Shadow Puppets

Touche! 😁 With Guehi, all of that info was still 100% correct, and it came as close to directly from the horses mouth as you can get without literally being from Guehi. Palace moved the goalposts continually, as was reported in the last few days of the window, but Guehi was telling our players for weeks that it was imminent. Howe and Mitchell… who knows 🤷‍♂️ That info again came from someone “in the building” and I have no reason to not believe them on that, nor any concrete evidence to the contrary, other than media speculation. But of course the source in question there quite possibly could have just been telling me what I wanted hear 🤷‍♂️ With Trippier, that’s fair now in hindsight, but the day I posted that info I had literally just seen them together and they were very much still together. At that point in time they definitely had not split up. Obviously since then, that’s all changed. Thank you for acknowledging that all the kit stuff has been bang on though 😁😘 I also got Botman’s injury info spot on , and Trippier not pushing for Bayern (despite Hope claiming he flew back from NY to push the deal through - the truth being he was flying back from a family holiday that day anyway and Hope was dramatising it for clicks). I can only pass on what I hear (or see first hand). The info re signings is coming from an agent by the way. So as I say, pinch of salt, but there’s definitely some accuracy in there. Whether it all ends up happening, who knows. I learnt that lesson last summer.

So the Elanga info turned out to be accurate. At the time I was told that he’s been consistently in the top 3 RW targets for the last 2 years. Same source also told me last week that we absolutely still want Guehi but were waiting to make a final decision once Palace’s European fate had been decided, as that could affect prices etc. Same person also said that Scalvini is also absolutely on the list but Guehi still our 1st choice as there’s a feeling we can get him for the £40m mark if we play our cards right. Same source also seriously doubted the credibility of the Ekitike link and told me a few stories about how Romano is used as a (potentially paid) pawn by clubs/agents to break stories to suit whatever agenda they want out there. As always, just passing on little tidbits. I have NO CONTROL of whether these things actually happen 😁

Nail on head. Now, if he’d said they can only do the paperwork / signing procedures / media etc one at a time I’d agree with him… but the idea that they’re just working on one deal at a time is so blatantly bullshit.

Why is he literally always hours later with any piece of news then? He has the same sources as they all do… the bare minimum.

Not a single journalist in the north east has any credible knowledge of the inner workings of our transfers. Pure guess work.

Keith Downie largely knows fuck all. We have one set of journalists who say shit like that, and others (Hope) who say the delayed announcement was due to the change in agents.

Lovely to see that “First Day” video. Seems to already have great relationships with 5 or 6 of the lads. Lots of love from Sven 👍🏻

According to Matty from The Magpie Channel, yeah? If so, he pulls basically everything out of his arse… it’s almost certainly nonsense.

Joelinton is definitely better than Gallagher like. I do like Gallagher, but there are hardly any players in the PL who can do what Big Jo does for us. Gallagher would be a great addition, though, to give us options.

You should watch it… it’s excellent. He comes across really really well.

Great interview that 👍🏻

No

It’s a massive organisation with thousands of people and tonnes of departments.

Agreed. But we absolutely are the main priority in English football for them.

Yes. We absolutely are.

Hasn’t Jackson had multiple instances of sulking when he’s not been allowed to take a penalty, etc? He just seems a bit thick to me. Like, plenty of ability, but also a liability.

Seems like his attitude is way off, no? Or he’s just a bit thick?

The MGW transfer is a weird one. I always had him down as a great player, but speaking to my Forest supporting buddy… he doesn’t really care that he’s leaving. He’s just a bit upset that it’s to Spurs. His opinion, for what it’s worth, is that he goes missing A LOT. That opinion seems to be shared by quite a lot of Forest fans in the comments section of YouTube videos talking about this signing.

I’d love him to take the number 9 like. It’s always hurt my OCD to see our talisman striker wear a traditional “wingers” number.

Why would they have to refund them all?

Where’s this from?

Don’t worry about it… there’s zero evidence of that being the case.

I think Mbeumo is definitely a notch better than Elanga, BUT, Elanga has a very high ceiling and is still young, and will be playing under one of the best coaches in the league. There’s every chance he can be surpassing Mbeumo’s numbers in a couple of years.

I absolutely think he’s worth £60m in today’s market 👍🏻

We upped our bid to £55m and it hasn’t been rejected. They’re just working on finer details of the payment structure. And Elanga most definitely does want the move 👍🏻