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    2023/24 Beto

    https://www.grandoldteam.com/forum/attachments/scooby_brett-jpg.244190/
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    2023/24 Beto

    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.
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    2023/24 Amadou Onana

    Has never been convincing in a blue shirt. He must have some blinders for Belgium to have so many positive opinions around him.
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    2023/24 Beto

    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...
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    2023/24 Kevin Thelwell

    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...
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    Summer 2024 transfer thread.

    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...
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    2023/24 Sean Dyche

    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...
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    2023/24 Dominic Calvert-Lewin

    To be honest I was hoping Tom Davies would single-handedly drag Sheff Utd to survival at our expense.
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    2023/24 Jordan Pickford

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

    Match Thread Newcastle United v Everton - Waffle, Match Report, MotM Poll & more waffle

    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.
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    2023/24 Jordan Pickford

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

    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...
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    The Dyche Slap

    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.
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    The Dyche Slap

    Imagine letting a vaguely worded sensationalist article in the Daily Mail colour your opinion on anything whatsoever. Spitfire fondling beauts.
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    Past their Best 11

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

    Relegation 23/24 Thread

    There's an empty shirt or 3 in that Luton side when it comes to working hard. And some people reckon that's England material. Not a clue.
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    Carlo At Everton.

    Agreed. A lad could come through the academy, be the first name on the teamsheet and have a top earner contract waved under his nose. He'd still be straight over to the likes of Madrid or Barca. Mad to think there's people who can't get their heads around Ancelotti leaving and believe Everton...
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    New Badge Soft Launch

    It could be pretty much anything given the complete lack of detail. You can cram an awful lot of detail into something with just two contrasting colours and the human mind does a great job at filling in gaps. A coat of arms, a lion, a cannon...you can understand there's something of historical...
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    Quantum Change on the pitch with restricted investment

    The only real comparison to make is with Aston Villa. None of the others are in the same division or playing the same standard of opposition on a regular basis. So given that I can surmise that if the club appoints Gerrard as manager then we will also likely see a vast improvement once he is...
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    2023/24 Dominic Calvert-Lewin

    I like DCL and think he's in a massive rut with no confidence whatsoever. But to say he isn't getting decent chances is just absolute nonsense. As a team we are creating a lot of chances but the forwards and other attacking players are constantly fluffing their lines.
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