2023 Summer transfer window - hopes, needs, expectations and rumours.

[Drummond]

No. I fell for a spoof. FFS

[Richard E]

Just to take this off topic for a moment...

Fabrizio Romano

Moussa Diaby to Aston Villa, here we go! Verbal agreement in place with Bayer Leverkusen after €55m plus add-ons bid sent this week. 🚨🟣🟣#AVFC

Deal in place, player only wanted Villa— understand medical tests have been scheduled at beginning of next week.

Done, sealed. ✔️

And what exactly does this have to do with teachers’ salaries? Huh?

[Bad English]

Seriously, does every thread have to turn into a political or social debate. Mods?

Try posting about transfers and people will talk about them.

[Bad English]

Isn't it a bit late for transfers anyway? If we sign anyone now they won't have had a full pre-season™ and consequently will take time to gel™ and will have to adapt™ to the Premier League™.

[john2710]

Watching Buendia again yesterday only reinforced my belief that we need a significant upgrade in that position. So much of our forward play goes through him & more often than not breaks down with him. He either takes too long, picks the wrong pass or makes a poor pass & after watching him for 2 years, I don't see that changing.

[Percy McCarthy]

No. I fell for a spoof. FFS

Was it that clown with about 75 followers?

What’s the point of accounts like that?

[Steve67]

Watching Buendia again yesterday only reinforced my belief that we need a significant upgrade in that position. So much of our forward play goes through him & more often than not breaks down with him. He either takes too long, picks the wrong pass or makes a poor pass & after watching him for 2 years, I don't see that changing.

I agree John.  We really need a more reliable play-maker in his position.  Buendia is great at times, but for me is a super-sub, last 20 minutes kind of player.  We are also really desperate for another forward.

[Drummond]

No. I fell for a spoof. FFS

Was it that clown with about 75 followers?

What’s the point of accounts like that?

I don't get it either.

[caster troy]

I think Joao Felix is the target to replace Buendia. Can’t fault our ambition there but my worry is we’ll try all summer to get him, he’ll go somewhere else and then it’ll be too late to sign anyone.

[PeterWithe]

Need more classics like this (on claret & blue vinyl).

Absolute classic, always reminds me of the journey up to Ewood Park for the first leg of the league cup semi final. Great lads, great away trip and great result.

Reminds me of us singing it in Wycombe train station, whilst throwing around a wheel of cheese liberated from the executive boxes.

[PeterWithe]

Watching Buendia again yesterday only reinforced my belief that we need a significant upgrade in that position. So much of our forward play goes through him & more often than not breaks down with him. He either takes too long, picks the wrong pass or makes a poor pass & after watching him for 2 years, I don't see that changing.

Yeah he was crap yesterday, although I was impressed with him throwing off that Walsall defender who looked like a WWF star. He’s bulked up.

[paul_e]

There's some real nasty posters on this site who jump into bullying/harassment mode really fast whenever someone behaves differently (footy seems to kop the most of this)
Or when someones world view/politics is different (Ashton is getting it today)
Then theres the whole labour vs tory stuff. Which seems to get shoe horned in whereever possible.

You guys may find it amusing but personally it makes me feel uncomfortable reading through the bullying whenever it occurs.

Even if in your view the person you're being a dick is in your view more of a dick. You're still being a dick.

Just let people be for fucks sake.

(I'm aware I may be the only person getting fed up with all this, still. I felt strongly enough to bother posting this!)

I'm not sure you fully understand the point of a forum, disagreeing is pretty important. Most of the time when people cry bullying it's nothing of the sort, it's lots of people individually disagreeing with the same post/poster for largely the same reasons.

Ashton is getting some shit today for describing teachers in the sort of language that has been reserved for immigrants for the last decade and then doubling and tripling down on it, not because people are bullying him.

I'm quite sure nobody has mentioned immigrants, especially Ashton. Why is that relevant in any way? He said a System was Infested with certain political ideals and you draw comparisons to immigration? How is that helping this discourse?


Disagreement obviously is part and parcel of a forum I'm just saying how I see it. It feels over the last 2/3 years on here certain subjects are just open season for people (often the same sets of people) to gang up (or lots of people individually disagreeing with a single poster as you put it) for having a "wrong" belief,  usually in my view to the detriment of the discussion that was taking place to start with.

I think you probably need to read that again because you seem to have completely missed the bold bit. The problem with the word infested is it implies that there is some sort of vermin that needs to be removed, which is the sort of language that pisses people off.

[algy]

Sorry, there was a bit of an explosion of discussion and I was too hungover to be bothered reading it properly.

So, am I right in thinking that we've identified Dan Bardell as the guest drummer in African Car Reverser's 3rd single 'Leftist Word Salad'?

[Risso]

Watching Buendia again yesterday only reinforced my belief that we need a significant upgrade in that position. So much of our forward play goes through him & more often than not breaks down with him. He either takes too long, picks the wrong pass or makes a poor pass & after watching him for 2 years, I don't see that changing.

Yeah he was crap yesterday, although I was impressed with him throwing off that Walsall defender who looked like a WWF star. He’s bulked up.

I'd probably sell Buendia to be honest. I don't think his all round contribution is enough to make up for his shortcomings.

[paul_e]

Except I have been reasonably clear in my line of argument.

Arrogant? I see why you might think that. However I am absolutely in the top 1% in multiple scientific fields. I have been called 'the Bill Gates of agriculture' in the FT, and described as the Stephen Hawking of my field in multiple science publications. I have advised the UK government (under Labour), and currently advise the Australian government. I recently turned down 1.4m Yuan a year to advise the Chinese Government for 2 days a month (on principle). I have so many awards for scientific achievement that I can't fit them in my office. Under the last Labour government the then science minister (Lord Sainsbury) asked me to write a book about how someone from my background achieved so much (I refused). I am not arrogant, as I am pretty useless at many things mot people find easy. However when in my area of expertise I am exceptionally gifted. I attribute this blessing to God as yes 'Shock horror' I am a Christian.

As an aside I have been meaning to ask for a while. Did you ever work at Heathcotes in Preston? If so I might know you IRL.

and I think many of the arguments you've dismissed have been equally clear, you just don't like them and can't be arsed to form a proper argument so you're dismissing them as beneath you with a 3 word slogan that means nothing. That's the arrogant bit, good on you for everything in the 2nd paragraph though. I'm guessing one of the things you're 'pretty useless at' is empathy because you display absolutely none in most of your posts.

Oh and no, that's not me.