Dr Jinx

Refers to the Premier League as the Premiership about 6 times. After watching a good chunk of that interview, I feel confident that in the league at least, that Man Utd will flounder for many more years. He’s an absolute dinosaur this chap. Going in and stating the obvious (Real Madrid have had better management at their club than Man Utd) isn’t a pearl of wisdom because it’s coming from a billionaire, it’s whether he has a clue on how to fix it.. and sticking all your hopes on a poisonous garden gnome is a risky game given the lack of loyalty said gnome has shown.

That’s not an inaccurate statement.

Between City and Chelsea, they have both made absolute clangers in the younger players they’ve released or sold on for relatively small fees. Olise in particular, he rebuilt his career (after City released him) but it was still a relatively small punt by Palace to get him from Reading.. less than 10m. That’s the market we should be in right now, there’s absolute value there. The way Chelsea mishandle players, I’d be very tempted to look again at Broja.. available for between 20-30m

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Feel a bit for Palace, they were just getting a really good side together.

MGW would be a very expensive acquisition, probably having to pay over the odds. Just can’t see it while Willock is still part of the squad.

I’m talking about a keeper who will play at edge of box when we’re in possession, freeing up other defenders to push on.. who can play short, medium and long passes as is required. Being in that position means a keeper will get there before an attacker most of the time. Pope can play from the back if he’s rolling it to Schär or Botman.. but everything else comes at a risk of losing the ball. It’s unfortunate because he’s a top keeper otherwise.

He can’t kick a ball properly. If he was England’s best goalie he’d be at the tournament. Hes good and he’s a lot better than Dubravka but the sole issue of his poor kicking leads to a lot of turnover of possession. If we’re having a keeper playing in that sweeper role, they need to be able to pass properly.

Shit, does anywhere mention what happened? “An illness” couldn’t be more vague. Hope he’s ok.

Pope is a great shot stopped and commands his box well. But he can’t kick a ball properly. That’s why we need an upgrade on him.

Not enthusiastic about this deal at all. Probably a good keeper for the future but we need an instant improvement on Pope which am not sure he is.

Milan is not much more than an hour away from there. Well Milan Bergamo to Verona is 1hr..

Not always correct though. When we got taken over, they had plenty of threads about how much they worked out we could spend and they were way off. They just present the bullshit in a way that seems more believable.

The mind boggles how a multi billion pound industry can have such idiots at every level of a clubs structure, that a charlatan like Steve Bruce can keep being considered for roles despite doing a shit job in the most public of ways over the last decade or so. I'm kicking myself I never got into coaching.

That's probably the nicest spread of fixtures we've had in many moons. Almost none of the other big teams are back to back for once. Real chance to be solid in the top 6 before Christmas.

Jon Dagur Thorsteinsson linked in the gossip column. Seems like another left winger of the Harvey Barnes variety.

I'd take that.. Opening - Leicester (A) Boxing Day - Liverpool (A) Last game - Chelsea (A)

Soft decision but fuck Belgium

Don't think he could have done anything about that.

Having a good game v Belgium, surely he's worth 5m to soneone.

I think Tripps will leave and Bruno will be made captain or vice captain at the very least. He's a sentimental bugger.. he'll love that.

No it's snippets of quotes from those at the club. They'd have known in January if they were in bother and would have acted accordingly. It's tight enough that we couldn't spend much. Leaving it with 2 weeks to go before they might potentially get a fine and a points deduction (if an outgoing transfer didn't work out) is not how they operate. So common sense tells that we're on the right side of it. You disagree?

From July. We're just about on right side of PSR limit (in my opinion)

His actual garden will be the real plot twist of the summer.