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Benik Afobe went to Stoke last year for £12m Helder Costa cost £15m this summer Che Adams £15m from Birmingham to Southampton WBA paid £8m for Kenneth Zohore (!) Brentford are holding out for £20m for their two strikers. QPR are rumoured to want £15m for Eberechi Eze. Whether you think Hugill is right for us or not, £2.6m rising to £5m with add-ons for a bloke who scored 13 league goals last season is a small outlay in comparison.

It's dog-whistling to the ignorant, racist, anti-refugee, anti-deprived, anti-minority part of the population. So yes, if that is success, they are doing something right.

Fingers crossed for him then. Would like to see him have a good season somewhere.

I'm now over my original total of 500 miles! I haven't been out today due to the wind, but here's my rather ambitious plan for Sunday: https://www.plotaroute.com/route/1255701 I'm going to attempt to break the 100km barrier (about 62 miles), which includes a little jaunt on the Reedham Ferry. I'm aiming to finish up at The Rose Tavern for a well-earnt pint of ale. My fundraising total currently stands at £2,545 (including some donations made through Facebook), so if anyone fancies making any last-minute additions to my fund, here's the link: https://tiny.cc/colo600. This has been a really rewarding and humbling experience for me, and I'm determined to continue my cycling in one form or another. A significant proportion of the money I've raised has come from the remarkably generous folk on this here forum, so I'd like to thank you all from the bottom of my heart. And please don't forget the bottom line here, which is raising money and awareness for mental health provision in Norfolk. It's never been more important than it is now. Peace and love, Colo 🙂

Since when have Greek police stopped taking bribes?

United's new 3rd strip.

My initial reaction too Coming round to it if there’s a band or trim on mostly the traditional white, or black, say. If nothing else it could help my teetering Canary cause with the 4-year-old. Now, if they could just see their way to adding a unicorn head-dress and a rainbow tail down the back of the shorts.

How long has it been since they were allowed to use newspaper to wrap up our fish and chips? Political Correctness gone mad. PS This your first post Yorkshire that I have read to the end. You may have excellent points and I might be 100% in agreement with you, but I find the single large paragraph too daunting, like a stream of consciousness or a page of Ulysses - albeit with punctuation.

Apparently rules don't apply to footballers so i wouldn't be surprised if not.

Trying to get away from retired coppers with telephoto lenses.

The judge ordered that the video evidence of the incident went to VAR and Maquire has now been awarded a penalty.

I would be happy with this.

I'm staring at your profile picture Lakey, you want to give lessons to other people on what looks good?

Talks are Going on behind the scenes for 3 of our youngsters i am told to expect a bid before weekend for at least one

Depends if you mean financially 'right' or morally 'right'. Financially, they're doing a great job of making thick people angry enough to buy their stupid paper.

I wonder if a loan move for Idah might be something the club are considering. In his interview about Hugill arriving Farke lists Sinani as one of the striker options. I guess it is similar to Cantwell last summer - the club were thinking of loaning him out but his development jumped massively in pre-season and they realised they had to keep him. If Idah impresses in pre-season and the first month of the season then they’ll keep him around. If not, 40 games at a League One club could be the spark his development needs.

Some very good finishes there and Dowell looks like he's buzzing. Emi looks involved lots, Mumba had a great little touch for Dowells goal and Placheta played some nice balls in with his natural left peg!

Pleased with this signing though. Having a target man doesn’t mean you have to hoof the ball up in the air to him. There were times last season when we struggled to get out of our half and allowed pressure to build up until we inevitably conceded. Pukki’s great but not at holding the ball up. It just comes straight back. Hopefully Hugill knows a few of Holty’s moves and can play with his back to goal on the half way line. Hold it up and bring others into play and win a few free kicks.

I would say judging by that article, he just about squirmed through the hole to get in the bottom of the barrel of journalism. The Daily Heil, is not a publication, I refrain from calling it a newspaper, that is well known to be utterly detestable. It supported the Nazis in the 1930s and the far right in this country that supported fascism. It has continued to support the hard right since then having stayed within the ownership of the same family I believe. Anyway, moving on from that, lets disect, as there is nothing like spilling your enemies guts on the field of battle... erm, it's the Boudica way ok? "Norwich are being rewarded for an utter failure of imagination" - disagree, but we'll get to that in more detail. Just putting it here as a reminder. "Michail Antonio managed it at Carrow Road and he isn't even a recognised striker." So, I checked out wikipedia, soccerbase and transfermakt and guess what? All of them either listed him as a forward only, or included forward amongst a number of positions. The icing on the cake would be this though: I mean, if you are going to suggest that a player isn't recognised as a forward/striker, you may want to at least quickly check their website... "And that's what the parachute payment is: £40m a club can spend because, whatever happens, they're going to get it back. It's designed to create competition. And Norwich did not spend it. They were not competitive." He sort of contradicts himself here as earlier he said: "Now they will be rewarded again, with a £40m parachute payment to guard against the drop to Championship revenue." The most glaring and obvious issue with this is that the £40million is not up front, it is in instalments over three years. So, in his argument, to get the £40million now, you need to have an owner who invests it now and draws it back later, ideally at no extra cost (interest etc) or you have to get it from investors or banks. At which point you are paying interest etc. So in fact, £40million isn't a "free bet" as he states elsewhere in the article. At this point it really is reading much like a very deliberately hot headed talksport radio host who is desperately trying to wind up anyone with an already precarious blood pressure level to call in and drive up listener numbers. Only in this case it's likely to be hits on their website which drives up their advertising revenues and makes his pieces look popular, or perhaps even gets him commission for advertising opportunities? To be honest, it's entirely what it looks to be and sadly, all of us having clicked on it are falling for it. "So for Norwich to end up in substantial profit, and relegated, where is the triumph in that? They are better placed for life in the Championship? Says who? Parachute payments offer no guarantees as far as the football goes." This is where it gets more interesting. You can't argue that the money should have been gambled years ahead of it being in hand, and then say that there is no guarantee it will work if spent. I do miss out a bit where he further argues that money should be gambled... but it was something argued elsewhere many times. It then gets even better: "Last season's relegated clubs are currently fourth, sixth and 20th in the second tier. Those who went down the year before are second, seventh and 17th." Essentially the premise of his article is that focusing on being a well run club, sticking to principles and identity is "unimaginative", which is to say, boring. However, the clubs he mentions are Fulham, Cardiff and Huddersfield from last season - the first two finishing in the top six and Fulham being promoted. Now, he may well not have the benefit of hindsight considering the time of the article, but Fulham most definitely have made use of those parachute payments to keep their side together and add to it. Cardiff also did relatively well. The other three teams are West Brom (2nd), Swansea (6th) and Stoke (15th). Again, no benefit of hindsight there but considering parachute payments are over three years he's also missed the opportunity to have a look at another three. And I want to for good reason. Hull, Middlesbrough and Sunderland. Only one of those teams is in the Championship. The other two have been horribly miss-managed, putting themselves into situations they could not recover from, having to sell star assets with little reinvestment into the playing squad, poor leadership all of which contributing to abject failure. All of which means we should return to that starting piece - "Norwich are being rewarded for an utter failure of imagination". The reason I disagree? Prior to last season, the previous two seasons we had in the premier league ended in relegation. In both of those seasons we spent heavily on purchasing a few players and even more on their contracts. One thing this club is often accused of is not spending money. Under Hughton we spent £20+million. Yes, it was our third consecutive season in the premier league so we had the money to spend. But the majority of that money went on Wolfswinkel and Hooper who added to Elmander replaced Holt, Morison and Martin. In other-words we splashed the cash and it didn't work. And it left us in a bit of a state. None of those players were any use to Norwich on relegation, in fact, even Bassong and Turner would lose the quality they had in their first season under Hughton. Then one of the most expensive wage bills we have seen under Alex Neil. And the debacle of signing the likes of Pinto, Klose and Naismith on contracts without relegation clauses which threw us into a deep hole even the parachute payments struggled to keep us out of. Unimaginative for me, is when someone fails to do anything new. What we have at the moment is an identity the club has concreted in, this is the way we are going to do things and no matter what, we are sticking to the principles of making our academy worth the investment in it, seeking out up and coming players and using them to not only get us to where we want to be, but to help fund our club in terms of being able to make money from building them into better players. Much like under Lambert, that requires a bit of a spread bet, rather than chucking the money all into one player whilst also understanding that in the modern game there is no place for sentiment, some of these players got us promoted but perhaps they have had their moment and going forward they are not for us.

That leaves 1 less option for the three thousand midfielders we currently have on the books! Plus, I don't see Farke regularly using 2 up front, it's not his style. Only if we are chasing the game can I see it happening.

An impartial UK news channel --- About time 👍

Scandalous that we are having to play this with so many players unavailable. What the hell are they doing having an international break anyway. Ridiculous that in the middle of a pandemic we are sending players all over the world. Thoughts ?

That’s how promoted clubs do it, borrow up front to shore up the squad and pay it back as the Sky money rolls in. Not possible for us as our owners have nothing up front to lend, and we don’t want to take on any outside debt.

It’s a sad day when hard working Englishmen can no longer go abroad and pay off policemen for their abhorrent behaviour. I blame Brexit.

Unless they're Ronnie Pickering. Everyone knows who he is

Most people are mask wearing, Billy just makes it up as we all know 😉 There was a guy outside M & S this morning wearing a coat of armour, it wasn’t you doing a bit of extreme shielding was it? This was me and the Mrs yesterday Extreme Sheilding. Very noisy to be honest, my cod piece needed a bit of oil.

He is George Weah's cousin and has the same agent as Ali Dia.

Azhar c Root b Anderson 31 (Pak 109-3) 600th wicket

Kalvin Phillips was considering playing for Jamacia, so he will be getting an England cap to stop that.

Welcome to the modern world - or in some (rather more pathetic ) cases it’s probably better for certain posters to stay in lockdown in the 1970’s . Love the deodorant analogy @paddycanary- spot on . Or more fittingly , roll on 😂

Its easy to forget they were part of the Championship winners. They just weren't good enough for the EPL, but they weren't the only ones. Anyone who has played for us deserves a thank you and good luck in the future.

In the same way that it was difficult to see how the Michael Owen at Stoke (or indeed, at Man Utd) once won the Ballon D'or, injuries wreck players.

Honestly wouldent mind this, white kits do look pretty neat.. if somewhat Fulham

Simon Cowell was listening to Drmics demo tape when he crashed his electric bike, apparently he preffered hospitalization to listening to any more of it.....and this is the man that gave us james Arthur.

*** Sigh ***

Drmic is not with the squad or in the UK. He, along with Trybull and Leitner have been told to not come to training and to focus their efforts in finding a new club. While Drmic has a list of teams interested in taking him, finances for everyone are tight and clubs are very wary of making any longterm commitments on players right now. I suspect something will pop up for him (and the others) in the fullness of time but the market is painfully slow right now and everyone is finding it hard to move players on. Hence Norwich getting Hugill and Dowell for such low fees

Oh dear god.

Come on you Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violets!

Read the previous posts I've made in this thread via Facts4EU, Billock -- They're facts not lies --- You obviously need reminding: So how many free trade agreements does the EU actually have in force? According to the Trade Directorate of the EU Commission, only 11 out of the claimed 100 trade agreements are actually in force:- Switzerland - Agreement Faroe Islands - Agreement Turkey - Customs union Iceland - Economic Area Agreement Norway - Economic Area Agreement Liechtenstein - Economic Area Agreement South Korea - Free Trade Agreement Singapore - Free Trade Agreement Vietnam - Free Trade Agreement Mexico - Global Agreement Japan - Global agreement We have excluded “Association”, “Partnership and Cooperation”, and “Stabilisation and Association” Agreements as these are not real trade agreements. We have also excluded Andorra and San Marino as they are both effectively part of the EU. (The French President, Emmanuel Macron, is even the “Co-Prince of Andorra”.) It is possible to make a similar argument about the Faroe Islands in relation to Denmark, but we let that one stand. There are of course trade deals which are not yet in force, but is America, China, or India on the list? No. [ Sources: Daily Express ] Politicians, journalists and deluded Remainiac ***** like Billock, Purplebellender, Herman, BF, Smurfer etc.. can contact us for details, as ever. Brexit Facts4EU.Org, Sun 23 Aug 2020

Talking of covers, adverts are using those sappy versions of classics again. 3 at the moment.

Martin Samuel is merely the Katie Hopkins of sports journalism. Talk window-licking drivel and see who bites.

About 130 years ago, the campaign to convince women they needed to use modern deodorants and/or antiperspirants took off. In the 1930s, men began to be targeted. Both marketing techniques have been hugely successful. Fashions & customs are constantly in flux. It wouldn't be hugely surprising to see a big marketing push in the near future to convince males they need to use products to improve their physical appearance. It's 'niche' currently, but maybe the lads' ar$es will contribute to developing this new market.

You are the most ignorant, depressing anti fan on this board.

Yep, I think that's the nub of the problem, not only do they live in the past but its a very distant past or in many cases an imaginary past.

Yep, their grasp on their own masculinity is so tenuous that someone elses hair, gloves, dance moves or make up really upsets them. I wonder if they doth protest too much.

I thought when a player actually signs thats enough to earn their own thread really...

Been looking at some old stuff from my youth.

Mellow. Two jazz giants