Lighthouse

A team starting Jannick Vestergaard in a semi final is not ‘pretty good’.

I try and look at it through the filter of ‘would I want to sign them if they’d never played for us before’? With Walcott, Lallana, Romeu and a couple that didn’t happen like Ings, it was a very firm no from me, although plenty of people disagreed. With JWP the answer would be yes, a fit 31 year old with bags of recent PL experience on a relatively cheap loan seems like a no-brainer.

Good job we were playing Mexico and not USA, otherwise two of our goals would have been suspended for a year.

We’ll have to disagree on that. I get that there’s a business need for a reasonable proportion of players with resale value but I’ll worry about the Champions League when we get there. If we don’t get promoted this season then it’s a real issue financially. That being the case I’d rather sign a 30 year old Rasiak than a 19 year old with a 50:50 chance of turning into Mo Salah or Nicholas Bignall.

A tactical, directional inversion.

I think a few people are going to be disappointed if they think we’re signing better players than JWP this summer.

It’d take more than a bag of dust to make last nights performance exciting to watch.

Not that impressive, I’d say it was a bit of a Lo-ki signing.

We’ve started alright in the cricket.

He has played four full seasons in the Championship, been promoted twice, one in the PL and has played for England. He has proven everything he’s going to at this level, his stock won’t be worth any more a year from now, even if we win the league with 110 points.

I didn’t say it wasn’t useful and it will certainly give us a bit more freedom when it comes to signing replacements for the players we do sell. My point is it’s not going to change the fact that there will be a couple of big sales, THB likely being one of them.

THB isn’t going to want to loiter around for another season of Championship football no matter what we pay him, which is already likely to be top dollar at this level. We will also need to make money from sales and £6.5m isn’t going to make a lot of difference to that.

A man who wants more first team football and money.

Last year’s kits were launched on the 3rd, 17th and 31st July. I assume it’s just to spread out the news during the summer down time.

I’m watching Bear Grylls on the other screen. Got an acca on Algeria, Portugal, England to win and Bear to eat a dead pine marten.