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Neymar Saga is getting pretty hot. Team mates against him, Fans hate him, Banners and posters against him from fans. If this goes through, and PSG don't get hit with a FFP ban/point reduction/elimination from major competitions. Then this whole thing typifies how ******ed this whole football law system is, and the Barca fans are going to want blood from Neymar!
 
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Just watched the Arsenal Vs Benfica friendly. It's the 3rd game I've seen from Arsenal.

I have often heard about a youth prospect called Reiss Nelson. This Pre Season, he's be starting. He looks amazing! If he doesn't get a good load of games this season, then it's disgusting. He looks better, more confident and more talented on the ball, than most of the Arsenal team. He is going to be such an exciting player to look out for. If he starts/subs fairly regularly this season, I wouldn't be surprised if he was in the England squad soon. He reminds me of Sterling and Walcott at a young age.
 
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"Manchester United are interested in signing Paris St-Germain's 24-year-old right-back Serge Aurier, who is currently banned from entering the UK."

..Right. Who's your scout??
 
For all you 'lovers' of stats, I just read this in today's EDP - "Up front it has been Nelson Oliveira leading the way, scoring five goals in his 356 minutes, averaging out to a goal every 71 minutes – including a superb individual effort against Bielefeld. Cameron Jerome played 48 minutes more and chipped in with two goals, hinting that it is Oliveira who is likely to be first choice but his hard-working performance emphasising that both are likely to have big roles to play this season."
CJ has played more minutes, but has only scored 2 goals as opposed to 5 for Basil (I think he has provided more assists than Basil though!!!).
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Interesting to see the number of minutes that Zimmerman has played and he looked quite at home against Brighton.
Full article here - http://www.edp24.co.uk/sport/norwic...-city-as-search-for-clues-concludes-1-5130951
 
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JM Fan said:
For all you 'lovers' of stats, I just read this in today's EDP - "Up front it has been Nelson Oliveira leading the way, scoring five goals in his 356 minutes, averaging out to a goal every 71 minutes – including a superb individual effort against Bielefeld. Cameron Jerome played 48 minutes more and chipped in with two goals, hinting that it is Oliveira who is likely to be first choice but his hard-working performance emphasising that both are likely to have big roles to play this season."
CJ has played more minutes, but has only scored 2 goals as opposed to 5 for Basil (I think he has provided more assists than Basil though!!!).
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Interesting to see the number of minutes that Zimmerman has played and he looked quite at home against Brighton.
Full article here - http://www.edp24.co.uk/sport/norwic...-city-as-search-for-clues-concludes-1-5130951
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Wow! Go Godfrey!! Lovely stuff!
 
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Cromercanary said:
More plaudits for Mario Vrančić, who sounds as if he's going to be a very useful player this season <ok>
http://readnorwich.com/2017/08/02/fans-player-of-pre-season-2017/
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That makes impressive reading Cromer and COULD DF have gone a long way to solving what has been our 'Achilles heel' for several seasons at the first attempt??? Time will tell and I'm more hopeful than I've been for the last 4 years. All we need is Pinto back to full fitness and we should concede fewer 'soft goals!!'
This made interesting reading from the article as well - "Winning 87% of his duels, Vrancic topped the voting, whilst James Maddison came in second with 71%. Christoph Zimmermann came third with 69%."
The more I read about JM, the more I think he could become a key player for us this season and so will be a target for being fouled continually, as Brighton did on Saturday!!! Let's just hope he gets SOME protection from the man in the middle. <ok>
 
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Right. If this goes ahead, then why the F is there a FFP law!? None of these clubs ever gets punished, and noone who has cheated ever gets hit enough to effect them. It is so pointless!
 
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Right. If this goes ahead, then why the F is there a FFP law!? None of these clubs ever gets punished, and noone who has cheated ever gets hit enough to effect them. It is so pointless!
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Totally agree and that is an INSANE amount of money to spend on one player!!! <yikes>
 
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Ihenacho to Leicester is such a good move! Especially for 25M! Bargain in this obscene market. He's a natural goalscorer who will only get better with regular games!
 
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