Verbal

Quite the stat...

And...breathe out. Thank fuck that nightmare is over.

I know Ralph had his faults, but did he talk about himself so incessantly?

Snippy

...30 seconds later:

Has the deal been done before the deadline?

Which moron could you possibly have in mind?

It's a team, general, but not as we know it.

True. I doubt they'll be able to find it.

Thank you Dr Pangloss.

And here he is in a different guise. It's horseshit.

I have a bad feeling about this.

It's a cross he's had to bear.

Has he got the job yet? He was interviewed by Brentford a while back (when Frank got the job, I think) and was rejected.

*Statistically*. I love that swerve.

Is that the same Harrison Reed who's delivering MoM performances for currently 7th placed Fulham?

If he goes to a club other than City we get market rate. Not since Bosman has it been possible to compel a player to re-sign for their previous club.

Even better than that...

Well this is quite something... <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The Future of Football 🔮<br><br>What&#39;re you changing? 🤔⬇️ <a href="https://t.co/vOvqdXrnUF">pic.twitter.com/vOvqdXrnUF</a></p>&mdash; Matchday365 (@Matchday365) <a href="https://twitter.com/Matchday365/status/1568330287142301696?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 9, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Anyone checked out AMN's penalty-taking? Quite something.

Wasp?

Someone on this thread - I can't remember who - was bemoaning the fact that we'd missed out on a chance to sign Dele Alli, now that he's on his way to the Prem players' knacker's yard that is the Turkish league. There's an excellent article in the Times today (behind a paywall sadly) that shows the size of the bullet we dodged. It traces his decline all the way back to 2017, when Pochettino expressed his concerns about 'motivation' and attitude. Dele's since been managed by Mourinho, Nuno Espirito Santo, Conte and Lampard, none of whom have been able to retrieve the player he once was, and his decline never stopped in all that time, right through his peak years. Frightening.

I don't doubt how strongly you believe what you say. Nonetheless, after failing to lock down a midfield position at Arsenal, and not wanting to play at full back, he was loaned out to West Brom, which literally no one thought went well. His loan at Roma last season passed equally uneventfully. A move to Nottm Forest went south because Neco Williams was the preferred choice. I'd love AMN to come here and prove his Arsenal critics (of which there are many) wrong, but I'm not optimistic. https://www.justarsenal.com/maitland-niles-may-regret-refusing-to-play-as-a-defender-at-arsenal/300411

And then was dropped because he didn't.