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He's potentially back in the squad for Parma this weekend but will obviously be eased back very slowly. I certainly don't think he will be moving this season.

I think they'd sell in January at the right price. If Riad is back and playing, they will have a decent pool of CBs, but a desire to improve in attacking areas. It will make sense to cash in and re-invest IMO if it's clear he won't sign a new deal.

A first for me at Jarrow Vs Washington, was seeing the Jarrow keeper very clearly have a piss up against his post during the second half. Don't think Washington had a shot all game, so he wasn't very troubled, but im sure he could have waited until FT like.

Amazing

We paid £60 million (70m euros) for him ffs Even accepting PSR deflation (case in point being the Osimhen situation), you don't let him go for anything less than £100 million. I'm surprised the contract thing is such a big deal given he'll still have three years left even at the end of the season. Obviously ideally you get him tied down longer term but for now I think we still clearly hold all the cards.

He played all through youth level as a CM and LM.

I genuinely do not believe that he did that in 90 seconds and without something to directly copy off. It's remarkably good

I'm honestly not sure I agree, the model is universal, even in areas with similar economic situation to the north east (IE Liverpool/Everton). It's depreciating returns once you get past a certain capacity size. They'll be more minded from a revenue point of view to increase corporate opportunities or to build a stadium that can host other events all year round. The latter would be the one thing that I think would push them towards another site given the construction constraints on the existing one.

Exactly. Clubs don't want to have demand that far exceeds supply, but they also really don't really want supply meeting the demand. They want to be able to charge as much as possible and by doing that you need to retain relative scarcity. Shit for fans, but I think people expecting them to deliver a mega stadium with capacity for all at comfortable ease are missing the economics of how every club is operating. It's why so many clubs are striking on that 60-65k sweet spot rather than going bigger. I think if they can achieve that on the current site that's what they'll do. But it'll basically be a new stadium rather than an expansion as such, done in stages. Gallowgate/East Stand new build, followed eventually by the rest being re-done to match up. Still think that or a new build on Castle Leazes are the only actual options.

Those little three minute clips on YouTube are perfect for most games, I don't need longer highlights or analysis. If it's a big game chances are I watched it live anyway. Sad in a way but like with many things the consumption model has changed so dramatically. For me MOTD was at its best pre-smartphone when it was reasonably possible you'd actually avoid all results and watch it without knowing the scores. Almost unthinkable/impossible now. I still remember sticking the TV on during highlights of our Carling Cup penalty shoot out win against Watford in 2006, having completely forgotten we had played, and effectively watched it 'as live'. I kind of wish I could be that unplugged these days.

Not sure I've watched a full episode of MOTD in years. I binge all the other highlights straight after on YouTube and then will only watch MOTD if we've won, skipping straight to our game.

It's Chopra-esque from Anderson there like

He's a good fit at Forest, playing every week as the main man in a system that plays to his strengths, but he was hopeless for us and that wasn't ever changing. He could score 100 goals for Forest and it would still have been the right sale. The issue is that we didn't/weren't able to do exactly the same with Wilson and Almiron at the right time.

I think they arguably have too much 'value' tied up in him in terms of their overall squad. If Riad returns from injury in December it might make sense for them to cash in and strengthen other positions.

Maybe, although Milenkovic used to regularly get exposed for Fiorentina. They both benefit playing in a side that sits deep and breaks.