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Needs the pic of him and Emi hugging to lend it that hint of believability.

Appears this one is off for the moment, which is odd because it looked like he was already in ATL from his social media...... but they've gone and signed Luiz Araujo from Lille.

I'm a bit mixed on JWP. Paying over the odds for the top set piece taker around makes sense when you also have the top free kick winner around. I do like that he has a bit of Gareth Barry about him, too: pretty good at everything and reliable fitness. However, without said free kick winner to really maximise the set piece output, there's probably much better value for the latter characteristics out there. Maybe the data guys have done some modeling and worked out we should score x number additonal goals from an average number of free kicks and corners with him, though, so may still be deemed worth it.

If you take the house he was meant to be buying in Manchester last Summer into account, those words have a very different meaning.

I will book a flight immediately at the prospect of seeing John McGinn in the Jamaican Summer.

Yeah, I moderated a huge musician's forum years ago. Trolling the userbase with mod powers was one of the greatest (ie, only) pleasures of the experience.

They started it.

Majority MLS players, most of the "names" played in the Nations League a month or so back. Miles Robinson player of the Gold Cup for me. I'd hate to lose him at Atlanta, but I think he needs to make the step up to a better league, as he's got ample pace and strength, just needs to improve technically, which is tough to do here.

Nah, shouldn't be developing other teams' youth at this stage.

Closest player to Jack statistically according to fbref... Adnan Januzaj. What a mindf*ck that would be.

Was that with 32Red? Similar design but it was blue stripes iirc. The Acorns aways were Nike's best work imo.

Outstanding! Was holding out out hope for the centered circular crest, but I suppose that was a badge too far.

I hope it's as good as the new Venezia kit!

Going to Atlanta, supposedly.

I believe he said they had to be once Jack made the first team.

Also linked up with JPB at the top of the box for the pre-assist on #4. That slightly deeper interplay is something that seems to come naturally to him, which could be extremely effective with Ollie, Jack and co running off him in the right games.

Looked well up for it and sharper than many others out there! Should've had an assist or two.

In his last season at Bayer he was moved from outright attacking positions to a more central role, then with Sancho, Reyna, etc at Dortmund, he's been kind of an attacking "pivot" at times, where he gets the ball from a deeper pass then distributes to the attackers. I suspect he'll have a positional trajectory like Kroos where he moves deeper over time.

Kamada is about 3 months younger, GDA two years older, so neither young prospects. Different kind of player, though. While Kamada and GDA are more likely to directly score/assist, in Brandt's recent "poor" seasons, he's developed virtually elite passing nearly across the board and become a more balanced player. Given that Jack and Emi (and SJM and Bertie, for that matter) are inclined to play a higher risk game and that ball retention + completing forward passes have been big problems for us, having a player that can consistently show for the ball in the middle, then rarely misplace it while still playing a wide range of progressive passes might not be the worst thing in the world.

He somehow looks in even better shape than last year!

Wonder if we're eyeballing Julian Brandt should ESR not work out, looking more and more likely he'll be moving this window for a very attractive price.

Heinze gone from Atlanta already. Came in to try to recapture something of Martino's Bielsa Lite style, but combined with awful recruitment and publicly freezing out the club hero, dropping him entirely from the squad then losing in the most insipid of manners at home, he'd completely lost the fans. Bocanegra and co. need to go, too, as the front office is largely responsible for the meteoric fall of what was one of the most exciting teams in MLS ever.

I think we go big on an AM (whether central or wide) and biggish on a DM, then go for a reasonably priced CB prospect and a cheap or free experienced 3rd keeper.