Saint_clark

Djenepo v Brighton for me, unbelievable strike.

1. Koeman - possibly the best team we've ever had. 2. Adkins - it just really felt like everyone involved loved the club. Part of me wishes I could find out where we would be if we'd stuck with Adkins. 3. Hasenhuttl - could overtake the other two, but for now it's the first time since Koeman I've been optimistic about the future.

Some proper revisionist history in there.

Valencia in financial trouble, seems really bad. Anyone of theirs we could pinch for a reduced price?

Probably a personal element to that, first preseason he's been the captain and a guaranteed starter.

That would be absurdly cheap for a young player who has got goals and assists at this level.

I'm not an asset worth millions of pounds to my employer, and in that situation I would say fair enough.

Absolutely. Could have a situation now where they have to miss up to two weeks of pre season training, which is already greatly reduced.

What are you doing Shane 😂

Really? His style of play would suit Barca down to the ground. I think that would go out of the window when he's actually offered the most prestigious job in world football.

Possibly thinking they just need someone to come in and pick the obvious first 11 then sit back? Pochettino the obvious appointment.

No thanks, struggling to hold down a place in a 15th place championship team.

Flashbacks to Brazil V Germany here. Barring a miracle, Barca manager will go tomorrow.

The decision not to continue with all games on TV continues to be utterly bizarre. They should have used this as an opportunity to trial "TV season tickets", paying for streaming access to all your teams games.

Wrong, I was going to say wives.

...out of your mouth? Almost like we finish each others...

For me it's more a case of not wanting to desperately sign someone on a shoestring and be lumbered with another player who is just ok.

Surely it doesn't matter what we actually call our "reserves" side, whether it's under 23s or B team, if they're playing in the PL2 then they're still governed by the same rules on the amount of overage players you can use and therefore nothing will actually change one regards to how many players we can actually have?

Well fuck me, we're stupider than I thought.

Either way, it will still be cheaper than us keeping them on our books. No idea what you're talking about. Do you have an issue with the very nature of transfers or something? Hence the reduced prices, the money clubs saved can go towards wages. Quite honestly when it comes to Lemina, Hoedt, Forster, Elyounoussi, Boufal and Carrillo I wouldn't care if we gave them away for free. They are only going to cost us money and give us nothing in return.

I'd be surprised if the club allowed players to go sbroad.

Founded in 2009. Mental.

Hence why I gave a low end estimate. Whatever it is, it'll be more than enough to bring in the 3 players we'd need to be in a really good position going into next season.

Agreed. Cut price sale on our deadwood; Lemina £10million Boufal £5million Forster £5million Carrillo £3million (he really is that bad, might even struggle to get that) Elyounoussi £5million Hoedt £3million Gunn £5million Reed £10million £46million brought in and anywhere between £350,000-450,000 a week saved in wages. We wouldn't miss them at all so they wouldn't need replacing (besides Gunn) and it would allow us to sign a Hojberg replacement and a new goalkeeper. You can even chuck Vestergard in there and suddenly you've got over £60million to spend on a keeper, centreback and midfielder.

The Reed situation could be a good warning of what will happen to Jankewitz if we sign another player now.