Roids

Like the signing, should have happened 3 weeks ago but better late than never I guess 2 more needed

Offer him a (deserved) payrise, add a favourable (to us) buyout clause, facilitate an apology and reunion with his teammates and let's get on with the season

nols fav line

those are your DCLs, should never get that far.

you don't negotiate a plan c a week before the season, the idea of a plan b & c is that they are reasonably attainable

they could try not putting all their eggs in one basket and moving on to plan B & C where A has little viability

All those players were extremely highly rated and good prior to joining Chelsea (hence why Chelsea paid big bucks to bring them in) Mourinho binning them due to its short sightedness has no bearing on Hojlund's lack of talent

Do you guys actually watch football? Hojlund really? That said, credit for valuing him accurately

That doesn't make it good transfer policy, Shepherd did the same shit. Hall & Tino signings were great forward looking actions. Throwing money at any and everything in desperation is not.

Overbidding for an unproven forward with unremarkable attributes who clearly isn't interested, can only end well.

those 3 in as comp for a firing Isak is stagnation at best, regression to be totally honest

bringing back the Freddie Shepherd era transfer strategy, must be in the dna

What a shitshow of a transfer, bidding over the odds for an 'ok' player...

Haaland's the better fit for both as he's too much of a goal scoring machine despite his relative technical weakness to Isak If Isak were take his game up a level (of which he has the potential to) I'd be in total agreement

That's Haaland

you must be new here they've been shaking their tail for DCL for over a year and very recently argued that that Howe would transform Nicolas Jackson no basura exists that wouldn't be rationalised on here

Salah was highly rated, the attributes were there and he clearly put in the work Average players have a very short cap on how high they can go, that's why (young) talents goes for so much, their upside can't be matched by most. There are always exceptions to the rule, but in this scenario it's almost an absolute

You can't study/improve finishing at this stage of his career. If you're not a shooter upon turning pro you'll never be.

The inevitable supermagic Eddie can turn shit to gold post, my least fav type of NOL comment

He can't finish, nothing elite about that trait decent player otherwise

As a backup? sure As Pope's replacement/competition? laughable

There are dozens of viable players we could get, our scout/backroom team havejust been incompetent and suffering from tunnel vision.

We're so cooked this upcoming season. Bar some miraculous transfer activity this week, everyone should brace themselves for a respectable 8th-10th place finish.

Howe isn't scouting these players, not idea where this narrative came from.

when Arsenal were looking at him prior to Gyokeres pivot, he wanted to keep his image rights as well as a hefty salary. not worth the hassle for such a middy player