Sven Botman back late December/early January 'at the earliest' (Howe)

[RodneyCisse]

We’ll await pictures at 5ish then 

[sushimonster85]

Happy Botman day lads & lasses, thought this might never happen.

[jack j]

Adam Pearson not at the airport greeting him like

[Coffee_Johnny]

9 hours ago, Scotty66 said:

Excited by this signing. 

 

He's faster than Burn though right? 

After some fluctuation in opinion, he’s gradually gotten faster, particularly over this weekend. Now resumed full on rapido status. 

[Keegans Export]

18 minutes ago, Coffee_Johnny said:

After some fluctuation in opinion, he’s gradually gotten faster, particularly over this weekend. Now resumed full on rapido status. 

 

Can't wait to see how fast he is once he's completed his medical. He'll probably run to SJP for the photoshoot, faster than taking the car through the city centre traffic.

[McCormick]

9 hours ago, Scotty66 said:

Excited by this signing. 

 

He's faster than Burn though right? 

Yeah.

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[Yorkie]

From the highlight reels I've seen (which is hardly reliable), what he might lack in pace he appears to make up for in reading of the game. He appears to come shooting out of the backline to make effective early tackles as opposing attackers receive balls into them. 

[Menace]

Announcement by PM then if we're lucky.

[gbandit]

Think he’s too focused on saving his job and getting on with delivering for the country to make an announcement about Botman

[STM]

Where do we reckon he's flying from?

[Stifler]

8 minutes ago, Menace said:

Announcement by PM then if we're lucky.

Boris will do anything to deflect the attention off him at the moment.

[Miggys First Goal]

If any proof were needed that SSN know fuck all - had some bloke on at the weekend saying not to expect Botman in Newcastle this week. Lo and behold on the yellow ticker in Newcastle for a medical today. 

[AyeDubbleYoo]

I'd love to know how sports journalists even attempt to get information on transfers. Seems like agents are the only ones with any incentive to provide them with information, and even that will be designed to stoke interest or inflate a fee. 

 

Nonsense profession for the most part. 

[GeordieDazzler]

I suppose it’s a way to sort of tap up players without breaking any of the rules. Plant the seed in the players head by leaking interest.

 

But yeah 90% of gossip is agents. 

[The College Dropout]

Btw the Botman signing might indicate a persistance with a lowish block and counter-attacking approach that i'm not mad at.

 

From what we've seen. You don't sign Botman to defend on the halfway line.

 

 

Edited June 27, 2022 by The College Dropout

[Guest]

I've just seen him at Station Road Greggs, he said "FOOK THE TOON AM GOING TO BRENTFORD, INNIT for £10k less"

[Joey47]

40 minutes ago, The College Dropout said:

Btw the Botman signing might indicate a persistance with a lowish block and counter-attacking approach that i'm not mad at.

 

From what we've seen. You don't sign Botman to defend on the halfway line.

 

 

 

 

Interesting one but not sure you're right. Comment below from liverpool fan about how it's maybe not as important as you would think, especially when you have a keeper who makes a lot of sweeping actions (Pope and Alisson make the most and furthest sweeping actions in the PL by far). 

 

15 hours ago, rgk_lfc said:

 

Matip is better at protecting the right hand side when TAA goes on his attacking runs.  Pace is not that big of an issue in defenders if your goalkeeper is quick of the line to snuff out danger. Also, VAR gets offside calls correct more than often. So more than pace, the ability to stick to an offside line is more important. Counterpressing managers like Klopp, Howe don't worry about playing a high line with slower defenders thanks to VAR. 

 

The first graph in this tweet shows how good Pope is at sweeping.

 

[TRon]

I think I read somewhere that Howe is going to persist with the low block/counter attack approach for this season. It might have nothing to do with pace, and more that we just don't have good enough footballers across the pitch to play more possession based stuff.

[BeloEmre]

 

[Coffee_Johnny]

Will, no doubt (now), move very quickly through security. 

 

[Shearergol]

Nice little black and white photo of his plane on his instagram story. Needed more bread.

[Big River]

for you non-instagrammers

 

 

[KaKa]

1 minute ago, Big River said:

for you non-instagrammers

 

 

 

I like this guy. He's going to be good 

[gbandit]

I know people have said we should do the Botman returns unveiling but we’d be missing a trick if we didn’t have him on a 100m track and film him doing a sub 7 seconds 100m