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[Albion] Matt O Riley [26/08/24 - sings on a 5-year deal]
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GoingUp
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Agree, I'm a little concerned as I've never thought signing too many players in one window is a good idea, it tends to unsettle the squad.
It tends to end up like Chelsea or newly promoted teams gambling on staying up or falling down the divisions if they fail.
Though I don't think we've signed too many players that all expect to start yet and we've shipped a few out too.
Shaktarman
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Weststander
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Sold down the river.
I'm assured that Middlesbrough aren't interested.
Slum_Wolf
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- May 3, 2021
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Chouchane has a German mother, Dahoud was born in Syria to Kurdish parents.
Sorry my bad. I genuinely thought I’d heard him speak sounding very foreign
- Jul 7, 2003
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The only bad thing about this transfer is that I've just learned MK Dons will make £7.5 million out of it.
Gabbiano
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At the risk of derailing the thread I'm not sure what you're trying to disprove. The point I was making is where these players grew up is not the nation that they represent, there was no inherent judgment in that either, just mentioning that we've had several players in this category. O'Riley and Kadioglu will be two more.
Sarmiento spent most of his youth in London. Chouchane most of his in Paris. Dahoud most of his in Germany.
Sarmiento has a Latino accent when speaking Spanish and a London accent speaking English, I'd expect nothing less frankly.
Dick Swiveller
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Half that according to their forum
Different clubs
Everything about the Albion is forward thinking and the fans are fully on board . There isn’t a hint of rot in the club . As long as we are not bottom 7 then all will be fine . The expectations here are just different
It’s too big a machine all pulling in the same direction for a Chelsea situation to grow and develop imo
Wallace
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When you talk about the population of Brighton you wouldn't include Worthing and Burgess Hill etc so why do it for Glasgow? The population of Glasgow is circa 650k, Hamilton, Paisley, Motherwell etc are all separate towns with their own identities and clubs.
tigertim68
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We have Lost too many players that have not been replaced ,
we are playing catch up
Papa Lazarou
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That is a very very interesting and exciting analysis.
This season is going to be interesting...
GoingUp
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Agree with both points.
We badly especially needed to sort out the midfield since Caciedo and Mac left, we got through so easy there last season and have cover for injuries.
We've also got a great core of longtime players and also experienced winners (like Welbeck and Milner) who don't expect to start or even play every game that will welcome but also have a word with any players making a fuss of not starting.
Garry Nelson's Left Foot
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It's a strange one. People talk about tokyo having a population of 30m all the time but it doesn't.
The city has a population of 10m. The 'county' is 13m. 'Greater tokyo' is 30m but that includes Yokohama (one of Japan's biggest cities in its own right) and all the surrounding prefectures. Its like including Essex, surrey etc in the population of London.
So, in short, people seem to measure city populations any way they want!
Cheggers
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Because Worthing and Burgess Hill are miles away from Glasgow.
Nobby Cybergoat
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Giving money to an abomination. That is bad. Can't see any way round it though. Someone would have snapped him up