Monday Aug 8:
Everton are signing Conor Coady and I couldn’t be happier because now every Red will see him for what I’ve been saying he is for years. He’s the cockiest, most up his own arse player in the league and those who bought his “I’m dead sound me y’know lad” schtick will realise that soon enough now. He’ll be a proper cunt at Everton. He was bad enough when he played against us for Wolves but you can magnify that by a thousand now he’s trying to impress that lot.
His fall from grace at Wolves seems to have come really quickly though. He was the captain and a fan favourite and then just like that, out of the team and about to be loaned to Everton. If the Blues don’t switch to a back three then this is going to be great fun watching him get torn apart every week. People think he’s good because he shouts a lot, makes last ditch blocks and can spray 40 yard passes as well as anyone. He’s too slow and too shit to play in a back four, which is why Wolves have fucked him off. This is going to be great fun.
Elsewhere, Barcelona tried some dodgy dealings and it backfired to the point that La Liga not only refused to accept it, but the government then taxed them €37.5m on what they tried to do. It’s genuinely incredible how badly run they are. They are now threatening De Jong with legal action on the basis that THEY broke the rules with the contract they gave him and that he should therefore waive the £17m they owe him in wages. Is there a worse run club in football at the moment than Barc….
Hold that thought. United have bid for Marco Arnautovic and have also offered £18m for Rabiot, who by all accounts Juve have been thinking of releasing on a free just to get rid of his massive wages. They’re a complete fucking basket case club and it’s great.
Tuesday Aug 9:
United have shit themselves on Arnautovic now after the price went up and the fans went mad. They’ve ran away from it, the shitbags. Who’s next? Kenwynne Jones? Maybe an offer to tempt Jon Walters out of retirement? Can't believe just how fucked up they've become in the last couple of years. Were we ever as bad as they are right now? Maybe in that six months under Hodgson when we had the threat of bankrupcy hanging over us, but otherwise we've never been as much of a joke as they are right now.
Gini has signed for Roma and got a massive ovation when he was introduced to their crowd. I’m happy for him, hopefully he’ll find the love there that he didn’t have at PSG and he can start playing like Gini Wijnaldum again.
Sepp Van den Berg is joining Burnley on loan and we signed a lad who had been released by Southampton to take his spot in the u21s. We’ve also been linked with Luca Sucic. Never heard of him, but he plays for Salazburg and apparently he was good against us in pre-season. That automatically makes this a possibility because as I said a couple of weeks ago, there’ every chance that some of those kids who played against us will end up wearing red one day. The Red Bull clubs are the new Southampton.
Saw some quotes from Rio Ferdinand today that I found quite interesting.
“I hated Balotelli, hated him. He did a couple of things I didn’t like with the fans and I thought he was rude. But I chat with him now, lovely geezer. It’s mad because I’d see him after and it would only be respectful. In the games, in the end I respected it, he was an animal on the pitch.
“Didn’t like Suarez, didn’t like Torres. He stamped on my foot one time when the ball was up the other end, stitches in my foot. I was playing, the ball was in the other end, we had some tussles. He was game trust me. The ball went out at the other end and he just stamped on my foot and there was no ball about anywhere."
“Went in at half-time, took off my boot and it was the worst thing I could’ve done. My foot went ‘woof’ I need stitches. I had an injection, for ages it was killing me, got a scar on my foot.”
I’d expect that from Suarez but it’s mad hearing Torres pulling shit like that. He used to take a lot of punishment from defenders so no doubt he was just giving back some, but Ferdinand hasn’t owned up to that. The idea that Torres would do that unprovoked seems far fetched. Suarez absolutely would, but not Torres. Ferdinand no doubt got exactly what was coming to him. I dislike Torres considerably less after reading that.
Wednesday Aug 10:
Barcelona want to sign Trent according to multiple (bogus) reports. Great stuff, any excuse for me to dust off this classic….
So six weeks for Thiago then. Knowing him, it will be longer. It’s a massive blow but if I’d have asked any one of you a few weeks ago if you thought that at some this season Thiago will pick up an injury that will keep him out a couple of months, I bet there isn’t a single one of you who would have said no. This is entirely expected, it’s just worse because it happened on week one.
Meanwhile, Bajcetic signs a new deal as Jake Cain has a bit of a moan about being overlooked in pre-season. I mention the two together because there’s a three year age gap between them but the younger lad went on the pre-season tour and is already closer to the team.
Cain reckons he did well on loan last year and that in the last few months of the season he was one of the best midfielders in the league. He said he did everything LFC asked him to and he feels a bit let down that he didn’t make the tour. I feel for him actually because he’s a really good little player. Leighton Clarkson is too though and he’s another who won’t make it here.
The club know that, but they don’t yet know whether Bajcetic will make it so that’s why they’ll always take the younger kid on tour to have a closer look at them. Cain and Clarkson were given that same treatment when they were younger, no doubt at the expense of lads a couple of years older who thought they should be going. Cain and Clarkson were great to watch in the youth and u23 sides and hopefully they both go on to have good careers. It’s really fucking hard making it here though as you have to be pretty special.
Meanwhile, it looks like these Bernardo Silva rumours have some legs you know. I can’t see it happening, not least because Barca have a waiting list of half a dozen signings in line to be registered before they could even think about another one, but also because he’s City’s second best player. Why the fuck would they even think about letting him go unless they have something huge lined up. Like Neymar or some wild shit like that. Bellingham maybe. Oh fuck, that’s it isn’t it? Scupper our plans while bolstering their own midfield for the next decade or more.
Thursday Aug 11:
Lots of rumours about us being in for Nunes from Sporting. James Pearce says it’s bollocks and I’ll ride with him over random clickbait twitter accounts or some Portuguese fella with a track record of making bold transfer declarations that turn out to be complete bollocks. I did see a clip of Nunes yesterday though. It was about 5 seconds worth of footage but that was enough to grab my attention and form the opinion that he’s completely different to anything we currently have.
Why do I think that? Because in that clip he carried the ball from inside his own half, beat a few players and then sprayed a cross field pass that created a goal. None of our midfielders can do that. Well, Ox on his absolute best day probably could, but chances are that day was four years ago.
Another day another new contract. Harvey this time. He’s not that long signed one but this is what we do. Players are rewarded for their progress rather than held to ransom on deals they signed when they were younger. Harvey says he hopes he spends his entire career with us. He says that now, but if he ends up being as special as people think I could see him wanting to go to Spain. No idea why, as he is a massive Red and I have no doubt he means what he’s saying. Things can change though. It wouldn’t shock me if one day Trent decided to test himself overseas too.
Bernardo Silva claims City “don’t get the credit they deserve”. He gave it the old “I’m not complaining, but…” thing too, which tells everyone that he is indeed complaining. Right up there with “|’m not racist but…” which is ironic as that applies to him too.
He also thinks Lance Armstrong is unfairly demonised and that Ben Johnson should never have been stripped of his gold medal. Silly little cunt, really hope he fucks off soon so I don’t ever have to look at his thinning hairline and little rat face ever again.
Friday Aug 12:
Klopp was a bit arsey today in his presser and had very little patience for some of the questions he was asked. I get it, a lot of the questions in these things even have me rolling my eyes and I’m not the one having to answer them, but he was definitely tetchier than usual and the girl (Julia I think) from the BBC was given particularly short shrift. I actually thought her question was one of the better ones, but Klopp took issue with her pointing that the slow start we saw last week was also something that had crept in at the end of last season too. His argument was that they’d played 50 odd games last year so they were fatigued.
Not sure I buy that because we finished games really strongly. Surely if if it was fatigue we’d run out of gas. I think this is a thing and Klopp is aware of it, but he doesn’t want it becoming bigger than it is. He’ll be desperate for us to start well against Palace to put this to bed before it gains even more traction. She definitely touched a nerve.
He was also asked about signing a midfielder and he basically said “I don’t just want a midfielder, I want this midfielder” and he was no doubt talking about Bellingham. Maybe some others we were linked with too. The Italian lad or Nunes from Sporting. The point is, there were players he wanted but so far they weren’t doable this summer so he won’t settle for a lesser option just to get someone in.
Someone has bid for Nunes though. According to Moyes anyway, who said West Ham were in for him but one of the big clubs has made an offer and so he’s not interested in the Hammers. Lot of talk that it’s City, who may need to replace Silva. It could be Everton though. After all, they reckon they beat West Ham to the signing of Onana so why not Nunes too?
Speaking of Onana, last week when I was watching the Fulham game with my Dad and my cousin Al (you may know him as Ezekiel on the forum), I got Al with a belter. “Everton have signed that Onana” he says. “What’s his name?” I replied. “Onana” he says. “What’s his name?” I say again. “Ona…. Oh fuck off”.
Some of you won’t get that. Don’t worry, it’s just because you’re not as hip as I am.
….and that was the week that was
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