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Keep at it LTA and dont listen to these, it's not every day we get to follow the Ballon'dor journey of an ex Newcastle player.

Gemmill got it right. We've gone from failing to sign Hamza Chaudhry to having City, Madrid, Bayern etc. lurk over our players. What a disaster eh? Edwards is proving again he's a top class asshole in addition to being incompetent and frustrated at his job, also probably his sex life.

Isak and Murhpy are the jokers of the group aren't they

If Howe has a reasonably successful club career there's a good chance the England job will be there for the taking at some stage. If he goes now just when he's starting to build a top reputation at club level and spends 6-8 years with England who knows what opportunities come after that given he'll be in a totally different type of day to day routine, not coaching and working with players on a regular basis as he likes to do. It just doesnt feel like the right time for him to take an international job. At least that's what I hope he's thinking. What a great summer so far, try to hang onto your best players and now a question mark on the manager. Hopefully the FA make their move soon and Howe decides quickly either way.

For once it's a good thing some of us don't know how to embed tweets

Chicken nonce stirring shite about Howe being tempted by the England job because he's lost his Newcastle 'allies'

America making a complete mess of hosting the tournament was entirely predictable though, real wake up call for World Cup 2026 but I doubt they'll learn anything.

What a mad tournament the Copa America is. Exhausting just watching that final, kicking the shite out of each other at break neck speeds even though most of the players are technically outstanding it's brilliant in a way.

Would have gone back to fix it but seeing as a hysterical Irishman beat me by about 3 seconds why bother

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Isnt't Kane like 30 btw? The way he's been moving recently you'd think he's at least 38.

Tough luck but in the end it's a victory for good attacking football. Spain a better team by miles. Cans for Deigo! It's fine margins, win today and he'd be a legend. But when you really look at it one could say England might have had 2-3 trophies in the last 10 years if they had a brave manager. And one of those tournaments was at home ffs, if you're ever going to take a chance. Keep him and this will happen again in 2026.

I'm with ya @Diego21! Southgate has basically done a Greece/Portugal here with a vastly talented team and as a neutral there's just no supporting that. I hope the footballing Gods smile on Spain tonight. England won't care one bit about that if they win and who can blame them, I certainly wouldn't if Nufc shithoused their way to a trophy. Good luck to you lads on here who've said for years they dont give a flying feck about the international team but I'm sure will have a hell of a night if they win

Ha! This might actually be the right time to bring that violin out Novak.

Ah shite I had a couple more but they've skipped me mind, were right at the tip of my tungsten.

I'll be visiting Poland next month. Going to make sure I go to bed early when I'm there. So I can get up at the Krakow dawn.

I believe the only answer is they're a bunch of incompetent twats content on upholding the status quo and feeding on whatever crumbs they let fall their way from supporting the 'big club' narrative.

Incredible really Even if the PL lets them get away with it surely will be legal challenges from other clubs.

Hang in there Renton, that sounds terribly rough. You've got a good head on you I've no doubt you can bounce back as hard as it must be right now.

I take it CT has been venting about this in the 'what is currently wrong with you' thread? On the implications for Howe's future, I don't think it changes much. I dont think Staveley would have been able to do anything if Al Rumayyan actually decided Howe needed to be gone. We're clearly moving onto a new phase here and Howe will have to keep evolving and raising his game. It probably helps his case that there's so many apparently promising managers that have failed in this league recently in big jobs.

Wow, I think England just might be meant to win this. That's a foul but you dont usually see penalties given for that.

I loved watching him when he first came onto the scene, played great tennis chasing down everything and smashing the ball hard, also had a good sense of humor. Let it all get to his head eventually sadly. Can't argue against him as the greatest statistically. I think there's one thing about Nadal that's always worth mentioning in this discussion. He bested Federer in his absolute prime at Wimbledon when he was near untouchable. Beaten Novak on hard courts too when at his best. Those two couldn't get anywhere close to laying a finger on prime French Open Rafa though, I mean often they were ridiculously one sided affairs that you'd never associate with these games. That always stands out for me.

He's the Cristiano of tennis. Incredibly talented but ultimately failing to hide the homelander level of narcissism he suffers from. He can't understand why he doen't get the respect Federer and Nadal do despite now being more successful. Let's see; a history of faking injuries, suspicious time-outs, tantrums paired with a sense of entitlement and shady off the field antics such as the vaccine debacle and hanging out with questionable Serb politicians. He's a contemptible prick, fair enough that he's made it work for his career. But then you can't really demand that people like you for it.

Obviously a little concerning that Staveley and her husband are leaving because they've done really well in the transition period and setting the club on the right trajectory. I suppose it was always going to happen sooner or later given the investment concerns that have been mentioned already, but it would have been nice to win a trophy with them still at the club. Hopefully the setup we have now continues to work just as well. You could also be positive and think maybe PIF will ramp up things now as we move onto the next stage of the project, new deals and sponsorships kick in and Howe is backed accordingly to imrove the squad. Progress.