Geordie Ahmed

Aye because the only two options were slagging him off or kissing his arse I can't possibly think of another option ?

It's quite likely to be due to his defence of Mike Ashley, especially at a volatile time I do like Shola and I quite enjoyed him doing the MTV Cribs style video but I also can't fully embrace him because of how he sucked up to Ashley

No one else at the club has done an MTV Cribs before so it had to be him

Dummett and Ritchie out of contract, so that brings the squad down to 24 Then Fraser will be gone, then if Lewis & Manquillo go that takes it down to 21 However Howe seems to want Dummett to stay so could be 22 (Or maybe Dummett stays but only gets in the CL squad but not the PL squad) So there is some flexibility in the squad but the idea that we'll sign 5/6+ is fanciful imo

Ignoring signings like Kuol who are for the future I think it will be like last summer, where people expected loads of signings and we only made 4 (1 of which was already here and the other was done late in the window and more opportunistic) I accept being a CL club changes things and perhaps easier to sign the level of player we want but I genuinely don't think Howe would want 5+ players in one window

It's why I don't think we lose ASM, Dubravka too It's a massive risk adding a lot of players to a squad that's big on harmony and team spirit The focus has to be keeping those that are top players and replace the weak links in the squad, we have enough weak links before looking at someone like ASM

All signings have an element of risk attached to them I think if we did get Szoboszlai it would be less than £70m but still would be a decent amount, the club will do their homework and determine whether he is worth it Isak cost a similar amount and in terms of CL experience I don't believe he had any (maybe the odd game) whereas Szoboszlai has quite a fair bit On the Chelsea model I'm sure it was said FFP would limit it to 5 years, so the 8 year contracts will not help from an FFP point of view. Not sure if that's actually in place yet though. Having said that copying anything Chelsea are doing is probably an unwise strategy anyway

Anderson is U21 so won't need to be named I don't think

Yeah, it makes sense why Howe probably wants Dummett to stay because otherwise we'd be short by 2 in that department Krul/Forster as 3rd choice covers one Can't think of anyone else we can get that's decent enough to contribute

Gillespie is home grown (can name up to 8 of these) but not club trained (can name up to 4 of these)

Wouldn't be surprised if they wanted Dortmund to win it

Bloody Mainz, what did they have to play for, should gave chucked it

This just sums Dortmund up

2-2 but no time for a 3rd

Ah well, was fun whilst the hope lasted

FFS, Musiala scores

Gonna watch the Koln-Bayern game, as that's more delicately poised

Hope Dortmund don't lose focus, they need to try and win it, can't just rely on Koln

The Mackem should be scoring that

Dortmund get one back, need another asap

Dortmund would win

This was their chance, Bayern are having a massively off year which they'll not repeat

2-0 Bayern Ah well, 11th league title in a row for Bayern

Brandt should be doing better

Only hope is Koln can equalise cos Dortmund aren't doing shit