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5 minutes ago, Jackal said:

Some real tongue twisters in there, and some dodgy middle names. 

Reminds me that the former France international Rod Fanni's middle name is Dodji. Actually the least funny part of his name.

17 is a bit of a surprise. No idea who Nicholas Davies is, but signing Reece James is a real coup.

This Liverpool defensive performance is making them look more like the Man Utd of recent seasons

Can't be right, they'd have had to have been making noise to begin with to shut them up

8 hours ago, TigerTedd said:

There are other clubs that own other clubs though aren’t there. Don’t the Man City owners own loads of different clubs round the world. Didn’t they loan frank lampard to New York or something?

and the guy looking to buy Man Utd owns other clubs. But swapping plates between these clubs only really seems to happen with Forest and Watford on a regular basis. Other clubs could do it loads, they just choose not to. I doubt that’s a moral choice, so is there some sort of rule preventing them?

I think some of those other clubs do it more than people think, it's just not as obvious as the Watford/Udinese or Forest/Olympiacos connections, probably because in a lot of cases the English club is the larger club doing most of the favours for smaller foreign clubs. Man City, for example, signed a 26-year old called Mix Diskerud from their sister club New York City in 2018. During the season he was signed, he was on loan at Goteborg to provide "salary relief" to NYC, but with them still paying a big chunk of his wages. He signed for Man City, and they immediately sent him back to Goteborg on loan. It didn't really benefit Man City - he never even made an appearance for the Man City first team - but it was likely quite inconsequential monetarily for a team of their size compared to the advantage it gave to a smaller club in NYC.

It's remarkable how quickly Leicester have gone from the example a lot of people pointed to on "how to run a club" to being seen as a complete mess.

Knowing how trigger happy he's been in the past and knowing how much he's pumped into them this year, I am wondering when Marinakis is going to start considering giving Cooper the chop. I think they'd be mad to do it, but you never know with someone like that.

Imagine going in 2-0 up at half time and losing 3-2 by the end.
Could never be us.

29 minutes ago, Rammy03 said:

 

Saw Worrall "defend" against Haaland and suddenly decided they need yet another centre-back

The "Worst Team in History" drew the last time they played Man City, you know.

If Forest were 2 up against Spurs, and one of their lads started showing off like that, half of the people laying into Richarlison now would have treated it like the best thing to have ever happened on a football pitch

Deserve liquidation just for this

28 minutes ago, FlyBritishMidland said:

Forest fans: Champions of Europe, you’ll never sing that.

Spurs fans: Champions of Europe, you weren’t even born.

Nice!!

Maybe he meant a Senor striker we're getting in from La Liga

6 minutes ago, JuanFloEvraTheCocu'sNesta said:

Salt mine has reached peak production levels.

"OOOOOO NOTICE ME FOREST NOTICE ME LEICESTER I NEED ACKNOWLEDGEMENT"

Let me consult the list of clubs I don't like

1 hour ago, Rammy03 said:

Bournemouth thrashed 9-0. They've had some tough games but they look like a championship team. Could they end up going down as one of the worst ever? Don't think our record will ever be broken.

At least it can't get any worse for them, can it?

Oh no

How on Earth have Reading managed to get themselves top of the Championship?

47 minutes ago, Rammy03 said:

Can someone explain why exactly they need all these players

They lost the 5 loanees from last season, so they need these 20+ signings to replace them

Dele Alli x Besiktas x Rick and Morty
A collab I wouldn't have ever expected to see

For those on about Grabban (not that it was ever very likely to happen)

21 minutes ago, LERam said:

Forest did similar last season, selling a player at overinflated price.

What's this all about though? Feel like it's a con but can't work it out? If they get relegated will they turn the loan perm and give forest a cash injection?

Probably more of a hand from Forest to Olympiacos, this time. 5m would actually be quite a high fee for modern Olympiacos to spend on one player. 

9 minutes ago, Gee SCREAMER !! said:

Those comments.  Derby SOLd thE stadium to THEDSELDES and broke de Rulessss.

Err..... no

The irony is that the stadium sale deal was probably a lot fairer than this. In our case, we needed independent valuation by a third party to sell the asset. In Watford's, they can pay whatever they want.

I don't think these deals should be off the cards entirely - it's reasonable that two clubs under the same ownership would sometimes genuinely want to trade between each other without other motives - but, as with the stadium deal, there should be restrictions on how these deals are carried out and/or accounted for.

1 minute ago, Sparkle said:

What did we spend ? About £12 million? Can’t remember 

Transfermarkt has it at around £20m, £15m net if you also take into account sales. Obviously the football transfer market has gone completely mad since, but even at the time that was one of the lowest spends in the league.

45 minutes ago, Stuniverse said:

Were the three substitutes used against Sunderland U21s all trialists?

Tamplin (for Brailsford, 71), Fevrier (for Burton, HT), Qureshi (for Hawkins, 81).

Not used: Evans and Roberts… so we must’ve been really down to bare bones with two goalkeepers on the bench.

Source: https://www.dcfc.co.uk/news/2022/08/match-report-derby-county-u21s-0-4-sunderland-u21s

Could be. Jayden Fevrier was released in summer by West Ham, and Jaami Qureshi by Brighton, so wouldn't be surprised if both of them have been offered trials here. Not so sure on Tamplin.