Smal

he’s getting a 7 year contract on big wages that’ll take him until he’s 30. Not sure there’s any loss involved for him at all.

I’m glad to be honest. If Cole Palmer is still taking penalties there then Pedro’s numbers will be rotten.

Staveley and Ghoduossi’s whole thing was how well connected they were to the Saudi’s/PIF. We can only speculate of course but I don’t think it’s a leap to say they’ll have had the necessary connections to get deals and financing green lit (Isak, Tonali etc.) much quicker than whoever is responsible for that now(???). It really is a shame they’re gone.

I still think his future is at right back, but strangely again in this tournament he was much better in the opening 2 games where he played left back. Was much quieter when he was moved to right back for the rest of the games.

1. loads of money 2. live in London Think we probably underestimate just how important number 1 is, especially to players who have no ties to clubs or the country at all.

don’t think Everton fans were sad to see the back of him. No idea why anyone would want him here tbh.

nobody even tried to stop him

not been impressed by Scott in this tournament at all. Hasn’t really progressed since joining Bournemouth.

great stuff. He’s normally pretty one footed and I was convinced he was somehow going to try and move it onto his left and lose it

perhaps usually, but rightly or wrongly Howe hasn’t ever changed a team if things are going well, so over the course of a season the level of the first XI is significantly more important for him than other managers I’d say.

I don’t think any of those four offer an improvement to our first XI currently.

I just find Humphrey incredibly toxic in the most linkedin way possible

aye, treat it as a very expensive development loan and move on. Value only going to go up too. Would start ahead of Joelinton now in lots of scenarios imo.

it should be us. Provides extra value because of the club home grown squad space.

extremely sus keeper

Anderson came on and 35 minutes later he has won the most duels (6) from either side across the whole game basically the ideal Eddie Howe midfielder

Stansfield plays like a guy who knows he's not good enough

been watching Quansah at the under 21 euros. Not good. Poor with the ball and not solid defensively either. Charlie Cresswell next to him has looked better. Seems he’s off to Como.

it’d probably take £80m+ for Kulusevski but he’d be my #1 choice if it were possible.

8 tbf

10 out of 20 were penalties, yeah. This season 5 of his 10 goals were penalties.

right back with a left-footed player cutting in and not taking up his space ahead of him and we'll see the best of him imo.

the Isco revival is great. Love that a player can still thrive purely on technical ability.

If we're spending £60m+ on him I'd be wanting more than 5 non-penalty goals, like. I dunno, I sound miserable but I really hope all these links are smokescreens because I don't like any of them