patto

@Palfy yeah I have read along the thread for a bit and am aware of your Covid experience - you should buy a lottery ticket with the odds you have hit with all this  are pretty incredible 😕  
No need to apologize @patto it's a subject we all have to deal with. Besides, Mark and I will usually disagree on most everything non-USMNT related, but civilly so. 
My guess is this may become the new flu shot, that has a booster every year. Except the flu has a season, this does not. I am curious if other folks have gotten the J&J one-shot vaccine? I got that a couple/few months back, both my neighbors got it a month or so ago, and all had minimal reactions to it, I actually had no reaction to it.

Not a bad wine that.

It’s strange and effects people in different ways, like you hospital was the last place I wanted to be, for a couple of reasons one being I’m bloody minded and secondly 3 kids 8 grandchildren it would have sent the family into meltdown. You wearing your mask is the right and sensible thing to do you are helping to protect others, those who don’t wear a mask are helping to infect others. I hope you the recovery is going to plan and you are all well. 

He's in Prime condition. 👍

They were bad signings though mate. Both at established ages and we paid big money thinking we were getting big players. 
This guy at 3 million is low risk and really cannot be worse than some of the 20+ million players we have been buying.
I for one, am so sick of buying those players and then seeing these cheaper diamonds out perform them.

My mistake - it was a £1m bid from Celtic that was rejected.

Perhaps but really it should work so that a player signs with an agent at what ever arrangement they may make - weekly/monthly/yearly for X amount for their services. I’m just surprised that a player agent has been allowed to fleece clubs in the matter he does.

The players should be the only ones paying the agents not clubs.

I'm still laughing, Band of Brothers.  😁😁😁 brilliant.

A team needs balance, we don't have a good enough right back to play a full season, we don't have enough creativity in the centre of midfield we don't have a decent back up striker. We need these for squad and team balance. 
Then we can go for extra quality in defence if we have the cash.

And he's the one that'll be given the least amount of leeway by fans. The whole situation makes no sense and, for me, shows Moshiri hasn't got a scooby doo what he's doing.

If the noise about Small is true, then I hope Brands isn’t trying to hard to keep him. Be the bigger man and let personalities like that go and play with Mirallas and Schniederlin and Eto.

Now that I know I'll be able to attend the games this season I think I'll start to feel more into the club again. Part of the excitement for me is going the game, so the uncertainty around that for me was probably playing a part in me not really being arsed.
Fair play to our fans that can't go to the games for whatever reason because that is such a big thing to miss out on.

We seem to have more technical players this time round.
I remember the days of Hallam Hope, scoring for fun at this level, due to his speed mainly. But when it came to progressing, those lads struggled.
This bunch seem to have a lot more between the ears.

Get the NHS app (not the covid one) and that will show your vaccination status, you can also get a confirmation letter from here (back up for the app in case you need it). I have both.

If we sign this fella it really is indicative of where we're at as a club - in the shit.

This is bad news for us and I’m sure for our owners them teams who would be involved will be planning ahead we should have punished them properly with points deduction and a massive fine. 

He's just going back to keep his fitness up it would appear; he'll be training on his own, not with the team.
https://insidefutbol.com/2021/07/31/everton-target-denzel-dumfries-makes-request-of-psv-eindhoven/520865/

Ye I agree, 2/3 that can slot into the team and make a difference would be massive for us.
Sorry I misunderstood. Thought you looking for major changes. 50+m mark. But totally agree a few first team signings are needed to compete.

Should we break financial fair play rules and see what the premier league do I think we should and fight it in court they are still pursuing city from about 3 years ago.

Don't think Benitez thinks a lot of him, i think he might be on his way, shame really but lack of fight and effort will not do it for Benitez. 

Bright level-headed couple. Publicity of the best kind.

No they didn't, they said they'd suspended a first-team player and made no mention of an age.
If they'd have said nothing at all they'd have been criticised for that by fans as well. They couldn't have won whatever they'd have done. For me, with all the rumours that were flying around they had to say something and this was all that was available to them really.

You sound just like me mate woke up Friday with a stiff neck and feeling a little groggy, Saturday was absolutely battered, Sunday close to going to hospital was completely fucked still thought I had the worse flu ever. Mandy got us to do a flow test it said it can take up to 20 minutes to register mine took less than a minute to show to brownie reddish lines I was positive 5-10 minutes later Mandy was negative. Tried to book a PCR test for Sunday couldn’t get one till Monday got a positive result this morning, phone never stopped with emails and messages to be honest I felt that shit I ignored everyone one then late evening I got a phone call from a Scottish lad working in a Govid centre 20 minutes of questions and I was free to get back to bed, Mandy and myself have isolate till Tuesday. Christ knows what position I’d be in if I hadn’t had both jabs, because without wanting to appear to melodramatic this is the worst I’ve ever felt in my life, boys take it easy and please look after yourselves this is a very dangerous virus we are dealing with here.  

Interesting to see how this jives with Brands. Not disagreeing with your observation at all, just will be interesting to see how this evolves.