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Maybe I’ll feel differently when it comes but I really don’t want the season to start. Not excited about it at all, which is weird since we have a good team and we have champions league. I would usually put loads of effort to getting a Liverpool ticket but I’ve just shrugged it off at the moment.

No racist but it’s annoying that the main football journalists can’t really write English properly. Leads to some absolutely crazy phrasing sometimes

Well certainly we could get more deals done if we went for worse players.

Are we saying Howe caused the system to fail then? Because we tried to have a proper system with a DOF/CEO and I’m sure that’s the plan again in future.

It was a ridiculous thing for Mitchell to say though, he didn’t even need to do interviews at all.

The window will probably end up some type of failure but I still wouldn’t put too much stock in the speed aspect. Howe said that obviously but it’s what every manager always wants. Doesn’t often play out except for the clubs with the most money. If we were slow but got the job done I’d be very happy.

It hurts but it's not far off

Maybe, but I don't think this necessarily has to be the case. The new people employed in executive roles should have the acumen and the enthusiasm. We have just made mistakes in key positions which has left this summer a mess.

I know what point you're making but in Wilson's case it would be an improvement.

Whatever you do in your me-time is none of our business.

I mean, he would be about the 8th choice

Yeah same, thought it would take them a few more years to sort it. TBH apart from the forward line they still have major problems, so it might not be easy for them still.

As bad as we’re run at the moment, I can’t believe we’re going to sell him if we don’t get 2 strikers in. One should be as near to world class as possible and the other proven in the PL.

Yeah, he did well under Bruce because his only job was to work out how to win us games and stop us getting relegated. Which he did well.

If we can get Wissa.

I don’t think our position can really get weaker. I feel like it’s more likely to get stronger the longer we go without a new striker. The less likely we are to get a proper forward in the worse we’ll look (and play) if we let Isak go.

It’s a fair assumption, it’s just not breaking news.

OK, well I wouldn’t trust Ian Wright’s tweets about the inner workings of top level transfers and I don’t trust his. No offence Ian.

Yeah I don’t get why he wasn’t forced onto the plane. Maybe the injury was semi-real I suppose.

What qualifies as breaking news these days. The tweet of a random Norwegian

Aye, guess it’s more with an eye on winning the CL? Otherwise they really don’t need to spend £150m on him.

Of course, as violently and aggressively as possible please.

Photos of Isak actually make me angry now, that's not normal.

I'm kind of assuming we will target a Marma/Trafford style young elite keeper when we have our new exec team in place and everything is running better. Ramsdale might end up number 2 and Pope moves out.

Said yesterday, the reveal video should just be exactly 90 minutes of him concentrating. Put that worry to bed on day one.