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Maybe, but would it have been worth spending (what I assume is) a chunky loan fee for a player who wouldn’t start for us when everyone’s fit come November? When Krath will only be starting at CB for one more game all being well.

🤷‍♂️ He seemed pretty honest to me. He said he wouldn’t argue with people if they thought we were weaker now, but that he backs himself to train the team to make them better.

Seriously man, just watch the press conference. That is not a man who’s about to walk. He’s very very pragmatic, repeats multiple times that the working relationships are good, and that everyone has been working to do what is right within the constraints we have. But he repeats that once we reach the 4th or 5th player on our list for each position, we have to make a decision on whether we just wait until the next window. People seem desperate to create drama where there is very little. It’s been a poor window, partly because of PSR, partly because of decisions we have made due to the PSR constraints. It doesn’t really have to be any more dramatic than that. Disappointing, but we move on.

And essentially trying to start the narrative that there is a problem between Howe and Mitchell, yes.

That he quite clearly rubbished everything that Hope was trying to claim. Hope is a known bullshit / clickbait / agenda driving tosspot, the worst of the worst.

Did you watch Howe’s press conference?

Howe himself rubbished what Hope was trying to claim in his presser.

I said the expectation at our end, and the expectation of the player, was that he would join imminently. I shared what I was told by one of our current players + an agent I have got to know. I mean, as of last Thursday, Guehi himself was under the impression that he’d be travelling for a medical last week (at least that’s what he told my contact).

If you haven’t watched it, I’d urge you to. It’s a fucking brilliant press conference under the circumstances.

No. AG is absolutely fine.

Well, to you it’s hearsay, sure… but there’s zero reason for me to believe it’s not true, especially considering their previous.

Have you seen the state of Twitter this morning? “Heads need to roll”… sounds like the start of a pathetic revolt to me. Criticism is fine and as things stand, warranted, but the messages to Eales and Rueben… it’s pathetic.

Agreed, if it repeatedly happens, sure. But one bad summer shouldn’t spark a revolt in the fan base. It’s just fucking childish.

It’s not hearsay.

He’s been telling some players in our squad that he wants to join (and has been expecting it) for weeks now.

IF, and it’s a big IF, that’s true, is that not simply because Eddie works with them everyday? He knows better than anyone at the club the type of player / characters we need. Do you not think he’s earned that respect and trust?

He’s absolutely right… and precisely why people on here including myself can’t stand the excessive over the top negativity. When this club and its supporters are aligned, we’re incredible. If we tear them to shreds over a poor transfer window, that just leads to negative vibes, upheaval, abuse on social media (already started)… it achieves nothing and contributes far more to a poor season than the thing people are moaning about.

Are there loads of players out there that A) fit the player profile, B) fit the price structure, C) fit the wage structure, D) fit the no dick head policy, and E) are happy to join with no European football?

😂

I’m not ITK… I’m just passing on info that I’ve heard from people on the playing side (and from Guehi’s side). I haven’t got a fucking clue myself what is happening. But plenty of that stuff has been correct in the past. The Trippier stuff in January. The extent of Botman’s injury and what happened throughout that. The Liverpool Gordon stuff. All of that subsequently came out in the press or from the club afterwards.

Which is bullshit. Craig is a shit stirring bullshit merchant. He works the for the Daily Mail for christ sake. The worst of the lot.

That’s a lot of assumptions in one post.

No

No, I don’t (apart from tidbits about Howe and Mitchell’s relationship being good) which is why I’m refraining from speculating and making a bigger deal out of something than needs be.

But this is the point isn’t it, and this is part of the reason why myself and some others on here are frustrated with the overreactions… because at this club in particular the fans / local press have a habit of making mountains out of relative molehills. See Bobby for prime example. We know where that over emotional self destruction gets us. As a club, team, management structure etc, we are in a far better position than we have been in for years, with an excellent manager, team that tries (and wins more often than not) and a club that wants to progress. Overreacting and inventing stories just feeds instability, when in reality we’re in pretty damn good shape. And dipshits like Craig Hope deserve ZERO airtime. I lost any remaining respect I had for him in January when he wrote that Trippier had “flown home from NYC to seal a deal to Bayern”, when the actual truth (that I knew 100% factually from the horses mouth) was that he and his family were on a family holiday and already on their way home, and there was no push from Tripps to leave. He’s a shit stirring prick.