Melissa Reddy's big piece about our dealings through the summer mentioned how highly regarded he is by all the top sides. Seems as though Newcastle nipped ahead of everyone in that January window
Mad that he's going to turn out to be an even weirder signing than Bob Davies or whoever he was. Think we'll end up signing someone else in January and sending him back.
We've been legitimising them by challenging them over the years. Think there might be a bit more of a sports washing conversation when they walk the league this season
Unless he gets hit by a bus or something he's going to break every record this season. Not even that unfeasible that he breaks Dixie Dean's record, which is as ridiculous as it sounds
Yeah it's not fair on Carvalho to be starting him really, especially when we still haven't decided if he's a forward or a midfielder. But I can't think of other sides in the league who let sides play through them like we do. Feels like arsenal/ united of last season who are trying to build a philosophy but it hasn't clicked yet
The drop off still doesn't make sense though, there's 11 really good players starting today. I think we're trying to force something tactically when it's clearly not working
Think that showed two sides with different pre-season fitness plans. Our thing about 'pre-season continuing into the first few weeks of the season' feels like a clanger
Might be worth going for valverde if Bellingham goes there.
We've got a ready-made excuse for not signing Bellingham anyway by not getting top 4.
Arh we were going to sign him, honest
The fees we put up for Alisson and VVD were both serious, record breaking in in their positions. Like I said before, I think it's going to boil down our pitch to him, I can see Bellingham opting for us because he seems sound
This is Dortmund's plan, and you can't blame them for it. Just have to cross our fingers that our 'pitch' is enough. As people have said before, that same plan did work with Virgil and Alisson