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Yep, I meant 6 figures.

I agree on Bakayoko, but a 6 figure sum is pretty vague and could mean anything from £100k to £999k. Chaplin, however, a highly rated 21 year old striker who we spent the whole summer trying to sign after selling a player for £1.25m, I don't think is so far fetched. We paid a sign on fee to beat...

We know Chaplin cost about £500k, Hiwula cost a 6 figure sum, and Bakayoko too, if reports are true. That's over half of McNulty's fee off the bat without considering anything else.

By that logic we can't compare the Finnish premier league to our Premiership. Which is stupid. UEFA have their coefficients and rank leagues accorrdingly, how do you think they allocate Champions League spots? The Premiership has been in the top 2 with La Liga for pretty much the whole time...

When you work out what we paid for Chaplin, Hiwula and Bakayoko, that sounds about right. Ogogo had a massive sign on fee and we signed pretty much every player we wanted to a new contract. MR certainly got to spend a lot of the McNulty transfer fee we received for McNulty.

Yep. Who can remember the year when Fulham battered Juventus to go through in the Europa League? Or the season Middlesbrough got to the final? We can trade exceptions to the rule all night. I’ll even give you Championship sides Birmingham and Wigan in there too! It’s fair to say the...

Liverpool got to the final, and a horror show from Karius cost them really. United won the Europa League in 2017. Man City were the statistically the best team in Europe last season and Liverpool could finish 2nd on 97pts this season. Crazy. In fairness, the La Liga teams dominated the Europa...

Yet, 4 English teams occupy all final places? We had 5 teams in Europe, all made it to the KO phases too. 1st to 6th in our top league would probably be comfortably in the top 3 of any European league with the exception of La Liga, who have 3 very, very strong teams at the minute. Having...

Not a chance. Burge has done far better than RCC since we let him go. RCC’s last game was for Swindon last season. Which tells you something about RCC. Now Burge is leaving, it would be nice not to discuss him! I wish him best the luck going forward. We just need a better keeper than both of...

Craig Bellamy?

If we have printed badges I’m 100% not buying a shirt!

I know we want more experience, but let’s not sign a few of dad’s army.

Because most our match ratings are based on emotion instead of data.

Which of the other top leagues can even boast 6 good teams? La Liga? Nope. Serie A? Nope. Bundesliga? Nope. Ligue 1? Nope. All are even less competitive than the Premiership.

No one can take away Ajax’s achievements from them. They beat Real Madrid, who were fighting for a 4th consecutive CL win and Italy’s best, Juventus who have possibly the greatest CL player in Christiano Ronaldo. You can’t really brush off Spurs’ own achievement in its own right. At 2-0, I had...

Our ‘dud of the match’ was our top goal scorer? Must’ve took you ages to collate all that ‘data’ but unfortunately it’s not very useful.

I like this signing. We need experience in the team and he’s scored a decent amount of goals for a defender which bodes well because Willis and Hyam didn’t score enough from set pieces. It’ll be sad to see Willis go, but he earned that move to the Championship and it gives us a chance to try...

After these two results, can the premiership rightfully proclaim itself the ‘best league in the world?’ I think so.

Stockdale is someone who’s had a long career and earned a lot of money so I imagine he probably would step down for an opportunity before he retires. A lot of footballs mention how not playing, being forced to train with reserve/youth teams impacts their mental wellbeing. It’s not all about the...

That signing on its own? Nope. But, if we’re able to sign players like that it suggests we have the funds to buy a lot of top end L1 players.