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He looked crap before that anyway. Reminded me of that Big geezer who Burnley signed last season, who also came from Germany. Doesn’t look quick enough and funny enough strong enough for the PL. lucky escape I’d say.

Genuine question here, Why do you think ex pro’s would be any better. You could end up having people like Sol Campbell and Dwight York who is question their sanity. Then you have the good old equality act, so you’ll end up having a bird in there, whom mostly are absolutely clueless, like that idiot liane Saunders or whatever her name is. The most annoying thing I’ve ever come across. The issue here is the pure incompetence of POGMOL and the clowns running it. Refs have absolutely no accountably, don’t need to answer their mistakes and generally are massively protected. The standard is way beyond, below average. I don’t know how that improves to be honest, but it needs to start at grass roots and getting younger, better players involved. Fast tracking the good ones. VAR isn’t the issue, it’s the morons controlling it. Worth saying that without VAR, none of the issues from yesterday would have changed…

I don’t know the ins and outs of the deal for Lavia. But as an example, if City have set a buy back of £40m, we are legally bound to accept an approach from city of 40m. We could theoretically also accept an offer from say Chelsea at £50m at the same time and let the player decide where he goes. in the case of Tino, the buy back doesn’t activate until a certain date. So we aren’t legally bound to accept anything before that date. We can still sell him before, if we want.

What was the XG of Che’s chance? Got to be as close to 1 as there ever has been. Such a shame TWar isn’t still about to tell us it wasn’t a sitter because it has an XG of 0.3 Or something.

Without trying to go all MLG…. City don’t have to agree anything. They have a buy back clause so theoretically could get him for lower than the market rate (whatever fee agreed was), but we can accept other bids from other clubs. Simply means if they match the buy back clause (say £40m - as an example, I’ve no idea what it is), we have to accept their offer. We could still accept offers for more or less from other clubs, if we want.

I’m not so sure, he has a bit of a reputation of missing ‘sitters’, this one being the worse. he’s certainly below par in front of goal and if he’s our main man up top, on his own, it’ll be a big problem for us.

No, clearly not. however, dog & duck striker wouldn’t have missed that chance.

I cba to sit and watch them all, but the first 2 are much harder. The ball come at them at pace, this looped onto Che’s head, we’ll arm. Harder to miss than score there and he done it.

Yes, correct, a new striker and we win 😊

I honestly don’t think I’ve seen an easier chance missed in my lifetime.

He’s a battering ram, that’s about it. Perfect in a 2, not clinical enough as a lone striker.

I’d happily wage a significant amount of money that no other PL striker, or player actually, would have missed that header from 2 yards.

He seemingly gets taken off about this time every game.. fitness issues? It seems odd when chasing the game As he’s easily our most creative player.

0 composure. I’d expect an U9 to score that.

And that is why the club wanted to replace Che. Not clinical enough to score enough goals to keep us up. Terrible miss, one of the worst, if not the worst, I’ve seen.

It mutually benefits both clubs/groups. We’ll never, ever, be able to compete with City, so they can send their best young players to a PL side To develop and then buy them back at probably below market rate in a few years. Also, it’s helping them with FFP allowing them to buy the big name stars. Sensible business plan from all involved and I’m absolutely fine with it.

Strange one. Given he was at Chelsea an hour or so up the road and not Newcastle, I’m not sure I buy the ‘homesick’ thoughts. He was probably still living down here. Maybe he just didn’t like the coaches or set up. anyhow, their loss is certainly our gain. Fair play for all involved for letting the lad return, seems morally the right thing to do.

Cheers. Some really interesting points, especially around Romeu’s move to Girona and them being under the city Group.

Is anyone able to post this, for non athletic subscribers?

It’s 100% true, heard it first hand from a first team player. In the main, the discontent was from those who ain’t really good enough for us anyway… since they’ve stopped playing, it’s been noticible.

I’m fairness I hadn’t been playing much attention to them and have since seen the reaction which mirrors what you’re saying… so yeah, fair point… slightly different situations I guess.

This feels like a perfect opportunity to offer someone like Redmond or Moi as a make weight. Both of whom would do very well in the Dutch league, imo.

Just to put into perspective about how bad losing 9-0 is….. How Ralph has survived 2 of these, I’ll never know.

MLG, is that you?

Broja and AMN on loan, with proper money being spent on an AM, would represent really, really good sensible business imo. Especially if we can get a option to buy in both of those loan deals. An additional CB would be the cherry on top, imo.