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TIL that Victor Gyokeres played under wor Chrissy Hughton at Brighton.

I hope Odegaard stays this way for the rest of the season. Oddly nervous.

Spelled Mbeumo (not Mbuemo), so pronounced Um-burh-mo.

I mean, he's second fiddle to Onana for a reason

I mean, if we wanted a 33-year-old who struggles to score, we could've just improved our offer to Wilson.

"Won 7 of 27 Premier League games as Head Coach" Poor Reuben.

What is it with Swedish strikers and the number 14?

Commercial with Big Sam and Pardew just to wind up the neutrals.

Especially if Arsenal scores with it in one hours time.

Palmer surprisingly ineffective today. Hope he spent his mojo because of the ten thousand signings they've made.

Joelinton buries that.

If Manure wants to spend stupid money on a CM, they'd do well splurging on Wharton. He's been great.

Still prefer @Disco's "Isakariot".

Also, if Enzo and Caicedo were each 100 million two seasons ago, Adam Wharton is 120 million now.

If there's any word of this in the public domain, it's yet another piece of evidence to counter the Ornstein narrative that Isak asked to leave us weeks before the season ended.

Enzo and Caicedo were 100 million pounds each two or three seasons back. Bears repeating, but if that's the market rate, Isak is 180 to 200 million in 2025.

Money and London, basically. Fuck PSR.

OAP Casemiro starting for Man U against Arsenal in 2025. Mason Mount as striker.

And their client media will go into overdrive on it. "Liverpool launches second bid of 115 million as Newcastle signs Isak's replacement.". And leaving the Liverpool fans to comment "They had a gentleman's agreement! You can't keep him! Newcastle had been told since 2022 that Isak wanted to leave for Liverpool in 2025!!11!". The narrative that Isak's price is 130 million (it isn't good financial sense), and that Wissa would be his replacement, has been slowly been fed to the masses.

"If someone scores against a Top Six club from a freekick, it's a foul. If a Top Six club scores from a freekick, it's not a foul". Something like that.

Again with not getting that "Park Seung-Soo"'s surname is "Park". Howay man.

Here's the problem though. His "agent" may literally be a Serbian gangster and at 60 years old, evidently looking for his last major payday. He mightn't be able to "sack" the agent.

Correct. Aside from everything else, it has made it stupidly difficult to negotiate for strikers now that all this dirty linen is being aired out in public. "You want our striker? I heard you're desperate!". And then the price just gets hiked a few tens of millions.

Don't worry, if the rumour picks up enough steam to generate its own thread, @Curva Sud Milano can hop in with a thumbnail impression of his opponents' player.

Basically with Ramsey and now Frattesi (if rumours are to be believed), the plan is to get energetic mezzala-types who can crash the box and twat the ball to get goals, rather than anything fancy. Both of these are exactly in that mould. And Scott McTominay, to whom we were strongly linked, is the best example of the type.