Recent content by kiwi

It’s only fitness and match practice, nobody really expects anything of pre-season. Kiko, Davis, Casey, Struijk, Douglas, Shackleton - they won’t start against Liverpool. We’ll have our usual squad all back (minus Ben White obviously), plus Rodrigo and Koch, and potentially De Paul, and that’s...

Roberts had an issue where he had an operation which ended up infected - hardly his fault! Think Cazorla at Arsenal, he missed two years with a similar sort of issue. Roberts is unfairly labelled injury-prone based on this. I’d be surprised if Bielsa sanctioned his departure, he likes Roberts...

The quality of players who are for sale is almost always going to be lower - their clubs are letting them go for a reason. Doesn’t mean there aren’t bargains to be found, but generally if you want the best players, their current clubs aren’t going to be keen on selling. Just the way it works!

I’ve got family in Peterborough and I’ve seen them a fair few times over the years, including when Da Silva Lopes was there. I cannot imagine there is any interest from our end unless he’s somehow morphed into Gerrard reincarnate overnight. Was very very average even in League One. Tidy on the...

Not good enough.

I love articles like that, he hasn’t confirmed Bielsa is staying at all has he <laugh><doh>

Wouldn’t worry too much, 99.9% will be media bullshit, Orta having conversations doesn’t mean we’ll be signing the player - managers/directors of football must have conversations with hundreds of players and agents every year and sign a very small percentage of them. We know Radz and Orta love...

McBurnie, Sharp, Mousset, and McGoldrick managed 20 between the four of them (17 if you discount cup goals) and if we have a season like them I’ll be over the moon.

Think his club just mentioned our interest to get Lille to stop messing around and up their bid, tbh. We’ve been played here.

Don’t see how that’s possible. We owe Leipzig £18m for Augustin. If we manage to get out the deal, we’ve just shown Augustin we want nothing to do with him, doubt he’s going to fancy turning up after that and can’t see Leipzig wanting to do business with us after we basically reneged on a done...

Foyth is awful. Very good on the ball but defensively he’s woeful. No strength, positionally suspect, not great in the air. You never know what Bielsa could do with him but I’d be shocked if that happened, the media just think an Argentine coach must want Argentine players despite the fact we...

Brentford look like they’re falling apart so maybe there’s hope of Benrahma after all <laugh> still think he’ll go higher though.

Agreed, he looks a handy player. Shame he’s managed by Fat Frank so no chance he’ll be allowed to come here <laugh>

Don’t think Bournemouth ever played an extra 13 cup games a season though did they <laugh>

In fairness to Cook, the first season he didn’t play much because he was new to the Premier League. He had a couple of ankle injuries which didn’t help but I don’t think he got any momentum going as a result. The following season he played circa 30 games, then in 2018/19 he started most games...