The Fish

They're playing Norway tonight. If the French put the Swiss away, which they should, Sandy might not be done with the tournament for at least one more match, against the Spaniards. Which isn't until the 5th of July, coincidentally, the birthday of yours truly.

Well, yeah PIF are in business Clearlake, in much the same as they're involved with Disney.

Honestly think we're trying to avoid the pupae stage of the evolution. No Jo's or Roque Santa Cruz's for us, thank you very much. We look like we've learned from your mistakes.

Sounds like we're following a similar tactic, Maddison bid goes too high? Walk away. Did the same with Diego Carlos who ended up at Villa. I guess when the owners have ambitions that lie beyond the next season or two it makes no sense to break your budget on one player or another. We've still spent big, but you always get the sense that we've never gone over our valuation.

I don't think signing Livramento spells the end of Harrison Ashby. How many games are we going to play this season? Trippier can't play them all and given Livramento's versatility I'd expect all 3 get a satisfying amount of game time. Even if that means Ashby goes out on loan for half the season.

Was just thinking about last season's oddness. MNU spent £228m on wages last season, Brentford £32m. Each Lg pos should equal about £10.3m, all things being equal MNU would finish top (their high expenditure should return best players, who deliver best results) and Brentford bottom. With that in mind, look at the actual final positions and see how much teams overspent or over performed. You'd expect Newcastle to have finished around 9th fwiw

So what now, he's off on a half season loan?

When he goes, @LongTimeAdmirer, who will you fetishise?

I'm just a small town country bwoy, I don't know nuthin 'bout th'big city.

Where?

No good chippy in Blyth. Fewer pubs per capita too.

Blame a misplaced childhood

The fuck did I do now?

Who would I rather? I'd be happy with either to be honest, Savic is a monster, but Tonali is an incredibly good footballer too. Genuinely didn't think we'd have a chance of him (or Barella) but here we are.

Phwoar

If I think too much about Barella and Bruno in the middle, I might just

There seems to be a lot of big stones standing about in fields, but dunno which are shitty tourist traps and which are the legitimate Asterix and Obelix ones. Spent the morning in Auray enjoying as many free samples as their market would give out. Lovely place. Despite finding shade, despite factor 30-ing everywhere is have stayed true to form and found myself entirely incinerated once more.

Near Carnac in Brittany. Quite nice, all told.

Ewerk literally answered it 4 posts ago lads... are you two all right?

Wasn't this an episode on CSI Miami? You should take the Marlin and have it rigged to call out in Ghanaian every time she walks past. Like a Gold Coast Billy Bass.

Can he do the fandango?

You thought about maybe not drinking when you're feeling under the weather?

Couldn't be arsed to type "scratch of weeds in front of their static caravan".