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All sold for a combined £5.5m. You may want to find some better examples.

Why stop at £700m….how about…

"Look at all this extra work I won't do". Unbelievable.

So the club make an effort to be more transparent and offer the DoF to several local journalists to communicate with the fans and some people are looking at this as a bad thing? FFS, let's go back to the Ashley and Llambias days.

Which is exactly what we did with Minteh. We got lucky with him in that his value rose so quickly but this has obviously been the tactic all along given the amount of young players we've signed for the under age teams so I'm calling more bullshit. Plus he refers to himself in the third person and ewerk thinks that anyone who does that is a massive cunt.

"Ok guys, now for my next song, I think there's a point in every relationship where things sometimes start to go wrong. These feelings can lead to tensions and suspicion but it's nothing that can't be sorted. I think Elvis gets this..... Just about.....right....." 🎶 We're caught in a trap I can't walk out Because I love the salary too much, Eddie Why can't you see What you're doing to me When you don't believe a word I say? We can't go on together With suspicious minds (suspicious minds) And we can't build this long term project On suspicious minds.... 🎵

I've just had a proper read and it doesn't sound great from that perspective. There seemed to be quite a lot of "Eddie's smart enough to know..." and what he was basically saying was "Eddie should be smart enough to know that I'm right". I mean the idea that we need to be more like a Brighton is spot on. He's been at big clubs and if he's come here and said our scouting network isn't up to scratch, and our way of assessing players isn't right, then I believe him. We have to start identifying players before their price goes daft. This was very much a "that window wasn't my fault" interview though, and we've seen Howe saying pretty much the same from his point of view, which doesn't look too clever. Let's see what happens. I don't mind there being a tension between DoF and the head coach - there probably should be. Especially initially when Howe isn't used to it. But if he leaves in a huff and thinks he can go on to a bigger club and not find himself in the same situation, he's kidding himself.

Sounds like Mitchell is going to hoover up a whole bunch of 18 year old wonderkids with the 70mil instead, great news for the Official Loan watch Thread™.

This is coming from a lazy soak in the bath. I was rushing to try and get the forum caught up so I could get some Pornhub in while the house is empty. Have that mental imagery with your cornflakes

Oof when CT is tumble drying your undies, you know you've REALLY gone off on one.

He also asks himself questions then answers them. Does toonotl think that's another sign of a massive cunt? He sure does.

MF takes a relaxing break, he's earned it. Highway agency confused as to why there's a 30 mile traffic jam extending down the A9 today.

Well, got the rejection call. Feedback was that I was very close, I had the best written application, they thought the presentation was excellent, but I missed the mark on three questions and there was a better candidate on the day answering these. They recognise my lack of preparation was a major handicap and they recommend I keep on applying. Personally think its daft to choose someone on the basis of 3 questions over accumulated experience over 20 years, but there you go. Oh, they didn't like the lesbian strap-on response, so if I ever post about an up coming interview, please, please remind me not to use this again. 👍

Agreed. They way companies go on you'd think folks WFH weren't working and were just spending time on football forums etc.

i believe the term is “pearl diving”

oh god, you lying spent with webs of poached spunk floating all around you. Dear me.

I heard you were stood at front of the stage holding your cigarette lighter aloft when he was singing at the stack the other week.

Mitchell has come in at a bad time and left with having to burden the blame for a pathetic window. I get his comments in that context, it's the sort of thing you'd expect from a top exec who's used to being successful. If they can make it work, having two or more powerful characters with strong opinions can be a good thing for any company. If Howe does decide to walk then he will have shown he's not ready for the top level yet because he has to learn to work in these power corridors, whether it's with Mitchell or someone else. As for Mitchell himself of course it's too early to judge. I like the fact he's being straight about things that need to change, that's what he was brought in for. We're reading too much into his comments about Howe and England as well. It's part of his job to be prepared for the manager's exit. I hope Eddie stays here for many years, but things can change very very quickly in football and any club should have a plan for when their manager leaves. It would be completely stupid for the club to say 'all our plans depend on Eddie staying and we're in the shit if he takes the Englang job so we will beg him to stay, that's the plan'.

Shields Gazette reported today that he had a scan this week and it's looking positive - should be back playing shortly after the international break

Craig Hope was KD’s Ditto

Call the joiner, Fish needs help

Not as quick as your three colleagues!

It's all the lads down south who are getting hysterical about this. Too much smashed avo on toast, I reckon.

Waiting for point number 2 though.

Pissy pant brigade are out in force I see Think you are all blowing this WAY out of proportion. The days of a Keegan type manager running the show are over if you want to be an elite club. Sure, Eddie Amanda and co have all rolled their sleeves up since the takeover and done very well to get us where we are, but Mitchell is right that we need an elite world wide network that is getting us the likes of Bruno, before he goes to Lyon. Ive said before this window was a perfect storm with Ashworth gone, Amanda going, PSR and Mitchell coming in late. People who seem to know their football stuff very well, insist that we have two first class operators in Eales and Mitchell. I have no doubt whatsoever that next summers window will be a great success. Hopefully Eddie is or gets onboard with the set up as the long term growth of the club, (particularly trying to catch up financial wise), is much more important than any one head coach.

August 2024: Big Mitch: “How about Disasi?” Edwardo: “Guehi please Mitch” Big Mitch: “I had him at Monaco. big, strong, quick. He’d fit in lovely at the RCB” Edwardo: “ONNNNLLYYYY GUEEEHHHIIIII” Big Mitch: “Okay, chill Eddie. I’m only supporting anyway. It’s on your head. Remember that. REMEMBER THAT. I might also mention it to some local journos just in case I forget whose fault it was” October 2024 - after a bad run of results. Big Mitch:

They're always going on about how we rewrite history.....

Abomination seems about right for ours too

aye that's the one? surely that's not KD?

Really good news, he links up with Isak so well.

There is cheaper options, have you seen my ship called 'dignity' yet?

Be warned. from Billy Connolly's autobiography, one of his mates died having a wank in the bath - just sayin'.

This is the article I read. Honestly, I didn't find that much to be up in arms about. There's certainly some tension between Howe and Mitchell. And perhaps Eales too. It could be a toxic power struggle forming. But it could also be the ingredients for a healthy dynamic between them. I guess we'll see. I'm hopeful that it'll work out.

I think the event itself is a good thing - the more transparent the club is, the better. Much worse would be to have windows go by and just keep sending Howe out to front everything up and nobody ever hear from the bloke that's in charge of our entire recruitment strategy.

https://archive.ph/DKs8K Athletic article is ever so slightly more nuanced than Hopey the Shit Stirrer’s

He's saying that we've spent £250m+ and made no player sales, and that that approach isn't fit for purpose. June 30th is all the evidence he needs to point to to say that he's right. We built up a pressure on player sales where we had to get rid of two players, both of whom we didn't want to have to sell, and they are now immediate starters for other PL sides, at least one of which is probably our competitor for European spots. That's what he's saying can't continue. I don't really see how you can argue against it. He's not saying we bought poorly or that our scouts didn't have success in those instances, or suddenly became bad. He's saying we need to cast a wider net so that we can become a player trading club that identifies talent early, buys it, and has the ability to trade it away so that PSR concerns fall away.

I’m on a run up to Elgin and Inverness- currently taking a break just outside Blair Atholl. The night sky up here absolutely immense- so many stars visible without the usual light pollution. ( By the way, when did the Sweaties decide to copy the West English and start putting the local gibberish names on road signs, as well as proper English? ).

winds the fuck up out of me this does. i don't even give a flying fuck about chelsea blatantly taking the piss, or man city for that matter. it pisses me off that I've got massive reservations about being owned by the saudis but I'm prepared to shamelessly overlook them in exchange for just ONE trophy (I don't really count the fairs cup, I was only a bairn and can hardly remember it) before I depart this mortal coil. time's running out. stop pussy footing about you PIF cunts, masters and his mates are on the verge of collapse anyway.

Unreal. Everton and Forest points deductions. Chelsea sell hotels and declare them as PSR profits and it's fine. Bring back the European Super League.

I've always felt I should have been born French.

Not sure it's just yanks who seem to not be able to handle drinking. When I worked at the German bank me and my boss used to sit on the same desk as two risk managers for a while who were old school city drinkers and we used to go out of a Friday lunchtime for 2 or 3 pints - not exactly a skinful but anyway. We got called into the general manager's office and as a result of his Friday walk around the office he said our desk stank of beer and could we cut it out. When we mentioned we only had 2 or 3 he was absolutely shocked as he'd assumed we'd had one at the most. We just toned it down for a while with no further action.

Feel better about yourself? He's been made a multi-millionaire multiple times over by being extremely terrible at his job. If anything you should be ashamed of yourself that you couldn't make millions off the back of face planting the bottom rung of the career ladder tbh

Seems about right for us.