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Likewise. Was hoping Trent la would miss.

The goalkeeper role is different now though. The keepers back then were normally big units, good shot stoppers and no nonsense.

I was admittedly getting caught up in the reports about us going for players based in the PL and paying a fortunate for them. Seemed to be unimaginative and weird considering the importance of being clever with finances due to PSR.

Aye I have watched a few videos of Everton’s ground and it’s new and shiny and that, but I know fine well that when the novelty wears off they will miss Woodison. For all the poor views and wooden seats there, it is a proper football ground and holds memories. If we do have to leave SJP (I hope we don’t) then it needs to be rebuilt on the current site imo. I don’t think it’s realistic to move it to Leazes Park. The arena site would be decent too I suppose, but like you I love that Cathedral on the hill feeling where you can see SJP for miles around. One thing I want in a new ground is a massive, single tier terraced stand.

Feel very calm knowing we have Mitchell now. Felt like last summer, as good as the players we signed were, didn’t really address some of our problem positions.

Pickford is class imo but seeing a lot of praise for him after last night, which I am not saying he doesn’t deserve for his England performances. However, last night he didn’t really do anything top class. He nearly got done off a corner as well.

Could hand them out for free and some of our lot would twist.

Hope they do a remake of the orange and dark blue, and the shiney light blue kits over the next couple of years

Was thinking the same, let’s not jinx it!!!

Dubravka cost us 15 or so too.

There’s definitely been some bad blood. If that is what has gone down, then in hindsight you can see why Ashworth would want to do that. None of those 3 offered anything for the rest of the season and we’ve had to sell two young prospects as a result of not shifting them.

Good for all concerned, providing we got a decent fee. We can move on now and hopefully appoint someone ourselves.

I worry who we’d replace him with. Could genuinely see it being Wokegate. Scary

Saves shots more than 500cm away from him so that’s a good start

Wonder if Man Utd fans said the same when we bought Obertan, for example. One of them has only wore our shirt for a photo shoot and the other one (imo) is not good enough, so hardly like we are selling our star talent

Makes you wonder why Liverpool weren't in for him when Slut worked close with him last season? Hopefully it’s because he isn’t all that

Basically from the horse’s moof

I’m sure it is down to us as to why it is now. We moved our accounting period in 2020. No idea on the details but aye.

Makes sense that it expired before the last week of June, giving the club a week to sell other players.

I just don’t get how we’ve left it so late and are now scrambling around to bring money in? It’s as if they were hoping someone activated Bruno’s release clause

Don’t look at Keith Downie’s tweet

I remember Ashworth (I na) and Eales saying that it’s all well and good buying well, but it’s important to be able to sell well too. I am disappointed we never got to see what he can do here, but to make the profit we have on someone who hasn’t even completed a training session for us is crazy. He’s not played in a decent league yet. Already can’t be arsed with the knuckle draggers on Twitter crying whenever he does something decent for Brighton, like they did Mitro at Fulham. Going back to my first point about selling well, obviously hindsight is important here but selling Almiron when his stock was high last summer would’ve been selling at the right time. Likewise, if we knew FFP was an upcoming problem, getting rid of Trippier in January for a decent fee would’ve been the right thing to do. I hope we learn from it to ensure we don’t need to sell any top youth prospects again, and start becoming more ruthless. There’s more than a few this summer need to be peddled for a start.

And the Dubravka Clan (yep, there is one)

Wouldn’t be against it, but can see him staying.

Good luck to you, the Almiron Clan will be after you