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Nkunku was a PSG reject before Leipzig where he got Bundesliga player of the season. So he's already resurrected his career once. I see potential value there, especially with the crazy valuations we keep hearing for other players. He's versatile and that's something we could certainly do with. All depends on whether Eddie likes him though.

If anyone disputes a transfer fee for Joelinton, set up a projector at the hearing, show the entire Carabao Cup final and then show some "highlights" of Fabinho's last season at Liverpool. Joelinton's fair fee with be at least double what Fabinho went for.

Real, PSG, and Liverpool all defender shopping at Bournemouth (ground capacity 11,307) at the same time. Three of the top six? in world football. Remarkable!

Depends on what the 80m gets you. If its top class in-demand matchwinner, I dunno, Ekitike?, you think about it. If its two Liverpool castoffs like Quansah and Eliot, the kind of signings the world of football thinks we deserve, then no fucking way.

Easiest explanation for extra running is Sandro. Does anyone have running stats for him? Kind of ironic that's its our cool-looking Mediterranean who bombs about all over the pitch.

Bournemouth are our kryptonite, so Semenyo's record vs. NUFC is P5 W2 D3 L0. One goal and two assists. For comparison, his combined record vs. Liverpool, Citeh, Arsenal, Villa, and Brighton is 20 defeats in 27 games. His record against Brentford even is P6 W0 D2 L4. The data is all comps.

For Everton to do a Forest, they'll probably need to copy Forest and sail very close to the PSR wind. Moyes won the Conference League at West Ham but couldn't finish in the top half with Rice, Paqueta, and Jarrod Bowen. The following season, after Rice left and with 100M in the kitty, they conceded 74 goals. They beat us final day but that was probably nerves and our main two strikers not have a functioning leg between them.

Still a bit square peg/round holey with Johnson left and no place for Maddison. Easier to just spend your big money on a LW. Frank's highest Premier League finish is ninth. Nuno finished seventh twice at Wolves but didn't last long at Spurs. Frank's record vs. NUFC is P10 W2 D1 L7, worse than I expected when I looked it up. The draw was Eddie's first game, the 3-3, which he missed with coronavirus.

If it gets done, Jacob Ramsey would be this month for Villa's PSR, no? The consensus is that they must sell someone.

Wissa's only got a year left on his deal, so he'll probably leave along with Mbeumo. That's a lot of goals to replace, for their new manager.

Szobo on the bench? I'd be more afraid of Liverpool if they were looking to strengthen defensively. Its all change for them with a new keeper, a midfielder replacing Trent, and Kerkez coming in, but little talk of whether their new outfield players can actually defend. The time bomb of replacing VVD is also still to come. They were hopeless at defending corners in the Carabao final and made it easy for us.

The only hope with Vlach is that we could get a non-loss Saudi fee based on his appearances for Greece. He played 10 90s for them in 2024. Otherwise its pass the PSR parcel if another team is as desperate as we were last summer.

Just watching Japan - Indonesia. It's 3-0 at half time. Posting because Indonesia's manager is Patrick Kluivert and he looks slimmer now than when he played for us!

Just a comment on our form, but take numbers in the 29 games from Nov 1 2024, around when Sandro switched with Bruno, and extrapolate them to 38 games and its P38 W22 D4 L12 F77 A48 Pts 71 That'll get you CL every season, esp if fifth gets CL. The two numbers to improve are goals conceded and defeats. We're already not far off a title winning number of goals scored. We should be aiming at conceding under 30 though, a huge improvement. Trafford may not be ready yet, but getting him in and working on him is a wise move.

I don't normally listen to their show but Geordie Journos said the deal was done last season, fee all agreed, and then our PSR debacle stopped it. They brought it up as defence for the Mitchell comment using some variant of "not fit for purpose" about our transfer policy. I hope the fee hasn't gone up too much. If he wants to start, he'll have to earn it, but the above comment makes him sound very mature. Just on sweeping, but Pope doing it and Dubs not doing it suggests its a combination of Pope's ability and recognition of that from Howe. If all our keepers did it, you could claim it was just manager policy/tolerance of risk.