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I wouldnt be adverse to them doing this for the FA Cup now they've scrapped replays. Youd imagine the revenue a Cambridge would get for playing Manchester United on BBC would far supersede a replay against a Stoke. The chances of a famous upset like what Bradford did a decade ago now would be multiplied too.

It seems like good succession planning at face value. Not the best with his feet but we all saw at the Euro's how good his shot stopping is and he should be good to watch in the Premier League.

He's not been the same since his injury, so I wouldn't have the expectations of seeing the same player that was excellent just before and during the covid era. Which given the fee I wouldn't expect any of you to have anyway. Hopefully he remains injury free and you get a good impact player.

I get why he wants to join us. With Kane's form seemingly dipping since April and hardly being a spring chicken there is an opening for an English striker to really make a statement over the next two seasons for the England squad. He probably looks at the way we've developed players as the ideal catapult for him. As for the team, well two wing backs, two center backs and two attacking midfielders are far more urgent position that need filling. I dont know if competition would benefit Mateta either who seems to thrive on confidence. It's one of those moves that feels like we will say in three or four years was a good buy but the start will have a "whats the point" vibe about it. As we've seen with Dean Henderson.

In light of the developments with John Textor this week I did some digging on his other clubs, and he's drifted from "his hearts in the right place" to "he's too erratic to own a football club" for me. He's put the whole Lyon team up for sale as he needs to raise 100m euros to appease FFP. He's spent over 100m euros on players this summer (about 50m on Forest backup players to help them hit PSR!?!). I know a lot of this will be amortised, but it's an odd approach to take. He's also facing a six year ban from Brazillian football after making allegations of corruption. Kieran Maguire recently compared him running Everton to that of Cellino running Leeds United. There's a lot of red flags here.

Newcastle seem to be very good at talking to the media but there doesn't seem to be much action. Guehi's suppodesly chilled about the whole thing and isn't forcing a move. If they don't pay 75m then Guehi stays, and even at this late stage, we still may say no anyway. Eze I think stays now his release clause has expired.

It's frustrating that we finally have a Manager who looks like he could rise to the very top in the game and we persist with this strategy of throwing away the first month of the season, and often the first half of the season, by waiting until the very end of the window in the hope we can higher quality players become affordable. Saturday showed we missed a maverick in the front three but the bench was the bigger concern. Despite during last season the lack of quality in the second XI being evident for app to see, we've let nine players leave and have signed three. We need at least five players (two wing backs, two 10's and a centre back) but I imagine we will end up with two. Another disaster window and the blame once again has to be with Dougie and Parish. Nobody begrudges Joachim Anderson being sold now the facts are out, he's 29 soon and being offered 6m over 6 years, you can grab that bag for 32m Joa. But if he's leaving why wasn't Lacroix or Chalobah ready to be signed as a replacement? It's absolutely no coincidence that the only time we were in the top five at Christmas was when we were ready to go for the first game of the season.

If you had told me when we signed Jordan Ayew after his relegations for Aston Villa and Swansea that we were going to get six good seasons out of him and we would sell her for 4 times what we paid for him. I genuinely have told you that's a more stupid prediction than Leicester winning the league. Yet here we are. I think he'd be a good addition for any side in the relegation battle as a squad player. Obviously the fee is a little mental, but there's too much of an emphasis on pacey skillfull young inconsistent wingers with little experience at this level amongst fans when experienced skillfull intelligent grafters like Ayew, Schlupp and Townsend are useful in a more variety of situations.

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I think overseas we can find players slightly cheaper. I guess we're trying to sell him because he's 28 and he's not the quickest. I'm a little surprised about it, partly because I thought he was going to be here for 5 or so more years, but also because what he lacks in pace he makes up in other areas. Good distribution, good movement with the ball, he's physical, he's a leader and great at shithousery. I think he will be a very good signing for Fulham.

They didn't need a number 10. They signed a number 10. They can't register new number 10. Sounds like modern day Barcelona.

Hes far too good for Fulham. Such an odd transfer.

I'll feel a lot more confident this is legit when Ornstein confirms it as opposed to Romano, but assuming it is real, it speaks volumes that nobody close to Eze leaked this deadline.

1. Man City 2. Arsenal I do think it's more likely Arsenal do it this year than the last two, you just can't underestimate Pep galvanising this group for one last hurrah. The League will get a lot more exciting when he leaves. 3. Man United 4. Newcastle United 5. Liverpool 6. Tottenham Hotspur 7. Aston Villa 8. Chelsea 9. West Ham I think this batch of six are a really open field, United could finish third by default through errors elsewhere and they could finish ninth by being the most disorganised of all those sides. There's only a greedy six on paper now. It's going to be a intriguing battle. 10. Brighton & Hove Albion 11. Brentford 12. Fulham 13. Crystal Palace 14. Bournemouth 15. Wolves I think these teams have shown enough over the last 18 months to not be fearful of relegation but also accept its going to be hard to breach the top nine due to financial constraints. I have us a lot lower than all the experts just as an insurance policy incase Glasner goes to a Bayern, Spurs, United etc who could all have openings and would be impressed by his CV if he can keep this momentum going. If he does stay though then we could really finish anywhere given the way we dismantled West Ham, Man United, Newcastle and Aston Villa with effective ease whilst beating Liverpool with an effective gameplan. I know they had injuries to key players, but so did we. 16. Everton 17. Nottingham Forest 18. Leicester City 19. Southampton 20. Ipswich Town I feel bad putting the recently promoted three in the bottom three given how they steamrolled through The Championship last season, but the teams from 9th to 17th all feel stronger than they normally are at the minute. It doesn't help that Leicester look worse on paper, Southampton's manager still has a question mark against him and may be a Beta version of Kompany whilst Ipswich really have no experience at this level. Still, it would be great if some of them could stay up. Top Scorer - Haaland Top Assists - Saka Most Clean Sheets - Raya Most Goals Scored (club) - Arsenal Most Goals Conceded (club) - Southampton Most Own Goals (club) - Leicester

4-1. Penalty won and scored by Muani.

Two quick goals in the last ten minutes for PSG. It's taken them a while but they're in second gear now. 3-1.

Scrap that, VAR cancelled the goal.

After taking an immediate lead, PSG find themselves 2-1 down to Le Havre before the hour mark.

PSG kick the season off and they havent let Hakimi empty his suitcase from the Olympics.

He talks with his feet this one.

Good end to the Girona game, both Girona and Betis were playing like it's 0-0 in a knockout game with five minutes to go. Abel Ruiz had a great chance to win it but he hit the post.

Peter Ridsdale was on Talksport praising the job Ryan Lowe had done just last Tueaday.