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He had a very long season with Bayern, and played 4 days ago. Not that surprised tbh.

And adds another reason why good players would want to come here. Especially good forwards if any of our front 3 leaves. Number of chances you'll get here... Our 1st choice midfield is now Fabinho, Henderson, Thiago. Terrifying.

Good article on him from March in 442: https://www.fourfourtwo.com/features/wolves-diogo-jota-nuno-espirito-santo-tottenham-spurs-goal-premier-league

1) Wolves have let us spread the payments very generously - 1st year being nothing besides Hoever's value 2) Jota's probably on less than half the wages Werner was after. 3) Suspect we've only moved on Jota now we're sure we're getting in decent money for Origi, Brewster, Grujic et al.

Quick enough and a very fast initial burst, gets past defenders with a bit of control and a lot of acceleration. Also quite narky, which is no bad thing in a forward.

Sure, increasing debt is doing just that - spending future revenues ahead of their actual arrival. Same as any credit. Our effective working capital - from a football (not just financial) perspective - is the total value of the squad, plus cash at hand. And by running with little debt we are effectively reducing that total working capital, which means a thinner squad than our rivals. We don't have to keep ballooning debt forever, but if we chose as a one off to shift our debt level to (say) £300m (still £200m less than Man U for example), then we'd have 2 or 3 more high class players in the squad, always. The only risks we'd bear is (1) if the market for players completely craters, making us unable to liquidate value in our squad, or (2) if we stop running the rest of our operations the way we have been for 4 or 5 years now - growing commercial revenues, selling on youth players for decent money, selling older players for top dollar etc. The way FSG are running us right now makes perfect sense if your goal is an exit in about 3-5 years, but means you're relying on a lot of luck that your thin squad doesn't get exposed at any point by injuries, suspensions etc. Edit: additionally, our debt-to-value ratio is absurdly lower than under H&G, before anyone starts talking about unsustainable loading of debt.

As others have said, and SwissRamble makes clear, the difference is entirely down to FSG not wanting to run the club with heavy debt, unlike our top 6 rivals. This is most likely because they have one eye on selling us and we're much more attractive when not debt-laden, as it allows a prospective purchaser to buy us using debt, as H&G did. As Nate says, their current success model is just Klopp. Without him, we're nowhere. And as Ed says, the nightmare scenario is that they sell pretty much when Klopp leaves, so we have a new manager and a debt-heavy ownership, and we're back to 2010.

They're the Ayre-Bear bunch?

Do all German managers take the piss in press conferences? Great deadpan from Herr Flick: https://www.theguardian.com/football/video/2020/aug/24/thiago-is-staying-hansi-flick-jokes-after-bayern-champions-league-victory-video

Clearly on a wind up. As if Henderson would go for £20m - wouldn't even get his left leg for that. But anyhow, don't see our Jordan leaving before Jurgen.

If you watched the Wolves v Olympiakos match the other night, he looked bloody good. Great run & shot early on, very well saved by Patricio, and a fine cross near the end that Hassan should have put away but his header was too close to the keeper. In between, worked hard, presses well, got booked for fouling Traore. Only one match but very promising, and very much a Jurgen full-back. And yeah, I've been watching far too much footie since lockdown.

The golden age of reff'ing was specifically whenever Pierluigi Collina was on the pitch. It's literally just those times.

Yeah but hopefully it will also be a massive celebration too, like Dortmund did. Be sad but glorious. There's probably a word in German for that.

This. Point made on MoTD "do you think it might help to have former players in the VAR suite?". Well yeah, it wouldn't be a terrible idea to have people who have actually played the game involved in officiating...

Bloody hell Jurgen. That's done me.

On this basis they should be enormously keen on Lovren. We should suggest a p/x with Saka/Martinelli

Christ, we take him for granted sometimes. He's excellent.

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In response to the absence of actual live footy, I've been filling some of the imposed home-dwelling with full re-runs of: Istanbul v Barca semi last year v West Ham FA Cup final v Alaves UEFA Cup final I would recommend this to everyone. Next up, I'm going to start re-watching all our games from this season...

"He won't say it but I will: he's the best Brazilian player in the world. Neymar's not fit to lace his boots"

Sadly no, all it takes is a country to take a politicised/incompetent approach to containing it. China went full-on autocracy from very early (i.e. as soon as they admitted there was an outbreak - thanks to a whistleblower doctor). All kinds of measures we'd find extreme - mandatory distance between people inside buildings, total quarantine on regions at risk, travel bans - means that the spread of the disease was slowed. Compare this to the US and UK where personals freedoms are politicised and prioritised over the public good, and you likely have a much higher daily infection rate. This leads to an overwhelming of the health care system - purely in terms of the rate at which people are presenting for treatment - which in turn leads to a higher mortality rate than China (hence why Italy's is currently close to 5%, while China's is under 1%). I would go on, but this should be in the thread in the Genny. Best info: https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavirus-act-today-or-people-will-die-f4d3d9cd99ca

The Loris Karius Memorial Cannon?

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