The more I hear about this Madueke deal the more concerned I get. Seems like there are a lot of red flags with the player in this instance.

• He can play on the left but doesn’t want to and prefers to play on the right.
• We need another left winger (although Eze can play there).
• He would be extra competition for Nwaneri and probably push him down the pecking order on one of the free positions where he doesn’t have much competition.
• Nwaneri is already dragging his heels on a be contact because of match time concerns.
• He would cost a lot relative for what we are getting.

I’d rather us abandon this one and move on to another candidate.

Really wish we could have signed Benayoun on as permanent from them. He was quality back in the day.

Hallelujah! When I’m able to I’ll update the silly season thread with this.

He’s very creative when it comes to pissing his money down the drain, I’ll give him that.

I try to use local stores or other websites, and only use Amazon if I can’t find what I need there. But at least half the time I end up having to use Amazon because I can’t find what I need.

It’s probably a kind of vicious cycle: as Amazon eats further into profits of other companies they are more limited in what they can offer.

Thanks. I’ll revise that now.

I’m glad I’m not the only one who thought he was overrated. Don’t get me wrong, he’s a very good footballer. But you’d have thought he could walk on water from what some say. This last season he did very well - probably his best season for us. But even then he would sometimes switch off or get sloppy. Again, everyone makes mistakes. But the over-hype for him was wild. People just forgetting about his sloppy performances and his injury record.

And then there’s the allegations. I think I had lulled myself into the assumption that he had been cleared of them because that one case was dismissed. I didn’t know about the other instances. But even with that one case, I was never convinced he was completely innocent. The lady making the claims seemed like a legit victim.

Anyway, I’m glad he’s gone. Him refusing that contract extension really was a bullet dodged! Can you imagine if he had accepted it and then got arrested? Man, what a shit-show that would have been!

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Replacement for Cuesta I think.

Yeah, hopefully that stability keeps going. Ali really calmed things down after we went through two U21 managers in as many years before him.

Probably the bigger challenge is finding someone who has the same tactical philosophy as Arteta.

I wonder if we’ll bring in an outsider or if we’ll promote Adam Birchall up from U18s.

No, I think Jack was the U18s coach, not the U21s coach.

Hah, I just posted about this in the daily thread.

Best of luck to him (except when he plays against us). It’s a big step-up, but he’s an excellent coach.

Word is that Mehmet Ali (our U21s manager) is being considered by Brentford for their open manager position.

It will suck to lose him, but good for him that he’s in the mix for such a big step-up. If he does leave for that position then the best of luck to him (except against us).

So… Sell Martinelli and bring in Rodrygo? Or keep Martinelli and bring in someone like Madueke instead?

I don’t have a very strong opinion either way, but I think I’d rather keep Martinelli. He’s still young and hasn’t done that bad. And I feel like any shortcomings from last season were more due to lack of support or on the left. Plus selling him and bringing in sometime like Rodrygo might unsettle the squad a bit.

Incoming second pardon from Trump for this guy, probably.

I’m genuinely surprised Utah isn’t higher on this list. I’ve driven in many states, and that state has by far the worst drivers I’ve encountered.

The man from Del Monte… he said “no”.

With each day that passes I’m getting more and more excited about us signing Eze. He’s got that X factor of pulling off unpredictable and brilliant things on the pitch. And he can play on the left wing, right central mid, or left central mid. And of course, there’s the sentimental aspect since he was in our Academy until we let him go and broke his heart. But once a gunner always a gunner. Let’s bring him home.

Yeah, but they’ve already shown they are woeful at basic counting and math. Look at how Bondi was claiming their crackdown was going to save billions of Americans from fentanyl.