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  1. Gioventu UTLR

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    Hopefully not premature but many sources running with it now. Not linking the rag it came from.
     
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  2. bkk bhoy

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    Reports we have signed him on 4 year deal !
     
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  3. bkk bhoy

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    Reading the same. Signed on a free. Tidy business if true
     
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  4. Dip 'n' Swerve

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    be lucky if he starts over 15 games this season.
    who is filling ange's head?
     
    Dip 'n' Swerve, Aug 3, 2021
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  5. Jeannie Gold Member Gold Member

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    Just hope that he and Hart are of Ange's choosing
     
    Jeannie, Aug 3, 2021
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  6. King Kwon Gold Member Gold Member

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    Why can none of you wait for an official announcement before making a thread? :giggle1:
     
    King Kwon, Aug 3, 2021
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  7. kinglenny

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    Decent player hope he can stay fit.
     
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  8. bkk bhoy

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    Why can the club not be first out with the news and not let the rags get the jump on it ?
     
    bkk bhoy, Aug 3, 2021
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  9. Marie Bookmaker

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    Yep, I agree....hopefully it doesn't go * up.
     
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    No chance Jeannie.

    It'll be the old "I signed off on it" situation, but they aren't players he has scouted/earmarked/wanted for his squad. Hart and McCarthy are players we have chassed for years, waiting for the right time to get them on a free/cheap and make it look like we swim with the big boys making EPL signings.
    It is what it is.

    But to be honest, we need bodies in badly, that I will accept these sort of deals because they clearly are an improvement on some of the players we currently have. But they aren't great investment, nor the best players we could realistically attain.

    Welcome James!
     
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  11. Senna s1979

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    Of course they aren’t. In the same way Carlton Cole, Kazim-Richards and all the other has-beens we have ever signed aren’t.
    I’ve no idea why our board make these signings…. Shirt sales? TV money? Our name in the English press? Christ knows.
     
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    I blame @Notorious. Everyone wants to beat him
     
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  13. Marie Bookmaker

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    The club aren't going to announce it until they have dotted the i's and crossed the t's....everyone else wants to beat each other breaking the news.
     
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  14. Doogs. Lustig your the one, you still turn me on.

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    They’ll have been brought up as options I’d imagine and Ange has probably ok’d them.

    2 signings of decent pedigree on paper and hard to turn down when our squad is in the state it is.
     
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  15. Marie Bookmaker

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    Yep :56:
     
    Marie, Aug 3, 2021
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  16. Jeannie Gold Member Gold Member

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    That feeling of being underwhelmed remains. It's really hard to feel positive about things just now as we seem to have this hodgepodge of a team. It's hard to see how they can all work.
     
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  17. Mr Shelby Administrator Administrator

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    Over the moon with this, tbh. Still only 30. Played 33 games in the EPL season before last.

    Him and Hart will bring some much, much needed character to this squad.
     
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  18. Big Mick Tiocfaidh ár lá Gold Member

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    Dunno if he's been the same since the leg break but if he gets back to his best he could be some signing.
     
    Big Mick, Aug 3, 2021
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  19. Notorious Gold Member Gold Member

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    Notorious, Aug 3, 2021
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  20. jambo_cfc

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    Ange was rumoured to want a cdm so think he would have be for this , good signing
     
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