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Brilliant 5fer for Hartley

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If I became a billionaire overnight it would be one of the things I’d outlay some cash on for sure. Ideally it would be a complete regeneration of the current stadium but appreciate that would come with several challenges. The location is a huge part of Burnley FC and unless impossible to regenerate...

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Outstanding from Stokes

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Are you really expecting any signings? Alan Pace usually does all the negotiations and he's been in Dundee this weekend. While the previous points about having a mobile phone are valid it’s worth also highlighting negotiations are carried out by Matt Williams (as per MTB and following interviews wi...

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Pape Gueye not likely to join us now and is preferring leaving Marseille on a free in the summer.

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Think Mellon could be an option for us next season if (when) we go down to the Champ - maybe a player in rotation/bench option? Seems to have the physicality for it, which sometimes is lacking at that age (Lewis Richardson). Kasey McAteer has featured in / started majority of Leicester games this s...

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First club from outside the top five tiers of English football to reach the FA Cup fifth round since Blyth Spartans in 1977-78.

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34 shots to 2. Absolutely peak FA Cup. Dreamland.

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Pickles wrote: ↑
Sat Jan 27, 2024 2:01 pm
And Accy, and Port Vale... and I've probably forgot one or two.

Burton Albion

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Why does this word embarrassing keep floating around. Does it make you feel good about yourself or something lol. Mmmm ? Any idea who posted this ? Whooosh. Anyway, I’ve had enough, think what you like. I don’t post s**t on here and I loved Benson last season. Time to get back to rumours, LongsideC...

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ksrclaret wrote: ↑
Thu Jan 25, 2024 10:11 pm
That’s cause it’s made up ********, innit.

Unless of course we’re to believe RVclaret joins Lowbankclaret on his regular visits to the training ground.

Stop embarrassing yourself.

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daveisaclaret wrote: ↑
Thu Jan 25, 2024 10:06 pm
It's difficult to reconcile the Benson who cops out of training and obviously isn't good enough with the Benson who signed the bumper contract extension in the summer.

Try reconcile the summer and this season being two different time periods and you might work that one out.

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After your comment about him being ineffective against Everton (despite the rest of the team being sh-ite that evening and Benson coming on after 82 minutes) it seems more than an unusual coincidence that you are now accusing one of our players of kopping out of training on a regular basis. So don’...

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Come on RV, as a lover of stats you would realise how many times Benson has saved Vinny's backside off the bench. He must be our most impactful sub for the last 50 years? I fully agree. Ironically it was Luton at home in the Championship, Benson and Vinny’s debut, where I thought ‘this player will ...

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Tbf it’s about adapting to the English leagues. Benson has, Tresor hasn’t. Simple as that really You are one of the first to say how big the gap between Champ and Prem is. I’m 100% sure if Tresor was plonked in against Millwall, Reading and QPR at home, all camped inside their own half with us havi...

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That's an embarrassing comment. Why would you speak about one of our players like this? You've been training with him have you? Tell us all about him kopping out of training please. Why does this word embarrassing keep floating around. Does it make you feel good about yourself or something lol. You...

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Yep fantastic - you think those kind of statistics would have led to at least one assist, goal….or even one tackle might be nice given he cost 7 or 8 times more than Benson. He cost less than 5 times more than Benson. Granted he’s not lived up to his price tag yet, albeit that’s more on Kompany and...

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He was our best player when we played Man United and Bournemouth last season, albeit they were cup games. I’m flummoxed as to what people might have seen from Tresor especially to suggest he might be a better player than Benson. Tresor got more goals and assists in the JPL last season than Benson m...

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BurnleyFC wrote: ↑
Thu Jan 25, 2024 8:49 pm
My opinion - he’s a better option than Bruun Larsen on the right, and a better option than Tresor full stop.

Fair enough. I disagree with both.

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Other sources have confirmed he hasn't been injured for months. He should have come on with 20 left against Luton. Sadly Vinny isn't learning. I’m not sure why you would bring on probably the most lightweight player in the Premier League, reduce the height of the team defending set pieces, of which...

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It’s not so much the selling of Benson that’s baffling, it’s the complete lack of game time and the keeping of players that aren’t as good as him that’s baffling. He’s been injured. Gets injured and kops out of training continuously. And with respect, you don’t know who is and who isn’t as good as ...

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Surely I'm not the only one who can understand Benson leaving? His game is based on bursts and blasts of magic (for which he'll deservedly go down in Burnley folklore) but he cannot be relied on to start and finish games consistently in the league below, never mind the one we're in currently. His p...

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Sevilla are fourth from the bottom and not scoring goals either so I think it's a bit of a punt for them as well.... Fair play - Fofana had a 'mare at Union Berlin fell out with the manager and came back. Seems an odd one to replace a signed 23 year old forward with a bit of pedigree with a 21 year...

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A just turned 21 year old who has scored 1 goal outside of the Norwegian league? Obafemi has played over 30 games in the PL and scored 15 in the Championship at just over 1 in 3. Ok I don't know what that says about Obafemi - if VK plays Fofana ahead of Jay Rod....! Sevilla are the calibre of club ...

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ClaretPete001 wrote: ↑
Tue Jan 23, 2024 9:20 pm
If Amdouni or Foster get injured we are back to 34 year old Jay Rod as backup.

Obafemi must be so far from VKs plans that he would need a HS2 link to get back in them...!

I think we need to ask Alice, I think she'll know...!

Have you missed the signing of David Fofana?

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We aren't staying up because we're awful. Few myths to bust... * We haven't been unlucky recently. We've taken 8 points from 8 games, but the xG in those games would suggest a return of more like 5 points. From the 6 before that we lost them all, but could have easily have had a return of 3 points....

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For a start our fortunes need to change, can’t keep missing key players for key games. We’re also owed 6 points from VAR, given the old ‘things even themselves out over the season’ adage. If both of those things happen, plus we add some extra quality in the next 8 days, then I’ve seen enough in the ...

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Exciting news this.

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Big Vinny K wrote: ↑
Mon Jan 22, 2024 8:29 pm
Is that a serious comment ?

Yes.

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"It’s not VKs fault Cullen Roberts Al Dakhil etc haven’t been good enough either, they were rightly dropped after being given the chance. Nor is it VKs fault the club didn’t do the deals for Maatsen and Tella." It is his fault that Benson was not brought on at half time/or at all against Everton. I...

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ClaretTony wrote: ↑
Mon Jan 22, 2024 3:05 pm
Are you sure on that? There is certainly a buyback option in there. The long delay in the deal being announced was him agreeing the terms on a return to Villa.

That is a buyback amount but it is only valid after 2 years.

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Was Ramsey really a standout as well? It was Archer and Akpom banging them at the tail end of the season - Akpom denied from the spot of course by Muric who apparantly isn't a good shot stopper according to some on here. Surely not hyping a penalty save (awful pen) which came about because of his s...

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No one knows what we precisely paid. Did you really notice him in the two/three games we played against Boro/Norwich last year? Just quoting the fee from the journo who reported this deal, including intricacies, from start to finish. Against Boro away I thought he was tidy. But our focus was on pro...

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We paid £12m for Ramsey. A fair price for one of the Championship’s best attacking players last season, while factoring in being 19/20 years old and English. There is (thankfully) no automatic buyback upon relegation.

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If we're now counting points that we didn't get then we've reached new levels of fantasy in my opinion. The league table won't lie at the end of the season and the three relegated clubs will deserve to go down. It is a bit fantasy, obviously. I posted further up ‘in an alternate universe’. But neve...

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far too much tinkering, killed the vibe in the squad, huge disconnect with those in the stands, recipe for relegation before a ball was kicked. But again, with a fully fit Foster and VAR not screwing us from a min 4 points we have earned through our performances, would you be making these same comm...

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it was the lack of fight and energy especially in the first half of the Luton game that was unacceptable and something you wouldn't expect from a team managed by Kompany. It's all a bit of a mess Crap periods of games happen. Luton were impressive for 30 minutes. After that we were a lot better and...

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The 4 points from VAR would have helped, but would I have been happy now on 16 points? Honestly no. Had we picked up another 4 points on top of this with Foster being available then yes, I probably would. But obviously finding a way to add 8 points onto our tally, when we've only got 12 points, is ...

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It really doesn't work like that, plenty of teams around us have had injuries as well - what about Forest losing Awoniyi for longer than we've had Foster out? Even if we did have 16 points from 21, that only extrapolates to 29 points for the entire season, which to me would still be a failure. Acce...

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Purely hypothetical, but in an alternate universe, where VAR hasn’t screwed us of a minimum 4 points (conservative, not including Villa away or Bournemouth away), and we’ve had Foster fit for all games rather than half (imo another 4 points from games such as United home, Palace home, West Ham home)...

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Forest’s leaked transfer spends and wages due to this FFP issue show how much ready made quality costs. Lingard 200k a week, Dennis 70k a week, Wood 100k a week, Shelvey 70k a week, Gibbs-White 30m fee + 70k a week. I’d be surprised if we have anyone above 50k (probably Jay Rod and that’s it). Likel...

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The transfermarkt number is usually below that to be fair. But until clubs are forced to make honest public statements about transfers its the best we have to go off IMO. Well just looking at the list, Ramsey was reported at 12m by Nixon, who was the first one to call this deal. Transfermrkt has it...

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agreenwood wrote: ↑
Sun Jan 21, 2024 4:26 pm
Where do Transfermarkt get their fee information from?

They look at the highest quoted price in the media

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jdrobbo wrote: ↑
Sun Jan 21, 2024 4:09 pm
Was there not a handball in the Bowen incident?

After he’d been manhandled to the floor!

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Ref giving a foul BY Bowen summed up his performance. Completely bonkers.

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Second very soft penalty Sheffield have got in the final seconds of games this season to win 4 points

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You could make a reasonable argument that entire Saints back four improves ours. At least they don’t seem to be injured all the time. Manning probably more suited to VK style than Taylor, THB we know what he can do and would have provided leadership, Bednarek would’ve brought a lot of experience, P...

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Of course it's debatable. When the season finishes the teams who are 18th, 19th and 20th will be replaced with the teams that are 1st, 2nd and win the play offs in the league below. So anyone who finishes in the bottom 3 is not within the best 20 clubs are they? Season hasn't finished admittedly bu...

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There's being overly negative but then there's being overly positive. I mean it's debatable that we are the 19th best team in the country- given that means we will be going down and someone replacing us. But it's an absolute fact that Leicester are not looking enviously at us. Why would you even th...

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ClaretTony wrote: ↑
Sat Jan 20, 2024 10:07 pm
Nothing said but it wouldn’t be a surprise if there is

It’s been said by both the Athletic and Nixon that there is no option to buy.

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