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  1. Balham Blade

    Goodbye, Rhian Brewster

    Agreed. Mousset: PL goals against Everton, Arsenal (+2pts), West Ham (+1pt), Man U (+1pt), Wolves (+2pts), Spurs PL assists against Burnley (x3!), Man U, Bournemouth Brewster No PL goals No PL assists I'd also not realised what a line in the sand lockdown was for Mousset. All but one of those...
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    Tim Ream

    We need a tifo with Ream's face above the words "Tim Ream's Rim Team" or we may as well give up and go home*. *which 40% will probably do by half time anyway.
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    Top goalscorer / Assists

    I'm not sure how they define a chance in this context but Hamer takes set pieces, as does Norwood. Those will inflate the numbers.
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    Blades Band Names

    Hecky and the McBurniemen, surely? Grbic BAsh John Tudor Cinema Club (nice completion of the circle there)
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    U21s v Millwall

    Finished 0-3. We stay 3rd on 41 from 21 games, a point behind South Barnsley Massive Young Uns (42 from 24) and three behind Birmingham (44 from 24) but with three games to make up on both.
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    Bettis radio sheff tomorrow

    No. I'm just saying you picked some ridiculous comparisons. McBurnie was as good as we could have hoped for as an unfashionable club promoted against expectations and then widely excited to finish rock bottom.
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    Bettis radio sheff tomorrow

    I've read some nonsense on here over the years but this is right up there. McBurnie scored 22 in 42 at the age of 22 the season before we signed him for £17m Leon Clarke: scored 19 in 39 as a 32/33 year old. That is the only time he's ever managed double figures in the second tier. Ivan...
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    Anel is wank

    £12.6m signing. Even better.
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    Anel is wank

    One thing we've been consistent on since Abdullah got sole control is setting valuations for players and sticking to them. We won't make a loss on Souza. In fact I'd expect us to double the £7ish million we spent on him. Anel I would imagine will have a price tag of £12-15m. Just as with...
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    What's happened with Ampadu

    Most of the complaints about Ampadu centred on a lack of desire rather than a lack of ability. He was a loanee who was never going to turn the tide in that dreadful 20/21 season. For Ampadu then, see Souza now, noting that the latter's lack of effort is less acceptable as he's our player.
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    Forest deducted four points

    Egan was "a club record deal". Given that our record before was Beattie for £4m it's safe to assume that Egan was slightly above that. Norwood was a £750k loan fee followed by a £1.25m loan to perm.
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    2024/2025 Squad Planning

    Reasonable assessment Champers. The point about better managers also applies to well-run teams: it's borderline ridiculous that so many of our first team players are out of contract at the same time. I think it's almost inevitable that we'll sign a keeper, unless there's a belief that Amissah...
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    Forest deducted four points

    On June 30th, 2019 our squad had cost around £9m. Nearly half of that was on John Egan (£4m) with a futher £2m on Oli Norwood. The only other players to have cost us anything were Lundstram (£700k), Stearman (£600k), Sharp (£500k), O'Connell (£400k), Moore (£250k), Baldock (£250k), Lavery...
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    Can United and Burnley both do Luton a favour?

    They'll be in P&S trouble with the football league as well as they made a loss of £50m in their promotion season.
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    Souza off!?

    Intial fee somewhere in the region of €6m, total including add-ons around double that. There will be a sell-on clause as well.
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    Outgoing? Wes Foderingham

    First choice keepers in the last 20 years: Kenny (from 02/03) to 08/09 Bunn 09/10 Simonsen 10/11 & 11/12 Long/Howard 12/13, 13/14 & 15/16 Howard 14/15 Moore 16/17 & 17/18 Henderson 18/19 & 19/20 Ramsdale 20/21 Foderingham 21/22 to 23/24 Foderingham would be fourth on that list for me, behind...
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    Outgoing? Wes Foderingham

    GLTTL. He'll end up in America as no-one likely to be in the Premier League next season will be remotely interested in 33 year old Wes Foderingham.
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    Samuel strikes again

    Possibly Aaron Ramsey at a push.
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    Amad Diallo

    Bakayaro? Left backs currently on the books, U21s up Yasser Larouci - loan ends May 2024 Max Lowe - out of contract June 2024 Rhys Norrington-Davies - out of contract June 2024 Harry Boyes - contract to June 2025, on loan at Fleetwood (L1) Jili Buyabu - contract to June 2027, was on loan at...
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    Good news in the next couple of weeks?

    There was a big hoo-hah when the hotel was transferred from SU Ltd to another arm of the Scarborough Group for £1 a few years ago, despite certain sages (you and me amongst them, IIRC) pointing out that it was loss-making and therefore better off away from the football club. A quick search of...
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    Samuel strikes again

    Relatively, maybe. This side would be comfortably top 6 in the Championship though and would wipe the floor with the Derby side of 2007/08.
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    Samuel strikes again

    Coming back to this: Burnley may be one of "the poorest teams ever to play in the Premier League" but they've invested a stupid amount of money and will be utterly reliant on player sales next year to stay solvent. On the other hand, we'll make our third book profit in three PL seasons which is...
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    Samuel strikes again

    A man doesn't get to the size of Martin Samuel without avoiding putting effort in wherever and whenever possible.
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    Archer

    If Villa don't have to buy him back we will have a £20m hole to fill (more importantly a £10m cash shortfall)
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    Archer

    Mostly correct but not entirely. The bit in bold is wrong; United's accounts for 23/24 will show an £18m addition and a £4.5m cost. Villa's will show an £18m profit (and another similar amount from selling Jacob Ramsey to Burnley). Archer is a Villa academy product so his registration had at...
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    Wilder meeting with Prince.

    They should have done. That store didn't make any losses (well, it didn't when I worked for JL and that was before the favourable new lease) but JL is run from a central London office staffed, unfortunately, by well meaning idiots who would have looked at gravitational modelling and decided that...
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    Memorable free kicks at the lane

    McMahon’s goals all came away, 2 at Crawley and one at Oxford. 1-1 v Portsmouth 3-0 v West Ham. We absolutely battered them. My brother and I were in the BL upper in line with Tonge’s superlative free kick and I left the Lane thinking we’d stay up easily. Oops.
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    Relegation run in - Last 10

    Just goes to show how bad Forest, Burnley and Brentford have been that they're all worse this year than the Worst Premier League Side EVER (TM).
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    Relegation run in - Last 10

    Not quite true... Both us and Forest have played 8 league games this calendar year. We've got 5 points from ours (draws against West Ham & Bournemouth, win at Luton) while Forest have 4 (draw against Bournemouth, win against West Ham). Obviously when we've lost we've tended to get hammered but...
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    McBurnie and Jebbo future

    McBurnie made 38 league appearances last season with 25 starts. He was on the pitch for 2,225 minutes which works out at just under 25 full matches. That puts his strike rate at over 1 in 2 which is great no matter the level. The issue with McBurnie is twofold: his strengths at Championship...

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