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Good riddance

I’m mostly just looking forward to being done with the transfer window and having a stable squad again.

Everyone develops at a different pace. Some players look like world beaters at 17 and then stall out. Others look like bench warmers until their early twenties until suddenly everything clicks.

A lot of functional speed depends on acceleration not top speed imo. A lot of big men have good top speed because they have long strides, but it takes them time to get there (young Andy Carroll was like this back in the day)

I'm with Eddie. I just want this utter pansy to be no longer our problem. IMO his conduct this summer raises serious questions about his character and competitive instincts that make me wonder about whether he'll be able to maintain last year's performance. We should sell high.

If we can't play him on Saturday because fucking Stuttgart couldn't turn on their fax machine quickly enough

Does anybody play two strikers up top with any level of success anymore?

Yeah I think we'll wait to splurge the rest of the money. We'd want to do more due diligence before we go splurge 60-70m on a luxury midfielder.

Everyone was understandably gunshy about starting the Woltemade thread and we were rewarded for it. I recommend we continue with the same approach.

Fucking Pardew is on match of the day now? Was playing that clip and only saw the top of his head and assumed it was Lineker. Then he looked up at the camera and I almost spat out my drink. Edit: I also now see that it's some other studio show and not MOTD

Very Berbatov-y

If we do sell Isak, we'd probably have enough money for a Wissa type + one vanity signing like Fermin Lopez or Mainoo

Nobody actually only negotiates with one player at a time because, you know, that would be dumb.

One of her videos popped up on my feed while I was going through a bunch of Sesko highlights and I was like "eh this is looks kinda amateurish but I'll leave it on in the background for five minutes." And then gradually I realize that she is unironically very good at this.

surely not

We should sell. Genuinely don't care about the economics, or screwing him over, or not giving Liverpool what they want. Just don't want to see his face anymore.

I am never going to understand why he decided to just casually drop it in one sentence at the end of a nothing article.

I think so. He's match fit and it's not like we have other options.

Probably going to strengthen our hand in negotiations for Wissa, JSL, or any other "Wilson replacement" we want to sign now that we have aren't facing the risk of going through the entire season with no striker. (Probably don't have the money to get them unless we sell Isak though)

How can anyone be unhappy with this. Not a group of death. All great cities and great clubs.

Separate and apart from all the other considerations, I just don't want him around anymore And while I'd hate for Liverpool to get what they want, I kind of want him to be sold within the PL so we can all have the glorious experience of booing him on his return.

N-O posters: "WHY WON'T YOU GO BUY SOMEONE FROM EUROPE" "WHY CAN'T YOU CLOSE DEALS WITHOUT IT LEAKING TO THE PRESS" Andy Howe:

He's not really a prolific out-and-out goalscorer IMO. But he's excellent at all aspects of bringing others into play.

Let's go ahead and "encourage" them to get that 150m bid in.

Big, strong, fast, drops deep to link up play. Extremely skilled with the ball for a big dude. Maybe won't be the most consistent goalscorer in the world but appears to fit our system quite well.