Nice! Is there a screenshot of it somewhere?

Both I and my book feel personally attacked by this cartoon.

I was saying in another thread earlier today how Gyorkeres is like a rough diamond - he has all the physical traits to be an incredible striker in the PL and CL - pace, strength, a powerful shot, good awareness and positioning, and an aggressive directness. His footwork is a bit clunky sometimes, and his shot accuracy could improve. But the hope is that Arteta and his team will give him the guidance to raise his abilities even higher.

I’m seeing a lot of the same with Madueke in this report. Madueke has basically the same positive traits (directness, strength, pace) as Gyorkeres. And most of the same weakness (just replace occasionally dodgy footwork for Gyorkeres with occasionally dodgy decision making for Madueke. But I think Madueke is also trainable.

One thing I really like about both of them is that directness and their aggression to zone in on goal come hell or high water. We’ve been crying out for that for a couple of seasons now.

It will be really interesting to see how the two play together. And also how they interact with other more direct and tricky players like Saka, Martinelli, and Rice. I bet our more subtle players (like Odegaard and Havertz) will enjoy playing with these too as well.

Here we go!

I still have some reservations about Gyorkeres. I don’t think he’s going to be banging in goals like Haaland or Isak (hopefully I’m wrong!). But I think he’ll do okay. Even at 27, he seems like a big if a rough diamond. Hopefully the coaching team can polish him up a bit more. Either way, it will certainly be good to have a more direct striker option who attacks the balls instead of more possibly finding pockets to receive a pass.

Anal Pilot

This has turned out to be unfortunate timing for me. This weekend has been very hectic. I applied a few pixels but then had other stuff to do for several hours. And not I need to log on again. I’ll try to contribute a bit in maintenance today.

I’m middle aged.

Yeah that was my assumption because he looks middle-aged to me. Found out after I wrote that he’s like 35? How the fuck can you look that haggard when you’re a 30-something content creator raking in the money from your parents’ basement!

It’s the natural progression for a 20-something piece-of-shit gamer edgelord. When he hits middle age he pivots into being a miserable racist piece-of-shit bore.

Interesting. I had heard he was just joining the Academy. But it sounds like he’s on the brink of being a first transfer.

Is he a right back or a left back?

Bluey is playing with fire right now.

Sweet!

Okay, I’ll see myself out! But before I do… Good luck to the lad. He obviously has bags of talent, and he seems to have a great attitude too.

This is so fucked up. I feel really bad for Palace and their supporters. Pure bullshit.

Hmm, Norgaard and his wife just had a kid. I wonder if that’s why it took a little longer than expected for him to have his medical.

Good read, thanks for sharing. This makes me feel a little better about the possibility (or at this point probability?) of us signing him. Hopefully Arteta and his coaching staff can help refine Madueke’s abilities.

Sounds like the Madueke deal is basically done now. 🙃

Hopefully my concerns about him are completely unfounded and he is a fantastic addition to the team.

I’m not seeing it.

It took about 11 years for us to be assigned our new owner, err cat.

Nice! This one came out of nowhere (at least for me).

They don’t need to. There’s always a core of alt-right loud mouths in every parish who try to force their political opinions down everyone else’s throats.

Sometimes it’s the parish priest and their hard-right lackeys. Sometimes it’s leaders in the Knights of Columbus council for the parish. Sometimes it’s just regular church-goers. But there always seems to be a little group of them regardless.

Most parishioners just nod and smile and then disregard those guys. But my point is that even when the church officially forbids political endorsements in a higher level, others do it on a local level.