bluebruce

You said it was negotiation. I'm saying it's public relations. We have no intention of buying this player.

They also definitely aren't going to take 1.5 mill. I'd imagine the least that's possible is 3 million and we are nowhere near that either.

Because they want 5 million. Then there's no way we will need to pay them 1.5 million. More gruel for the fools in the fanbase to lap up. 'We tried, obviously they're backing us, Barnsley are just greedy, difficult market' etc.

I can find you some footage of Ronaldo doing shit things. It's not about what you do at your worst moments, it's about consistency. Ryan has tons of that.

He has actually managed to get worse as the season has gone on, and he was pretty poor to begin with. I've never (or Neve) seen a player with worse positional sense. I might have never seen a player with less game intelligence.

One bad cross. The others have been lovely. One in particular he did brilliantly to lob it over the first man.

A quiet game, but I wouldn't say poor. Doherty won't be better.

We've missed Alebiousu's ability to always get his cross in.

Fair enough, I assumed it on the basis of us bringing the two wingbacks on. But no change I see.

Makes him a perfect bedfellow for Venkys.

Not to mention why change the formation when we've been on the ascendancy?

Why. The fuck. Does this manager insist on playing Dion de fucking Neve?

I'm amused by the name of Watford's number 43. Maamma, sounds like a whiny toddler.

I dunno what alternate reality you watched it in but ok.

I thought it was at first, but the replay suggests probably not. What it absolutely wasn't in a million years was a foul by Yuki.

How the hell is that a foul against Ohashi? The referees seem to hate him

I don't think burgers are the answer.

This seems like a very strange clause to me, if it's optional. Yverdon wanted a sale. They've no reason to care whether he played 20 games for us. We should prefer the freedom to decide regardless of games played and have no reason to ask for that clause. Given both parties knew he would be out for months to begin with, it seems even stranger. The only way I can see it is if it isn't an option but an obligation. Rovers were known to change their mind on buying once the injury was revealed. 20 games would likely demonstrate he was over it, and give Yverdon some security over getting the money if he was as good as they thought he was, rather than us just using him as a (presumably) cheap loan. I guess there's one other way I can see it - if the player's side insisted on it. I guess he could be reluctant to be bought fairly cheaply just to be a backup player.

It's not like we haven't had an excessive amount of injuries since then. It may have stepped up a notch this season, but it isn't the first time we have wondered if something is fundamentally wrong causing this many injuries.

If you don't get it by now, I doubt you'll ever get it.

Not really going to be a sale if he doesn't sign a pro deal. Just losing him for minor compo.

Anybody who doesn't put Duff, Friedel, Tugay and Shearer (if we are counting the UK) in there is on crack.

I feel like we would have had another point or two if we hadn't dropped him unceremoniously. But just a hunch.

You think Mowbray was a well respected manager? OK fair enough, this convo is over then.

He was a shifty operator. That's why he was here.