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This thread when Rashica is announced after the link goes cold

What are people complaining about? A win, a clean sheet, and good performances from all our new signings, and all of this after being a game behind. Yes, we looked toothless at times, but come on, that was a triple-decker parked bus by one of the most organized teams in the league. Look at their starting XI...would any of them get into ours? The reason they finished so high in the league last year is because of their organization, which was already going to be hard to break down when they didn't have 10 in the box. Let's just be happy about the result!

My guess is that we are looking at multiple players but only have enough in the originally planned budget to spend ££ on one of those (e.g., Rashica). Then, we are trying to loan/sell other players (Samatta, Guilbert, Engels, etc.) to fund other transfers, such as a new CB. That's why we're not looking at shipping out players like Taylor/Elmo, and I mean this from a purely financial level, disregarding their contributions to experience, the dressing room, and on the pitch. We won't get much for them anyways, but they are our back-ups in those positions this season and are off the books next season, when they can be replaced. So, since we already have two players in those positions (RB: Cash, Elmo; LB: Targett, Taylor), we can ship out an extra RB like Guilbert to free up funds for another position (e.g., CB), and then get a new RB next season (either as back-up or a starter shall Cash flounder).

Hope we get this over the line this week, to help with the pain of having transferred Son out of my fantasy team...

Why do you say that? Only one team yesterday was playing their first PL match of the season...Man U, and they looked off the pace the entire match. I agree, but if Fred is off, then I'd actually being inclined to go with Elmo over Cash. First game of the season, so I'd go with someone who has been there done that than a new signing up to the PL for the first time.

Diangana looks decent.

From the BBC’s article on Traoré signing: “Having spent what could be up to £83m this summer, there is not expected to be any further big spending by Villa before the 5 October transfer deadline.”

If not mistaken, Traore left the summer that Rashica came in.

There was a private flight yesterday from Bremen to East Midlands airport. https://flightaware.com/live/flight/JCB1/history/20200915/1003Z/EDDW/EGNX Unfortunately, it was operated by J C Bamford and arrived in Bremen from Stockholm (and prior to that from a place called Trollhattan, which is a quite fitting city name in this situation...)

I wouldn't read into it too much. The way I see it is that he never really wanted or planned to leave, but kept his options open to see what else might be available elsewhere and what the club's current doings and plans were. If he got a silly offer from elsewhere while the club started signing League Two players, then he may have reconsidered what he really wanted to do. Even in that case he might have thought long and hard about seeing himself in different colours and may not have liked it, but I think that approach is more than fair and quite a mature thing to do.

Clinical finish. Shame all his detractors weren't in the crowd.

Taylor looking for the pass from Grealish like

Aly Cissokho says hi.

The issue was not that Wilson wouldn't score when on the pitch, it was the risk of him being crocked all the time. Can't score (goals) then!

Why not this? Two box to box midfielders with a front four that can swap throughout the match and play in any of those spots. Maybe have Luiz and McGinn a bit deeper than in the graphic. I haven't played Football Manager in a while, although maybe I need to start again...

Since we're quoting posts from the first page, here's another one that has aged well (in a different way...)

Finnish, Hungarian, and Estonian all have similar grammar rules but with different vocabulary. The Finnish-Hungarian dictionary would be like an English-Icelandic version. Finnish and Estonian are more comparable...Estonians can generally understand Finnish, but Finns rarely know Estonian. Source: I'm a foreigner in Finland. In English: William Blueforest I tried to find some relationship between Christian Purslow and Finland, but this thread is actually the top hit on Google...

This is only my second post this year. Never heard of him, but his name sounds like someone we would have signed in the summer of Tonev/Okore/Helenius. I hope my contribution to the cause has been beneficial.

Agree. Don't understand why he's slated so much. His hold-up play is incredible.

Do we know when his buyback clause expires?

We heard that about another J.B... Joe Bennett

Or, our own player gets regular games to develop while another (who we don't and won't own) is just used as cover.