Finham
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That's just it, a fair portion of the supposed 15m could be after an international cap.
Not sure why so many people wanted Sheff U to lose as we probably stand to gain by a lot financially if they stay up as well!
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Not sure why so many people wanted Sheff U to lose as we probably stand to gain by a lot financially if they stay up as well!
Wyken Sky Blue
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I've always pronounced his name as Hay-mer, it's not Har-mer is it?
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skyblueeyesrevisited
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Already too good the blades
skybluecam
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fucking crying myself to sleep tonight, beaten to promotion by a shite little team and now our best player has gone to an equally shite team and is scoring bangers yet will probably be playing against us next season.
Hamer scoring one like that at the CBS would kill me off
Hamer scoring one like that at the CBS would kill me off
Sick Boy
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I think it’s Har-mer
Nuskyblue
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Something something complete
CV3SkyBlue
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yeah the Dutch way of saying it is Har-mer
RegiswasGod
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In his reveal video at Sheffield Utd, he pronounced it Hay-mer himself.
Astute
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I take it you do understand the meaning of irony
shmmeee
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Yeah but he’s Brazilian what does he know?
mark82
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Hammer
Running down the wing...
Strange song for a central midfielder.
Frostie
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Quite.
Not sure they'd ever seen him play before.
Mind you, given the way they lined up, I'm not certain the manager had either!
TomRad85
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As if social media wasn't embarrassing enough last night, it's now full of people defending themselves for still loving him 
He's playing for a shite team who will probably finish about 5/6 places higher than us in the pyramid come the end of the season, not fucking Real Madrid.
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He's playing for a shite team who will probably finish about 5/6 places higher than us in the pyramid come the end of the season, not fucking Real Madrid.
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Johnnythespider
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He's definitely prem quality, unfortunately for him they aren't
Johnnythespider
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Some of the comments on that song tweet are embarrassing, who gives a shit what they sing about him, he's their player now.As if social media wasn't embarrassing enough last night, it's now full of people defending themselves for still loving him
He's playing for a shite team who will probably finish about 5/6 places higher than us in the pyramid come the end of the season, not fucking Real Madrid.
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TomRad85
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Which says it all as Forest look like a decent candidate for relegation themselves.
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TBF, great year to be in the Prem with Sheff U and Luton there. You only have to be better than one other team.
Ccfcisparks
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He’s gonna piss that league even in that terrible team and have a whole load of suitors come end of next year
SkyBlueSoul
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From The Athletic:
Gustavo Hamer, Sheffield United’s all-action hero, offers hope in defeat
By Nick Miller
5h ago
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If you’re looking for something to take the edge off promotion, losing your two best players before the season even starts will do it.
Perhaps it’s a bleak indication of how much importance is placed on the transfer market these days, but Sheffield United fans would be forgiven for approaching this season with a mild sense of dread after the departures of Sander Berge and Iliman Ndiaye.
The arrivals of Vinicius Souza from Lommel in Belgium and Benie Traore from Sweden’s Hacken may have raised spirits a little, but any Blades supporter who claims to have watched enough of either last season to form a cogent opinion is, if you will excuse the accusation, a great big fibber.
Gustavo Hamer on the other hand… now there’s a signing to get excited about.
To a point, the play-off final last season didn’t matter enormously for Hamer and his former Coventry team-mate Viktor Gyokeres. Sure, losing to Luton Town wasn’t ideal, but both men knew they would be playing at a higher level this season regardless of events at Wembley. So it proved, with Sporting Lisbon signing Gyokeres in mid-July and United, a little belatedly perhaps, moving for Hamer just before their first game of the season.
It was a little surprising that the Dutch-raised Brazilian was still there to be snapped up. He had been one of the best players in the Championship for a couple of seasons, and one of the most eye-catching too. He has a combination of technique and physicality that should make him ideal for the Premier League, so you wonder why someone had not already swooped.
But everyone else’s loss is United’s gain. And even though their 2-1 defeat to Nottingham Forest on Friday means they have lost their opening pair of games back in the top flight, Hamer’s performance gave them something to cling to.
First, the goal. The ball broke to Hamer on the left corner of the penalty area, and even though on the angle he was probably 25 yards out and there was a melange of defenders in front of him, it felt inevitable as soon as he opened up his body that the ball was destined for the top corner.
What was particularly impressive was the power he managed to generate, his first touch not quite getting the ball from under his feet meaning he had to hit it from a standing position, almost with his weight going backwards rather than forwards. That tells you how good his technique is, being able to fizz a shot as he did with such minimal backlift.
Hamer is a pretty all-action, scruff-of-the-neck player, but that almost overshadows how smart he is. You lost count of the number of times he just seemed to find himself in space, often hoping for a pass that didn’t quite come. That doesn’t happen by accident.
Hamer always seemed to be… there. Like when nobody else was showing for a throw. Give us an option lads… ah, there’s Gus.
He did his bit in defence, too. Morgan Gibbs-White, playing in a sort of No 10-but-off-the-left role for Forest, was given an astonishing amount of space by the United defence and midfield, especially in the early stages. You wouldn’t mind quite so much if he hadn’t played for them in 2021-22: even if they hadn’t bothered to watch him last season, you would already know that he was pretty decent. Hamer had to take it upon himself to step in on a few of those occasions, notably one in the first half where he sprinted back from an attacking position to knock Gibbs-White off the ball.
And in many ways that summed up his performance. He was all over the place, popping up wherever he found pockets of space. He appeared as the left ‘eight’ in a three-man midfield, on the right wing, as a No 10, then sitting deep to ping passes into dangerous areas in the closing stages.
“We played him higher up than possibly he may play for us, but we needed that in this game,” said Paul Heckingbottom afterwards.
There were a few moments where the realities of the Premier League hit him in the face, like a British tourist stepping off a plane in a hot country and recoiling at the soaring temperatures. A couple of times, he controlled the ball in what you might call ‘Championship mode’, assuming he had a second or two to make his next move. Not here, son.
There was another moment when his ambition got the better of him, the ball dropping towards him on the touchline and he spied the opportunity to hit a volleyed, sidewinder pass through the Forest defence. In the event, it skewed wildly off his foot and went out of play in the exact opposite direction he intended.
But even in that moment, he showed something of what Blades fans might enjoy: adventure, creativity, trying things. Ambition is good, even if — especially if, perhaps — you’re in a team expected to struggle.
After the game, Heckingbottom expressed his frustration that United haven’t been able to make more additions, particularly in the final third. When he needed attacking reinforcements, his only options were a couple of 19-year-olds, Andre Brooks and Antwoine Hackford. Until they fix that problem, they will struggle, but at least they know they have made a special addition in midfield.
“These boys will get better,” promised Heckingbottom.
If Hamer continues like this, that won’t be a hollow promise.
Hobo
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The reality is, if we had gone up instead of Luton all we would have done is replace Luton in that theory.
100% agree, not knocking Luton at all, I'd much rather we were up there collecting the pay check, even if it meant a difficult season and relegation.
Hobo
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The trouble is a lot of teams spend more than the pay cheque and still come back down. I think at least two of last years relegated teams had spent £140 million plus on transfers.
Mcbean
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But they got 90 million parachute
Hobo
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Burnley got 46 million (whether that was after paying off contracts previous staff, loss of sponsorships etc not sure)? But that was what they said their income had dropped too through relegation.
Hobo
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Just looked it up teams get about 45m year one, 40 million year two and 17million year three.
baldy
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I’ve got a bro who’s a Forest ST holder & he still maintains,after seeing him a few times on TV & last night,that Hamer’s ‘overrated’ & that ‘he scores goals but does fuck all else,passes go astray & gets muscled off the ball’
Mind you,I didn’t help last night by sending an MC Hammer gif after finding out Gus had scored
Mind you,I didn’t help last night by sending an MC Hammer gif after finding out Gus had scored
Essexrobbie
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I so hope we get them in the FA cup and put one over them. 
