Optimistic Nut

That's correct though, isn't it? We use our own font outside of the PL so would look off if you had the CL badges with PL numbering.

Guessing that is the equivalent of us signing Pickford straight from Sunderland?

Burn & Schar v2.0 but even more improved. Not sure you could play our normal game with Guehi & Schar together, but Guehi with Botman or Burn would be immense.

Fiorentina have to win this one year like.

Might get the odd loan turned to permanent, or relegation/minimum release clauses activated first part of the window but think the big one will be end of June again when clubs are moving players around to get by PSR.

City & Chelsea might get one or two in for the World Club Cup.

That has never stopped Hope from a story if he's got something like, pre or post takeover.

Mehrdad clearly coming back.

Unless Hope is completely wrong about the Trafford stuff.

Feels like the Georgian keeper rumours from last summer.

In a world where England's first choice CB and a winger who's just scored 20 goals in underwhelming. Love it.

It's not exactly us signing Beardsley in '93 is it? This is more Andy Carroll returning levels.

Mbwehmo would be perfect.

Dibling seems like the sort of player City, Liverpool or Arsenal could go for where they can afford to spend £55m, play him 15-20 games a season for the time being with the plan for him to become more of a regular in a couple of years. If we're spending that much on a player it's for someone established and who we'd see as ready to play regularly at the top of the league.

I think they're the peak signings in terms of age, likelihood of wanting to come here, improving the first XI straight away. These two plus Trafford/Garcia early doors then strengthen the squad with good value squad depth and we'll be able to push on again.

Now that we've won something, I'm going with a few years of CL qualification to cement ourselves at the top. The trophies should naturally follow after that.

Cunha is one instance where I think I'd enjoy seeing a City or Chelsea going to Wolves with the full £62.5m up front and gazumping them.

This is a Chelsea fan base who booed the keeper for passing the ball from a goal-kick at 0-1 home to Ipswich, kicked long instead, Ipswich won the header and they went and made it 0-2. Possibly a sign of weakness mind that he's swayed by the home support.

I mean, Eales has only been staying in the job until we replaced him after his diagnosis so I doubt this is the case.

New guy got their own person in mind?

Wow

I want the Viduka disallowed goal in 2009 overturned and the Aguero offside up here in 2016 too.

Also helps that he's one of the top 2 for dealing with crosses and sweeping up, as well as one of the top 6 for playing out. Does a helluva lot to reduce the amount of good chances he faces, and he has the best shots saved % in the whole league out of the regular starters. I'd say all of that combined would account to way fewer goals conceded than if say he dropped 3-4 bollocks a season?

Jan Kirchoff. He did well for 8 games or so and they hailed him some sort of God.

Little browse on there this morning, one of them is adamant they're where they are because of Moyes. They completely forget they were circling the bowl for a good 4-5 years before they finally slipped through. They seem to think Allardyce was this saviour who along with that German crock whose name I've forgotten were going to make them a mid-table team.