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Standard Anthony Herlihy media briefing.

It felt like Cifuentes was making it up as he went along. Clearly told the dwarf that he plays like Enzo in his interview. As much as I think Martin's view on the game is completely flawed, at least he has conviction in his methods. I genuinely don't think Cifuentes could explain to you what the idea was towards the end.

Jon Rudkin should Dujuan am I right???

I know he did his cruciate in 2024 but how often has he actually been injured? He's not good enough to get into Newcastle's side ahead of Schar, Burn, Thiaw or Botman. Him not playing doesn't necessarily mean he was injured... or is that clutching at straws?

Stolarcyzk Ricardo Lascelles Nelson Aluko Fatawu Skipp Aribo Monga Mukasa BDCR

in 2024 he won African footballer of the year, scored a hattrick in the Europa League final against Xavi Alonso's super team and finished 14th in the Balon d'Or ranks. He was sold yesterday for £30m after a quiet 2025 so I don't think it's too outrageous to say that he would have been worth £50m in the summer of 2024.

Surely Winks gets the first pasting. Followed by Ayew.

Man City see him as the natural successor to Kevin de Bruyne. More of an attacking midfielder with an eye for the killer pass. Likes a goal too.

I'd be very surprised if the team wasn't this with BDCR in the 10 for the Birmingham game. I think Page is more of a box-to-box and James should have that spot when he's available. Signing Aribo is probably going to mean that when James is back, Page will be back in the youth teams. Skipp/Winks to play as the pivot with James/Aribo/Page as the box to box 8. BDCR/Mukasa/Ramsey as the 10.

It's a well known fact that left footed players generally have at least +5 pure sauce points over their right footed equivalent.

Harry Winks reading this

I think it's more Aribo that will be taking Page's minutes away.

Palace aren't obliged to spend £20m and pay him £80k a week unless they're sure. I have no sympathy for him in this regard. I think it's actually a bit disgraceful to expect it. People playing the "oh won't anyone think of the mental health" card takes away from people that are genuinely suffering.

Slight worries over his fitness but by all accounts he's a proper leader. Not like the podcaster. The sort of signing we used to make.

I think ultimately he just isn't good enough for this level but I have seen some encouraging posts regarding his attitude. Sounds like he's a good egg and God knows we could do with a few of those.

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What makes you confident of this?

I think it's very likely that we would be paying all of his wage. When has this club ever shown that they're able to negotiate when it comes to wage structures?

Hamza Choudhury is all of these things.

Welcome home Boubacary Soumare.

What frustrates me about things like this is that these sort of players are doomed from the start. Everything about this signing obviously stinks and the fans can smell it from a mile away. So this lad is clearly coming into a situation where he will have literally zero room for judgment. The fans will (rightly) condemn a signing like this from the outset whereas you'd think the club would at least try to get someone that will let the fans get excited about.

I was just going off that list that was doing the rounds of him being one of the highest earners in the league.

He's a lot better than the other defenders we currently employ. Plus Andy King's comments regarding Vestergaard sounded to me like he's not wanting to hang around.

Have you misread my post?

Page, Skipp, James, Winks, Choudhury, Ricardo, Ramsey, Reid and Golding are all capable of playing. Yes the majority of this list are currently injured but they should be back in good time to play without needing to sign up for 6 months of £80k a week.