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  1. ThunderPower_14
    What a great ball in and such a finessed finish! Love another scorer on debut!
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    While I generally agree that loans aren't ideal when you're in the top league, an experienced professional with 200 games of Premier League football under his belt will put us in a better position to buy someone of his quality at the end of the season instead of having to loan. If relegation wasn't still a potential threat I'd prefer we develop our own players, but for now it's important to establish ourselves in the league and he might be worth a position or two on the table.
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    Given how poor we were from set pieces and our generally smaller attacking line, it's a dream to have a CB who pops up for corners like that. Hopefully it's a skill he can build.
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    Saving a penalty in a clean sheet has to be the keeper equivalent of a hat trick on debut. What an assured performance!
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    Genuine pace completely changes how teams defend you. Gabby was ultimately a limited player, but in his prime teams were absolutely terrified of his pace and he burned teams time after time with it. We offered nothing on the counter last year. If Traore can open up space for Watkins and Grealish by pulling defenders out of position, we're a much more dangerous attacking team than we were last year.
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    I absolutely love Gabby on twitter. Happy to get stuck in and speak his mind, and he's got a more astute football brain than you'd think.
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    Love having the first team CB partnership wearing 4 and 5, and nice touch to replace the shirts.
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    Another tap in from the 6 yard box, can't he score some real goals for once? Just a dream to have a player who can finish like this. His positioning and workrate are elite and he buries chances.
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    Glad Watkins got 11, great result! I'm supportive of annual reshuffles. I like to think the first team should be mostly numbers in the 1-11 range. The last thing you want is some squad filler taking a key number.
  10. ThunderPower_14
    Having a lethal poacher with a high workrate will make everyone on the team better at carrying the ball because defenders will be pulled out of position. I hope.
  11. ThunderPower_14
    This is so exciting to watch! A genuine poacher type who reads the play well, positions himself well and can finish one touch from all sorts of positions. 26 goals without penalties is spectacular at Championship level. We'd have paid this much for Tammy last year if Chelsea didn't have the transfer ban, and I see this as just as good a signing. Absolutely thrilled. Most exciting signing since what, Carew?
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    News is just coming out about these horrible stabbing attacks in Birmingham in the city centre. Not too much info yet about how many hurt, but I hope you're all safe!
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    We're already at that point IMO. Southgate is already having to select demonstrably inferior players and lie about the positions Jack is capable of playing to justify himself. Southgate is living off of a world cup where he beat Tunisia, Panama, Colombia (on pens) and Sweden, and he's carrying on leaving nailed on players out like he's peak Sir Alex Ferguson.
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    It'd be nice to break our transfer record this window as well. The longer we go without making a signing the more I fear it's not all working out like we hoped it might. I was comfortable but i'm starting to get really stressed out.
  15. ThunderPower_14
    I just learned today that in the UK you have to pay for annual TV licences, enforced by a private company that sends threatening letters and comes around to your house to enquire about whether you own a TV or not. I'm sure this is normal to all of you, but my mind is blown. I can't immediately think of a more insanely pointless level of bureaucracy. Surely you could just fund the BBC through general taxation and avoid paying for that entire enforcement department?
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    How effective would he have been if he'd been playing behind a front 3 of Sterling, Sancho and Kane though? I see him as playing a fairly free attacking role where he drifts left. Imagine how much more space the wingers will get with opponents having to worry about Jack.
  17. ThunderPower_14
    Gareth Southgate wakes at midnight on the first of each month to turn the page on his cavoodle puppy calendar.
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    Doubt it. The idea that you couldn't play both is very strange. Man Utd will find a role for him if they can get their hands on him. If he does go to Man United and plays exactly the same football he has here, he'll be in the next England squad.
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    Yep. The idea that Jack plays a free role mainly on the left and there is competition on the left so Jack can't find a place but we'll pick Harry f***ing Winks is insanity. Jack should be starting for that team, but he's at the very least a pretty incredible sub to bring on as a point of difference if we're struggling to break a team down.
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    I don't think he'll leave but it'd be good for football as a whole to see him play in the Premier League IMO.
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    The bolded is the bit that scares me. This could be the decision that pushes him over the edge in wanting to leave for more opportunity at a higher level, both for club and country. Southgate has potentially completely f***ed us here. It makes me feel sick. If Jack goes to Man Utd, he'll get picked whether Southgate likes him or not, whether his performance improves or not.
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    Disgraceful. It's clearly personal. He's picked other players with far worse off field issues and he's now picked a championship player.
  23. ThunderPower_14
    I'm Australian, I have very little interest in the England side, but my fear is that missing out again makes him more likely to leave. He'll hear all over the press that he needs to move to a bigger club to play for England and that's hard to ignore. And even with 80 million pounds in return, we just can't replace someone of his calibre when we're a relegation battler.
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    This is such a load of shit if true. Different set of rules for Jack than everyone else obviously.
  25. ThunderPower_14
    This is so stressful. He's obviously far more likely to go if he doesn't get picked. Southgate could do massive damage to our club today by making a terrible decision.
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