"We've got bucketfuls of agents throwing players at us. We'll trawl through it." - The PL/CL/EL/world off-season transfer thread '17-'18

Tony Pulis has signed a one-year contract extension to keep him at West Brom until 2019.

Pulis is joined on the bench this year by new assistant manager and former Hawthorns boss Gary Megson.

Wow, one can't imagine the excitement and romance of being a WBA fan right now. I'm so jealous.

they get really pissy when you laugh about it

Stoke fan @DRK_Jacob asked Shawcross: "What was it like seeing Pulis headbutt James Beattie naked?"
To which, the official account responded "It was a spectacle."

The charming dressing room etiquette of the Real Football Man.

They are the Co-op of the prem. "our insipid ready-meals only use meat derivatives scraped off the floor of British knacker's yards".

I assume we're still using this thread as some sort of protest against the league starting on Friday night?

Gonna go with 'Thread of real players you don't have to Google - EPL 2017/18' unless anyone has any better ideas.

OMG.

‘I can just about remember Trevor Francis becoming the first £1m footballer in Britain in 1979. Even allowing for inflation over the last 38 years, Neymar is not worth 198 Trevor Francises, nor 100, nor a dozen. I’m not even sure he’s a better player, full stop.’

This is some real cometh the hour cometh the man shit from Robbie Savage here.

RS has done more to bring 606 down to the level of Talksport than anyone else imo. I'm not saying it was ever a great show in my lifetime. But I find it completely un-listenable since he has been on board.

An old friend of mine who had a fairly boring non-league career, once stayed at the RS mansion while he was having a Leicester trial. Even though he is a pretty diabolical person himself, he was pretty shocked at how arrogant and full of shit some of the young prem "stars" were.

"Neymar is not worth 198 Terry Francises"

Even allowing for inflation!

198 Terry Francises wouldn't be worth much on the pitch, you need 11 Terry Francises at most. Any more would result in an oversupply of Terry Francises, crashing the Terry Francis price overnight. This is basic economics.

aye you have to be careful with that genetic replication QE game.

I like how he says 'even allowing for inflation' and then immediately compares costs not allowing for inflation.

'Even allowing for inflation, this thread is not worth 198 Terry Francises' - Liverpool won't win the Premiership 2017-18