Confirmed Signing Jack Grealish

[matty1878]

As if Moyes is going to pay 50m next season, may as well have made it 100m

coz it won’t be 50 mill

 

[Lob]

Wearing the number 18 shirt after his heroes Paul Gascoigne and Wayne Rooney wore it.

 

[Wizard]

Number 18 you say

Unfortunately that will be the extent of my ITK unless Grealish' dad becomes our Director of Football or something

 

[Moomin]

Announcement incoming.

I can confirm and expand on this.

 

[Moomin]

@Goat is fat.

VERY

 

[chicoazul]

16 mins to go.

 

[Kevsleftpeg]

I absolutely agree with most of that - although decent data does actually now take almost all of those things into account, the way it’s interpreted is crucial. It’s so often cherry picked for confirmation bias - not the data’s fault tho, our fault! It’s like the classic thing of rating the player who beats a man higher than the man who closes off a passing lane. It’s natural - who doesn’t love to see a technically gifted player? We bloody dream of it! But both are equally important in winning games, the latter might even be more important.

Closing off passing lanes is important and doing the dirty aspects of football are important and should be value but the most important thing in football (assuming a certain level of fitness and athleticism) is technical ability. It doesn't matter how well you do all the dirty bits if you don't have players who can control and pass the ball well and score goals. We have lacked technical players for almost as long as I can remember. It's great that we are finally signing a few ballers.

 

[W84 Dum Freeze]

16 mins to go.

Waiting for the rain to clear and a bit of sunshine

 

[Moomin]

10 mins to go

 

[HKContractDave]

10 mins to go

or 5, if they do the passport thingy on the socials again

 

[The Blue Orca]

Announcement incoming.

Vault me.

 

[Moomin]

or 5, if they do the passport thingy on the socials again

7 mins

 

[chicoazul]

5 mins to go.

 

[HKContractDave]

or 5, if they do the passport thingy on the socials again

Seems not then

 

[MrGrumpy]

Where all these ITK come from?