought him to Monaco in 2020. Maybe we should just hijack him instead of Thiaw. 1.94m tall crazy serb > 1.94m tall mellow german

She's not explicitly talking about PCP here though.

We've got Paul Mitchell now as sporting director, Brad Miller joined end of March as COO while Darren Eales CEO and Peter Silverstone CCO has already been here for a while. At some point, for somoene like Stavely you've got to wonder what is left for her to do I think this was always on the cards, only that she took particular interest in this project compared to other aquisitions she's managed. I hope she continues to support us and get to go to the odd game. Will forever be one of if not the most important person to help rid us of Ashleys shackles.

If the tournament had started today, I'd say England deserves to be in the final.

Dare I say it, that England seems to be playing fairly decent football?

Nice. If Holland can get another goal in the next few minutes it might force Southgate to try and win the game before the 85th minute for a change.

Just don't click on "Other clubs' transfers", "Manchester United" and future match threads when we play Man Utd and you should be sorted

As he says in his post, investment isn't income/revenue. Think of it more as a loan, only that we don't have to repay or pay interests on it.