Dr Jinx

“Which one of you is Simon Jones?”

I said it weeks ago that there was a touch of the Anelka about this lad when it comes to whoever was advising him. If his father is also heavily involved that will not be a link that will break so we’ll be dealing with bullshit frequently. If the club have walked away then it’s probably the right call. Again, we’re going on one journos tweet, nothing else.

I would say it’s better value to do it early than right before the transfer window closes. For once it would be nice if all our business was done before pre season started. We have a few weeks.

The flaw in your logic is that we know that PIF haven’t been directly involved in the running of the club yet, that’s been AS & Mehrdad and now that Ashworth is here he’s taking over those duties as well. The former pair although from the finance world, seem to be emotionally involved with the club and fans. Now Ashworth doesn’t come across as being a passionate football fan like say Kevin Keegan was, but he’s not quite a finance person either. Its fair to say that January the club had to pay over the odds for Chris Wood, but otherwise it’s been a fair price for incoming players and we’ve gotten value. They are not going to be ripped off this summer. The French and Spanish clubs will cop onto that fact eventually.

“You’ll pay him how much? you’ve got more money than sense mate”

Of course we’d like some movement but it’s great that they have identified their priority targets and aren’t budging on them. If I was either Etikite or Botman and seeing a calm club not throwing toys out of the pram because it’s not happening quickly, it would be reassuring? Milan are the ones panicking if their itk journalists are anything to go by. I would be worried about PSG though, they could blow us out of the water with wages as FFP doesn’t apply to them seemingly

no, like the club badge is higher up? It’s got nout to do with the stripes

1 million quid a season to have all that crap littered around SJP and the training ground ? the absolute cheek of the cunt.

They want to pay 30, City want 50 but like Sane with Bayern, there’s always middle ground.. But for one year left on contract I don’t even think 30m is value. Not for the player either who wouldn’t be able to command massive wages like if he were a free agent. And that’s the trend now, you have top players earning massive amounts and then you have the next tier down players who’ve figured out they can jump into that realm if they just run down their contract.

Against us, DCL made a nuisance of himself and probably turned the game where we really should have won. He doesn’t have the pace of Wilson but he’s definitely more mobile than Wood, probably as good as him in the air too. Unless we sign a controlling defensive midfielder this summer, I can’t see our style of play changing that much and that’s how I can’t really see a player like that fitting in. Callum Wilson is perfect if he can stay fit. When he returned at the end of the season we looked a different animal up front, if ASM, Almiron etc can learn to either pass more wisely or not hang on to the ball too long, I could honestly see Wilson break 20 goals and that England conversation will start again, he’s better than DCL..

Can’t see how that does anything but weaken them.

Neither of those positions are a priority for us.

In this day and age, that he spouted off like that shows he’s absolutely naive. But eventually even the naive people will stop blabbering and nobody will ever speak any sort of truth or give their own opinion on anything that’s of any importance to anyone. He didn’t say anything controversial but the owners might be a bit ticked off with him.

Keep coming back to this thread hoping there’ll be a twitter link posted that isn’t complete bullshit ?

There’s always a tweet

I think any club who managed to get him would be getting a bargain for whatever it would cost. Certainly not 100m anymore. He hasn’t played below 25 games a season but yes he has had the same injury a few times. Also had Covid twice. When fit though he’d be like Thiago Silva but way more mobile.

What I find mental is that with all the money being thrown about by all the big clubs, only Chelsea have shown an interest in signing Koulibaly.

Couldn’t be arsed with this kid anymore, you either want to play for the club or you don’t. It’s also probably a case of this kid thinking he’s all that and then some. Can’t fault confidence but there’s a way of doing business and his agents have been fucking about non stop.

Buy cheap buy twice

The whole distribution thing, is that not just how Burnley played anyway? Lump it forward to a big man, hope for the best?

Fixed

I would believe the player is open to signing so the hold up has to be Lille fucking about for more money. Every report conflicts the one before it.

Nothing stays quiet if there’s anything to write about, even from agents etc.

I’d prefer Bissouma but the fact Dan Ashworth is here and we haven’t shown the slightest interest tells it’s own story. I know JWP is a better player than just his free kicks but not sure where he fits in. Our midfield seems like a collection of odd parts at the moment. Like where does Willock even fit in?

I think that’s the kindest fixture list we’ve had in years, the hard ones are all spaced out and the start of season is a great chance to accumulate points. We could easily win 3 of the first 5?