Whitley mag

Biting him on the arse doesn’t mean sack. It does mean we could have a very mediocre season though with extra games and our only midfield signing being a perma crock.

Some ill thought out and expensive business conducted by the club this summer and jury is out. Could well bite Howe on the arse this season unfortunately.

Quelle surprise.

And we had to sell a homegrown future England International to comply with these pretend rules. The PL has to be one of the most corrupt, secretive and inconsistent organisations in the world.

A picture that’s shows everything to despise about the modern fan. Opposition player celebrates in front of home fans, you’d expect wanker signs, blokes with angry faces, but nah gormless goons, smiling with their phones out. There’s something seriously lacking with this generation.

There’s definitely moves going on behind the scenes with the Council re a new stadium. The recent article re a new mayoral authority to push through developments looks more than a coincidence to me.

Lee Ryder struggling to get his quota of articles in this week.

Despite no comment by either side the PL leaked the following to Dan Roan. ‘Despite some reports suggesting that City have been given assurances that the deal will be approved, BBC Sport has been told that it would still be subjected to a fair market value assessment by the Premier League board’. It absolutely stinks the PL clearly parked the Etihad deal and just refused to approve it. The key here is what assurances City have received that make them confident they’ll be treat fairly in future. This should be available to all member clubs. Either the red cartel have buckled and agreed to just let City in their club, or they will be asking serious questions as to why the PL have agreed it. A precedent has been clearly set here, but that doesn’t stop the PL being cunts with us and Villa going forward. They may have accepted the horse has bolted already with City, but what’s stopping them just parking any of our deals and refusing to approve them. A change in law would have provided clarity and accountability, this just reeks of more handshakes behind closed doors and the elite keeping the rest at bay. They’ll be gambling on Villa, Newcastle and Forrest not having the stomach City had to launch a legal challenge of their own.

Tomasson looked better more Guivarch I’d say.

Would be good to see their calculations on how 1 billion is FMV. What a corrupt and unworkable system they’ve created. I do think if the onus is now on the PL to prove it’s not FMV, this deal leaves the door open for us. However, I’ve got no doubt that they’ll drag their feet on approving any deal and they really seem completely unaccountable. Much like the takeover they’re the masters of delay and kicking the can down the road.

Aye his movements not great off the ball first thing i spotted from tonight. Doesn’t protect the ball that well either, also a problem with Sesko’s game when I’ve watched him play. To be honest we’ve undoubtedly overpaid for this lad but I’ve got no doubt we’ll get a tune out of him and he’ll score goals in the PL once he settles.

Did Steve Cram Celebrity Fan not want a pic as well?

Over the next 2 windows in no particular order - Anderson swap involving Barnes going to Forrest Nusa or Lopez Scalvini Santos Need to be scouting Wissa’s younger replacement as well.

He hates the Arabs.

Mustn’t be getting the VIP treatment anymore since Amanda left.

Isak will regret the day he chose not to play with Woltemessi. We could genuinely go 4-2-3-1 with the Kaiser playing just behind Wissa, might solve our creativity problems at home.

Get shot of Barnes and upgrade him with Nusa in January.

JSL hat-trick.

Need the CEO and DOF announced in next few weeks. We might just have pulled off a Houdini act in this window, but it’s looked very scattergun. Still think the whole approach to transfers needs looked at and will be interesting to see if we have strengthened, or simply bought mid tier players in Elanga and Ramsey at premium prices due to a poor recruitment set up. Jury out for me on this. We need some tangible progress on infrastructure projects soon as well. Still very much behind the owners but big season ahead.

Nusa or Lopez fell through so stuck with big Willy.

My biggest gripe with that is the Toon Toon. Had it been Howay The Lads 10/10

Know what you mean I can’t get my head round whether we have capitulated, or we just did the right thing and we’ll go on to bigger things. It’s very difficult after the takeover to come to terms with what this means. Where clearly beyond the Beardsley, Carroll days, but with our history it bites hard and this hurts undoubtedly. In the cold light of day it’s hopefully nothing more than one player and a hiccup along the way. But that old scepticism is hard to shake at times like this.

It looks a very ordinary and unexciting window outside of Big Nick. You’re right though he could be the real wild card that gives us creativity and excitement.

Scouse media in full flow. Ian Herbert, He began his career in Liverpool in 1989, where he was both a news and football reporter, and became deputy editor of Liverpool Daily Post before leaving in 1999 for The Independent, where he worked in news and sports journalism for 18 years.

Fucking judas, never mind Mars Bars we should be throwing frozen meat balls at this cunt when he comes back.