Deuce

Lot of people gonna be disappointed when we sign Phillips and Howe just slots him in as a 6 without changing the system at all.

Newcastle can have a little transfer fee, as a treat.

Any word on what happens if it’s neither?

I like when national teams opt for a bit of kit flair. There’s like a dozen teams all with some bland combination of red/white/blue that’d you be hard pressed to differentiate if you took off the badges.

Imagine we put him on the left side and he becomes chronically right-footed

that signing felt very much like fulfilling a Career mode objective to “sign a player born in Asia.”

He’s scored 400 goals in his career

Can I say something controversial, yet brave? We won’t make any January signings.

it’s all coming up Dekka Wright

Bantz aside, just imagining the mass forum suicide if our next signing is another fullback

Particularly if there’s just not the right fit among available English players. Bowen would be a great replacement for Miggy at RW, for example, but he’s not moving from West Ham. We’ll have to add a foreigner if we want to upgrade there.

Szoboszlai’s the “one that got away” for me (even if we were never really in for him.) Think he’s going to be one of the best players in the league in no time.

at this point I wonder how many would take a relegation just to feel something.

Pards managing in the PL in the year of our lord 2024. Incredible scenes if it happens.

The steadfast refusal to use the right foot is genuinely incomprehensible. Like it’s at the point where he needs to talk to a psychologist about it.

I’m not dismissing it, just deferring to Occam’s razor.

Looking forward to this guy being retcon’d as “always been shite” just like every one of other players at the moment.

Their people may have had their suspicions, but I don’t think there was anything underhanded about the transfer. New ownership wanted to take things in a different direction, clearly not beholden to tradition (sacking Maldini case in point), and cashed in on a highly-valuable asset.

I just don’t see this happening at all. The disruption to his development by pulling him away from Feyenoord would far outweigh whatever benefit he could bring us in the short-term.

Eh? Did you watch him at all last season?

Getting extremely tedious reading through Football at the moment. Far too many FM-addled brains around here…apparently we were supposed to sell half our starting XI and replace them with world class signings all in a single offseason.

Or rather, players appreciated by many for being essential to getting us to our highest league finish in what, 20 years?

We already do, but he’s banned for the season.