That's what I thought - the timing worked, he's well liked, may as well make something of it.
30 May 2026
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Some people are more likeable and popular than others. Charisma maybe.
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It's like the difference between myself and Ingo.
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Bald men.... Comb
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I don't believe anyone, including me, has said all of those things. The fact that some people hold with some of them, and others with others, does not make anyone a hypocrite, nor does it make the collective whole hypocritical. People are allowed to have different perspectives on the same situation, and hold different values related to the same action or situation.
The hypocrisy here is that an unremarkable player who has done relatively little for the club in his time here is treated like an all time legend, while players with considerably more talent and a more impressive list of achievements are allowed to depart with little remark other than analytic evaluation of the transfer fee, and a banal "thank you for your service" note on the club website.
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No, no, no. You have it all wrong. You’re not allowed to make a remark based on your personal experience. It simply must be the work of the prevailing societal influence and its inexorable marching of us toward our doom.
“This seems a bit different for a broadly unremarkable player, I wonder why.”How very dare you.
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who give a fuck. The players loved him. Why not a nice gesture. Taiwo whilst having the trapping quality of a banjo was memorable and did enough to make football fun to watch if nothing else. Seemed like a genuinely nice bloke. Why can't we have nice things in this society. jeez. Nothing to get your panties in a bunch about.
Anyway, Oliver said 2-3 players close. But then again he said 2 l,ast week. Make of that what you will Nuno...
Chicago: Counting money.
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It would appear so (Russ trigger warning)...
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If anyone writes his biography it should be called Bangedit and Shindit.
Anyway, nothing wrong with a bit of hero worship if that's your thing and it's certainly mine. I'd have him, Neco, that skateboarding pillock and that good looking guy who went round clumping people as my top 4 since we got promoted. I'm not saying 3 out of those 4 would have almost certainly got us panned most weeks if they regularly started together but still, Ingo loves a trier. Loaf's mum tries.
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Felipe?
It pains me to do it, but I’d probably have Barry in for him. If only for the finger guns.
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The best comparison for Taiwo is probably Jota Silva. Tons of effort, likeable fella, not a lot of talent. As Tricky might say - can run, can't kick.
Felipe was a terrific player, a little past his prime but invaluable experience of playing and winning at the highest level of the game. Could kick, but not run much - really no comparison with Taiwo. And quite why you put Neco in there, who can not only both kick and run but can do so to a standard few of his peers in the Premier League can, I have no idea. When Neco leaves he's going for big money to a top club, not to Coventry for half of what we paid.
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Most important signings since we got promoted (in no particular order):
MGW
Anderson
Murillo
Serge Aurier
Wood
Taiwo
Sels
Aina
Neco
Elanga
Milenkovic -
Oh my God that dashing bastard Felipe. What a handsome manly man. When he Grabbed Bruno Fernandes around the throat I felt my heart flutter.
Then of course like all demi Gods they had to get ahead of themselves and change what worked for them. In a fit of Pique he went all anti Samson on us and cut off all this hair and thus losing all his powers. The consequence being that he had to retire. What a waste. If only he had kept those flowing locks and kept that beard. Alas, hubris....
Is it gay week yet?
Chicago: Going a bit gooey.
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I don’t really see this, without Taiwo’s goals we don’t stay up in the first season.. I’m not getting involved in the argument of the past 24 hours but his input in his first two seasons was far more valuable than anything Jota Silva offered.
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I feel like there’s a bit of arguing at cross-purposes here.
If I’m reading Ingo correctly (and it’s certainly the reason for my agreeing with most of his list) it’s more of a personal cult hero/I like the cut of their jib affair. Of course Neco is miles ahead of the rest of them (and most others).
We never really got to see Skateboard play, for instance. It was all about vibes.I know for me, the giddiness of actually being at the top table in decades and the promise of the excitement to come has only partially faded (mostly due to the basket case that was last season). So those types of players have given way to a bit more harsh reality.
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Except that with £17M we could probably have bought a better striker than Taiwo, still got the goals, still stayed up, and we might have got rather better value out of the deals. Ifs and maybes though.
I will confess to a degree of distaste for any player who uses their position to do the god bothery thing, especially as overtly as Taiwo does. So that definitely doesn't make me particularly warm to him.
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I'm no fan of the god bothery thing...but it's a stretch to say he uses his position to do it. He does it because he believes it, and it's his reason. People need their own reasons to do things, and if what they do is largely sweetness and light, even for the wrong reasons, I am tolerant of that.
I am accustomed to people being wrong. That's okay by me. Clearly not a cunt, and actually a very likeable guy who gives his all. Not his fault that he doesn't have a touch. We are, largely, what we are.
The god bothery thing is quite prevalent in ordinary people done good. They often need a way to make sense of why they are in an exalted (financial) position, and the likes of me are trying to extract data from a backup archive for less than buttons. The world makes no sense, so a mental process to impose order for them provides certainty. Even if it also makes no sense. This also works for people at the other end of the exalted scale, curiously. It's a great catch all system.
The thing to take from this is that people, however successful in a particular field, rarely have good answers to all things. Judge them for the thing that they do, and treat them as you would wish to be treated.
In football Big T does good, even though he's not particularly adept at it.
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Sky Sports reporting the Awoniyi fee as £9m.
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Also not a fan of the god bothering. particularly in a climate where those seeking extreme power appear to be literally hell bent on creating, as a minimum, a new crusade up to the End of Days. But that's a story for another thread.
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