Pizy

And exhale. Now we sit back and pray that Clownlake seize the opportunity to get this club back where it belongs.

We really going to shut this down and not even try to play football? Just inviting all the insane pressure on to us for 30 minutes?

Madueke is so incredibly frustrating. Can’t wait until he’s hopefully nothing more than an impact sub next season. Kills so many promising attacks with his terrible decision making.

Man, I hope this is just one really long blip for Palmer that he’ll snap out of and be right back to his best next season. Because how he has gone from the most dangerous player in the entire league from anywhere in the opponent half to completely on the periphery of most games is extremely strange. He’s not injured, he doesn’t look fatigued. He’s just woefully out of form I guess. And without his magic we look extremely poor in attack.

This is pathetic, man. We can’t even get the ball, never mind complete a few passes. WTF have we been working on all week?!

We’re being completely dominated just like the first half of the Newcastle match. Our players look completely soft and lost. Forest look dangerous with nearly every attack.

They look like they have a clear plan and idea in the final third whereas we’re just playing sloppy, hopeful passes.

Complete lack of urgency from us again. Just passing it slowly across the back and not causing them any trouble at all in their half.

What’s the alternative, really? Guiu hasn’t played in months and George isn’t a striker as we saw last time he started up front.

Expect Forest will come at us guns blazing in the first portion of the match like Newcastle did a couple weeks ago to try to get an early goal. Get the crowd in a frenzy and try to rattle us. So we better be able to match their energy or this could be a horror show.

Looks like Maresca is going more attack oriented than safe and secure with Lavia. Sure would have been nice to have a proper striker up top for such a massive match instead of Neto being forced to play there…

I’m oddly relaxed about this game. If we win and get UCL footy I’ll obviously be excited (perhaps naively) because it could mean better transfer targets and Championship League nights have been badly missed. But if we fail to win it’s not likely to change much in terms of targets judging by who were linked with.

Morgan Rogers is the only one of those named by Jacobs that would genuinely excite me. Even Sesko, while talented, feels like a big risk to me. Gittens and Garnacho would be a massive letdown and I will be extremely skeptical about them until the season starts and we see them in action. Think Rogers has the potential to be a top player and it would be wise to go for him now before he has another great season and City or Liverpool come sniffing around. We’d probably have a free run at him this summer if Villa do indeed have PSR issues again.

Garnacho or Gittens would be monster flops. For the love of god, don’t do something silly…

Wasn’t the report yesterday that Seško is Arsenal’s top choice?

That Ben Jacobs tweet sounds pretty definitive that we aren’t after him.

Just like the Rodrygo rumors, the João Pedro ones were born and died within 24 hours basically. Shows you that nobody knows shit in regards to Chelsea and likely won’t until after tomorrow.

I’m not saying Wirtz is going to flop as I think he’s a brilliant player but I do find it kind of strange that of all the positions on the pitch Liverpool decided to go all out for an attacking midfielder. I never once thought to myself watching them this season that a high quality #10 type is the thing they’re missing. I figured they’d return to the CM/DM area after failing on both Caicedo and Lavia. They’re still pretty short in that area after Gravenberch. I guess this is a move with an eye on 2-3 years from now when Salah is gone and they have their new talisman to build the team around. so in that case it’s sensible. Though, if the reported 150m price is what they pay he pretty much HAS to become a superstar and one of the best players in the world.

In the same way that Nkunku and Felix technically can, yes. None of these 3 are wingers though so he’d be wasted there.

They’re such completely different players that you can’t really even compare them.

Santos and Estevão are super exciting for me. But I feel like people need to get real about Essugo. He’ll probably go out on loan never to be seen again before the PL even starts. With Caicedo, Enzo, Lavia, and Santos it’s hard to see when Essugo would play. Even with the customary Lavia injuries.

Looks like Wirtz is Liverpool bound. So Wirtz, Frimpong, and Kerkez likely secured before the window officially even opens. And they still will sign a top striker to replace that donkey Darwin Nuñez. That is an INSANELY good transfer window for a team that just walked the league. Should be an eye opener to our board if we win this weekend. if we secure UCL football we need to go all out on TOP players like that or we’ll finish 20 points behind them again.

João Pedro is yet another one of those “good player but is he what we need?” types. And the answer is no. Again, he’s the sort of signing that I’d welcome if we already had a serious #9 who he could either play off of or rotate for. This would basically be replacing Nkunku 1 to 1. A forward who has no defined position. Not an outright striker, not a natural #10, and not a winger. Maresca already didn’t quite know how to use Nkunku and Felix who are just that type of player.

Estevão looks like he could genuinely become world class if he settles in well here and is developed properly. Incredibly impressed once again by the compilation I watched of the match from last night. His comfort and ability on the ball is insane for his age as is the power he generates from his shots for such a tiny kid. My hope is that he is used and integrated straight away and isn’t treated like the other teenagers under Maresca where they see a few minutes here and there. If he settles in to a new country quickly we could have someone insane on our hands.

If our ownership/transfer handlers want to really piss this fanbase off they’ll go for Garnacho. I seriously can’t handle another bang average winger coming in and being horribly inconsistent.