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Not sure we will.Think it’s kept confidential and only sign of who won will be revealed when the next PL rule book is revealed. I could be wrong mind.

Could it not be the week after though?

Still no date for this?

Farewell sweet prince…

I get all that TBF as i experienced all that too. Just you missed out the bits when he funnelled NUFC money into propping up his failing Cameron Hall Devs whilst taking very generous salaries also from the club. Then selling his share of the club behind Freddie Shepherds back to Mike Ashley knowing he couldn’t stop it as was on a hospital bed at deaths door. That and him being a bit of a racist and embarrassing himself on TalkSport although TBF probably more generational ignorance. Not a fan personally but will give him some thanks. He was lucky he landed KK as ultimately it was KK who drove and built the club as much as anyone.

Very good description of our season so far.

You’re mixing up his ability with performance. He was excellent today within his own parameters.

In the ground we all had Krafth MOTM. Wouldn’t argue with any of the others.

Because we tried to get him instead of paying £12.8/£20m for their reserve GK. See which one we ended up with

Thanks for posting article. Though learnt nothing new from it. Felt like i was the secret source actually. The Tosin deal not happening and having to buy/sell Anderson Minteh and the GK at a big fee to avoid points deduction ultimately had a big knock on effect for a budget that was never big enough for both a quality RCB and RW. The only blame I’d lay at anyone’s feet is they probably thought PSR had very little teeth until late on last season teams started getting points deducted. Though to be fair to them most fans were saying it had no sporting teeth and the sanctions would be financial. Keep Minteh and secure Tosin and how different the whole window would’ve been viewed with most of our budget still available to shop around. Time to get behind the manager and the players and see where we are in January.

Has always been their plan. Some just realising this now?

You hear this a lot but how do you exactly plan for a window? I mean… it’s fairly well known thats done as of end of January and a bulk of it even earlier. List players you want, a few options for each position, get an idea of wage demands, approximate transfer fee and most importantly if they want to join us. However… once you get to the window and none of the clubs want to sell you who you want or if they do not at the prices you were originally quoted then not much else you can do other than throw money (we can’t afford to) at players you didn’t originally need/want or hang on until next window. Mitchell has had long enough to be part of the strategy. However it’s been a tough window (so far…). These things happen.

Elanga wasn’t available in July. So not sure what difference an early pivot would have made. If we got wind he was available at a price we were happy with we might of decided to pivot. No one knows ultimately so no point getting upset about stuff that we don’t know with any great certainty.

None of our bigger signings have been elite players. EH has turned them into a bracket getting close to that. Elanga interest is absolutely no different to Gordon, Barnes, Botman, Bruno, Isak.

See my last post. In short. the money was prioritised on a RCB. Now we’ve money available for a RW instead as the RCB we want isn’t affordable this window.

We bid for Elanga this morning as Forest were bringing in a player so we probably hoped that they’d be receptive to a sale to balance their books. We also knew that the minimum price after we tried to get him as part of the Anderson deal was a ball park figure sufficiently high enough to know we couldn’t reach along with getting Guehi. The Guehi pursuit started at £50m +£5m and reached £65m+£5m and never moved as wasn’t rejected until late last night as the price increased again to £75m. We withdrew our interest this morning hence the transfer meeting delaying the press conference. Focused turned to RW and a bid was put in for Elanga knowing we had funds to pursue a deal without insulting the club we are trying to buy off. Don’t see a problem with any of it so far. Our player selection under EH has been spot on so far.

How did you come to that conclusion? Genuinely interested.

More like Captain Oblivious…

I think the compromise should’ve been if the Euro clubs are seeded/kept apart then they all have to play their ties away from home that round.

For someone who Tweets so much and stirs up the fan base you’d think he’d of known this before now…

Would also help if we got some home cup draws. People will laugh but an extra 8 home games instead of away could’ve made a bit of difference this window.

Absolute master class from EH. We are so lucky to have him. Wouldn’t swap him for anyone else in the league. Especially so in our current PSR quagmire…

I agree we didn’t look so clever away from home but the bigger ultimately was one of a team extremely unlucky to miss out on Europe again scoring a club record amount of goals getting deep in both domestic cup competitions despite ridiculous cup draws. Not saying we couldv’e done with a few signings but it’s a bit of a pet annoyance of mine seeing people moan about last season. If nothing happens today of note let’s get a couple of players back from injuries and suspensions and re-evaluate the market in January when we start to play the majority of our fixtures. With a bit of luck we might actually realise how many players we did lose last season.

Which was a great year was it not?