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That's insane. How does that measure up with any sort of financial rules.

Did I hear right they had spent £15mil on that striker!?

Yeah plus feel like they would be unlikely to make a deal like Doherty, or Johnstone where it felt like a cost cutting move rather than a football one. Granted some of our signings look promising, but that's surrounded by other decisions that seem to contradict wanting to be as good as you...

The teams that go down are usually the ones that get zero unexpected points off the top sides. It's no good saying "let's see what happens." Forest just won away at Anfield. Where as we just let a team beat us that barely had to be competent for more than 4 minutes.

I highlighted this when we made the move that this was a characteristic of his. Very slow wind up with the ball in that controlled possession phase. His long range kicking is much better mind.

Regardless of what people say about sa, he graded as a +8.9 on the expected goals scale in 23/24, and Johnstone was -6. That's pretty stark even if people disagree with that type of stat. Palace replaced SJ and then sold him, so that indicates they potentially viewed something in or near that...

Ah didn't realise I could have watched that. Will keep an eye out for the remaining games then as presume they will also be shown on Sky Sports+

Did they even put in a sensible offer for him though? I know he irritated some, and his gamesmanship with the diving wound me up, but I always liked him. Always felt when I played and coached it was good to have someone like him on your side, and he proved that with the Hwang incident this...

Oh yeah totally, that was meant more as a follow-up to the comment about the erratic way we seemed to approach that summer. Lop had targets he wanted, then he had those revised targets, and then he left. It's dot connections from me obviously but it's still something that I have a few niggling...

Similar to Scott last season we also had the Retegui deal ready didn't we? Until some issue involving our financing or structure of the deal, back fired that as despite both being prolific he looks decent and already moved on for more money higher up.

Well if the choices for me were Sa, Johnstone, or Ramsdale for the fee Southampton paid, then I would have stayed Sa If you had told me Sa couldn't be kept for whatever reason then I would have taken Ramsdale for that price despite my earlier reluctance; as he has the best ceiling out of these...

This is my issue with the Johnstone signing. Sa wasn't fantastic but then neither is Johnstone. I personally still feel it's a downgrade but marginal. If it's an upgrade, it's still marginal. And to the extent a keeper is still something that needs to be an area targeted for scouting and...

Excellent is too far. It's a good save and more importantly has a really strong push out which is more important than the save, as I basically expect every Prem keeper to stop that. There isn't a tremendous amount of power on it. The Wood save is much better. Especially as it's not a clean...

Fan of your write up Slink. But did want to share this as seen a few people mentioning Johnstone and his distribution as an improvement over Sa. The raw stats don't measure up with an improvement. I get looking calmer and the perception of that may play a part. That it was an mostly okay debut...

Seems like Johnson is. People can't be surprised by it as we signed someone who was like the 28th best keeper in the league roughly, give or take.

Think you are mistaken Deutsch, Steve McClaren was clearly Dutch.

Had completely forgotten he had played for Ireland (Carsley). Will have told this before but I once went for an interview at the FA and tons of the staff and people I was introduced to weren't English, so it's always struck me as odd when being English (which I get Carsley technically is) is...

I feel like Gibbs-White deserves to be there personally. He has been Forest's best player pretty much since he joined them and still seems to be improving. He has done more to earn the place he has than Grealish has for his recall for example.

looks like they had a short overlap at West Brom yes. Cutler was there from January 2018 to Nov 2018. I am hoping it's a case of they have idenfitied that Johnstone hasn't been playing higher, than can't play higher. I feel he is too slow for it and so naturally regresses deeper, but that's just...

Johnstone had one of the worst sets of metrics overall last season for keepers in top leagues in many categories and he seemed to reflect that when I saw him play, so not sure what Palace fans are defining as a top keeper. My big concern is that included his starting position being very deep...