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The whole point is that he is a proven PL quality player and we all know there’s an extra tax on home grown players. JWP isn’t some Richard Wright type signing filling up the quota on the reserves, he’s good enough (and fit enough) to play regularly for most teams in the bottom half. People are spending £30m plus on completely unproven players who’ve only ever performed in places like Austria or Belgium, JWP is clearly worth more than that.

So they want our captain, England international and one of the best free kick takers in the world for £10m less than they paid for Scamacca, or £5m less than Leicester paid for Daka. I needed a laugh today.

Then McCarthy came in and was even worse. Something like 17 conceded in 6 games. Also, we lost 1-0 in the league 9 times. Does that sound like a team who’s main problem is between the sticks?

Exactly what I said. Baz was substandard and if anyone wants to argue his mistakes cost us ten points, compared to a top level keeper, then so be it. My point is that even if you swap him for peak Niemi, we still get relegated. Therefore saying that he was the main reason we went down is nonsense.

So in other words, if we had a perfect keeper, who made no mistakes, we’d still have been relegated.

Yeah, all those games where Moi, AA, Che and Onuachu were slamming in goals but we lost 4-3 because of Baz really cost us.

My gut feeling is he’ll be our first choice this year, show a definite improvement on last season and overall be quite decent.

Last time Leicester went out there they ended up racial abusing a Thai hooker and winning the Premier League, so fingers crossed we don't get a repeat next year.

I'd say it looks decent, probably my favourite of the three, although none of them is anything special.

Being realistic, we have three RBs you could argue are amongst the best in the league. It’s a luxury we neither need nor can afford, so if we get a sizeable chunk of £30m to spend on attacking players, I’ll take that.

He’s a perfectly decent one at this level, as are the two fullbacks. I’d probably want better than Stephens if it comes to it but none of them are disastrous, nor is Bazunu for that matter. Its in attack where we still have issues to sort out, especially regarding creativity.

Rain in the midlands and NW will deny both England and Hants a victory.

F**k me, after what happened yesterday we’ve now declared. 😆

Our kids were the best team in it, loved going to ODC games last year. Somehow we came unstuck against a 158 year old I’m the semi against Kent but overall it was a hell of a season. We’re a batter light in all formats, need a county opener and a 3 in the T20 IMO, but otherwise decent.

So… who put money on a healthy first innings lead when we were 88-7 yesterday?

All these precision missiles and they couldn’t stop a convoy of their own crappy tanks rolling towards Moscow.

I’m not sure anyone was ever in love with professional football because they found the players relatable. Why would you fall out of love with football because players are going to Saudi Arabia for obscene money, they’re already going to Manchester and London to earn double your annual salary in a week.

That’s the whole reason all these players came to the Premier League in the first place, they’re just swapping it for a little more money.

Well, bye I guess. A player so forgettable I genuinely thought he’d only been here two years instead of three.

Christ, not this again. The point has always been that they lack the ability to produce smart munitions in anywhere near the numbers they’d need to maintain a sustained offensive. Given that they spend most of their time buying drones from Iran and sporadically smacking them aimlessly into the middle of Kyiv and Dnipro, I’d say that argument holds weight. So they’ve attacked a port, big whoop, they’re doing a fraction of the damage we did to Hamburg with Lancasters, 80 years ago. This is a war of terror, they’re trying to give the illusion of force whilst really, tactically achieving very little.

If they have agreed to an obligation to buy there’s not really a way out of it and if they do try to renege they’ll likely face sanctions and transfer embargos. Plus there’ll be the fact that he’ll have signed a contract with them, valid for however many years. Loans with an obligation to buy seem fairly common, so I can only assume there’s some clever tax write off or FFP dodge involved, which makes it beneficial to one or both parties.

This is going to be such an easy win. Last time we went top of the league playing on Friday night it only lasted a day, as the rest of the weekend fixtures played out. This time our GD will keep us comfortably top come Sunday night.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-66242446 If anyone needed reminding that negotiating with Russia and coming to some sort of agreement is ultimately pointless, here it is. Whenever they feel like it they’ll decide Ukraine hasn’t met the terms of the agreement and attack them again.

Depends how far back you want to go. Beattie, Crouch, Saganowski….

They remember getting no-lube, butt-f**ked by PSG over a clause they thought nobody would pay for Neymar and henceforth made all their subsequent release fees (which are required by Spanish law) absurdly high.