GeordieDazzler

He’s ‘provisionally banned’ awaiting the results of a B sample which considering he hasn’t played for 8 months now seems to be taking a fucking age. I do wonder if there will be a murky way they acquit him, despite the fact football is meant to be strict liability for drugs. None of that uncastrated boar meat nonsense or tainted supplement excuses like you get in boxing and other sports.

Remember his dad trying to leverage his own kidnap to engineer him a move to Barca

When Schar was suspended for the red teams absolutely went for the jugular with the press, his quality on the ball and press resistance is massive for how we play.

Send him to PSV on loan as sweetener for Bakayoko, win win (as long as he isn’t shite of course )

Nope

https://archive.is/xidBB sans paywall for anyone who wants to read

Probably an oversimplification but Howe likes to have these young lads in and around the first team for a season before they are put in situations where there are tangible things at risk. Feels like he’s sort of done that with Miley this year as was pretty much forced to put him in during 23/24. Hopefully we will see a lot more of him this year.

For all talk of not repeating the same mistakes it looks like they are overtly and publicly pursuing whichever flavour of the month (or season) target they have set their heart on and will end up vastly overpaying to avoid looking stupid.

360m spent in 6 months

Is Bakayoko still an option? had a slightly poorer season so might get a better deal from PSV if our scouts still like the look of him.

How many players have been hoovered up currently?

Getting asset stripped before they’ve played a game https://m.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/ni-defender-set-to-be-part-of-bidding-war-as-premier-league-and-la-liga-clubs-circle/a1736202577.html

Bloke just trying to move on and pay his bills and some cunt sending their ring doorbell clip into the papers.

Journo: Mohamed Bouhafsi Player: Maghnes Akliouche

who's to say we aren’t? Man United practically tweet their transfer business blow by blow, we don’t do that.

Everyone’s on holiday man.

Wasn’t Borja’s loan to Fulham not similar where if he played over a certain number of games his loan was free and if he didn’t they had to pay £5m. I think they opted to pay the money in the end

Club is very tight lipped when it comes to transfers and doesn’t tend to leak much (from the club side anyway). Combined with Man U and a few others being the leakiest clubs going it’s basically leading to many of our fans just filling in the blanks themselves and/or giving the impression of inaction. Basically every player and manager is on holiday at the moment. Folk just need to chill out.

200k is still a gigantic wage for any club bar three or four clubs

If a team like us had consistently made the mistakes Man U have we’d be in the Championship or lower.

Apart from owning the ticket tout websites?

I think he’d be solid addition to the squad with the right package of wages etc. It’s all context though - as long as he’s an addition to good investment all over the pitch.

Sorry if this had been covered to death but is our transfer wiggle room not after the 30th June?

“Do you want massive wages that we’ll struggle to get off our books within a couple of years” “Yes”

Forest fan at work said Lyon bought some of their players in a previous window which helped them out of a PSR bind. Botafogo are owned by the Lyon owner so reckons this is them helping them back out.