StanBalaban

If Bertie and / or Phil are indeed off, then surely we must have someone coming in?

4 minutes ago, StanBalaban said:

God I hate our website. Bought a matchpass and I know the game is over an hour away, but there's seemingly no indication where the match links are going to be. 

Nor can I find anywhere on the site to suggest the matchpass is active. UI sucks.

Found it. Was a faff.

God I hate our website. Bought a matchpass and I know the game is over an hour away, but there's seemingly no indication where the match links are going to be. 

Nor can I find anywhere on the site to suggest the matchpass is active. UI sucks.

6 minutes ago, one_ian_taylor said:

No Traore

Injured or could he be off?

It's occured to me that having someone of Monchi's standing in the game is not just great for recruitment, but seems to be pretty handy at clearing unwanted player off the books too.

Not meant as a dig at Purslow, but it could be that Monchi has a bigger swinging rolodex.

4 minutes ago, Villatillidie95 said:

WELCOME CLEMENT LONGLET

Long live Longlet!

12 minutes ago, StanBalaban said:

His missus is ridiculous

 

"Get off the stage Sergio. No one's here for you!"

48 minutes ago, Wezbid said:

Why isn't that top our shirt. It looks great! 

That is our shirt.

2 minutes ago, PieFacE said:

Yeah fair opinion. Not sure I rate him as highly as you. Though, who knows what Unai could do with him. 

Yeah, I wouldn't say he'd be anywhere near a dream signing, but it's always difficult trying to get quality into the squad when you have such a important player ahead of you in the queue. I'm thinking along the lines of a player that can score goals in the PL, would probably back himself to challenge Ollie, is young enough to play a high-intensity game, but also won't kick up a fuss when coming off the bench. 

Would definitely benefit from being coached by Unai too. 

Not many spring to mind.

9 minutes ago, PieFacE said:

If there's no one else available that we can get then probably. Purely as cover in the event Ollie is injured though, don't see him pushing Ollie for a starting place. Wouldn't be ideal. May as well have kept Archer.

I liked Archer, but Iheanacho has 6 years of regular Premier League experience under his belt, as well as nearly 50 international caps. They're in very different stages of their career and, right now, Iheanacho is the better player. Archer may become a better and more reliable player in due course, but asked to pick out of the two this season, I would pick Iheanacho all day. 

6 minutes ago, lexicon said:

Christ alive - that's millions and millions worth of cars. 

It is... and that's just the highlight of the collection, plus a load of bikes too. He used to live in Dubai, but worked across Australia maintaining wind farms. Sold his business for a lot of money and retired in his early forties.

Lucky bastard.

Anyhoo... shame we can't see Nicolo this evening, but I wonder if he's moving up towards a start against Liverpool?

9 minutes ago, RichW said:

I think I'd be happy with that but think i've seen on Twitter that Leicester want £20 million for him and I don't see the club spending that on a back-up striker. 

I think he'd be a positive addition to the squad, won't demand to be automatic starter yet be capable when called upon. Is experienced, but still young, and has a existing understanding with Tielemans. Archer went for 18m, so 20m is not a huge outlay.

Wages may be more of an issue, but there's a lot to be said about a kinda 'unsung hero' if you like. Danny Welbeck regularly starts for a team that finished above us for example.

36 minutes ago, lexicon said:

Nahhhhhhhhhhhhhh, not even close.

 

 

Bellisimo 

A client of mine in Denmark has quite the car collection in both DK and Australia, including a Diablo, a Singer Porsche, a 930 Turbo a 992 Turbo and an F40. I've yet to visit him since he left Dubai, but he says it's the best car by a considerable margin in his garage.

1 hour ago, Mazrim said:

The 308 GTS is still the best Ferrari ever made in my opinion. Its just perfect.

I had a Ferrari 355 for a while, a few years ago. It belonged to a Russian friend of mine that got it in a divorce. She had nowhere to park it, wasn't attached to it and couldn't drive a manual, so it lived with me for around 9 months. Did a weekend swap with a friend that owns a 328 GTS (a mild evolution of the 308) and it was just a beautiful machine. 

Incredibly slow and an effort to drive, it was nonetheless just great to look at, sit in and listen to. The 355 was leagues ahead in every other way, and that would easily get burnt-off by a Golf R32 of the day. However, for tuning heads and making you feel special, they were both amazing.

Would anyone take Iheanacho as back-up / challenge to Ollie?

8 hours ago, AvfcRigo82 said:

One of our most busiest, active and successful transfer windows that I can remember and an influx of world class talent coming through the door, but yet we have some proper misrable bastards still lurking on the forum counting down the remaining days of the window and hoping we don't sign any more players.

Pathetic comments like "that's us done then" or "I can't see anymore arriving now" & "people are going to be on for a huge disappointment if they're expecting more signings" 

- even when it's evident we were still short on numbers and the club confirming we're still active in looking to add to the squad.

Some people need to cheer the f*** up and stop being so negative and flippant!

 

I genuinely think we're a victim of being organised and prepared in our transfer activity.

Had we brought in Tielemans and Torres, but done deadline day deals for Zaniolo and Diaby, those same people would be ecstatic.  

Archer subbed off after 63 mins against Lincoln.

That Beto is **** massive. 10 Elphicks at least.

Huge 45 minutes for Dyche coming up.

3 hours ago, Kingman said:

Will this work in Mexico or do you need a VPN? 

Should work. I've bought match passes before and they've always worked (as well as Villa TV can work) here in Dubai.

For some reason I can picture Dougie giving this a go...

Holding the ball on his foot, before lifting it clear over the defence for an already advanced Ollie Watkins to shoot straight at the keeper's legs.

Genius.

3 minutes ago, sidcow said:

Look at @StanBalaban.  He's all like

 

 

 

 

Mate of mine's parents bought him a CPC 464 with a green screen monitor and tape drive. He was gutted.

3 hours ago, Genie said:

It’s a meme where someone is seen celebrating something very hard where they are not even the best at it.

I think it’s Atari users thinking they were the best back in the day but in the opinion of whoever created it they believe it to be inferior to a number of other devices (but still thought they were superior).

A bit like Everton having a massive party and pitch invasion after finishing 16th in the league.

No way was the ST inferior to the C64 or Spectrum. The Amstrad CPC was typical dog shit you'd expect from Alan Sugar.

I went from CPC 6128 to Amiga with the Batman pack, but it was playing Test Drive II on the ST that was the required catalyst to nag my parents for a new computer.

3 hours ago, CVByrne said:

Look at Bissouma was brilliant at Brighton under proper coaching and system, joins the madhouse at Spurs and under performs. 

Also system football means you need to know what profile the player has and what role they are to play in your system. Mings and Pau are both left footed CBs but are really different profile of player. 

And look at Bissouma this season, under some comparative stability. He's been one of their best players so far.