Joelinton7

Ruh roh

Think this has always been the plan. I remember listening to Caulkin, Waugh at least a year ago on their podcast saying that Staveley and Ghodoussi have a contract from PIF to run the club and that there will be a time where that is no longer the case. We have now reached that time.

Can we not just try and sign him instead?

Yeah I stopped listening as soon as they said that, the bunch of fannies

Maybe Mandy has been doing what they do on Location, Location, Location. Viewing training grounds, saying she loves them and that she could see us living there, but then she never actually buys the property. Wor Mehrdad is sick of it, goes behind her back with the club’s credit card and just buys a small fixer upper in Pelaw.

What did people not understand when Amanda Staveley said PIF are “long-term, patient investors”. It was literally in the first interview. They’re not hoying us off 3 years in. After 14 years of utter shit we’ve got back in the Champions League, reached a cup final and then very narrowly missed out on Europe again. That’s a massive turnaround from what we’d been used to. PIF aren’t going anywhere.

Most football interviews are statements disguised as questions where the player/coach being interviewed merely regurgitates some mindless adjective + intensifier eg. “That was a massive win today. But how massive?” “very massive”. “you played well in the last match, which you also won” ”absolutely, it’s how we have to play”. “the fans??” ”fans are huge for us”

He hasn’t even done an interview for the club’s YouTube. Are we sure we’ve even appointed him? Are we sure he even exists?

“Haven’t seen you for a long time”?

England win a major tournament penny shoot out and score every single one. What is this fresh hell?

I can’t express enough how much Anthony Gordon would win us this game.

He allegedly didn’t turn up for training. Obviously that’s not an option as he’s not in training with us. I guess we’ll only find out after the Euro’s and when he gets back from holiday.

Is Gordon really wanting out? Reports that “his head is a mess” just don’t tally with the type of person he comes across as in interviews. He’s very focused, doesn’t let things bother him. The press have been persistent with this line the last days.

We’re back. The last remnants of Ashley have been sandblasted into oblivion and now we control our own destiny.

Taking very ginger steps. A fully fit Botman with Diomande is my dream.

Walks into press conference: Right, which one of you is Yankuba Minteh?

I was saying Dan Boo-urn

I don’t want to be all “we like journalists when they give good news etc” but with Luke saying we have £100m it made me think that he gives a definite budget every window and we pretty much always outspend that budget. Maybe with the exception of last Jan.

So Luke saying he was our first choice. So much for Freedman then. edit: having read the articles seems Mitchell was first reluctant to come to us and Palace offered Freedman a massive pay rise. Seems we tried for Mitchell first, he wasn’t sure, we went for Freedman who deliberated before Palace threw all the gold his way then we went back for PM and he said yes.

“A unique and progressive recruitment strategy enabled the Saints to outperform many of its rivals despite having a lower budget.” What are they trying to say?

So I guess Ashby is just not a thing anymore?

The McTominay stuff is never going away is it?

Romano saying only red london and blue london in for Calafiori.