Danny

The purchase of Vicario gets worse every time Spurs play Arsenal

I’m sure both will score now I say this, but Martinelli isn’t good enough to start for Arsenal anymore and Brennan Johnson’s finishing is woefully underwhelming.

It’s funny how things work out. If we were able to sell Toney last season we’d likely have made a lot more money on him. I think regardless of the interviews he released which didn’t help his case, PSR issues have driven his price down and teams are reluctant to spend big on him due to the contract length. It’s a shame he’s going out to retirement, I’m sure the money is life changing but he’s a top Premier League forward and could achieve a lot more even if he just stuck around and left on a free. For us he’s been phenomenal and this is one transfer that ultimately we’ve got more out of having him than we would likely get out of selling him. His goals in the Championship sent us up, his goals in our first two seasons up were integral to our survival and he helped create an atmosphere where little old Brentford could play sides like Arsenal, Liverpool and Man Utd and bully them off the pitch. He definitely stayed around for too long, but his impact will be missed. The fee is small but along with the Raya fee it helps cover the signings we’ve made and the increase in amortisation. Looking forward to seeing the new big man Igor Thiago when he returns from injury but for now I’m happy to see Wissa, Mbeumo, Schade, KLP and Carvalho battling it out.

San Sebastian > just about everywhere, struggle to find a better city in the world

That was fun whilst it lasted

And so it begins

What I mean is you are the 4th biggest club in the country, everyone knows how big you are. But what I read just seemed like you were being presented a mysterious sleeping giant in the way that a Newcastle, Leeds or Sheffield Wednesday are portrayed lol

Great news to see convictions, but also, just 3....feels like it was entire stadiums at one point

I'm sure I read somewhere that the consortium view Everton as a "sleeping giant", but it came across as if only they would view Everton as a sleeping giant, and no one else would view them as a sleeping giant...and also...the 4th biggest club in the country

Was just a reference to the slave trade

Numbers released and it looks like the following is the preferred line-up and tbh it’s exactly what we need imo. Pickford Walker - Stones - Guehi - Shaw Trent - Rice - Bellingham Saka - Kane - Foden

A match people will read too much into. 2nd of two games used to give players minutes, try out different positions and not necessarily play to our strengths. Let the drama ensue

Can’t play Mainoo against teams that sit deep. He’s better in open play when teams press, not got the passing ability to break midfields down and then we rely too much on Foden who don’t forget plays in front of Rodri and KdB for City.

Lets be honest if there was one city outside of London you’d expect to be associated it would be Liverpool lol

Let’s be honest it’s fair value too, £68m in total. You’ve done the right thing, as a club that doesn’t have the backing of an entire state or the income of sides like Arsenal and United, you have done well to protect your assets and now you can reinvest should he leave. I actually can’t remember the last big player Palace sold, so you’ve done well really.

Genuinely mental. A genocide is happening, Israel are willingly carrying out a genocide on men, women and children. And a lot of children.

So is it top 6 or top 4?

I think there’s a case to be made that Italy will have the strongest defence in the tournament, at least on paper, assuming they play with a back 5 that has Barella and Jorginho in front of it. Their front line leaves a bit to be desired but then they’ve not always needed a strong forward line to do well in tournaments.

It will be Guehi as we have seen already

He might be exactly what you need, especially with your potential points deduction. But I can’t say I’ve ever been impressed with his teams. His Swansea side were a dull watch that looked to break the game up, his Forest side were the same whilst admittedly doing well on the counter, that is when they actually countered. But I think you need a long-term option and imo it isn’t him.

Expect some absolutely dull football

About right imo, good player but a lot of quality ahead of him

I didn’t want to comment too soon cos as easy as it would be to throw at dig at them considering how condescending German fans can be at times about football outside of Germany, I’d imagine Dortmund’s support would be very good at challenging this sort of nonsense.

Yeah there really arent any maverick type players, no Bergkamp’s or Zola’s.

Was that Nick “his own backyard is in Saudi” Ball?