Kid Icarus

"Didn't disgrace himself" is the best review of him from last season that I've found.

They already did beat us (and others) with Mbeumo. Can only imagine what we're offering isn't enough.

Pretty sure Pickford has the same thing but manages it more now. Wonder what his trick was.

He does engage in a bit of contrarianism, but Jordan having that stance is very on brand.

His long ball distribution is fairly decent IIRC.

At this point I think we just need a quick fling with someone we wouldn't normally look twice at to break the dry run and gain a bit of confidence

When there was all that hype around him in 22-23 I felt like I was being gaslit tbh, I didn't get it. Not only did I think he was overrated, I thought he was a liability. Then Arsenal replaced him, the pundits couldn't understand it, then it was that they had two number 1s, then it was like everyone just quietly accepted that he wasn't very good/stopped talking about him.

Post trophy win and CL qualification

That sounds like a challenge.

GK not being a priority as an excuse for failing with Trafford immediately undermined

Couldn't find a gif of the victims in Under the Skin imploding in amniotic fluid so you'll just have to visualise that happening to me.

You wanna know how much I've lost the plot? Bring him in.

He's the textbook "if he could just sort out his finishing" player.

Never seen that reported but either way we can file it under PIF negligence or Mitchell being a cunt.

Pretty clear now that we needed a temporary hire like we had in January 2022 to help with this stuff like. Instead we've got an acting DoF who's a 31 year old stat guy/scout, being supported by an acting assistant DoF who's a Head Scout, and literally no CEO. I don't envy Andy Howe and Steve Nickson at all. It's probably a bit of a miracle that they signed Elanga and it'll be a huge achievement for them if we sign anyone else. Also confirmation if we needed it that Paul Mitchell is an absolute cunt. Leaving right at the start of a transfer window it was assumed he would be leading, leaving us in the above position. He's been such an unmitigated disaster that it's more like he's been working for the clubs trying to stop us than he was working for us. Having said that, to allow this situation to happen, with no contingency, no response, no measures put in place is gross negligence by PIF. So now we've gone into probably the most pivotal transfer window in the club's modern history with no real experience to fall on and no measures taken when it became clear that it's a mess. A complete shambles.

Some are fairly reliable despite not being particularly likeable.

Not even sure we really have tbh. I think Trafford, Scalvini, Ekitike, Guehi fit into that list of players, but the people managing these transfers has changed for the worse

Hard to tell, but it makes the lack of execution all the more maddening like. All that virgin groundwork only to get casually beaten to it by some chad.

Worked perfectly fine alongside Staveley and Ashworth. Our inability to get deals done is a 2024 onwards/having a DoF thing.

Muniz surely the Wissa alternative?

Still really surprised we haven't gone for Muniz tbh

What are we gonna do man? How on earth did we get here.

This was as clear as day the moment Man United met the asking price for Mbeumo. I'm honestly astonished at how seemingly born yesterday our recruitment members are acting.

A couple of local journos off the record. To someone I know, who told me. "Chaos behind the scenes", "Howe is raging"