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He'll play off the left and Palmer will either play centrally or off the right.

It's more about the fact that if Leeds win then our case against Man City and Chelsea is strengthened massively.

Why would we settle? Let it run through the courts and if we lose we should go in two footed at about knee height on Chelsea and Man City.

Won't someone think of the poor energy firms?!

No, this is all to ensure that doesn't happen. I am worried that we have a paper thin squad that is very young now and that generally means injuries.

Sounds entirely reasonable to pay £25m for Fatawu and £5m for McAteer.

I thought the comparison to Jacob Ramsey was equally egregious in that post. 4 goals in his last 74 league games.

I suspect Argentina will need to go through a real identity shift post-Messi. Lautaro Martinez will have one more Copa America and World Cup and Julian Alvarez will likely step up to that top class bracket but other than those two they are seriously devoid of attacking flair. I think last night was their last chance of winning something big for a while.

They're a little bit like England and France in that they're built for big moments. England with Kane and Bellingham, France with Mbappe and Olise and Argentina with Messi and his team of minions. Spain are the only team where each player is as important as the last. If they had a top striker they'd be a hell of a team.

Under Enzo he obliterated the chances created record. IIRC the record was about 20 and he managed over 30. Last season he managed 17 g+a which showed he has end product. He's 22. He's genuinely top tier when it comes to off the ball stuff too. Frankly, 20m is an insult and it just shows how badly things have gotten for us that there are people celebrating us getting roughly the same amount that we'd spend on an Adrien Silva, Boubacare Soumare or Oliver Skipp. He will go on to have a long Premier League career. Wingers like him are few and far between.

Last night was painful. A horrible match up of two contrasting styles that were always going to clash and result in a dull game, a ridiculous over-the-top half time show that surely didn't appeal to a single person and a frankly pathetic showing from the man-child that is the most powerful person on the planet. I cannot imagine that any part-time fan watched that in America and fell in love with the sport. Surely that was the idea of America hosting? To bring in swathes of new fans?? Oh, no. Of course it wasn't. It was purely to cash in on the obscene levels of consoomerism.

Actually reasonable?? I assumed we'd get rinsed for this. Was expecting above £35.

Add in loan fee for Kristiansen, fees for Winks and Richards as well as potential further sales from Faes, Souttar, Skipp, Mavididi and Okoli and we should be looking at well in excess of £70m. We should be able to have a decent little kitty to go and rebuild from that. Even £10m goes a long, long way in this league.

£2m is far too low. I know we already know we're in the shit but if we're accepting that then it's confirmation to what we already know... we're ****ed. We should be able to get £5m. Especially considering we have released 10 big earners and have a made roughly £60m in sales.

It was quite similar to the England game where they wanted to turn it into a fight. England got it wrong by not retaining the ball. Spain just kept them in this position all game and Argentina weren't getting close enough to make those fouls. Argentina knew that if there was only a goal in it that they would be able to get Messi on the ball at some point. They just hoped that he's pull something out of his arse again and to be fair, it's a viable strategy. Probably up until Fernandez got sent off.

It's only really Lautaro that plays with a controlled aggression though. The rest are either nutters (Tagliafico, Romero, Paredes, Simeone etc) or those that don't really have a natural aggression to their game (Messi, Alvarez, Mac Allister etc)

Yeah a lot of part time football fans keep playing the "cheats" card with Argentina but they beat us at football. They were great when they decided to play against us.

Messi was trying to get Cucurella sent off for touching his mouth.

42 goals + assists in 45 games this season by the way. But he's not fit. Tore his groin in April.

15 minutes away from a World Cup final and you could argue that we'd have got there if Tuchel kept his nerve.

Wayne Rooney clearly cannot be arsed

Crazy how lenient referees have been with Argentina.

Is this a library?