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Neither has Foden tbf and he's generally quite good.

Think Ashworth was probably exactly what we needed at the time. Ashley left an empty husk of a club, the void filled only by Bruce and Charnley and the ever-present squelching of bacon sandwiches being munched and farts slipping out greasily. Ashworth came from a well-run club and will have basically told us how a well-run club operates and set things up for us. Now he's gone we've got another very highly rated guy who focuses more on the recruitment side, which is exactly what we wanted seemingly. We heard about Freedman and Spors - Freedman was more recruitment focused, Spors was more operationally focused and had experience of Europe and multi-club model. We've got a guy who's basically both. Now let's hope he can still spot a bargain.

I doubt his head's a mess, he'll be focused on England and he's matured a lot since Everton. That said, watching him on the Overlap and his sheer naked ambition to get to the very top I don't expect any sentimentality at all from him if he gets a chance to go to a Champions League perennial.

Literally every article I've read about our transfer plans has said Neto is one of the players we like.

Someone better comfort Mike

Tbf seems like he might be a fan!

Uh oh, think he was at Spurs when they bought Sissoko off us for £30milion. ABORT, ABORT ABORT!

Yeah, feel quite a lot within this role will come down to how you click with the manager / chairperson. He seems to have got on with Poch well as he followed him to Spurs. Then seems to not have got on with Levy, which is probably also a plus.

Little video of him from a few years ago in Monaco. Speaks quite well, but mainly... what a place to train!

Good signy signys for MK Dons. Good signy signys for Southampton Good signy signys for Spurs Good signy signys for Red Bull. Did overall technical work for Red Bull Organisation. Good signy signys for Monaco and big club rebuild. We should be excited because good signy signys are good.

From what I gather Ashworth was an organiser, sets up structures, departments, ways of working etc. Was probably exactly what we needed after Ashley, partuclarly with new first time owners, and presumably what Man U need given they've been so badly run for a while apparently. [source: Froggy] Hopefully we've got our organisation a bit slicker over the last couple of years and this guy is now the right guy to do whatever the fuck a sporting director does going forward.

Perhaps we put the PSR struggles out there to dissuade top clubs from buying Bruno and helping us out!

If you didn't I'm sure you'll nick him off us in a couple of years!

Great news. A quick google search indicates our players are going to have wonderful hair, which can only help with global brand development.

This is excellent, I love the sunglasses additiona even though they're not practical.

Looks like a bog standard West Ham Kit. and from the horizonal bulging around the collar bone in every kit, not a very well made West Ham kit.

If we're desperate for cover for a month give an academy lad a go. That's why we keep signing them all.

JUST SELL EVERYONE! Then no more injuries finally.

Need some more exciting accounting deadlines to liven things up a bit.

Let's say we can sell him for, say 7.5 mil and save £5.5 million on salary. That's a decent chunk saved for one year. On the other hand we also lose significant depth at RB and lose one of our team leaders. The guy in our squad who's actually won a major European trophy. Unless we plan on buying another RB to replace him I'm pretty confident having Trips next year would be worth a few points at least which could well be the difference between getting a european competition or not, or even which european competition.

My prediction is we'll try to spend big (40 - 60million) on a top quality RW and possibly on a CB as well, or maybe spend reasonably on a slightly less established young CB, like that dutch spanish Juventus lad at Roma. Maybe 20-40 million range on a CB. I reckon we'll have budget for that, hell the club had a go at Olise. I don't think we need to do much more without Europe - we'd basically have 2 players for every position and that's probably enough. Obviously if, say, Wilson goes then he'd be replaced. Then maybe try and pick up a couple of cheap young talents Minteh stylee and trim the fat from the squad if possible (Dubs, Almiron, Hayden, Lewis, Targett, Fraser etc.). If we got a couple of gooduns in at RW and CB, a prospect or two, didn't lose any of our stars, and got a few of the 3rd stringers who aren't going to play off the books it would be a pretty good window.

I'd say what we've done with Anderson is basically what we should be doing with our good youth players: 1. He goes out for a loan, gets a bit of experience (probably needed another one at a higher level tbf). 2. He provides cheap cover in the first team squad and gets a chance to show whether he's good enough. 3. By the age of 21/22 where a player really needs to be playing to develop and before he signs a bigger contract - if he's not looking to be regular starter quality then sell him if there's a good offer. We get a good fee as he's a decent young player with top flight experience. He gets a chance to be a starter and develop more. Squad spot opens up for the next talented youngster to see if he'll be good enough. Certainly wouldn't have been opposed to him staying as a squad player, but I'm taking £35 million - a crap goalie for a guy who was probably our 3rd/4th choice LW and 3rd choice LCM.

I'm pretty sure I thought Milner was a quality young player. Remember him putting some great crosses in from the right that never came to anything because Martins never attacked the ball! Mind you it's entirely possible he never played in the same team as Martins, it's quite a while ago now!

Yeah, Adidas shoes and Nike trousers from Slot not a good look. Gotta stay consistent.

It's been a lot more exciting than watching England at the Euros mind!