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Stoke - then scored a hattrick against them iirc

That was my first thought too. Injury trouble, coming off a less productive season, potential gambling addiction - if we could find someone with all three they'd be perfect for us. Really though, you are right. We're going to struggle going head-to-head with the established "top" clubs for players so we have to move when they hesitate.

"...and what's even worse, I look like an absolute c*nt too"

Surely it's just a club-to-club agreement? A club-specific release clause basically that the selling club would be forced to accept.

Bet he's never even heard of a false 10, nevermind concocted a strategy to incorporate two of them

I'm flabbergasted that this forum has collectively forgotten entirely about the "splashing tetra" Copella arnoldi which, quite famously, lays it's eggs on overhanging foliage, rendering it's newborn offspring literally fish out of water. The sort of amateur marine biology knowledge I'd expect from RTG

Rumours are this is exactly how the final Howe/Mitchell meeting went before the bald fraud was unceremoniously BINNED

Oh hi Eddie, didn’t realise you had a login here

According to Wikipedia

I'm with Ikon on this. Look at our run at the end of November into middle of December. We play 22nd, 25th, 29th, 3rd, 6th, 9th then the mackems on the 13th. Some tricky games in there too. As it stands, we'd have to play Tonali, Bruno, Joelinton constantly, or change our shape to accommodate someone other than a CM coming into the side. What will do us in that run is not the quality of our best XI (even if it still has Schar and Murphy in it) but the drop-off between our best 12-13 players and the rest. Even adding players behind Tonali/Bruno but superior to Longstaff & Willock would massively improve our chances next season.

We've definitely been linked before

27, 33 and 29 appearances in Serie A in the last three seasons. 36 goals too, not the worst return. Also didn't realise he's 25, for some reason I thought he was older than that.

A bit out of left field - Tapsoba from Leverkusen. 2nd/3rd July, something like that.

Must have missed that I remember the club's representatives being either totally silent, or full of shit for pretty much the entire Ashley reign.

Didn't he also fly to Brazil to speak to Bruno? Nickson is clearly an important figure, beyond just player identification.