Ghandis Flip-Flop

Ok I'll bite, proven Premier League experience ring a bell?

I liked you better, when you quietly stored my towels

That’s mainly going to be coming from the forward or left sided 8 though surely. If our left back is spending the game in the half spaces on the edge of the oppositions area, our defensive record is going to be pretty shocking

To be fair, I just saw an opportunity to make an obvious joke and shine a light on my own lifting patter

Did we stay up and weaken a rival (Who ultimately went down) following that transfer? Then it achieved its purpose. The fact we ended up evens ffp wise, after his relatively prompt sale is even better.

I suspect a few of our recent pick ups at that sort of level aren't even viewed as being for our first team, but rather easy flips to make us a bit of cash. In much the same way as Chelsea have been doing for about a decade now

Genuinely spent a while trying to highlight your ForumName to see if you had 'Shite' in white text in front of it

Nah DeRossi is a better comparison if you ask me. He can do a bit of everything.

It’s done solely to irritate you mate. As for stopping buying young talent from Europe what would you consider Tonali and Minteh to be exactly? Do you think Howe is now controlling Ashworth etc? Or do you think maybe the club are somewhat reluctantly letting go of a saleable asset, who doesn’t fully fit in with the team's current system and has had fitness issues (You'd imagine the medical team may have an idea if this is likely to be recurrent or not, I can imagine it’s not them who have him strapped up like a mummy).

Barton, Nolan out Cabaye and Ba in not count?

Is left back really more pressing though, given how we play? Take Trippier out of our side and our main creative threat is gone. The guy is soon gonna be 33, he ain’t playing every game in a season like we have coming up.

It’s why I think peak Woodgate was a better CB than Rio. Woody helped make Bramble look a world beater, Rio fell off massively when not playing alongside Stam or Vidic

just been watching this on YouTube and given the sock colour debates of recent years, I’m going to say it we need to bring back the hooped variety

Presume he’s on the wind up, but can’t remember him doing this before

It only counts for certain years, where he wasn’t at the club for the full 3 (I only know this, because I assumed the same)

Bit of a different negotiating position, when you’re staring down the reality of keeping Premier League players on contracts with no relegation clauses, compared to the relative position of power they were in last summer

Not only that but given his initial explosive pace, he should be playing on the shoulder more. The fact is the ball is always quicker than you, it’s literally one of the first things every rapid kid should be taught. It’s great being able to beat a man when required, but the best in his position use space and movement to ensure they often don’t have to.

It’s only a benefit on the rare occasions he actually releases the ball early to those in space

There’s obviously no plan, other than to wind up people like you on the internet. FFS what have the guys behind the scenes got to do to earn your trust after the last 18 months? #TrustTheProcess

No but the memes of him doing 10 step overs without progressing the ball or beating a man certainly was. The reality is if ASM was half as good as some think, with a modicum of consistency, he wouldn’t have remained at Newcastle under Ashley.

And could it not be argued that in about 85% of his games for us, ASM has been an ineffectual Show Pony?

Pretty sure the 97 injury was snapped ankle ligaments too, for what it’s worth

Further evidence that the Jabba The Hutt in shite jeans is balls deep in Castore though, regardless of what the articles said a while back

Has it not been suggested we're looking at Loan To Buy options? So it’s more of a case of try before we buy and a chance to kick any fees down the road until more commercial deals are in place