Both are good enough for our squad for sure but there's zero chance we're dropping circa £200m on two midfielders when our last 2 £100m players have struggled so far and we already have lots of other midfielders.

That's surpised me, I've not watched much of Brighton this season, but it's a reminder not to be wary of big fees if you've only had one big season, eg like with Darwin, as they cash still be rather raw although talented.

I think we now need to refer to Indy as they not he as it's so many different itks on it.

Bring back the Brains Buvac!

I agree, he's not a joke but you just don't know which of the 5 itks on the account the news are coming from so it's hard to trust.

I think Indy definitely had some insider knowledge on Isak but there's multiple different people on that account so I'm sure a lot of his stuff is still bs.

World Cup or Euro winners have troublesome qualification campaigns just as often if not more often than great qualification journeys. But something happens during the tourney that clicks and they ride that wave to glory. So you just have to qualify, and not read too much into how well you qualified.

We don't have a first XI tbh, and the closest we've got to it we still have games that we've won marginally or lost, so rotating in it a bit too rest players can't hurt.

Same.

Excellent article.

To highlight Barcelona's new found frugality, their €490m gross transfer spend in the last five years was less than half of the €1.2 bln in the preceding 5-year period. Indeed, net spend in the last two years was just €3m.

I've never watched him apart from brief highlights so can't comment myself. But I do think we miss Matip's ability to pass out and bring the ball out from defence. Konate was fine when we had TAA doing all that to his right but now it's a clearly weakness. It's probably why we tried to buy Hujsen.

Can he pass and build play?

That'll only last a few days Asif until we're bored of the NT break and are desperate for LFC to hurt us again like the masochists we all are.

Which conversion stats are those? No one runs at 42% conversion rate over the course of a full season, not even Haaland in his record season. Do you mean big chance conversion rate not conversion rate?