Dr Jinx

They got it wrong with us in the last week with young Hugo iirc.

In 96 when we signed Shearer I had this football game on the Amiga 500 where you could customise the team you were playing with, they had no official teams but you could essentially make a team with black n white stripes and then rename your players. Of course I had Shearer up front alongside Ferdinand but this was before we signed him. There wasn’t much speculation on the news or radio iirc. So I didn’t even know if we were in for him. Then the morning it happened, I literally had a dream that the signing was announced, woke up and went down to get breakfast/lunch (probably the latter as was a lazy teenager) and it was all over sky news and the radio that it was done. Kept watching Sky news on the hour, well 20 past for the sport bit. The squad was in Malaysia already for pre season and sky had a shot of him in a club tracksuit sitting on the back of one of those airport luggage carts giving a little wave to the camera. It was absolutely torture waiting for the season to start.

Not necessarily, we’re just doing things we haven’t in like 15/20 years and that’s go after players that a) the club they’re with don’t want to sell b) a host of other teams with ambitions are also trying to sign. How the club conducts itself in this early phase will set the tone going forward so am sure they’re being cautious as well. It’s not about sticking to a budget but more trying to fiddle it in a way that allows us to spend wisely over the course of 3-5 years. I think with just a few upgrades we could really challenge the top 8/6 this season, maybe not top 4, but that’s probably why they are being so careful now.

What part of it has been disgusting? The white away shirt has been the only sign so far (sportswashing) that I’ve seen in relation to us so far. It’s all been Amanda and Mehrdad for the most part who have spearheaded every new initiative and they’ve been a breath of fresh air. They haven’t shown any signs that they are about to follow the Man City route, in fact it looks like any success we get will at least have some home grown element to it if and when it happens.

He’s cut from the same cloth as Verstappen, that sort of ruthless “out of my way, I’ve got things to win” attitude. I think he’d do well at any team for that reason. Most of the other players out there don’t have that quality.

So did he feel something and just have a panic attack about it. His last tweet seems to show a scan didn’t show up any damage if this was the case. Good news.

On Dyer, I heard back in the day (around the same time there were rumours that he had HIV) that he actually in fact had hepatitis, which given his liver issues seems quite plausible now. Either way, a horrible thing to be living with. On poor auld Hugo, he got the thigh injury (hamstring) in February, suffered a breakdown with it in April and then again in June. Something is obviously very wrong there, he either got poor treatment from his club, or he hasn’t been following the rehab advice (which is another Pandora’s box..)

Ricky Gervais/Steve Coogan need to make a show about this prat trying to stay relevant. You wouldn’t even need a script, just let him think it was a documentary and run with it.

Demba Ba would cost 50-70m in todays market. He was class.

So this is the second relapse of the same injury..

If it’s a serious tear he’ll be out for 3 months minimum. They need to do detailed tests on him, is it the same leg as before? It could just mean he didn’t get the right treatment at his current club and rushed back maybe. 4 months should be enough but it obviously wasn’t if it’s the same leg?

He’s 22, he’s got time on his side. He can sacrifice 1 season, I firmly believe with the right additions we could break top 4.. and next summer we sign some proper firepower.. he’s be in exactly the place he wanted to be in. If his agents are willing to talk to us I’m guessing they see the bigger picture too. We’re a better long term bet than Milan.

I don’t actually know that one, am afraid to ask ?

Did you ever see a mackem in Milan?

He ended up being sued by one of them. God that guy was such a fool when it came to those he hired. I can picture him absolutely shitfaced in the pub with some eejit with ideas bending his ear off, then the next morning writing down the bits he misremembered and coming up with it as a business strategy. If SD was private, he’d have ran it into the ground long before he bought this club.

For all the talent, something just seems off about this kid. If he’s repeatedly injured at 20 and then ends up homesick, could be a recipe for a Haris Vuckic style career.

PSG will be able to pay him at least 100k per week more than us as FFP doesn’t apply to them, apparently.

Sorry if Giggs but this account is class.

If he’s that good there’s no reason why we couldn’t.

It would have been wrong if the first signing wasn’t Targett. So happy this club is being run properly now, keep half expecting to wake up and it all being some sort of lucid dream.

So who will be his backup? Dummett or will Lewis get another chance in the squad?

All of this exists in the imaginations of attention seeking wannabe twitter celebrities, these transfers that are dragging on are the new takeover threads. It’s all bullshit. Ashworth has been in the job 2 days and he’s already moved on 1, potentially 2 of the deadwood players. Got a deal in place for Targett and possibly the young French lad. When he switches attention to Botman it will play out quickly. We’re behind in the proceedings, Milan have been trying to woo him for over a year and Maldini has openly communicated with him on Instagram. They don’t seem to want to match our bid though so if there’s so agreement between Milan and Lille, he’s not going there.

There’s a movie in the cinema at the moment called Men, one of the characters is definitely Dennis Wise