Gawalls

He’s not wrong - at the moment there’s a bit of a stalemate as every club is wanting to sell at old prices but buy at knocked down prices because of par. Something needs to give.

He’s probably trying to calm the expectations- every window some people expect us to spend £150m upwards and it can’t be feasible

He only has two years left on his contract I think, his value will crash next year if he doesn’t sign a longer deal.

We’re like a point of Guinness at the moment where half our squad naturally float to the top and the others sink to the bottom. We won’t sell many and will just have to wait until contracts run down.

Where there’s a Will - we’ve a way

Agree on all of this - been a great player but I’d on the decline, getting on and only one year left, not even worthy of a conversation to be as it’s that much of a no brainier to sell.

Question is if he wasn’t our player and we had the opportunity to have him for one year for say £8m upwards then we take it? If no we have to sell for that kind of offer as he only has one year left, we need to get better at selling at the right time.

So you don’t think being that constant outlet then often gathering the ball, driving down the left putting them on the back foot before making space to either get a shot off or assisting someone else isn’t being creative. What do you want him to do, stop and bake a cake whilst doing it?

He should be sixth choice for England - no disrespect to tripps but at the euros he was terrible at lb.

10 years? Fuck me that’s too long, he’ll get complacent.

no misunderstanding for me - I'll happily admit, I haven't a f*cking clue

no idea lol - never heard of this clause before to be honest and had to chatgpt WTF it meant. I mean it's not slavery, you can't force them

seems chelsea have a matching rights clause so they get the option to buy for the accepted price before we can

When do they ever not

you can say that again

people look at Woods stats and forget / don't realise that the players around him played better for him being in the team. That "Worst striker ever" played in a Burnley team that went down as soon as they sold him, played in a team for us that rocketed up the league and then went to a Forrest team where he went back to getting double figures and they stayed up.

it's very negative to be downbeat about a setup proven for buying, improving and geting more than their moneys worth out of players a setup whose just added someone to the team whose got a reputation in this field - whose just gone out and bought a young player who seems to have a lot to work with in an area where it will cost a lot of money to replace and we're incredibly short of bodies in - at a time where we're not rolling in money and are desperate in other areas as well to close your mind for this deal because it's not a £60M sigining.

not read much of this thread but is there any "i know it's only a friendly but <<insert normal match day rant here>>"?

why would he want to?

first time in ages browsing on a desktop, at a glance at this post I thought your profile picture was a mug shot of the guy detailed above lol

I know - someone's been drinking his Koul Aid!!

You need to - I read somewhere you had the worst injurt record of last season

Messi wishes he could be like Minteh 😀

Send him to Brighton, they’ll buy any of our old shite

You are right about the longstaff treatment