Dr Jinx

At least that goddamn 4 is gone. A change of sponsor would have been nice just for the obvious ties to the former regime but overall they haven’t been the worst, especially their social media posts.

For me it makes way more sense, we know he fits in here and he’s solid. Delighted if this is true.

The blue yellow looks tacky, the white is nice aside from the sponsor. Not sure about the home shirt yet.

“I just started yesterday but I’ve already had several conversations with Eddie” ? suuuuure

He’ll go for less. We probably enquired at 45m and they come back with 100, he’ll go for 60/65.

Good solution overall. He did well for us on occasion, only very poor a handful of times. Unhappy under Rafa, delighted under Bruce, it occurred to me that he wasn’t too committed to maintaining high levels or improving and I guess that’s what Eddie Howe saw as well. Good to see Ashworth clearing the decks straight away.

I don’t think he’s worth that much but he’s a very good player. Not worried about his height as he’s very aggressive in the air, same height as Coloccini iirc? What would give to have a player like that on our books again.

Too old, too expensive for the profile of player we’re looking at.

Yep time to move on with this one but I suspect the club haven’t been in that much contact, it’s more us who wanted this one and journalists putting 2+2 together and coming up with 73 as we were previously interested. The club for all those early leaks have been watertight so far this summer so to be honest, we don’t really know for sure who’s the number one target in the various positions we’re recruiting for.

Nope, never ever want us to sign a player again who’s more interested in playing golf than representing his club.

No was reported he’d agreed in principal to join, I’d assume at that point there wouldn’t be much left to iron out. The fact it hasn’t happened already is down to that tournament he’s playing. Once it’s over he’ll be announced.

I believe the price is closer to 20m or just under. He’s definitely better than Dubs, not in the top keepers in the world but we’re also not quite there yet. He’s a good fit for where we are now, Dubs needs real competition for that place, and if he loses it and can’t regain it, well that will settle the argument of who is better surely?

Asslani fits the profile of player we’re going for. Young, potential to get much better while also still being good enough for the here and now. Not the tallest, only 5’10. But that shouldn’t matter if he’s good enough.

It’s looking like happening now in fairness. But again, I’ll stay reserved enough until I see pictures of him holding the shirt.

The original source which everyone is basing this update on is RMC Sport. How reputable are they?

Pleased with this, hopefully others start to pay attention! Have a feeling this lad will make a mockery of the PL when he finds his feet.

Why do you persist on spelling Benoît Badiashile‘s name wrong?

It seems the ones who are procrastinating the most about coming here are the top younger talent. Perhaps to get from A-B or H or whatever, we should be looking more at older players who are still at a high level as short term options. Once we’re there, we won’t have as much trouble attracting any player.

Holland always look good before a tournament starts and then the wheels come off.

Who can afford Lewandowski? Can’t be that many clubs who could realistically take him on

If Vince McMahon ran the PL..

These rules which the “top 6” were so keen to introduce wouldn’t stand up to a legal challenge. Its a free market and as long as a deal isn’t just blatantly taking the piss with rules for linked organisations etc, or for example the club owners funnelling money to a sponsor to be just put back in the club, we should be fine with whatever kind of deal we can get. We’re currently way behind a number of clubs in terms of exposure and recent success so what we can get will be limited for now, we break top 6 or even top 4 and then those deals can be drastically renegotiated. Also if it meant a massive injection of bona fide cash into the club, I wouldn’t be opposed to renaming the stadium, it would have to be done in the most minimal way possible though.

If he’s not sold on the club even after the way we finished the season then it’s not footballing reasons, as in the direction of the club. Maybe he feels he won’t get enough game time. Its coming across that he’s panicking as soon as a transfer gets close, he still is just a kid after all.

Yes 100%, although I don’t like hearing about agents having so much input. Remember Anelka? He had his brothers involved iirc and they burnt plenty of bridges.

No he wasn’t, he didn’t have the money. He also used a certain local dimwit journalist as a PR exercise to get his name out there.