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Ahh enjoy! What a ride 😂
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Easily, easily, our player of the year.
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😂 nice
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Yeah bench options are wild, and we're not even close to full strength in other areas either. Quite the squad at the moment.
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Read Satantango last year, so good. Will have to get round to this soon
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Nope
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...can do something special in the second half of the season to either win us a cup or make it back into the UCL.
An RCB would be nice too.
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...in terms of quality and end product.
Haven't seen any mention of loan fees yet, so assuming it's just the wages we're covering of the two loanees 'til the end of the season (for now) then it's a somewhat low risk financially for potentially high gains. A kind of roll of the dice to see if we...
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It is a bit strange that the Asensio links are getting so much traction. Hopefully just a smokescreen for someone else.
Would like us to get a bit creative now and see where we can find value in terms of age, readiness and potential. Difficult in Jan but full trust in the brass to get it done.
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Yeah completely missed McGinn off my count.
We've definitely targeted younger signings recently but most of the pre-Emery lot are getting on now. Mainly why I just don't believe the Asensio links, doesn't fit with how we've gone about our signings lately.
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Would be nice if every player viewers us the way we do!
The links to Tel are the kind of transfer we need to be looking at.
Bags of potential, not much downside in terms of value since he's so young. Looks a player.
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Oh yeh, sure if we go for him then Unai's done his homework.
Big risk for me simply because of what it would cost and likely having next to no re-sale value once he's done with us. Always have to take that into account considering our revenue and PSR limits.
We've gotta be smarter than most.
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Is the squad young? Emi, Cash, Ez, Pau, Mings, Digne, Youri, Bailey, Ollie all 27+. Almost all of them starters.
Asensio not for me based on age, wages. Would question hunger at this stage of his career to "drop down" and come to Birmingham to fight for a spot. That's what Unai would demand.
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29 and on 250k a week? Not a chance.
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Talking about Barca, they only need to avoid defeat for us to finish top 8, provided we win.
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Don't even need a Barca win, just avoid defeat. Worked out just about as well as it could have considering our result.
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Milan probably the unlikeliest, as they have Girona and Dinamo Zagreb, though the second of those likely fighting for a play-off spot which helps. The Atleti last minute winner really cost us.
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Was very high risk when they both played previously, but could be a bit safer with Onana and Kamara like you say. Thought Duran might start tonight, Ollie on Sunday. Interesting to see how Everton approach the game.
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Don't see him staying with us. Think they'll wait to see what's available in terms of our needs and either sell to fund a purchase or else loan back out to a championship club.
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Yeah keeps her emotions out of it, plays the others off each other well, just loves the game
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Flawless so far 😂
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Although can't do that for this season now obviously. Not gonna happen is it haha
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Kinda hoping this was the plan all along now. Maybe they just re-colour the anniversary badge and use that from here on out.
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Does Malen offer that kind of play in terms of stretching a defence and getting in behind are you saying? Haven't seen a lot of him myself.
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Spot on. Interesting that the Malen signing likely won't help this though, doesn't seem to be much of a ball retainer looking at his stats. On the other hand he should help our profligacy in front of goal.
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Could be the way to go until the summer when we may have more funds available to find someone else who offers more control further up.
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bit better (Baena) higher up the pitch considering how turnover-heavy we are, but maybe the management see the lack of cutting edge as the priority. Certainly don't finish as many chances as we should considering the positions we often find ourselves in.
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Think we need a defender, wide forward who can get in behind, and a playmaker. The defender especially needs to be top draw. Has to be comfortable on the ball, able to organise and commanding in the box. Big ask, hopefully we've got some wiggle room in January.
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Was really surprised that we didn't sign a RB/CB in the summer but there was a lot to do and our hands were tied with PSR to some extent.
But we do now have a much better squad which means we can be picky about the next few incomings.
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Soon, hopefully.
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Could be Konsa + Mings + Pau for the first time, hope it is 🤞🏽
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If that's the case why is he refereeing Champions League games? 😂
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That's fucking hilarious in an awful way
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Not sure I've seen a more wasteful 45 minutes than today's second half.
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Hell of a list. HBO had it all