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The bloke hasn't even been here a season man. Not even a full year. The obsession with painting him as the bad bloke who has a vendetta against Howe is weird. Especially as the two seem to be working perfectly well together.

I mean that's the DoF structure working as it should.

Dragging the lad in press conferences and lamenting his application doesn't seem like the best way of drumming up business at a good price.

Here's hoping. I doubt it though, I think he'll be way off the pace fitness wise.

The lad has got stuff going on that it would take more than just Howe to sort out imo. And it would be an incredibly expensive experiment. I think we're well out of it. If he'd take £50k a week until he'd proved himself, go for it, but as it stands it's a non starter for any club with sense imo. He's playing for his boyhood club and he couldn't give a shit.

Lads, we're just gonna have to wait til the end of the summer window to make an assessment of Mitchell. If it transpires that we don't have a list of targets and the bloke has just been brought in to sell sell sell, then I'll hold my hands up at the end of August and admit he's a plank. But if I'm right and we have a list of targets that we're laser focused on, and won't be distracted by "ooo so and so's available, let's just get him in cos we're temporarily short", that's the sort of club we should hope to be. Much rather that than be the sort of club that signz Rashford on loan and pays "a significant proportion" of his £350k a week as some sort of experiment/rehabilitation exercise.

Cos he's not a target.

It's about targets being available. We want good players. Good players aren't made available for sale by their teams in January. The deal Juventus are making is a January transfer deal - get in a warm body. We're not in that game anymore. If our targets aren't available we shouldn't sign anyone at all. Which is what we're doing.

It was a quote from Rocky, you fucking div.

Not even close.

It would be a pretty incredible way of drumming up PSR headroom tbf.

I mean we absolutely need rid of these players, and we're finally starting to shift them on. Some of you just aren't ready for a how much of a Hot Mitch Summer it's gonna be. Thankfully, I've packed speedos and shades.

I'm not arsed about Miggy but I think we could easily come to regret Kelly going. Especially in a world where Botman is suddenly not getting minutes - what's going on there? Hopefully he starts v Arsenal and plays a blinder.

Seems unlikely. If you assume we're buying a good player, his current club won't want to lose him, and they definitely won't want to lose him with a day of the window left to replace him. We'd probably have to pay over the odds in a month where you already tend to pay over the odds.

Hope is reporting that a deal is "very close" as well.

Spurs 16th. 7 points clear of relegation, but in free fall at the minute.

Aye I still think there's a player there. He's had an absolutely terrible run of injuries, coming back for 2 games where he gets a few minutes, and then another injury. His confidence is shot, he's completely off the pace, and his form is fucked as a result.... Which isn't good for your confidence. It's a shite spot he's in.

What I'm saying is, I don't think we're as far ahead of the "lesser" clubs as we'd like to think. We're getting by off the back of Howe's coaching. We need a couple of big windows to establish a gap.

Spurs and Man United are both being mismanaged horribly. With a decent coach Spurs would be in the top 5. Who knows with Man United, but there are already signs Amorim can get them playing.

You could say that for a lot of teams this season. I think the reality is that PSR not only stops a potential challenger from challenging, it allows lesser teams to catch them up, at least on a first 11 basis. The only thing keeping us ahead of them is our incredible run of successes on what little recruitment we've been able to do. The league has been dead competitive this season, with lots of the "lesser" teams not looking that much less anymore.

It's not half arsed or a lack of effort like, I'm not having that. Fulham are a decent side and they've caused plenty teams problems this season, and they just did that to us.

Ah aye, it's nobody's fault. It's just the reality of a PSR constrained club that had been criminally neglected for years. All of the teams we're competing with are ahead of us in terms of the squad. Some of them miles ahead.

Villa getting beat. We need them and Chelsea to both lose this weekend.

With a proper squad we could do that. Or at least play 100% for 80% of the game and then just manage the game out. But we keep starting games with an unchanged first 11, cos there's fuck all that comes after it. Botman is the only change to the starting lineup we could have made today that you wouldn't have felt we'd weakened the first 11 significantly. Maybe Trippier too.

Why we didn't sell Kelly when we had the chance is BEYOND ME.