GeordieDazzler

Veira did an extensive apprenticeship in coaching in various roles before taking a PL job.

It’s all done. Poor grant is just having a mare finishing off the unveiling video.

Because their playing achievements get projected onto their managerial ability. The other managers actually need to prove themselves via actually managing so are typically much better.

It’s all kayfabe and he’ll start vs Wolves

Yeah, him to Arsenal seemed like a done deal most of January but it just never materialised.

Class I was only half joking like.

drop the Athletic an email mate and they’ll have a 10 gazillion word article up for you by Saturday

It was the characterisation of us as going around making Everton style mental offers to people Aye mate we are overpaying but you’ve shown you have zero understanding of the side he’s moving to and where he might fit in. As Man U have shown you can buy the best players going but if you have zero plan on where they fit in your fucked. Isak clearly flawed but I’m confident the club know where they can fit him in. Quite a lot of the football podcast crew have a barely disguised distaste for us (which I can understand with the Saudi connection) but it leads to such uninformed takes on what actually happens at the club.

That bloke hasn’t real watched our transfer window has he, making it sound like we’ve been making Man United style offers for people?

OTC! I just call it all the ramble sorry Was pretty much the last order of business before the games of the week.

Brassell on the ramble reckons that, yes we are likely over paying in terms of price, but that that was unavoidable, he thinks he’s a great fit for us and will be a success.

Yep, as if we don’t sign him we are back in the position of having Wood as our only back up striker, for the next month anyway.

I honestly think their fuckery with Lingaard in Jan was an attempt to get us relegated. Most of us thought we were still too short upfront.

He has a load of folk running that account man

Loan only. 17m loan fee please.

My score app says no yellow cards issued, that can’t be right?

The club has been very exacting about trying to get value but I think they see the need for depth up front was pretty urgent. They could either wait for a unicorn deal where you got an exceptional player at a steal or bite the bullet and get a forward. Isak is still very young and has performed in two major Europe leagues, including one exceptional season. The entry level for that sort of player is about what we’ve paid. The big 6 and their continental equivalent have driven the inflation of this market to insane levels unfortunately. We’re likely going to pay £30m for an unproven 20 year old without the track record of Isak. Ramos similarly was about €35m for a player unproven outside of Portugal. Its hard to judge the value of these deals without being able to see into the future. Our scouting has been pretty good for these marquee players - I’m confident we’ve looked at the players in that price bracket and decided he was the best fit.

The striker market is so tough at the moment. 60m seems to be the starting point for most of the strikers with his profile and hype. We were quoted the same for DCL.

Do you guys know where San Sebastián is ffs. it’s like a five second google search.

Mallorca is like 500 miles away from San Sebastián

Quick… to the flight tracker!

that’s pretty decent