HaydnNUFC

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Get in. Looking forward to Sunday.

Was there. Strange game, we conceded inside 25 seconds or something from our own kick off ( ) but never got mauled and always offered something in attack. More so than the game in the previous season due to Rondon.

Commentators were in disbelief about it when it happened fwiw. The Sky ones anyway.

Realised he looks a bit like Oscar from Shark Tale.

NUFC: "This is our valuation of your player, we won't pay beyond it." Selling club: "Oh, is it? What a shame. Now fuck off."

In before the inevitable rejection of a bid considered 'derisory' then the following 'internal discussions at the club regarding moving onto alternative targets'. Rinse, repeat.

I fucking hope they aren't. But the bottom line is our last signing was completed on the 1st July, 47 days later no one else has come in despite that our most pressing issue since this window's outset was attackers; a backup/understudy to Wilson and a competent wide player who can contribute goals & assists. We've persistently had bids considered derisory knocked back by clubs for players who they actively don't want to sell. It doesn't make much sense.

I get that, but why bid £35m-£40m for Maddison, see Leicester reject it and quote £60m so we then bid again but £40m-£45m which also is inevitably rejected out hand? Seemed to be an enormous waste of time, like why bother? Leicester were never going to sell for that. It just seems awfully scattergun, bidding our budget limit on players whose asking price is way above that due to their importance to their current club which surely NUFC are aware of. For all this organised operation and stuff Ashworth has meant to have brought it seems the attacker search is a bit disorganised after Ekitike knocked us back. If we want players who will improve us and/or an affordable striker who seems to have the same criteria as Pedro and Ekitike I don't know why they don't explore the continental market a bit more. Maybe they are but the lack of movement sure isn't dampening the rising feelings of anxiety that we won't sign anyone at all.

Aye, the strategy post-Botman (which was 1st July btw) has been bizarre. We seem to mostly have targeted PL or England based players where values are inflated and gone for players whose clubs do not want to sell, proceed to low-ball with a bid based upon a particular valuation of ours, baulk at the asking price and proceed to move on. Rinse and repeat. It's why a few people are getting frustrated. If you want to take a PL or recently PL club's best player(s) who they actively don't want to sell (Maddison, Pedro, Harrison, Gordon etc) you have to pay over the odds to land them. Which often is over £40m these days which seems to be our ceiling.

They had David Moyes then, now they have Tory Frank.

Finding it funny is pure schadenfreude and football tribalism but both don't mean you can't understand where Manchester United fans are coming from. Biggest football hate of mine is when pundits, other fans or people who know next to nowt about clubs other than what's said by Sky, BT or MOTD pundits tell fans about said clubs what they should expect or something that they all dislike is great. We've had it for years regarding Ashley, Souness, Allardyce, Pardew, Bruce and Benitez on the other side of the coin given that we adored him. This board is guilty of it as well mind, especially regarding Everton and Benitez. But as a result the defence of the Glazers in punditry and online grates on me as the defence is coming from people who've just looked at the top line, fucked the context off and made their judgement off of that. Do your research or get to fuck.

Aussie ref for this one.

They're just painting over the top of a dilapidated part of the stadium (OT is dropping to bits a bit like SJP was under Ashley) instead of cleaning it, a bit like with Ashley just painted the brickwork around the SBR statue black instead of just cleaning the mildew and shit off of it.

Me rn

Ashley-esque.

Would take either CHO or Pulisic plus Pedro or Ramos. Be a good end to the window that and sorts out our main issues.

"Keep bashing away"

I doubt those are accurate. ASM signed for us in 2019 and signed a new 6 year contract in 2020 which surely has a much higher wage than that.