GeordieDazzler

I thought that was Maddison on the left for a moment Anderson looks strong as an Ox doesn’t he.

Yeah I don’t think Southampton are trying to ‘rinse’ us, they are reluctant sellers - lad isn’t on exorbitant wages for the Champo and is clearly seen as a future star. Southampton bought in a way that sort of meant they hoped to keep most of their assets in the event of a relegation. I think we are persistent when we really like a player. I hope we get it done.

If Napoli or Milan had offered us 30-40m we’d have taken that, they didn’t.

Juve it’s just had their season wrecked by inflating transfer fees. I get players like Malcom went for €60m but at the end of the day they are being bought from clubs who aren’t owned by PIF. Regardless of whether it’s his true market value, if their interest is genuine and not just a favour to us, because of who our majority shareholder is there will always be questions of conflict of interests. The club has worked extremely hard to rebuild itself and has achieved great things in a short space of time. They do not want the shine taken off that by an investigation or punishment.

I’m getting a bit sick of Romano 750 updates a day on this deal with zero new information

Quick! To the money truck!

Clearly Adam P

I think the Brighton position is we’ll agree a price when you agree to sell us Colwill. They have little need to sell.

He’s only 22 isn’t he?

Watching some interviews from his time at Everton he’s always seemed to be pretty articulate and mature. He just seemed to get this opinion formed around him because of his niggly approach on the pitch at times and the fact he looks a little bit of a scally. He seems aware of his potential and determined to try and achieve it and obviously realised that the Everton situation could wreck his career before it began.

Another Albatross contract for a declining player off the books. This has been such a get out jail free card for the clubs most responsible for the insane transfer inflation we’ve seen. Will they learn their lesson? Will they fuck.

Do people who got memberships last year need to buy them again?

I remember someone posting a mega thread at the mid point of last season listing all the stuff going on at wolves and it sounded like a shambles then.

Big part of what they are trying to do is be a premium tourist destination for the Muslim world, the league is partially a tourist attraction in service of that. It’s why they have targeted a fair share of Muslim players, if they get Mane as rumoured then they’ll be a Salah away from having the four biggest stars in that regards. We aren’t really the target audience here - it’s Middle East and North Africa. Whether they can run at a massive loss indefinitely or if that is actually the plan remains to be seen.

Has that French lad from Leeds been sold?

I don’t get this binary thinking. The Prem is not going to become irrelevant regardless of what the SA league does. It’s a massively profitable endeavour and has a rich history that will alway bring in eye balls and support. They have backed the club massively within the restraints of FFP and are bringing in as much expertise as they can at each level. I don’t know what more they could be doing for us. They can want a successful premier league club and a better domestic league - they don’t have to chose one or another.

I don’t think Mbappe will take it, he’ll see out his contract and go to Real Madrid

Surely these stories should be reported once someone has been charged. This sort of story just causes dangerous speculation and people harassing random people they think it could be.

The main thing I remember about that match was the Leeds midfield taking it in turns to kick Bruno.

Although I don’t know if it’s just my shock at a footballer being moderately articulate

Speaks very well!

Those rumoured to be the antagonists are definitely not wannabe kids. The whole situation is pretty grim and is unlikely to end well.

People’s houses have been smashed in with baseball bats fella, this isn’t new age film promotion

It’s not the Conroys he’s pretty irrelevant these days.