McCormick

Possibly the most naturally gifted player in my lifetime. Weird to say, as he’s had/ is having a great career, but I feel like he’s wasted his potential massively. Were it not for injuries, poor career choices or a lack of application (?) he had all the talent to be considered alongside Messi and Ronaldo as one of the absolute greats of this era.

If you read his full quotes in the Chronicle they’re anything but complimentary; <paraphrasing> he’s said that besides maybe Tonali we’ve signed players that we could have bought even if we weren’t in the Champions League. All in print so could still be out of context but the general feeling is that him and Neville are underwhelmed by our summer business so far.

Both . Was fantastic in the Championship and seems, physically, right up Howe’s street. In the age bracket we like to shop in too. Would be a very shrewd signing imo.

Yeah lil man, save the “journalism” for the people actually getting paid to be wrong all the time.

You can ignore any and all Turkish and Italian media links.

Murphy’s always been gifted athletically, his limitations were always his decision-making, consistency and general ‘footballing iq’. The great thing about having such a clearly defined system is that all the patterns of play are drilled into you so you don’t really have to think, it’s muscle memory almost. It’s the reason Almiron is doing so well for us under Howe too.

Can also play Rb and RM tbf.

Barnes is lethallll.

Beast.

Get it together Wilson, you handsome bastard. Looks like he’s playing in wranglers.

Yikes Lascelles. Also, Barnes you’re supposed to be a finishing supremo ffs.

Fucking hell. Can this bald wanker just let the game flow? It’s not all about you, you propecia-dodging twat.

Just turned this on. Ref is shocking.

Thought he was off to Everton?

That back 4 looks busted as hell.

Hurts we missed out on him. Exactly the player we needed.

Which Murphy is that? Lovely lads and all but Ritchie and Dummett getting significant game time this pre-season shows how far off we are in terms of squad depth.

Cheers! Seems I’ll be in meetings while this is on though. Shame.

When does this start? Any team news?

As many have said, ideally we’d bring in a top class left-back and an elite right winger (on top of the Livramento and cb we’ll hopefully be signing) but that’d cost close to a 100m and possibly take our spending past the 250m mark for the window. Seems a bit greedy/ entitled to be disappointed if that doesn’t happen tbh .

Doubt we’re getting an lb and a back up centre back tbh. Reckon it’ll be one or the other in the 30-40m range.

West Ham are, apparently.

I’d love him here. Started the season slowly but started showing his class near the end. Fantastic player. I’d shift him onto the right-wing just to get him in the team.

PIF. Consider it a marketing expense.

Oh what an honourable man you are Mr. Bruce, begging to be sacked for the good of your boyhood club? Couldn’t have just walked though, saving the club 8 million, no? Didn’t think so. Charlatan.