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AjaxAndy wrote: ↑Sat Aug 30, 2025 9:13 am Can we please stop these fish puns FFS, they're starting to affect me deep within my sole!

Oh my Cod! enough is enough.

AjaxAndy wrote: ↑Sat Aug 30, 2025 9:13 am £15m for a midfielder who scored 9 premier league goals last season is 'embarrasing'.

Seems cheap to me!

So like...he's a 'midfielder' in that he is technically listed as a midfield player, who takes one of your middle spots.

But he doesn't do *anything* a midfielder should be able to do. Pass, win the ball, carry the ball, progress from one end to the other, provide an option when getting pressed - even compared to our own midfielders who are already slugs!

What you get is a midfield that is suddenly even worse on the ball, is even worse when getting pressed, even worse at getting the ball to Grealish, even worse at defending, even worse at pressing, even worse at covering breaks....

But 6 times a year he stands up tall at the back post and scores a header.

It's not just that he's bad at being a midfielder, he's NOT a midfielder, and the opportunity cost of losing a midfielder to play someone who will challenge for headers and occasionally poke one home is something you have to balance.

If he was an okay midfielder who scored 10 goals a year then I'd bite your hand off, but he's a bad midfielder (now his legs have gone) who scored 10 last year playing every game as a forward.

He'll think playing at Hill Dickinson is the plaice to be.

Havin a whale of a time

Cod I hope he doesn't grow a mullet.

Just hope if we sign him he doesn't end up pulling a mussel.

Evertonian418 wrote: ↑Sat Aug 30, 2025 9:40 am Oh my @Cods ! enough is enough.

Enough already indeed. Ayu sick of them too?

Does he like haddock Omg lol

TheRam wrote: ↑Sat Aug 30, 2025 9:52 am Does he like haddock Omg lol

He can't wait to play at Bramley Moore Haddock.

Cozzie wrote: ↑Sat Aug 30, 2025 9:50 am Just hope if we sign him he doesn't end up pulling a mussel.

Eel do alright, we'll get a Tuna ta him...

Cods wrote: ↑Sat Aug 30, 2025 9:56 am Eel do alright, we'll get a Tuna ta him...

Aye, hear he puts his Heart and Sole into his performances.

Can we stop with the pun pollocks?

Brownie wrote: ↑Sat Aug 30, 2025 9:57 am Can we stop with the pun pollocks?

Knew I'd Reel you in

Cozzie wrote: ↑Sat Aug 30, 2025 9:57 am Knew I'd Reel you in

Net even close

Back to transfer rumours. Lad on another site reckons it’s Paqueta we’re enquiring for - from a West Ham source