Recent content by ClausThomsen

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Were we? That's unreal. His first touch is consistently poor which should be a massive red flag for anyone who scouts him. Especially if he's being looked at to come into a very fast paced and (largely) technically excellent league.

Has never been convincing in a blue shirt. He must have some blinders for Belgium to have so many positive opinions around him.

From his debut he looked technically way off it. It's a genuine rarity these days to see a PL footballer with such a poor first touch. Nothing against him, he'd have been mad to turn down the riches the PL offers, but there is no way that he was actually scouted properly in terms of someone...

There's no way on Earth that whoever is in charge of transfers at this club did anything so old fashioned as to have Beto actually scouted. Absolutely reeks of a deal done on 'metrics' and arrangements with an agent. It's impossible to believe that someone sat and watched him play for any...

I don't think it's necessarily an easier option to buy cheap from abroad. Every single club is looking for those deals. And the English tax can be overstated - Palace have brought in Eze, Olise, Guehi and more recently Wharton for no more than you'd be paying for similar abroad. There's a lot...

Hard to say with Mina as we don't know for sure what was coming out of the medical / physio room. One thing in Dyche's favour is that he seems very reluctant to risk players breaking down when they're recovering. While DCL has hardly set the world on fire at least he seems capable of playing...

To be honest I was hoping Tom Davies would single-handedly drag Sheff Utd to survival at our expense.

Have any of them bought a goalkeeper who hasn't made a costly mistake or three? All keepers make mistakes every season.

I'm not sure it's as simple as that. Garden leave isn't something an employer can just do without certain conditions or agreements existing and would probably leave the club wide open to a constructive dismissal claim. It certainly wouldn't be the economic way of doing things you present it as.

Really? Brazil won a WC with Kleberson so I don't think the Euros with Declan Rice is a massive reach.

Nothing story sensationalised by a right wing fascist supporting rag. You can tell how big an issue it is by the quality of the websites that have ran with it - gossip aggregators with no journalistic credence whatsoever. Will obviously be weaponised by some super-bloos on here who are...

Football clubs do eat in restaurants with other customers in them. It's a thing. And expensive European resorts do have English speaking staff. It's not some remote backwater.

Imagine letting a vaguely worded sensationalist article in the Daily Mail colour your opinion on anything whatsoever. Spitfire fondling beauts.

Anders Limpar - we saw some of his best but arguably not his absolute peak