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You've got to consider that there's a fair chance that you might be offered the manager's job at half time.

We never learned one of the biggest lessons from 1966 - the best team doesn't always contain the best players. Can you imagine the furore today if Jimmy Greaves was dropped from the starting lineup? He was the greatest English striker of his generation by some margin but the team worked better without him. Look at Mbappe, PSG look like a far better team without him and Real look worse, but he is an amazing talent.

He's not a terrible keeper by any means but he clearly doesn't communicate with the defenders well. You could see clear hesitation from the defenders where they would be expecting him to come for a ball, or at the very least shout that he wasn't, and it led to mistakes and poor clearances. Ultimately, players will prefer to play alongside someone they trust even if they're technically worse.

£100k is nothing these days, especially for a forward. We're paying Wissa a lot more than that.

Might just be a contractual issue. Sack him now and they might have to fully compensate him. Wait until he's banned and then sack him for gross misconduct with no payment.

Some players peak very early. They can be extremely good for a 15 year old but never improve beyond that whilst they get surpassed by their age group peers over the next few years.

No way that he'll choose us if he's seen other training grounds. Our training hovel might look good compared to a 2nd division team but up against anything else it's going to look ridiculous.

He always struck me as the type who would make a decent manager. I'm sure he's been involved with the PFA previously as well so he may end up in a governance role somewhere.

Wish this was a ranked choice vote. I think Osula's goal against Man Utd was probably the goal of the season but that Dan Burn curled header was a very close second.

Imagine getting to the final of the Champions League and managing to make under 200 accurate passes.

lol

With 3 alleged bidders, if he'd been agnostic about where he was going, we might have been able to bid them all up. But once he made it clear that he only wanted to accept the Barca offer we've likely accepted their offer to keep everyone happy and show that we're the reasonable ones who won't stand in a player's way.

The same method we used to make a PSR "profit" from Chris Wood.

Owen really didn't help himself. I'm sure that he refused to learn Spanish and his idea of fun was buying an English newspaper at the airport on the way to play golf. If Gordon tries to learn Spanish and socialising with his teammates he'll be fine.

Just think how much experience he'd bring in though, plus the stories he could tell about Napoleonic Spain.