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Yokohama is playing Enzo Maresca-ball. It’s good to watch.

Guehi this, Guehi that and then boom, tomorrow we sign Joachim Andersen. I'd have no issue with that btw.

Odd that we had been linked with his CB partner Andersen before, which would make more sense as a Schar replacement. Seems like an opportunistic swoop, this.

I don’t really understand the hype around Duran. Granted that he’s only young, and his goals per minute stats are….alright, but he seems to believe his shit doesn’t stink for some reason. Why would we bid for him?

Vitor Roque unhappy at Barca. Bring him in and get him under the wing of his Paranaense brother Bruno.

Love this classic . "We do need milk". The Manchester City mug.

Depends on which Williams, playing for Bilbao.

Apropos of this, Wilfried Gnonto and Takefusa Kubo's stats for the 23/24 season are astonishingly similar (albeit in different leagues). Kubo has 7 goals and 5 assists across 2,935 minutes played and Gnonto 9 goals and 3 assists across 2,192. Kubo is a centimetre taller than Gnonto but older by a couple of years. Just a bit of stats wankery cos I'm so bored in this rumour drought. But Gnonto has Premier League experience and a potentially high ceiling. Not a bad move if the price is right.

I'd agree that Gnonto is a very "Howe-type" player - industrious, direct, pacy and great in a pressing give-n-go side. Only drawback is that he's a shortarse.

Olmo is superb, seems to be that sort of late bloomer kind of character who will hit his peak at 28. Trouble is that we already have our own "quarterback" player in Bruno, it'd be dificult to play both of them in the same team.

My opinion is that Man Utd met us halfway today so that both clubs can get down to planning for incomings in earnest for the coming months without the weight of an unresolved DoF issue on our collective backs.

I like him. Two-footed, tricky, bit of pace, puts himself about a bit. What's not to like?

Love the Italian names that can be literally translated into something totally mundane in English. Alexander Goodmorning. Fred Church, son of Henry Church.

Much like Luuk De Jong from the previous pages, in fact. Intellligent, not that quick, scores goals but never belters. A very continental player.

Worst agent ever. “Just let me ring the fellas that I’m repping, and I’ll encourage them to shell out more”.

MGW is amazing, but he's more a "proper No. 10". Play him central and get your wingers and centre-forward to feed off his passes. If he's to play on our right, we need another runner outside of him. How many clubs play 10s as 10s nowadays?

Probably, like Isak, someone who is out of favour this season because of injuries or just a loss of form. Ferran Torres and Raphinha have been linked, and Torres just came off a two-month hamstring injury earlier this year... Barca would do well gving up some of that forward line of theirs.

Oddly enough apropos of the talk of Sessegnon being a Fulham product an'arl - Matt O'Reily is also a Fulham youth product. Only 23 still, so has a high ceiling. Just needs some Mad Dog Tindall conditioning exercises. Really hope we're in for him.

Celtic Bruno Guimaraes. That is essentially it.

Fucking love me a Matt O'Reilly. But he'd better be cover for Bruno, and not a replacement!

Love to have Matt O'Riley here. Sell Longstaff to Ipswich and have a midfield rotation of Bruno/O'Riley; Joe/Joe; Tonali/Miley and you'd think we'll do very well, especially with a more rapid back four. O'Reily has a great engine on him, and has an eye for a pass.

"That's a heavy touch....!"

Can MGW play on the right? Seems like a "proper 10"-type player? Although him tucked inside with a prime Tripps (alas) overlapping on the outside would be awesome.