Deuce

We’re gonna win

He’s 34-years old, but if he’s still playing well I’d take Payet off their hands.

want dont know anything about him

Have to say, if I’m Sevilla I probably wouldn’t turn my nose up at a generous offer for a 28-year old CB who’s only recently started playing at a fairly high level. I don’t think they’re likely to get anywhere near his release clause in a transfer fee.

They’ll run the conversion when we reach out and that €7m will somehow come out £25m

y’all have no idea how lucky you are not to have him as a commentator

Gonna be dropping Yao on the war elephants come Qatar

He’s the most talented player we’ve produced so far, easily.

CJ is a lege. According to wiki, he had 53 national team caps between 93-94.

Aaronson is a really good player and he might not even make our starting XI when we’re at full strength.

Diego Carlos, Darwin, and a proper CM and we’re cookin’ with gas.

“14 in 15 this season” says I don’t care what jotenko says.

areet Murat.

people getting angry at opinions they don’t like.

Doesn't hurt to have options!

Taking a national team job might not be a terrible idea for Rafa at this point.

I would be very surprised if Howe gets sacked this season.

I don’t believe there’s a single manager we could realistically hire at this point who’d be better positioned to keep up this squad than Howe. Anyone we get in would be starting from square one AGAIN, albeit with the same squad; it’s not plug-n-play. We’ve committed to Howe to let him implement his system come hell or high water. It’ll either come off this season and we’ll stay up, or he’ll be revamping the squad next season in the Championship. Y’all are kidding yourselves if you think Howe was hired as a mercenary manager with the sole mandate to keep the squad in the Premier League. He’s quite clearly someone PIF is investing in with a view to the bigger picture. *Even if that means we’re going down with him.* And it has nothing to do with loyalty to Howe. He’s working with Bruce’s broken squad, trying to get them playing actual football instead of “hoof it up field and run around a bit, lads.” I’m not saying results haven’t been disappointing and we’re not in need of significant investment.

Martinez would be a fool to join them in the state they’re in and to leave Belgium with the WC later this year.

Unless they’re offering silly money, it really makes no sense for us to sell Schar at this point.

Not really. It’s pragmatism.

“Rafa gives us a better chance of avoiding relegation.” Ignoring the fact that Rafa wasn’t able to help us avoid relegation the first time we hired him, with a far better squad than what we have now. I’ll never blame him for that, mind, because Steve McClaren. Sacking Howe to hire Rafa would absolutely be a small-time, knee-jerk, and frankly unprofessional move from our owners, who have shown themselves to be anything but those things to this point. I am fully convinced they are prepared to go down with Howe and have been since the day he was hired. There is no quick, plug-n-play solution. This isn’t FIFA, where you can just pick up the sticks and knock out a few wins after a few bad results on the auto-simulation. Like it or not, the manager best positioned to help us avoid relegation is Eddie Howe. He’s trying to get Steve Bruce’s squad to play an entirely new brand of football (that is, to actually get them playing football). Hopefully it’ll take before we’re relegated, but if not he deserves the chance to build his own team from the Championship.

I’ve been fairly agnostic about whether or not we stay up this season, even after the new owners came in. Relegation is not a death sentence, particularly for a club that will easily weather the financial hit.