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Should be seen as such an outlandish proposition?! He loved his time here in 22/23, were a club that seems like promotion is more of a ‘when’ statement than an ‘if’ statement… … If it’s true that we could’ve signed him last season but Robins opted against it*, with a new manager it changes...

Good option for CB and LB. Unless we go for another You’d assume both Lati and Binks would be moved on too. 3 LCBs is a bit excessive and Lati probably doesn’t want to be 4th choice. It begs the question, do we sign another LB or would the backline be KKH-Thomas-Kitching-Doyle.

Cue Vince McMahon meme…

Don’t make promises you can’t keep! Which signing was it in 23/24 that you made a similar statement… MVE?! 😂👀

100% - most the forum must be bored too because the ‘off topic’ threads are popping! 😂

That and we made the playoffs. Even when the season looked done in December, it was important we finished as high as we could to demonstrate that our project was worth believing in. For both current and prospective players. Anyone who watched the Sunderland leg knows full well that we were the...

The people involved in transfers are back from holiday? 😂

2 years left on the contract is plenty. We are not in a position where we need to sell or risk losing out altogether. If we were unable to secure a good replacement, you’d be better off keeping him for the season in the hope we get promoted. £10-15m is more than reasonable and frankly, there’s...

I can’t see a situation where we buy KKH and keep MVE. Frankly, KKH would’ve been signed on a smaller fee than MVE and a healthy profit on MVE would make total sense. There isn’t much between them statistically. To summarise, MVE seems a better attacking fullback and KKH seems to be the better...

You don’t share starting positions. The season is 50+ games and players get injured so Sakamoto is never going to exiled. Besides, he’s too good to be sidelined completely. If we intend to play 1 striker, we need both wingers to get close to 7-13 goals at least. Sakamoto’s xG has been...

Honestly, Sakamoto has all the hallmarks to be a top role player. He isn’t a player who gives enough offensively imo. Dolan gives you more direct dribbling, chance creation, goalscoring, tackling, interceptions and recoveries. Sakamoto is generally a better crosser of the ball and had a...

For Dolan? He’s a free agent now. I’m happy to take their best player and a few million off of them. Dolan wouldn’t be signed for competition. He’s a better player than Sakamoto with more potential at only 23 years old. Looking at the stats, 7 goals and 6 assists (plus underlying data), you...

We looked at Dolan last season too, iirc! It wouldn’t surprise me if we went back in for him. Shows continuity with the recruitment strategy which is a good sign too.

The problem is that the operative word there is ‘if’. IF he’d stayed fit from 2021, he’d have probably left Everton to a bigger team for 10s of millions. As a physical striker, if your body is no longer up to it, you’re cooked at the top level.

He’s a yesterday man imo. For the wages he’d want, it’d be an expensive signing for us and he’s been plagued by injuries. Hard pass. Could be a good signing for a parachute payment team though.

He was good too. Post-World Cup, or even if Tuchel packs it in early, we should back him to do the job on a permanent basis. We shit the bed after losing to Greece.

Oh brother… Politics and economics isn’t a game that can be min-maxed, then copied and pasted across all countries. There isn’t a right or wrong answer and there’ll be time and place when ‘centrist’, ‘right wing’ or ‘left wing’ policies are correct. The Laffer curve is not an instruction manual...

The tax system ought to be optimised for revenue and the mistake the left often makes is that increasing tax % = more receipts. Labour is finding this lesson the hard way because their non-dom clamp down and private school VAT raids have backfired (3 or 4 x more students left than projected)...

Generally, we risk over diagnosing and potentially over medicating now. I hear a lot of anecdotes that children with behavioural issues are effectively allowed to run riot in the same of empathy.

Jonathan Haidt has done some good work on this. iPads/iPhones (and so on) are hugely effective pacifiers. They are genuinely terrible for child development!