@Andyblain do you think Eddie secretly wants the England job?. He’s not 100% happy with Stavely leaving and lack of funds for incomings
Good grief – looks like Solanke is going to Spuds - for £65m! Good player, but is he worth THAT much?
No @IanB61 I genuinely don’t. Eddie is a ‘hands-on’ coach who loves working on the grass with the players. He loves the club and has a great relationship with the fans here. I think he’d make a good England manager, but I don’t think he’s ready for what is, essentially, a part time job.
Having said that, this has been a difficult close-season for Eddie Howe. He had a great relationship with Amanda, apparently, who acted as a ‘bridge’ between him and the owners. The sale of Minteh/Anderson on ‘PSR deadline day’ upset Eddie, as did the appointment of the new Director of Football and new Performance Coach, with his limited input, if the stories are to be believed. Howe is still our manager, is committed to the cause, and I, for one, am happy about that.
If Solanke is worth £65m and Alvarez £81m then at least if we lose Isak, we should trouser at least £200m on that basis. Crazy prices…
Probs better value than £60M for Neto…
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Newcastle were recently linked with Neto and I’m glad we didn’t buy him @Jamiewednesday Not because I don’t think he’s a good player, but because of his injury record.
I echo that, Eddie has done a great job bringing players along and developing them. People thought we were crazy paying $40m for Gordon, but they aren’t saying that now. Same with Livramento and potentially Lewis Hall who came on strong at the end of last season.
He is slowly building a very good team/squad that is relatively young.
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Lewis Hall showed lots of promise at Chelsea, in fact more than promise, he played some really good games for us when he was given a shout and I would prefer him ahead of Neto. But as is our want at the moment we’re letting quality youth go (Ian Maatsen and others) and buying replacements at higher cost. Crazy.
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And apparently yet another goalkeeper! What’s that all about?
Fk knows. It’s all gone barmy.
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Wow.
Just seen one in real life (or at least, on a mannequin at Gatwick airport). It’s even worse than in the photo.
The Chelsea badge and Nike swoosh seem to be like two super shiny bits of coloured foil that have just been stuck on the front.
It’s truly bad! Away kit much better
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Yes although still non traditional, the away kit has a certain retro Franco/US appeal.
Change that to red and white; increase the squiggles slightly and you have our training top for this season… but as an actual kit? No.
Yet another great-looking (on paper at least) bit of transfer biz for Timbo and J-Lo:
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Below are the 20 Premier League clubs ranked in order of net spend since the start of the 2021/22 summer transfer window.(The Guardian).
Level playing field, “my ar5e”
| Club | Money Spent | Money Received | Net Spend |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chelsea | €1.276.55bn | €601.05m | €675.5m |
| Arsenal | €620.8m | €124.4m | €496.4m |
| Man Utd | €587.58m | €119.59m | €467.99m |
| Tottenham | €599.15m | €205.87m | €393.28m |
| Newcastle | €502.05m | €134.86m | €367.19m |
| West Ham | €486.16m | €223.15m | €263.01m |
| Bournemouth | €265.2m | €28.4m | €236.8m |
| Nottingham Forest | €384.79m | €148.495m | €236.295m |
| Liverpool | €404.3m | €170.95m | €233.35m |
| Aston Villa | €442.29m | €279.75m | €162.54m |
| Crystal Palace | €215.02m | €58.46m | €156.56m |
| Brentford | €192.8m | €46.75m | €146.05m |
| Man City | €553.5m | €409.77m | €143.73m |
| Fulham | €168.37m | €132.3m | €36.07m |
| Ipswich | €34.86m | €5.08m | €29.78m |
| Wolves | €335.71m | €311.37m | €24.34m |
| Southampton | €267.06m | €264.68m | €2.38m |
| Leicester | €199.05m | €226.85m | -€27.8m |
| Everton | €186.9m | €256.2m | -€69.3m |
| Brighton | €324.7m | €407.4m | -€82.7m |
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Please, please, delete it before Bob sees it and comes out with some illogical mind-bending excuses …
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All that expenditure….to end up in second place.
Shakes head!
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But there has never been a level playing field since the greed-fueled inception of the Premier League, pushed by the greedy bar stewards of the so-called “Big Five”. Indeed the whole premise was that the Big Five get a bigger share of the pot, at the expense of everyone else.
And then the same over-entitled buqqers whinge when an upstart dares to take them on (Chelsea first, then Man City).
In an inconsistent world we are lucky to have a consistent Bob 
someone who passionately believes in what he says about Man City , and 114 charges are something that needs an explanation
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