The College Dropout

Bernardo Silva and Foden are great players. But Silva in particular is a cog. What makes KDB a standout player is he’s seemingly allowed to go off script and rifle one from 30 yards or just dominate a game. But he’s a super team player.

He said it at the time. He scored in both the Super Cup & Carling Cup final. Pep said Palmer would get minutes but inferred if they got a good enough offer - it would be Palmer's decision. Pep operates a "no sad faces" policy. If players want to leave, they go. Palmer wanted more minutes than he thought he would get so he left. The real issue is that Palmer got so few minutes last season and wasn't necessarily in-line to get the minutes he wanted this season. The big mistake City made was the no buyback clause but I think they should be outlawed anyway. Same thing with % fo next transfer fees for clubs that finish above the buying club.

In those days.. I don't think it did. When you hear players talk about Mourinho (I think it was him or AVB or Wenger that comment was a sly dig at) - he didn't spend ages on tactics and systems.

Nah. Not from a transfer perspective anyway.

^^ that's hilarious He's right - everyone semi-forgot that ridiculous handball. What a shambles the club has been man. Taylor looks good mind. The middle-east lifestyle can be a great one for "ex-pats". High quality of life with capped hedonism.

That's broadly what Howe does too tbf. It will be interesting to see how he adapts mind. Does seem like Howe and others have figured this out.

Spurs have the lowest wages-to-revenue ratio in the league. Their only issue is Spurs are a profitable club. Levy's ambition is their only serious limit. He'll spend again this summer though. He wants Spurs as a CL club for the revenues. Cue another £150m net spend and the media talking about what a wonderful job Ange is doing. We'll do well to spend the same and the media will talk about all of our investment.

We need to dance because we want the compensation money.

But that's not how it works. There's more negotiations and negotiations. It's often just a dance.

Maybe not. Some footballers love just going for the experience and the outside chance of making an appearance. Others hate it. Due to his career, I suspect he'll just want to go. From Bury to here.

I agree. But Nick Pope will want to play to prove his fitness and give himself a shot. If he's fit, he'll want to play. If he's fit and he thinks he has a shot of the squad. Not playing him might cause dressing room issues.

That's how negotiations work? This whole saga is very public. that's the only difference between us hiring Ashworth and Man U hiring him.

He will want to get back playing. He still has an outside chance of making the Euros squad. The last squad had Pickford, Ramsdale & Trafford. 2 of them don't even start regularly for their clubs. There's an argument that 3rd choice doesn't matter and you need a second choice in a similar profile to the 1st. But surely you just bring your 3 best GKs to a competition? Just for training, big Nick Pope making top saves, and claiming crosses, the other 2 have to level up.

I've always maintained Tonali is the Longstaff replacement. We don't have a progressive passer to replace Bruno and Gallagher is not him.

I reckon we would sell at £120m-£140m. His book value is down to £40m and would be looking at £80m-£100m book profit. Arsenal doesn't have that FFP bandwidth though. Even £100m doesn't help us with FFP substantially. Bruno is different. His book value is far lower so would mean a bigger FFP profit at £100m compared to Isak at £100m.