Howay

He’s a good stopper, mad fee for him but I suppose he has a decent length of time on his deal and Manchester United are a bit of a disaster at CB since Bailly is injured all the time and Lindelof isn’t making the jump. The chuckle brothers just re-signed though so that’ll help them....

imo Jose thrives when he’s the centre of it all and is able to build the side. Like when he was at Chelsea, Inter, and Porto. Madrid and Manchester United didn’t suit him as they’re clubs that are far bigger than his status in the game (I know Porto were since he was starting out but the players were also smaller names at the time). If he come into a team with the players we have, and was able to bring in the players he wanted they’d be listening and taking in his instructions. It’s kind of like how Ronaldo didn’t want to listen to Benitez telling him what to do.

I like the news sources that are congratulating Ronaldo on the second major trophy of his international career the league cup of international trophies, and even that is being kind. I would still have loved England to win it mind.

A Julian Assange destroy and exit if you will.

VW remote controlled car delivering the ball to the centre circle, the game’s gone.

Aye, I don’t mind the idea of VAR but it’s current use and implementation is shite. As you both say it kills a good bit of the excitement of a goal, the camera immediately cuts to the ref with his finger in his ear. As AH says it looks worse in slow motion, Wilson outmuscled that defender who was trying to do the same to him from what I could tell. The Lingard offside against Holland was a load of shite as well, the front of his foot was past the right back but what’s the advantage really gained from that? I suppose that’s probably more an issue with the offside rule more than VAR but if you need minutes to view of something is offside it’s likely a harsh decision to give as an offside. Btw, a 3rd place game is pointless enough do we really need extra time for this? just go to pens ffs.

From what I saw Sholas role is to find loan moves for our youth players, and monitor to make sure they’re getting an good opportunity.

It is class that they were getting quite a lot of compliments from people for the takeover coverage (mainly Mark Douglas but people did sometimes generalize as the Ronny Gill), as they got that email from BZG and were at least trying to dig some real info up. Since all they they’ve spat out a rehashed version of the same stories every day, while they retweet it back out with a different tweet making it seem new, and any time anyone mentions that it’s all clickbait they get pissed off.

I’ve seen some on twitter that care more about keeping Rafa than getting rid of Ashley, it’s a stance I think is completely idiotic imo (I know you didn’t say all the fans, I’m just using your post to have a pop at these type of people). As much as I like Rafa we’re going nowhere with him if Ashley remains, he’s the best we can ever hope for under the fat cunt but we still won’t ever be allowed to progress. Fwiw I think the potential new owners would keep Rafa. If they did buy the club and if they did choose to appoint Jose I think it’d be a quality appointment (as much as I’d be sad to see Rafa go), as much of a cunt as Jose is if this lot were to fling the money around it’s the exact job that suits him to the ground. His status in the game is above where we are so he’d be able to dominate every area, like he did at Chelsea and Inter but was unable to do at Manchester Utd and Real Madrid. Again both massive if’s, he also loved Bobby Robson so there’s that connection (if we were mackems he’d be a nailed on MLF with less of a link than that). What is currently happening with the youth system is interesting given the takeover, although could have all been put in place before this. We’ve taken the head of the mackems academy and appointed him as the director, and brought in Shola as loan coordinator.

Hazard basically mentioning playing Sunderland as being the fucking lowlight of his career

I was literally comparing Stones and De Jong’s reactions to being pressured.

Watching that Stones fuck up again makes it look even worse the worst part for me is there was a moment Frenkie De Jong was caught in his own box under pressure, and he just cleared his lines. Stones decision making is fucking woeful tbh, it is harsh comparing him to De Jong but if you’re under pressure like that and get caught in two minds you take the safe option and clear it (even though the pass back to Pickford was on before Stones bizarrely turned around).

Stones is shit tbh, isn’t the reason why we were playing 3 CB’s at the World Cup because Southgate basically didn’t trust the CBs we had to play in a pairing?

Aye, another one that probably shouldn’t be starting for England due to bad form and lack of recent playing time.

I get they’re a lower level but what the fuck have they seen of him in the last few years that made them think “aye he’s the man for us”.

Chris Raper is an unfortunate name like. Hopefully he doesn’t name his son Richard.

If the country had any back bone whatsoever he should have been told to get back on the plane and fuck off. Surely you can’t accept the head of a foreign nation coming in and sending numerous accusations, digs, and insults at the mayor of the capital ffs. I suppose this is the Leadership that’ll sit and accept Trump harping on about the NHS being on the table in any trade talks (tbqfh I would really be very surprised if he was around for them, but you never know). As someone who lives in the US I can attest to how fucking shit their healthcare system is, I’m okay accepting it for now as I’m young-ish but when I start having kids etc it’ll be time to get a job back home. Unless of course this walnut whip fucks that up while those two ‘Britain shouldn’t bend to anyone’ bell whiffs Farage and Johnson go along with British people (and residents if the two racist wazzocks haven’t chased everyone off) getting shafted by American health insurance companies.

I would agree with PL that the agreement of a price is an agreement in principle to buy the club/ a “bid”. They’re not just going to rock up and go “yep we agree the club is worth £350m, ok well good bye”. Their statement also said “We have agreed terms and are working hard to complete the transaction at the earliest opportunity”.

Aye, trusting £25m to a foreign investment bank to have a conversation with reluctant sellers. On top of that it was a joint bid so there may have also been a disagreement of how much each side put in for the £25m.

Tbf he’s a top professional and has had one hell of a career. Takes the boring craic in his stride as well, saying that he’s still far and away more interesting than Paul Scholes.

Very convenient timing that mind...

It could also be a complete load of bollocks from the Chronicle.

Pretty impressive he has got that level of detail when there’s nothing at all getting out of the club about it. Load of utter twaddle.

They’re also full of have you ever seen a Geordie lift the European cup, people are happily pointing out Carrick, Robson, Kennedy, Charlton, and Frank Clark They really are thick cunts.