Kid Dynamite

And a £15m striker they don't trust

Fans getting up for it now. Get Barnes on for 2 late goals

City game aside, we've either won games playing shit or lost games playing well this season

You can add Dorries and Anderson to that list. Useful idiots but they will never be accepted as true Conservatives

He's 21, of course he's not starting ahead of Bruno and Tonali. But it's already clear he's a technically better player than Longstaff

It's a shambles. Relegated last season, 90% of the squad left because we offered them peanuts, Nobby sacked after 6 games, matchday volunteers now boycotting the club so games are getting postponed. The owner is nowhere to be seen. I called it on day one. He sold himself as a self made millionaire. His companies house record shows he's a grifter with no money behind him

That's no dig at Gordon btw. It's just that's the one area of the pitch we have 2 x "purple players" and I suspect we will really regret selling Anderson and Minteh in a few years.

https://x.com/cyp_toon/status/1846303321490853987 Canny thread. I don't disagree with the post suggesting that selling Gordon in the Summer (when we already have his replacement in Barnes), keeping Minteh/Anderson and possibly freeing up funds for other players wouldn't have been the worst outcome in hindsight

I see the new owner has driven the club into the ground and is trying to sell again within 6 months

Aye, but 15 of those innings were before his injury!

Nice, but I imagine the payments could get you a mortgage on a small house?

Stokes not in great form with the bat atm. Just looking at his recent games for club and country and he's not scored higher than 2 in 50% of his last 16 innings.

@ewerk feel free to poach Carsley btw

Totes Argentina's manager is basically Messi's PA

Apples and Oranges Aidy Boothroyd, Howard Wilkinson, David Platt and Peter Taylor had good U21 records too

Pep being the "right kind of foreigner"

I was being facetious, but the point still stands. They probably made their mind up after the first England camp. I imagine they canvassed opinions from the senior players on how it went. It's a lovely fantasy that we can grow our own coaches from the bottom up, but managing Bellingham, Kane, Foden, Grealish etc. isn't anywhere near the same as managing the U21s. Southgate's pre-England managerial career makes him look like Capello compared to Carsley

I mean they tried that, then Carsley thought he was playing FIFA and started 6 attackers against Greece, we got humped and they obviously thought "fuck this, let's just get a decent manager". Tuchel being the best of the managers currently out of work. The number of supposedly serious pundits moaning about us hiring a German is hilarious. No-one can say who we should have hired instead btw

Aaaful

Im honestly mortified

In my (weak) defence, we are nearly 2 decades on and times have moved on slightly 🤦🏻‍♂️

OMG 🤯 Many apologies for the dickhead I once was. I assume that was meant to be humorous rather than a slur

He was shite here. Didn't see this one coming 18 years ago Surprised we weren't after him instead of Paul Mitchell, who appears to have fallen out with people left, right and centre since he came in here

The FIFA style of just picking 6 attacking players across the middle and up front not quite working out