Optimistic Nut

Brescia, Piacenza, Pescara, Reggiana, etc Takes me back to watching it with granda on Channel 4 on a Saturday morning.

No way can Shilton be blamed for the Maradona handball, like. People say he should have jumped, but he shouldn't have needed to. Without Maradona's hand it's just a simple punch away and he's getting it. He shouldn't have had to take into consideration that he might cheat.

I think wages, bonuses, etc are fine to be secret, transfer fees should 100% be open, though.

He was pretty shit after he left anyway. 30+, injury prone, had one good season after he left and that was about 6 years later with Leicester getting relegated.

One of the nicest blokes in football isn't he?

That'd be a great chance of getting top 8 though.

I was wondering this when the links first came about. No idea. Walker-Peters as back up for the full-back positions to Hall & Tino would have been good but not good enough as first choice.

Spurs have about 30 goals from the wide men if that's who they end up with as first choice out of that lot.

He's brilliant going forward. Has that ability of being able to carry the ball half the length the pitch and give it to a team mate. Massive quality to have .

These things. Creepy as hell. https://www.facebook.com/share/r/14GARuDsvJR/

Is it not just a case that we don't want to sell Isak, Bruno or Tonali (now Tino going from his thread), so if there has to be a big sale, he's the one that'd fetch the next most? I don't particularly want him to leave but if it meant we got 2-3 more players on top of what we would have, I can see why we'd do it.

Still never worked out what he was pointing at there.

Literally just flaunt the tapping-up now, don't they? No fee agreed but talks with the player.

Probably know if we do miss out, we've got an Isak sale in the top pocket that'd cover us going again. I think we're in a great position to go again this summer.

Kepa for £5m?

Going to be such a gutter when he goes to Spurs for £45m.

Let's see what Elanga's numbers will be like with a season of Bruno threading passes to him and Isak in the middle.

He'd likely be on around £90k-100k here? Transfer fee about £10m less that what Mbuemo would cost and about half his wage.

We wanted him last summer and he's just had a Murphy-like season but is much younger. Makes perfect sense?

£40m seems about right, would expect we'd have to pay £45-50m with the "Saudi tax". If we're confident we can still get the other players we need I'm not arsed if we have to go a bit extra.

What if to return the favour from last year, they took Longstaff or Willock for £30m?

Just Man Utd having Cunha and probably Mbuemo and Spurs not having Ange will mean that's 12 points we're going to have to work a lot harder for next season.

Think it was purely Parish.

Iraola. I think he could do a similar sort of job to Poch.

He'll not be getting the £80k or so he's on now as first back up to Isak so I don't think we view it as that. If he's happy to go on to a Dummett/Ritchie style wage further down the pecking order and as long as he's not eating up someone else's spot in the squad, I'm not too arsed.