Optimistic Nut

https://www.facebook.com/share/18y4zWQmP4/ Mackems biting like mad in the comments.

Clubs can knock the ball over the top of us knowing they're either in one-on-one, or worst scenario is they win a throw-in in our half because he can't do anything with the ball when he reaches it. Now he has these ricks in him. It's a massive problem.

Little pace at CB and a keeper who all he has now are reaction saves. We either need to change the way we play which would be ridiculous after 3 years of honing it, or simply just go get the keeper and centre-back we need.

That'll be £50m they'll want now if they see that.

£40m doesn't sound bad now.

Thought Hall, Joelinton & Isak not playing would have been obvious.

I'm terms of the starting XI though, there's probably only a starting RCB away from him being next, and when you have a pretty strong XI who'll be playing the majority of games, his flaws are going to show up even more.

I know people will think it's fine, we have Pope, but fuck me, another year of slicing out for a throw-in deep in your half instead of holding on to the ball is going to become as tiresome as ever.

When you're trying to push from 5th to 4th etc and they're spending £60m on players themselves, you have to pay it. No problem at all if we're not in that sort of position and 6th-7th is still our par, but that's what we need if we're to climb up the next few places.

Next England number 1 and a top 7 right-winger. About the going rate?

How many of these new signings are we tipping will start more than half their games?

Realistically, if Real Madrid or Liverpool had bid for Bruno, Joelinton, Tonali, Isak, when we bid, would they have turned them down?

Interesting if Eintracht would take the lower offer or we'd get an Owen situation and they only accept ours? Would be a bit more at ease with it this time due to us tracking Ekitike for a few years and him saying he'd have joined first time around but for PSG, rather than it just being a Shepherd-ego play.

Can we not trick PSR with the promise to players of multi-million pound jobs working for PIF once they hit 40? They can work from home if they like and don't even have to log-in.

Oops.

Just quoting Downie isn't he?

Would be great if we got Wissa and Spurs hijacked the Mbeumo transfer.

Another one of my dad's heroes gone. Each one hits him bad.

Christ, Targett makes that in 3 hours 26 minutes these days.

He linked?

I still think he'll start Murphy too. I don't even think he'll start Botman.

Was happy when we were first linked, still happy if we got him even after these Ekitike stories. Could see why we'd bid €70-80m for a young player and have a PL proven player at his peak for half of that as an alternative.

Is there a point where we need to start complaining to UEFA/Premier League about what a heap of steaming hot shite their financial rules are? I imagine behind the scenes we probably already have, but fuck me, it's pretty depressing knowing we want to spend but can't. If this had been 2005 Chelsea or 2011 Man City I reckon we'd have signed at least one or two of the players we've seen join Man U, Chelsea, Liverpool, etc this summer.

Nope, but he'll still get the boring "One greedy bastard" no doubt. Owen's the only one who's really warranted that one.