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No idea what SKIMS is, googled it & from their website: "SKIMS is a solutions oriented brand creating the next generation of underwear, loungewear and shapewear." Quite frankly I'd rather they focused on creating a fucking right off solution.

Does anyone know how this works when there's an option year? If it's 4 + 1 year club option for example, I'd presume it's amoritised over 4 years until it's confirmed the option's been activated, at which point whatever's left goes over the rest of the contract?

Only concern really is his injury record, though the lack of a transfer fee certainly compensates for that. Seems a good player and professional, adds pace to our CB group, which we really need.

5+1 is a long deal for someone who's had a lot of injury issues.

Pope is 6' 6" Wiki has Trafford at 197 cm or 6' 6" - 197cm is actually 6' 4.5" Tranfermarkt has Trafford at 192cm which is about 6' 3". Tbh the Transfermarkt one looks most accurate based on random photo evidence.

The main issue for me would be, he's mainly going to improve by playing. Did well in League 1. Struggled in the Prem. Probably needs a year in the Championship now. Are we spending a lot of money on a prospect for him to not play and develop as much as he could do?

If someone was prepared to pay 35/40 million for Minteh it would seem a very good price for someone who's only played one season in the Dutch leage. That's what we played for Bruno and Botman, more experienced and established players. He obviously seems a very talented young lad, but maybe a bit raw and untested at the top level. He may well be worth more than that longer term, he may not, but it would be a guaranteed sort out of our finances in the short term and allow us to invest a bit more now, which would probably be worth it. The flip side is we do currently have a long-term vacancy at RW looking for filling, and who knows, he could be our guy in a year or two. A lot might depend on how our finances are.

C'mon you magnificent, sun-starved Nordic bastards, almost there.

5 minutes? Fuck off.

C'mon Iceland. I want them to win now.

Also, why not try swapping palmer and gordon over for 10 mins? Against a low block I think there's value in just putting a winger on his stronger foot and tell him to get to the byline, get the defence going backwards and get the ball across the 6 yard box.

I assumed that was a mishit backpass!

Ditto. BTW, does anyone know if Kyle Walker ever does anything attacking? Playing like he did against us, always had the ball in our final third and then just passed it back every time.

Looks like dazzle camoflague, designed to make it harder for strikers to estimate our 'keeper's distance, direction and speed.

Should show that video to potential new signings.

Chiesa would be great, I'd love a fancy foreign signing & I used to like watching his dad on Football Italia. He speaks excellent English as well so there's a good chance he's settle ok. I imagine it's pretty unlikely we'd get him, but it would be fun.

I swear, if Dummett's salary this year put us over the limit I will not be held responsible for my actions

Miley in the pool room as well. Haven't seen Wilson or Schar yet either - you'd think you'd want those two modelling your clothes.

Yeah it's a great advert, tapping back into the optimism of the Keegan & SBR days, linking the past & present, just selling the passion of a football club. Even the meme references make the viewer feel 'in' on it as well, and the bit showing our Brazilians shows them becoming 'in' on that feeling too. It's very well done.

Different top - the one Tino's in has a full length zip and is slightly baggier material. As for whether the colour's different it's hard to say as things can look suprisingly different dependent on lighting.

Is that collar part of the shirt or another thing he's wearing underneath? Can see some patterns white stripes that make it looks like there's some good layering going on.

If we and Villa were to buy a player off each other, could we solve both our FFP issues for the year? @brummie who you got for us?

Eze plays on the left as well doesn't he?

Good on him, I think he's got a big game mentality. Hope he gets a chance to make an impression.

If they didn't overspend then it wouldn't have been a problem them holding out for longer. I find the normalisation of 'every club should be spending as much money as possible compared to what they have coming in' a bit odd. They knew the rules, stick to the rules. Most other clubs they were competing with did.