Summer Transfers 2025 Missed Opportunities and Regrets

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Originally Posted by Mac76

Yeah Eze would be a terrible signing

Scored yesterday btw, 11 goals and 11 assists this season

Oh and as for grey matter, he apparently also just won £20k in an online chess tournament

Maybe that's another exception that proves the rule though... ;)

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That’s a weak argument even for you

Because he won a chess tournament that shows he has a footballing brain??

Didn’t exactly work for Walcott the straight A student did it

I imagine Rooney would have been spending hours trying to fit a square shaped object through a circular hole as a kid, had a fantastic footballing brain though.

But in fairness to you, it does form a pattern. Eze and Gakpo both very quick and reasonably strong but ultimately meat heads. They might get a run of goalscoring but just as often they’ll deal with a simple pass or decision making like Lorenzo Odone.

Though maybe it’s just a stylistic thing, you see things in a more prosaic way, it’s why you think pointing out spelling errors is important. I think lifting your head up and being able to see the game around you is important

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Originally Posted by HCZ_Reborn

Because he won a chess tournament that shows he has a footballing brain??

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To be fair you said "very little grey matter".

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Originally Posted by Letters

To be fair you said "very little grey matter".

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Yes but I even give Mac the benefit of understanding that there’s different kinds of intelligence and that in the context of the conversation I’m referring to a specific kind of intelligence

It really depends how generous im inclined to be whether i land on genuine misunderstanding caused by ambiguity of language or whether someone is being deliberately slow to catch on, because to a hammer everything looks like a nail

But we all surely know that the inverse is true, that some of the most gifted footballers there have ever been, can also be screaming ignoramuses. But on the footballing field they are geniuses.

Ah. You're doing that thing again where you communicated poorly and you're going to keep pretending that what you said was clear and everyone else is being stupid. Shall we just save us both the effort of that inevitable back and forth and leave it there?

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Originally Posted by Letters

To be fair you said "very little grey matter".

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Exactly, as usual he moves the goalposts to try to avoid showing himself up, and as usual it's pointless

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Originally Posted by Letters

Ah. You're doing that thing again where you communicated poorly and you're going to keep pretending that what you said was clear and everyone else is being stupid. Shall we just save us both the effort of that inevitable back and forth and leave it there?

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Originally Posted by Mac76

Exactly, as usual he moves the goalposts to try to avoid showing himself up, and as usual it's pointless

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Moving the goalposts suggests im pretending I’m making another argument than the one I’m making

So as Letters suggests we can leave it, because if you’re calling me a liar my instinctive reaction is “Fuck off you cunt”

Being accused of lying is one of those things I don’t take kindly to, though of course if you’re not doing that I take it back

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Originally Posted by Letters

Ah. You're doing that thing again where you communicated poorly and you're going to keep pretending that what you said was clear and everyone else is being stupid. Shall we just save us both the effort of that inevitable back and forth and leave it there?

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No in fairness I think it’s clear that what seems obvious in intent to me, is not to others. But to be fair I have to be aware that I was responding to someone who has the restless leg syndrome of needing to correct people even when it’s not appropriate to do so (in fact especially when it’s not appropriate to do so)

And as we discussed earlier before hand, no I’m not going to change my writing style

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Originally Posted by Mac76

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Surely that was unambiguous enough, even for you

Edit - Actually no I apologise, the first sentence isn’t clear

If you’re suggesting or outright stating I’m trying to lie to you…then yes “fuck off you cunt” applies.

Communicating poorly as Letters put it, that I can accept because I literally had to go back and rewrite the first sentence