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The Osula goal is our best goal since Cisse IMO

Regardless of whether he’s staying or not, it’s completely ridiculous to be criticizing the mother of a new child for wanting to be closer to home. And they can probably make that work as a family without him having to move clubs anyway.

I like how we’ve concluded that Howe will never, ever play him as a striker when he was played exclusively as a striker until Wissa came back and Bruno got injured.

I kind of get it for them in the sense that they want to press and already have plenty of attacking creativity in their team. Gordon's not going to be asked to absorb all of the attacking usage, he can lead the press, run hard on counters, and fit in as a cog in the machine. It's a great fit in that sense.

I certainly don't mind players using the club as a stepping stone as long as they give 100% while they're here and go about it respectfully. And I don't mind us telling that to players if it's going to convince them sign in the first place. The reality is that in this moment, we are a stepping stone club. And to some extent, we'll always be one (even the top clubs in the PL are often "stepping stones" to Real/Barca)

If anything Wood and Kelly are manager failures, not scouting failures. Because clearly there were good players in there that we never figured out how to use. (Osula would have fallen into this bucket as well if we moved him on last summer).

I mean we literally made free money off of Kelly, even if you account for his wages. Even if he had never played for a single game for the club how is that a failure.

Wood scored two goals that kept us up and turned out to be a really good player once we sold him on. Targett was signed for peanuts and provided roughly peanuts value as a rotation player. Kelly was sold for a profit and again, turned out to be a really good player. Don't think you can classify any of these as scouting failures.

We didn't really miss on any of our domestic signings either other than last transfer window.

All of these people might as well be FM regens to me, but I just want us to sign a first team player so I can start getting unreasonably excited.

It’s 2026 man there is literally a button on your browser that will translate it for you instantly. Or if you’re feeling really adventurous, just ask an LLM to crawl the forum and summarize the reactions for you.

I think he’ll be very good at Barcelona but he wasn’t going to perform at that level here so it doesn’t really matter. I’ll take the cash thank you.

Transfers move faster when you have actual transfer staff instead of the manager doing it in his spare time shocker.

Not a clue who this guy is but sure.

Good to know that the new team believes in getting business done quickly. Fee seems more than fair as well.