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Been away from football for years so not fully caught up tbh, is this actually something they do? It seems massively coubter productive. Trensa has confidently gotten everything right from the start, in spite of the media saying other things. Honestly just think SSN etc are creating a narrative.

And tbh 60m euros is probably fair enough for CB of his reported quality. Even more so with Botman where £30m would have been an absolute steal.

I find it pretty hard to believe teams are constantly moving the goalposts like. It makes no sense.

Vlahovic looks limited anyway. I know he's only young like, but feel like someone is going to stung for £80m or whatever daft it is he's being touted for.

Zapata would be insane. If we're paying £25m for Chris Wood then I'm not going to scoff at Zapata for £10m more

Maybe Sevilla just think £50m is too much money and have requested £38m.

This. Like I respect the fact he might fancy West Ham so wants to use us as a stop gap, which is fair enough, but he has to still want to come here like These reports read like we're trying to fucking drag him up to SJP.

Like when bring in a DoF they'll have their own requests for staff. Hopefully this is just a "we need someone in for now, who can we get?" thing.

I would assume we will bring in more scouts during the summer? And this is basically just a role to get us to that point? Cannot read the article yet.

It's weird because I actually think Watford, although being shite, looked like they could do quite well Must be a sign of changing times but hitting teams on the break with pace and power used to be effective in the Prem.

Nah that was after the head injury earlier in the game.

Woukd love either but Alli is more exciting like.

There's no context to us possibly being better off getting a DoF (or someone in some kind of advisor role) in for this transfer window?

Since Brentford are likely not going down it would be canny if he tears the league up again like.

Imagine telling a Brentford fan a few year ago that in 2022 they would be signing Christian Eriksen

Liverpool had a stone waller turned down when Lascelles threw Oxlade-Chamberlain over

Worst case was the shirt pull, if he got up and pressured the chance was potentially still on but he sat on the floor twisting.

Does he support us? I know Douglas doesn't but cannot remember if Edwards does or not. If not then I imagine unconscious bias is a factor like. And I do reckon he at least only has one eye on games like (again if he doesn't support us it makes sense), although his assessment of yesterday is pretty bang on imo. He did an article on Joelinton which was just wishy washy shite, no real talk of why he was great against Man Utd just general superlatives. Like he'd heard he was great and just sort of filled in the blanks - it didn't read like someone who had paid attention to his game. I know tactical analysis isn't really his thing but if you're writing an article on a players' performance it should probably get a look in . Then talking about Trippier's dominance in the air (being like a centre back) after the Cambridge game which seems lifted straight from WhoScored. I know he hasn't been studying Trippier's games for Atletico. He can click any individual players thread on here and get a general gist of what to write if he needs to. EDIT: He supports Leyton Orient

I agree with what he's saying but I think he's just as in the dark as the rest of us. If you look at his replies to people in that tweet they don't read like someone who has an ear on the inside. I'm just hoping our lack of activity has been down to the strict parameters we've had on players signing (which can be relaxed) and not incompetence. Howe and Nickson don't fill me with much hope but hopefully I'm wrong about them.

As unimpressive as the transfer window has been we've at least taken 4 points from the 6 available, which I'm sure everyone would have taken a couple of weeks ago. We're in no real hurry now so can hopefully sort shit out without the pressure of bringing players in before key games.

What we need is a marching band.

Some people just have no soul like do they?

I'll be honest I never noticed him too much other than 2 times when he held the ball up well and looked like an actual target man, but those stats are obviously very encouraging. Hopefully when he gets his first goal his oddly delayed reactions in the box clear up like, it must be a mental thing as several times in the last 2 games he's took like a full second to start moving towards the ball, by which time the centre back is already there

I think it's the opposite with Dummett tbh, he's been a solid defender for us for nearly a decade while getting constant abuse . Rafinha turned him inside out a few times yesterday and it wasn't good to see, he played well against Watford but his pace and agility might be gone now (or he might just not be fit). Under Howe I don't think there's really room for him anyway unless he ever starts using a back 3 with any frequency. Even more so if Manquillo performs like he did yesterday. EDIT: Constant abuse probably isn't fair like, but there's always been a tendency for people to ignore how solid he has been defensively.

Someone mentioned Mousa Dembele which I think is pretty much perfect like. I think he'll eventually simplify his game a bit too for the better.