Has to be said, for all our talk about a more restrained window, we’ve still signed 11 players, which is one of the highest in the division (only Chelsea, Ipswich and Southampton, by my reckoning).
And I'm not sure how many teams in the nominal bottom third or even half have a second player in each position as close in quality to the first.
Ipswich and Southampton have both spent more than £100m this summer apparently, and Lestoh around £75m. Nobody seems to be talking about this, though.
I suspect with Forest it was more the number of players through the door that elevated the news value.
As well as spending about double that.
D Taylor says the Newcastle offer for Elanga that was rejected was £45-£50m plus Almiron.
He said the deal was worth around 45-50m including Almiron.
Given that Almiron's contract has £10.4million to run, and takes him into his thirties with little prospect of much of a sell on, that means it was a cash offer of £55-60million.
I would have taken that.
...what?
Daniel Taylor said something similar, about his importance to the squad dynamic, on Twitter. Being as multilingual as he appears to be, probably means he can move between the groups and act as an informal translator.
Yeah. But mainly he can run fucking fast with the ball at his feet.
Stats!
Per touch would be more meaningful, wouldn't it? Haaland barely touches the ball, so of course he rarely miscontrols or is dispossed.
What's "dispossission"?
What his nature is like
The other side of the pitch from datpossission, obviously.
Excellent work, gold star.
