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The morale dilemma for the Mackems will be interesting given they will be due some our blood oil money as compensation

Any source for this? The fume will be epic.

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I think the assumption comes from his perceived preference for British players combined with the fact he’s not really of a profile which makes much sense (27 in December, well paid and unlikely to appreciate in value (in terms of if we need to move him on).

Will address some of these points from my POV. The recruitment team should work together to buy players which I’m sure they are, everyone will of course naturally have an input and a preference. I think the main point I have is he hasn’t pulled up any trees at Manchester United and his stats are poor, when we played them I thought he was pretty rubbing apart from 1 run he made. Also the wider point is we can and should be aiming higher and better and personally I have an aversion to signing players from Manchester United given our previous deals with them. I’m all for us signing British players personally provided they improve us which I don’t think Mctominay does. Now I have no doubt Eddie will get a tune out of him my preference would be for us to sign players who have more potential and we go could become elite. (Think Bruno. isak and Botman).

https://twitter.com/FabrizioRomano/status/1661940013678952450?s=19 remember folks, Real Madrid cannot compete

Ugarte off to Chelsea now if twitter is to be believed. https://twitter.com/FernandezSurkov/status/1661833064148791297?s=20 How can they possibly be within FFP

Debt has nothing to do with FFP, it’s based on profit and loss.

Because most of them are surface level rubbish with very little insight. ah well, something to pass the time whilst at the office.

He scored like 1 in 10 for Man united

AS are clearly ITK when it comes to our transfer plans

Still left with just Bruno who can somewhat hold. So I’m not a fan personally.

Aye, no evidence to suggest he’s better than Longstaff so we need to lean on Eddie to improve him. I hope it’s bullshit, would make more sense if he was younger but he’s 26 already.

Naaaa he’s definitely viewed as an option to play the same role as Longstaff. Just wish we’d go for someone with a higher ceiling. Also, I hate signing players from Man united.

Always take what Howe says to the media with a handful of salt. Also, it’s possible they actually do view him in that way.

Clutching at straws: our Henderson/Milner?

No, I think it would be quite the step down In terms of quality. I’d want to keep dubs or karius let the rest go and have either Krul or Forster though.

When Chelsea appoint Poch the mald from spurs fans is going to be epic.

The athletic football podcast is generally worth a listen imo.

He’s clearly a player we deem to have an important future and we clearly told him this or else he wouldn’t have come.

POD on the tyne is so bad, so little actual insight or relevant discussion. Having a writer who abhors tactics is quite alarming tbh.

It really isn’t, that’s what it was sold as though. it’s job is to protect the establishment. Especially in this age of VC investing where funds burn billions for quick growth clubs like us are being prohibited from doing so. If they wanted to protect clubs from going bust then they could have much more robust rules without stopping investment.

You love to see it.

Is Pavard even available? Also his wages might be an issue I imagine.