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In anycase we'll come back to this conversation at the end of next summer to see how even more obvious a decision it should have been. Botmanscock (so this post can easily be searched).

Flio I'm not even sure why you're bringing money into it. I, along with most others on this forum I would imagine, absolutely hate the state of modern football. Fans of other clubs will rightfully hate us and want us to fail, I would be the same. It's completely shite. It's not about being offended over Botman not choosing money? Like I've never said anything even close to that? My point is that for a 22 year old prospect like him we're a much better choice if his wish is to join the elite clubs of football. And I think he would regret joining Milan within a few year. If things go to plan (like they did with Chelsea and Man City) whoever comes in now have been gifted the most straight forward route they could wish for to a dominant club.

Which is obviously fair enough but both of those things become irrelevant, as Man City show us.

Are you being intentionally blind to the reality of our takeover or something? FWIW I think it's absolutely disgusting that this is the reality of things, given a year ago we were rightfully one of the laughing stocks of world football, but I cannot see the point of being modest and I thought the same in January. We are the most likely club in world football who any reasonable person would forcast to join the elite within the next few years, not AC Milan.

They have a great squad, they're just nowhere near the level of the insane, robotic machines like Man City or Liverpool. We just have easier route to that level due to our ability to throw money at our problems.

I agree but it would take a monumental effort for them to grow to the level of Man City, PSG, Real Madrid etc. They're miles off.

Why though? The odds are heavily favoured that you would regret the decision in a few years time. Unless it's just purely for the prestige of wearing an iconic shirt?

It's got nothing to do with money, Milan won the Serie A with a 35 year old Olivier Giroud leading the line, backed up by an injured, 40 year old Zlatan Ibrahimovic. They'd arguably be battling it out for a Europa Conference place in the Premiership. If any player wants to join a project with good odds of actually becoming a force in world football then we're better placed than AC Milan. Historically they're a much bigger and better club, it's not even close, but Man City and Chelsea are a testiment to the irrelevancy of that. Especially at this stage we're offering any player a cheat code to being the next Kompany, Silva etc if they're good enough.

Milan are a huge club but they're miles off the likes of Liverpool and Manchester City on the pitch. We can offer someone like Botman essentially the easiest and most probable road possible to being a club/league legend. I honestly think players are daft as fuck to be turning us down unless it's for the absolute elite (Madrid/Barca/Bayern/PSG etc).

The traditional way of doing it is "we have too many players approaching/in their 30s."

Aye that's how I see it. Badiashile is quicker, looks like he carries the ball better, and beyond that they look to have similar stats. Obviously I trust the judgement of Howe like, it's a shame they're both left footed

Yeah those goal videos are shite tbh. That's a decent one. His pass for the assist at like 58s in is lush.

Bruno's wet dream with those runs.

That express article will be absolute nonsense though

If a young player feels confident enough that he can turn us down in the hopes of a bigger club the it's hardly a bad thing regarding his attitude like

Aye that's what I mean. You could probably replace Wood with Joelinton in desperate situations. There's no real need to keep him on unless we only sign Ekitike

So was Wood tbf.

As much as he can irritate you I would love to see him in a proper functioning side where he isn't automatically the main man.

The fact he bought Wood who turned out to be shite surely indicates he would be interested in another target man? The ball sticks well with Wilson tbf to him but if he gets injured we're possibly fucked even if we do sign Ekitike.

Aye, he has that Ronaldo/Bale style athleticism about him. 40m is potentially a great deal (probably wouldn't even be that high though).

Looking purely at his goal scoring stats he's had 2 good seasons (the two before this one) which show a clear progression of him maturing as a forward (he's always been a decent player even before then). Everton were horrific this season and he suffered a bad injury, if you want to just look at a players Wiki numbers (and DCL aren't bad by any stretch) then look at Shearer's for 97-98 & 00-01. In anycase if his numbers for those seasons weren't just an anomaly then he's potentially a 1 in 2 striker who is obscenely good in the air.

He hasn't had only 1 good season in his career though.

Fair enough, on the flip side the fact he knows how to deal with it cannot be a bad sign.

Calvert-Lewin would be class, I'm not sure what people who are against it are basing it on other than him missing most of this season?

He's the one I want like. Either him or Botman but Badiashile's athleticism gives him a much higher ceiling. He's also younger and I don't think he'd take up a squad place.