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That includes all games including youth etc. Since moving to Leipzig he's played most of his football on the right hand side either right wing or RM - with a the rest of the time mostly as a central AM. https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/dominik-szoboszlai/leistungsdatendetails/spieler/451276 Personally I think a player like that who can play wide or attacking midfield is exactly what we need.

Shame. Hope we've got another strong option lined up for attacking midfield/winger.

There's a lot of misunderstanding about student blocks and a bit of a negative attitude across many cities to the proliferation of them in urban centres - as if it is coming in at the expense of delivering wider housing targets. But in the anglophone world many people/families don't want to live in apartment blocks if they can afford not to. Purpose built student accomodation is a way to deliver high density accomodation in brownfield urban areas that will be desirable to the target market and in the process free up other housing stock. So in general it is a good thing. The problem comes with the quality of that housing and it's convertibility if there is ever a significant drop in student population.

For what it's worth the reason Heaton and Jesmond are winding down in terms of student populations is the result of a concerted effort by the council to move student accomodation from the suburbs into purpose built blocks in the city centre. This is largely because of the negative externalities that overfilled HMOs and slum landlords have on existing areas and in terms of taking up supply of family homes. All housing supply is interlinked - the more students are moved into the city the more family homes are freed up. And generally students are more willing to live in central urban areas so it is a logical use of housing stock. Boring bit alert but from a planning perspective that was partly implemented through the introduction of restricted areas which remove permitted development rights regarding HMOs. Usually this is a permitted change that doesn't need planning permission - but now it does in those specific areas. And when the use as a HMO lapses (as happened a lot during COVID) many existing HMOs had to reapply (and in a lot of cases were not able to get permission). This is why you see so many former HMOs now for sale as houses again. In terms of student population accomodation in the city centre there is not an oversubscription yet and general policy is in favour of providing it. That said I would say taking LT out of residential use is a certainly nota complete no go if it could be justified as part of a wider public benefit. The same is also true of the heritage considerations (generally it is preferred to keep listed buildings in their original use). If the club did want a much bigger East Stand then buying LT and incorporating it into a wider scheme (I don't mean actually connecting to it - that wouldn't be a goer) would go a long way to removing the residential amenity barriers.

64 in all comps actually.

Played CB for us 17 times. https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/emil-krafth/leistungsdatendetails/spieler/184528 Mostly in a back 3. Occasions in a back four have mostly been cup matches against lower league opposition.

Rangers are in the qualifying rounds. Those lists have little asterisk next to the teams that aren't qualified, but are currently projected to come through qualifying based on ranking. Obviously no guarentee. If Rangers did come through they'd likely be in pot 3 owing to their strong coeffiecent (largely as a result of the run to the Europa League final). Obviously all of those teams with the asterisk are not set in stone. Plenty other teams which could come through qualifying - and the final outcome exactly which teams would influence the final pot positions between 3 and 4.

We might have numbers at RB but it's probably our weakest position in terms of quality after first choice. Manquillo/Krafth are both not good enough long term and are both out of contract next summer - while Ashby clearly needs gametime before he's PL ready.

Manquillo will go and I'd imagine Ashby out on loan if this happens. Krafth will stay as 3rd choice/emergency CB until his contract expires next summer.

It's a sensible move from him at that age.

Red Bull teams would be awful in terms of opposition but I'd love to visit both Leipzig and Salzburg

Maybe Ciaran Clark. But tbh none of them really fit their model. Possibly more likely to be a young player. What a fun little game Paully has started.

My first thought was Dummett tbh.

Amdouni is going to be a cracking player from what I've seen.

I don't think Spurs stadium acoustics are good at all. It felt absolutely impossible for away end to make any noise carry when I was there, and home end wasn't much better. The hotdogs were great though.

We did, he declared for the US a month ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folarin_Balogun

Rebuilding on the same site is basically impossible I'd say. There's nowhere reasonable near by to play in the meantime.

Never a good finisher in a million years. Seen him miss chance after chance for both Sevilla and Morocco. A big lump and can get his head on things, that's about it.

100,000

Everytime I've seen En-Nesyri play he's made me hate football. I think he's utter shite.

It's an amazing piece of infrastructure particularly in respect to the folding pitch but I think it looks utterly shit from the outside. The Nou Camp renovation is going to look absolutely identical too. Once two of the most distinctive stadiums in the world that you will now struggle to tell apart.

I quite liked the idea of Adarabioyo at Fulham because he will be relatively cheap. Huge in stature but still quick, used to playing with the ball at his feet for Fulham. Just don't think he's ever going to be top class. Would be a squad/stop gap signing to upgrade on Lascelles - and I think we're clearly trying to avoid those kind of signings in general.

I'm actually not opposed in theory to Castle Leazes/Leazes Park build. If done well it could be the best outcome for the setting of the listed buildings while also expanding the park into the city centre and making it a real amenity feature of the city as well as a usable thoroughfare on matchdays. I just think modern new build stadiums are shit. If you let any of the current mainstream stadium architects get a hold of it it will be a giant spaceship/bowl with no character. Every new stadium and redevelopment at the moment has exactly the same fundament design with variations to the exoskeletal facade. A football stadium, especially in England, should have four clearly recognisable stands from inside and out. I have no idea why this stopped being the case but it did, sometime after around 2006. Just don't understand why anybody would want a copy of the Spurs stadium or any of the rubbish from the Qatar World Cup.

St James Terrace is a nice enough building but I would agree it is of significantly less heritage value than Leazes Terrace - which as a set piece is one of the finest and heftiest examples of Georgian residential architecture (although technically Victorian by date) in the country. I don't know about complete demolition but I think part relocation/repurposing/redeveloping of SJT into a new East Stand may be a goer. But you're definitely only ever going to get an extra couple of thousand seats. The real capacity increase comes from doing the Gallowgate extension. I don't know about 62,000 being too little. I think between 60-65 is about right. Again I'm in the minority but I think long term when we're playing 50+ games a season, ticket prices have gone up and the current buzz has become normality there will be an equilibrium point for demand. And you don't want to keep expanding to get more tourists in at the expense of sacrificing atmosphere.

Fair, I hadn't watched the video. Even then you're extremely unlikely to ever be allowed to demolish a fully in tact Grade II listed building. St James Terrace is the more immediate barrier just because of how close it is. I know for a fact the club have already suggested informally the option of moving it brick by brick. However I still think even with that obstacle moved you would be struggling to significantly expand the East Stand because of Leazes Terrace. Maybe a couple of thousand extra seats by going vertically. But to significantly increase the size of that stand you need a much bigger footprint.