Erikse

Give them all of them.

Kind of haha. That hat trick hurt. But I don't think he would have the same success here, so the money was good. I think that deal was good for all parties.

Atleast we would have him as a strong option if we go for a better one in the future. Elangas numbers from last season were pretty good. You don't see Almiron or Murphy getting anywhere close to it, apart from Almirons freak period. Edit: seeing that it's BS now.

If this is true, it's an indication that we had money to spend this window, we just went all in on Guehi expecting it to be done. In this case it wasn't just that Guehi is special enough for us to move funds from future windows.

We love them to be fair. They've done us some favours.

Great. BUT. Please don't be £70m.

Willock's problems is probably the one that I have a strong feeling that we have mismanaged. I have no problem with starting him against Forest in the cup by the way, the damage happened last season. You don't need to be a doctor to know that you need to be very careful with achilles injuries. Obviously the club must have known this, but chose to take the risk based on lack of alternatives at the time. Feels like he was rushed back several times out of desperation, and now the guys carreer is at risk of stagnating. Feels like it's not in line with the "build for the future, not for the present" mindset that we are supposedly going with.

Guy must be feeling terrified about something simple as sprinting at full speed at this point.

She's still going to ask Howe about Tonali in 20 years time, when Tonali is retired and Howe is coaching a different club.

What exactly did she say?

12th is a stretch. Looking more like 16th atm.

Richarlison also out.

Yeah, was up late, didn't quite think this through. So it wasn't 100% accurate, but pretty damn close.

Another quote from that for those who didn't open the post: It's weird because the first season he came off as a guy that allways wanted to learn and develop, especially with that interview he did. But this Bournemouth fan literally described every part of Howes time at Newcastle before it even happened, atleast that's how it looks now. Feels like he hasn't change or developed that much after all, and is largely sticking with the same old way of doing things nomatter what.

Yeah sure, maybe he's worse than Ruddy then, I have no clue. Just seemed odd, I thought he'd atleast be better than Ruddy.

But we also got that goalkeeper from Forest like 1 day before that?

Don't know much about him, but probably fine. Most of our goalies are shit, and he can take over for Pope over time. Why did we sign Ruddy, by the way?

I'm sure Louise Taylor will ask Howe about it in the next presser. In the worst way possible.

Selling him late would leave them short on trying to replace him. Without replacement there could actually be a risk of getting relegated if they sell now. That's on them though, they could've replaced him earlier.

The "we don't know" thing doesn't work both ways. We believe the media when it suits the agenda we're trying to make, and if it doesn't, we say that it's fake news and that we don't know what's actually going on.

Almiron and Trippier won't be nearly the same as that season, Botman and Lascelles are out for months and we are deeply missing Willock (not sure we can count on him anymore). On top of that several players are past their best age, not just Trippier. Not sure we are better off or even the same, despite the transfers last year.

Hmm. What window? When we finished 11th the season before and had signed Pope, Botman and Isak? Did people say that teams around us (mid table teams) had strengthened more?

If you're going to count Tonali, you should also account for Botman and Lascelles losing several months. Which knew before the summer even started.

Some lack of squad depth, but I wish we were playing in the ECL now. We would've had a good chance in that tournament.