I think players like to have ‘brands’ these days and go for a more individual number. See Hamer with 38 and Palmer with 45, or higher up the pyramid, Trent Alexander-Arnold with 66 and Phil Foden with 47.
I’m willing to write any issues off these summer as teething issues for the new ownership and we’ll see how things are next year. The financial outlay on the playing staff is the most important thing and King has delivered big time.
You do certainly have to question how we’re affording this at this point and whether this is us spending the Gus money before selling him. Seems like a massive outlay for us.
It’s pretty piss poor that we haven’t announced anything in regards to ticketing for the first home game of the season and haven’t made away tickets available for Middlesbrough tbf. It’s only 12 days away.