Mikky

18 minutes ago, sempuki said:

Summerville from Leeds if they don't win today?

He is best on the left unless we move AG which I don’t want to - we have enough quality on that side 

Good player though 

4 minutes ago, SUPERTOON said:

Douglas wrote in his piece last week that our top targets for the RW position have yet to be mentioned in the press.

With one of our scouts being Dutch - I am hedging my bets on J Bakayoko 

I think quite a few alluded to this already - need to stop being a soft touch away from home - think a new GK and CB will help massively plus Sandro and a new RW

Just now, duo said:

Shows even in a season like that - tons of positives came out of it.

I am the biggest doom merchant going but even I have to temper by expectations down and realise that things take time.

5 years they said to get us ready to really compete  - which I believe we are on track for: you can’t do everything in one go: 

Year on year our commercial (non European) income has grown - big deals made 

Big sponsors (kit, training ground to come)

Growing our brand worldwide - USA - Aus -Japan

Improvements made to training ground 

Stack fanzone

New club store - taking back control 

Creating a sporting structure (DoF, Academy appointments)

Buying talented youngsters for the academy 

Feasibility of the stadium

Growth of women’s team 

16 minutes ago, duo said:

Lets not forget the odd plus:

 

-Adidas as new shirt sponsor

-Gordon flourishing 

-Emergence Of Miley

-Newcastle hammering PSG (what a night)

-Joelinton Signing new contract

Add
Scoring bucket load of goals

I thought Tino - Hall - Anderson - (Minteh) showed great signs for the future 

Isak as a real top notch striker

1 hour ago, The Prophet said:

It'd be interesting to know how the Europa Conference is thought of within the game. Obviously it’s jegreat for fans, but with it effectively being the third rung of European football it'd be interesting to know how much prestige players attach to it.

The problem with the EC is the lack of so called big league depth: you put 2 teams from England, Italy, France, Germany, Spain and it looks a lot better 

The CL league literally feeds 10 clubs per season and it’s virtually the same 10

Man Utd getting an extra 25-30m than us in the CL - it’s a joke - filter that money down to the other competitions 

1 hour ago, sempuki said:

Ipswich after Miggy for £21m.

Was mentioned by Ben Jacobs a few days back 

16 minutes ago, SteV said:

It is a poor return, but Everton have been dog shit for those seasons.

 

The previous two seasons, when they were better, with a far better squad, he had 29 in 62 starts.

Everton also play with 3 DMs and 2 wingers who are average 

DCL is either heading long balls or running into empty channels 

This won’t be the case here 

4 minutes ago, Robbo2 said:

If (when!?!?) it happens, you know fine well it'll be the nerviest, heart stopping, hanging on to a deflected 1-0 of all time 

Well I was nervous during the pens today - god knows how I’ll be in the 89th min of a final when we’re 1 up 

2 minutes ago, HaydnNUFC said:

Serie A with 6 clubs in the CL next season as it stands.

Do they get 6? Even if Atalanta finish 5th?

2 minutes ago, KaKa said:

Ademola has finished these boys. My goodness.

 

What a level he's reached since going to Italy.

 

Been really good for the Super Eagles too.

 

Happy for him.

 

 

He’s at a brilliant club - the amount of players they’ve churned out last 5/6 years - top coach Gasperini - been the nearly men for a while

7 minutes ago, Fezzle said:

Are you going to be as relentless when Howe doesn't buy a first choice cm during the season? 

He can buy whoever he wants 

18 minutes ago, captainhaircut said:

Ederson is everything we need at the base of our midfield. With Joelinton and Bruno in midfield, we’d be absolutely unreal 

He plays all 3 positions in a 3 man midfield - seen him play loads on the right side -  very adaptable 

Ederson and Scalvini please 

Superb from Lookman - what a move this has been for him 

Just now, Big Geordie said:

As much of a basket case, as we were when Ashley was in charge. Was talk yesterday of Tuchel being approached to go back.

A guy that’s a total control freak - make it happen please 

Poch should go to Bayern

4 minutes ago, Magpie said:

Could do with picking at least ONE fit left back 

This - Trippier is useless at LB - not that great at RB recently either 

Tino should have been picked instead 

14 minutes ago, SUPERTOON said:

Anyone who’s seen that Mamardashvili play, what’s he like ?

He’s rather good - style similar to Buffon/Toldo

19 minutes ago, Whitley mag said:

Tremendous false economy saving 20 million on a bloke who has the attention span of a pea, this Gio looks like he has cat like reflexes and real presence.

 

Cant underestimate the value of a top keeper well worth the investment.

 

 

 

Having a quality keeper is huge - even having Pope at the weekend felt groundbreaking - this guy is a class above 

Sign him - I hear he has a mate from Georgia that’s quite useful on the wing 

Tosin - Kelly FREE
 

Dabast - Caqueret - Minteh as Young signings 

GK - Olise - CF as big signings 

Wilson/Miggy/Target/Dubravka/Ritchie/Dummett et al sold/released 

1 hour ago, Ikon said:

I like the idea of strengthening the spine. Get a top class RW and strengthen the spine the best we can and it’s looking very good for next season. My gut feeling is that Eddie will be looking to sign a CM of some kind. I’d be surprised if we don’t despite being “stacked” in there. Getting another midfielder of some sorts doesn’t have to break the bank either to improve us over a whole season. Cannot underestimate the importance of a consistently strong quality central midfield to function properly overall over a season. 

This 1000% (re the CM bit in particular) - we may be stacked but there’s a clear gap between the top 3 and the others - a fully fit Willock is good but the profile of midfielder we need is a ball playing type - we get one in and this team is looking far better 

If that’s the back, my money will be kept in my pocket 

3 hours ago, Pokerprince2004 said:

Just seen Arsenals winner wow that should 100% be have been given as a handball by Jesus pretty shocking decision in my opinion. Imagine if West Ham had comeback and drawn that decision would have won Arsenal the league. 

The most hilarious thing is the ref got to see 2/3 takes of it on a screen and still couldn't see it 

From my rough calculations we have had 33 instances this season when only 1 of them has been available 

Probably also been occasions when they have played not fully fit