Vinny Green Balls

The hatred was absolutely visceral. Several on here covered themselves in shame with the attacks.

but your modesty is your greatest strength

5 and 9 the year before

He probably meant when we got Tino.

Elanga is 23. Tino will turn 23 this year. elanga’s output for the last two seasons has been good, especially considering his age.

Given the output player, it would probably be the equivalent of getting someone for shy of 25 million 10 years ago, given the ridiculous inflation in the game.

Despite four first team players being recruited from other leagues?

What? We were operating without a DoF when Bruno was signed, and Botman was being monitored. Under Ashworth, Howe seemed to have the lion's share of the power with transfers. You didn't mention Tonali, but Howe mentioned falling in love with him (of course Tonali wasn't exactly a hidden gem at that point). He does happen to be aware of players in different leagues. And clearly, the head scout is doing what the head scout should do anyway.

will be mitigated a fair amount if we can flog Longstaff, given that he would be pure profit.

Some on here act like it's 2015 when 40 million was a large amount. That's reasonable given his output.

Did we deem him too expensive? Was it wage demands? Was it player decision?

Exactly. Good stats for a kid over the past two seasons.

and of course nearly a decade younger

Blackpool is like Atlantic City post zombie apocalypse.

Son is certainly the closest thing, and I would consider him world class when he was around 28. I wouldn't be surprised if a fair few Asian players are considered world class in the next two decades though. Japan and South Korea have slowly been working their way into Major League Baseball since the 90's. And now a Japanese player is considered by many to be perhaps the greatest MLB player of all time, and the dude is still relatively young.

More that he gets roasted by a bunch of Englishmen the first mistake he makes.

Goatse really would have stretched defenses tbf.

jesus christ, dude. If there is any time to be relaxed, it's May 27th after getting a champions league spot. If August comes and we don't have any incomings that improve the first 11, and no sporting director in sight, then by all means be worried.

We're gonna be fine.

He was probably referring to the fatigue from the drug-resistant gonorrhea maybe?

My buddy Dan was at both CL qualifying games under Howe. Not great results in a vacuum, but brilliant results overall. Make this guy our talisman.

And I guarantee that he'll be fucking disappointed with that, and analyze it to death.