Nine

Or Ake

Hes always implying that we have a hate obsession with him yet hes still talking about us negatively when hes currently manager of another club, get some self awareness and respect you gross fuck. Doesnt he have current issues to address like how he took them from 6th to 11th or whatever it was, hes literally a meme of a football manager..

Always liked him as a player but age and the fact he only likes to play RW might count against him, has a very good fitness record mind.. think hes played 40+ games every season since coming to the PL.

Flicking through those early pages is amusing. First few pages there are calls of Conte and Jose, then Bruce is gone and eventually for a few days everyone knows it will be Emery, then quite a bit of disappointment and writing off of Howe. It’s a mad old game like

They did spend £50m (£100m the summer before that) but most importantly they didnt sell their key players either, if you'd have told a Leeds fan last summer that they would sack Bielsa and be the skin of their teeth away from being relegated they would have laughed at you. All im saying is its never that easy, a club trying to crack top 6 can chuck money at it coming off a good season all they like but alot more has to go right before they make it (Everton). It will be a gradual evolution of not just our squad but our entire club over the next 5 years before we really are talking imo, lets not forget only 6 months ago we still had Ashley and Bruce in charge. We could obviously get lucky and hit the ground running to break top 6 before that but staying there consistently is another thing entirely.

But its never that straightforward, no matter how much money you can (or do) throw around - Leeds finished 6 points off of the top 6 last season. We will be building a squad in Howes vision over the next year or two for a real established team of players that are equipped to make a push for where the owners want us to be, evolving that much in one summer window is a huge ask. If we manage to finish top 6 next season? Us, Howe, the owners and the team will all be very happy no doubt but I highly doubt that is the target they have set internally.

We will make signings that the club think will make us a better side and see us progress up the league towards the top 6 over the next few seasons, no way a club in our position would be saying in meetings - 'Right we will sign him, him and him so we can finish top 6 without question next season'. All you are guaranteed to achieve with that approach is placing unwarranted pressure on Howe, the rest of the coaches and the players. Also it might not even be true.

Nah this is it for this summer I think, Wilson, Ekitike, Wood in that order.

Hes defo at least had a word like

It would be hard as a defender to turn down Maldini

Was this the same game that De Jong broke Bennys leg?

Yeah wasn’t it case of him not wanting the move yet rather than his club?

Yeah I can see Ake being a real possibility as well

What would you define as a 'cast off' though? Burn, Targett?

The double xG stat will also be padded by below PL level GK all throughout that league

This will probably be the most important signing of the summer, great work

There will be carnage in Paris if they lose this

As exciting as the Paqueta links are I think we are much more likely to spend a similar amount as he’d cost on a big time DM and keep the front 2 of our 3 as Joe and Bruno. If the Lodi links become true we will likely shift into the format of a Liverpool type side that will need that DM (like Fabinho does) to drop into defence when the full backs push up, who we sign at LB will be a massive indicator of the direction of our signings in DM/CM.

It would be 50+ surely

Diaby would be an insane start to the window

I had doubts about Schar being able to play in a 4 but he has proved he can do it over an extended period of games now, its Burn who I'd be dropping for a new CB

Chelsea signing both Kounde and Koulibaly would be ridiculous for them, both elite CBs

Been saying for a while that I think this is the most likely scenario, im pretty sure Wilson we be our first choice for next season at least

The trio of hand signs, they are obviously trying to tell us something.. run the baths lads