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Dutch

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  1. Summer 21, 22, and 23 and January 23 (Trossard, Kiwior, and Jorginho) were big windows. Serious cash was splashed for a club outside the CL and massive upgrades arrived. Last summer…. Not do much. A dud: Calafiori showed promise when healthy, but he was rarely healthy. Merino, signed to play left eight, became more valuable as a striker because we had neglected the position. Then January was nothing. If club was really keeping the powder dry, they need to use it now. Striker, winger, and a defender who can get play LB (or cover those who can) are all needs, and I’d like another creative MF, too.
  2. Credit to Lando, bouncing back from his fuck up last weekend with a flawless Austrian GP, leading every session. Previous seasons (and maybe earlier in this one) he’d have made a mistake when Oscar was piling on the pressure early. WDC gap is 16 heading to Silverstone, should be a fun one.
  3. The HALO did its job again in the F2 sprint race.
  4. You never know with transfers. In 1999, Arsene Wenger signed a skinny kid with a scant 23 goals to his name in 121 career appearances to date. That kid? Thierry Henry, who went on to become Arsenal’s leading scorer. Mo Salah had 29 in 65 in his two years at Roma when Klopp brought him to Anfield (Sesko has 27 goals in 64 appearances for Leipzig, for comparison). Granted, Salah was £30m and not £70m, and I’m by no means saying Sesko will be those players. There are other transfers that looked certain to work out but didn’t. You just don’t know. Both our main striker targets have risk. Sesko is 21 and very raw. The other one is 27, has been a scoring machine, and is in his prime, but the majority of Gyokeres’ goals came against clubs not named Benfica, Porto, or Braga. In other words, he’s feasted against minnows of the Portuguese league. Long story long… The club and scouts have been looking hard at both Sesko and Gyokeres for several years and have identified these two as the prospects. Our hit rate on transfers has been pretty good of late, as has Berta’s track record when he was sporting director at Atlético. In the scouting dept etc we trust. But this transfer had better hit, whomever they decide to sign.
  5. MLS in reply:
  6. Absolutely RE Saliba. And with Gabi XL coming off hammy surgery, we needed CB cover with Tomi MIA and Calafiori injury-prone.
  7. Cliff Notes version for those of us who refuse to give musk clicks?
  8. #HaleEnd #OneOfUs
  9. £9.3m isn’t bad for a PL-proven MF. He is 31, though. If we’re signing Brentford players, I’d still rather Mbeumo. Likelihood of him having another injury-fee season wasn’t great, and then there’s the whole “other thing.” Zubamendi is his replacement, which is an upgrade.
  10. Open face muff sammiches. Opa’s jap & chee, hot sauce (was introduced to Pepper Plant sauce recently and can recommend). Muffs got a bit burnt; nothing a bit o’ knife scraping can’t fix.
  11. The Iceman is still my favorite footballer. To think he was a £7.5m transfer. What a player.
  12. Waaaay too many sides, not enough meats. Rookie move.
  13. 💯 And that list doesn’t mention MW6 is Newcastle. Start 5-0-0 +8, and we’ve laid down a marker for the season. OTOH…, 1-2-2 -2, and it’s “oh shit here we go again.” Personally, I’d take 3-2-0 if it was offered RN. We haven’t won at Anfield since 2010 IIRC, 115fc should return to form (esp w/ Rodri back and their ~ £500m summer spend), Leeds will be sky high to be back in the PL, manure always seems a tricky fixture for us, and Forest are on the rise. Not an easy start, but you gotta play all 19 home and away at some point. COYG
  14. Parma to sign Carlos Cuesta as manager. https://xcancel.com/FabrizioRomano/status/1935080312561684779#m Sucks for us, but great for him. Dude impressed me during All or Nothing as a future manager.
  15. Santi was special.
  16. Forest, currently owned by a dude who owns multiple clubs, are trying to get Palace kicked out of Europa because multi-club ownership rules. Totally unrelated: Forest would replace them in Europa. Pots, kettles, etc must be a difffrent color in Greece or something. https://www.thetimes.com/sport/football/article/crystal-palace-europa-league-nottingham-forest-john-textor-bhnd3bjtm
  17. That’s a nice £5m bit of transfer business if it gets done. Surprised he would want to be a backup when he clearly could start at a lot of clubs. And the assist, a beautiful chipped pass that sent him in on goal, came from Zubimendi. Massive. Some night call it an XL signing, in fact.
  18. Dude is surprised Whataburger fucked up his order? Where’s he been living the past 70 years?
  19. Cap and Zubimendi gonna convince Isak to force a transfer to The Arsenal, forming #SociedadNorth.
  20. I mean, the dude’s yacht his so big he has to launch a smaller boat from said yacht so he can enter Monaco harbor. I’d bet Lance’s F1 salary : Lawrence Stroll : : my kid’s $10 a week allowance: me.
  21. When done right, Fil-A can slam. Case in point: The hospital where I work has a CFA in the cafeteria that (/noracist) is staffed almost entirely by older African-American ladies. The cooks, the register, etc. They are the friendliest, know everyone by name, and know your usual order. And they by God have ruined me on every outside CFA: Every sammich (spicy or reg) is shatteringly crispy. Fries are made to order, cooked 2x as long as at a reg CFA, and are handed to you “burn your fingers” hot. Oh, and there’s no such thing as an 8-piece or 12-piece nug; you’ll always get minimum 10 or 14, respectively. Ask for two sauces? You get handed five. In other words, the anti Popeye’s experience. Unrelated: I have gained 15 pounds since it opened.
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