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Cool thanks for sharing your insights. How do you feel about thes two proposed players?

I like Barnes a lot, his goal threat is only rivalled by Isak. I do feel it was right player wrong time though. I guess he was the Gordon doesn't work out backup plan. Anyways better not go to deep on something mentioned by Simon Bird.

I find this highly unlikely. Who would pay us we paid for him?

Centrally as well. Aye I think he'd talented too not sure how he fits us mind.

Absolutely aye, not sure how he could Know that however the extent we went to try and get him does indicate it to be true imo. He also said we were amongst many clubs keeping an eye on Eze.

No idea if Sami knows ought mind, and I do think Elanga is decent but I'm not sure hes what we need

Mokhbel was on loaded mags last night and said a couple of things I thought worthy of posting. 1, Mark Guehi was the only CB Eddie wanted, it was him or nobody. 2, we did make a deadline day bid for Elanga.

I'm not holding this delay against them or reading into it given the situation with Darren Eales, it's the prudent thing to put it on hold and let the new CEO device.

Aye waiting for the stadium announcement that will tell me what I need to know.

Thanks for the insight! Yes I think such takes without any form of nuance or detail are pretty unhelpful and don't add much to the conversation. That being said, I'm sure we are all guilty of the odd flippant post myself included I will also add that the club have themselves to blame as well for expectations which maybe considered elevated given past statements mind.

I see, I think I read most posts but I don't really see what you've described to that extent. Plenty of bad takes which is to be expected and events of the last 12 months or so have definitely knocked the wind out our sales though.

And apologies to all for derailing this a bit. In regards to this contract I'm happy but a bit confused. Are we planning to give everyone who performs well for a year a new contract which makes them the highest earner? I was certain the stories of that initial contract being 3 and half years were nonsense but now I'm not sure anymore.

Absolutely if you feel a certain poster talks nothing but drivel or trolls just stick them on ignore and move on. Things can certainly get emotional at times on here with knee jerk reactions aplenty but the thought of being driven off this section because I disagree with someone's views on football is beyond me.

In my experience of this place, those posters don't tend to last long as they generally aren't sincere. Sincere posters generally have nuanced opinions. it is possible to be supportive of someone whilst questioning someone's decision making too, of course Eddie knows more about football than any posters but this forum exists to promote discussion of all things NUFC and despite Eddie's superior knowledge he will still get things wrong.

You can always engage with those you disagree with instead of dismissing points raised as negative shite. I think @HaydnNUFCin particular has written some excellent posts about his concerns. Things don't have to be tribal.

Our competitive advantage over Villa would be the power to the leverage the state of KSA however that isn't allowed to be fully leveraged. Fortunately for Villa they didn't recede for 14 years under a disgraceful owner.

So in that case your playing with one less attacker? Isak is already isolated most of the time so I can't say im keen.

So you want to play with one less central midfielder who on paper are our best player. Neither barnes or Gordon are well suited to being 10s imo both are suited to attacking space and not playing in congested areas. Our recruitment has led to us being one dimensional imo.

We don't really have the players to play many other systems to be honest. Our squad building had been flawed and we've made mistakes we simply couldn't afford.

Becomes a beast on FM. Have we been linked?

Out of our reach imo.

Technically not true, given our offers for Olise and Tosin although I do appreciate your sentiment. I think we've Guehi, we got tunnel vision as the noises sent to us was he really wanted to come. We obviously spectacularly failed the calculation of Palace being willing sellers.

If the profile we are after ends up being Elanga and you deem this to be a negative then it's a recruitment/ tactical issue.

Someone should tell these clubs that despite what they think, they are not the arbiters or who gets to buy what.

I think he's decent but paying a premium for him would be silly. If we wanted him we should have got him before forest did.