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My thinking still is we need a No.10, a Tier 1 striker and a left back. Benny is good enough to juggle the rest.

Sure, that was my thinking. But it doesn't look good unless they've got a couple of big deals in stealth mode.

We don't get the TV money till the end of the season afaik. iirc there are some incremental payments but not sure how that is divvied out. I read somewhere we get some payments monthly and the rest at the end of the season. On another site it said it all comes at the end of the season. I've been trying to find out the last couple of days how and when the PL money drops.

Gayle will start in the preferred 4231. Rest will depend on how Benny sees the pre-season going. As Gloom was saying and I agree we need a N0.10. They did try to sign that Samiras who can play there afaik.

Can't see it. Ashley playbook is to see what happens and then fix in Jan if we're near the bottom. Our only hope is that Benny will threaten to walk and Fatley will come to his senses.

Think we'll get one more goodish player...From the looks of things a midfielder of some description. We haven't signed any Tier 1 players and I don't think we will. But I have gone into Ashleymindgames defence mode.

Start the season.

We won't be signing anything of the kind. We're scrabbling around for loans ffs! I can see us getting another midfielder because it looks like they are trying for that. But the 5 players we needed to go straight into what is essentially a Championship side...I can't see it now. Benny wanted the big deals done early. Think the budget always was 30 million ish. Till the window shuts we can hold out some hope that Benny will talk Ashley round I suppose.

Well we know their PL records. 1/4 and 1/6. Albeit Gayle didn't play many games as a No.9 under Pardew at Palace. I don't think either has enough about them. Gayle is slightly more dangerous and is probably a better player now. But generally speaking PL defences are more organised now bar the 2/3 stragglers at the bottom.

Will you lot be happy to start the season with Mitro and Gayle?

Can't finish, no pace, mental. These aren't really the characteristics of a striker.

If we can get 3 players chipping in with goals then the striker isn't so important. I'd like to think we will take the game to most teams at home ie we won't fuck about like WBA etc...

If you don't score goals you get relegated. Not sure Gayle is truly PL quality. Mitro is obviously shit.

We can only hope to get one quality player in by the looks of things.

'Optics'.

What does it mean? It means nothing. Musk is taking thousands to Mars.

The new character is a McGuffin.

Boris 'Go whistle'....(Divorce payment).

Good film that. I only really analyze Kubrick or Lynch cause they are heavily coded and rich in symbolism. You're missing half the film if you just do a surface reading. People are telling us stories via cinema and the moving image which is the dominant form of our times.

Twin Peaks

It's one of those films you have to watch 3/4 times to get all what is really going on. Kubrick was pretty in and high up in Masonic circles.

Navas is going back to Spain.

Put up a decent protest.