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Don’t care either way, hope he walks and lifts the lid on how badly we’re ran.

Soumare is like putting a 900cc engine into a Range Rover. Should be athletic but he just isn’t - Doucoure is thrice the player.

Ayew runs down blind alleys so often

Top …. out the f ucking club up for sale

Soumare and Winks just aren’t anywhere near good enough without the ball

I’d respect it if he pitched up for a year, maybe two then went to a top club after but I don’t think that’ll be the case.

Forgetting to ask for milk when ordering a coffee (or tea) abroad is right up there with unintentionally buying sparkling water abroad - as quite annoying things you do - abroad.

Fbref have his stats profiled as a midfielder rather than a winger so they look better graphically than they actually are.

Any recommendations for Belgium? I’ve been to Bruges but that was for the CL game and I essentially stayed in the same spot for about 18 hours as I didn’t have a ticket. Some combination of Bruges, Brussels and one other (Ghent/Antwerp) seems perfectly doable.

@VLC86 iirc

A bloke traversing a decent distance to wave a pack of tissues at the Spurs fan in the cap was funny

Just a bizarre hatchet job, I didn’t think Shakey was up to it as a manager but the too clever by half line is just completely vapid conjecture. Ashton has always been shit.

Excellent post. Top and Rudkin never seem to learn.They’ve never backed up successful appointments by bringing in a continuity candidate. Maresca to Cooper is just such a wild lurch. I don’t buy the ‘He’s the only one that wanted it’ line given we turn spent £50m+ net before the verdict was in. It’s more like the club thought he was the only one that would want it, which is just a complete dereliction of duty. Consistent with the Puel appointment too, we were aware of him and he was cheap. RVN the same.

“Whatever Shakey said about it, he always looked a bit shifty sitting in Ranieri’s place at press conferences and in the dugout. Shakespeare, with that permanent too-clever-by-half look about him, always appeared like a man who had been up to no good.“ Baseless bollocks - even then

The amount of street furniture now is completely overwhelming. Double yellows, bollards, traffic calming measures, signs etc makes streets far uglier

Ordinarily based on his injury history it's a swerve but with his contract situation the risk is worth it, providing we don't stick him on silly wages. So welcome, Tariq #2030, £95,000 pw.

Because of his age and his contract, we’d look to sell him for more but based on his output so far I don’t think anyone will pay that (yet).

I didn’t want to like Fontaines DC but they’ve grown on me

He’s on a long contract, PSR wise that wouldn’t even be particularly beneficial - he also strikes me as being a good pro. We’d have to hold out for £25m and that’s a lot of money to pay almost entirely for potential.

The lack of goals isn’t a technical thing, it’s a lack of proximity to goal and up to now probably not quite athletic enough - although he’s developing in that regard. I’m not sure if he does have a higher ceiling or not, we still haven’t seen that much of him.

I don't thinkhe's worth what it'd take for us to sell. He has 2 goals and an assist in 13 starts, thankfully nobody is dropping £35m+ on him yet, even if we go down.

We've really missed Ndidi, it's a pretty simplistic metric but we're +1.09 goals per 90 better off when he plays. Nobody else gets close to his defensive contribution and he's more useful than ever on the ball. Soumare and Ndidi are the best midfield partnership we can field.

A great bit of recruitment, he was at a 7th tier Polish club before joining us.

One of the Norwegians said it might be the best pub he’s ever been to.

Met @bovril today pre-match in the Cittie of Yorke on his recommendation, great pub and thoroughly nice chap.