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Just for the record, I prefer Lewis over Billy if it comes down to one or the other. Sadly it does not seem any Chelsea manager will have to make such a choice for real

If this is true then it could be a big positive. To rotate him in against specific opposition and see him perform in those games such that we rest players without jeopardising points, would make him an incredibly valuable squad member. How many times did he put the ball in the net from an offside position? A reasonable percentage of those offsides were avoidable. The right little tweak in his game leads to enough extra points to make a difference of 1, or maybe even two, league places.

Yep, we have a good side and I'm with those who believe that Timo and the Kaiser will be more productive next season so making us more competitive. It's only natural though to want to see additional improvements

Difficult, not impossible. 🙂

Whatever the reason that Tino has not had a look in yet the matter now seems to have been taken out of TT's hands. Training with the 16's is a very, very bad sign

Very difficult actually. See Real Madrid and Gareth Bale. Our players are not earning Bale size money but the problem remains the same . They won't take pay cuts, potential buyers won't pay their wages and will start negotiations from position of asking us to give the player away plus subsidise his wages.

The vaccine does not prevent everyone getting a covid-19 variant but no vaccine against any virus even claims to be able to do that. The percentages are heavily in your favour if you are vaccinated however vs being unvaccinated. Just looking at the Pfizer vaccine, more than 19 out of every twenty people who died of covid last week were not fully vaccinated. That means that your chances of dying from covid is more than 19 times higher if you are not fully Pfizered than if you are. The vaccine reduces your chances of contracting covid in the first place and reduces your chances of dying from it if you do.

That's 12 more transfer deals in one season than all of us have completed in the whole of our lives combined. Experience is experience. Whether it concerns a positive outcome or a negative one, it all adds to the knowledge base. My point stands that the board know way more about the business of handling transfers than we do. You are implying that the board made bad transfer decisions in 2015. Well that would depend on whether or not the board made the decisions. The answer to that question is just one item in a long list of things that we don't know. Meanwhile, of course the board know the implications of a smaller market this window Vs a more competitive market driven by a reduced fee next summer. Not even the original poster can really think they don't.

The board knows every single thing all of us put together know about football transfers and many, many times more. They live in reality with all facts at their disposal and have handled hundreds of transfer negotiations. This compares very favourably to our combined zero facts, and zero experience dealing with football transfers. It can only be a desire to see squad improvements, plus frustration that we don't know what is happening that cause you to go so far overboard with your comment.

Because he is not, and never was, good enough.

Poorly.

Hopefully including the sell-on discount. i.e. we still get the sell on percentage even if it is us signing him. Hopefully.

Thank you. I've only seen a very limited highlights package of her. In the puff piece when Nouwen signed, Emma described her as a ball paying CB. That is exactly the profile we need because, in my opinion, only Maren of our 'first choice' back four is truly comfortable in possession. In recent seasons we've conceded many chances and quite a few goals because defenders failed to control the ball, miscued after lashing at it wildly, or played very poor passes. Better footballers in the back four will improve the stability and the fluidity of our team. First and foremost recruits must be Champions League quality defenders but in the women's game, no less than the men's, to be a top-level defender requires being technically good too. If youngsters come through the academy with 'squad player' level abilities only that's one thing, but i see no point going to the market to recruit anything other than a player who ticks all boxes for her position. That's especially so given the fact that we have have a virtually unrivaled employment package to offer female footballers.

I'm hoping Aniek Nouwen will be a good contributor but I confess I don't now anything about her.

Not a fan of this deal for two reasons. Firstly, it is in the midfield and back four that we need to improve to catch up/keep up with Europe's elite. Secondly, I'm not a fan of Lauren James. She is Callum Hudson-Odoi; much potential but very little output up to now and little sign yet that this is going to change.

Interesting to hear Kalasinac being described as crap. No Arsenal fan I know was having it when I told them he didn't look to be worth signing back when he was being linked with them. Come to think of it, back then quite a few on here weren't having it either.

Arsenal going down would be life threateningly funny. Died laughing is not a bad way to go but Spurs being relegated would cost me too much. Can't live without my twice a season Spurs fix. Impossible. Meanwhile back to Hibs. Is mid July too soon for popcorn and AFTV?

I know what happened now. You quoted the comment and I highlighted it in your quote then selected 'Quote Selection'.

Which face are people most surprised to see back at Cobham? Charly Musonda took me aback. He'd fallen right out of my mind.

Strange.

It is ridiculous but I can't blame La Liga. Messi's popularity is a huge driver for their worldwide value. Losing him could cost them a lot in their next TV contract. Obviously they will soon have to face that issue anyway but I can understand them wanting to stave it off.

Every time the point I'm about to make is brought up it is knocked down by referencing EU law but I do not believe and never have, that that is an insurmountable barrier. Football needs an NFL style salary cap or it will eat itself. This being a multi national and multi tiered sport, unlike gridiron, the cap would need to take account of income tax rates and be layered so that top five leagues get one level of cap, next tier down gets a lower cap and so on. This has to come.

Agree with this apart from the last bit. Don't see what anyone ever saw in Griezmann.

If Griezmann is a god, I'm an atheist.