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I like Souttar and he would be our best CB but he's 27 which means he's probably at prime selling age. Keep him and his value goes down. Plus selling him means we're more likely to keep Nelson and give Gray game time to develop. Sell him and Faes, keep Nelson, Gray, Wilson-Brown and Okoli. Should be more than enough and all retain value.

I missed a large part of that. I saw that Kirsten Otchere scored again. Anyone know how he played? 19 years old, bagged a few in the PL2 last season. Could he be a decent option off the bench next season?

Dare I say it... we actually look like there's a nice atmosphere in the dressing room for the first time in years. Amazing what getting rid of 5/6 self-entitled, lazy, arrogant, egotistical willy pullers will do for a club.

180 minutes is two lots of 90. Always makes more sense to go by minutes because otherwise you're penalising him for coming off the bench for 5 minutes. He's scored 48 and assisted 12 in 8,809 minutes in League 1. That's a good record for a forward. If he were to play every minute of next season, you could expect him to score roughly 22 goals and get 5 assists. I suspect we'd be chuffed with that.

He's played 141 games in League 1 and averages a goal every 180 minutes. 1 in 2 is a decent rate for any striker.

Absolutely they earned them and they would have kicked off if they had only been offered a year, especially when bigger clubs offering bigger wages would have signed them up on 2/3 year deals.

Yes but I wasn't signed up for specifically that reason and paid millions to do it! I understand why it would be and it would take a man with a lot of bottle to take him off but I felt like it was the right thing to do at the time. He could barely jog let alone run. Wharton absolutely had to make the squad specifically for last nights scenario. Someone to get on the ball with Anderson and calm the game down. It was the number 1 selection error that Tuchel made along with not selecting a fit and healthy right back.

My point is they would have all ****ed off if we were only offering 1 year extensions.

All given new deals in their 30s. Except maybe Simpson I think.

Sirius rejected £3.3m for Ure the other day. We won't be fishing in that pond either.

Our biggest ever successes were built around players over 30. Morgan, Huth, Fuchs, Schmeichel, Vardy, Evans, Simpson, Albrighton etc

He got into his own head. Reminded me of the UCL final he won with Chelsea where Pep decided to go without a defensive midfielder and they were promptly split in two with a simple through ball. He overthought the situation and didn't think about what was in front of him. If I were him i'd have taken Kane off for either Eze or Mainoo. Overloaded the midfield area and stopped crosses. Pickford James Stones Guehi Spence Rice Mainoo Anderson Rogers Bellingham Gordon That would have been my first sub. 2nd/3rd would likely have been O'Reilly on for Spence and Rashford/Watkins on for Gordon. O'Reilly to get some height and ability on the ball and Watkins/Rashford for a fresh injection of pace up front. All with the simple message of make sure there is no space in and around our penalty area and to make sure we keep the ball when we get it.

Fine theory but doesn't work in practise. You end up with no experience and those that have been here for long enough kick off. Chelsea tried it and it ****ed them over for a while. You need experienced players that are comfortably and settled in. Only happens if you back them with contracts. I'm not saying it's right that McCarthy should get a 2 year deal mind.

I can't see it. He should have made the move two years ago. I think he'll go to Denmark.

Seems decent.

Mental isn't it. I'd have bought it if it was in and around the £40-£50 range.

Since we decided to renew his contract he played 49 league games, conceded 87 goals in those games and was relegated twice.

Technically we didn't have the last one. I know it felt like it because England's games were mostly at Wembley but there were 11 hsot Cities. Only two teams set up camp in England. Us and, weirdly, Scotland.

Tone deaf article on the BBC https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gy5jwjvz7o Do we really need Maia and Emma telling us it's just a game?

I wasn't comparing ability or playstyle. I'm just saying when the ball is in and around the edge of the box, you want Bellingham there. He's shown all tournament that he can get on the ball and make an impact. You don't want him 30-40 yards away. The three of Rice, Bellingham and Anderson works. Just have to hope that the three of them can deliver in 2028 during a home Euros.

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You want Bellingham in and around the box because he scores and makes goals. You win tournaments with players making the difference in the big moments. Messi has transformed his career and has achieved his remarkable longevity by realising that he can make a bigger impact games in moments rather than a full 90. In the first 75 minutes he was barely involved and then bang two crosses, two goals. They got him on the ball in the right areas at the right times. England couldn't do that with Jude.

Pub I was in went mental when he came on and two minutes later Argentina scored.

Can you get that keeper kit in short sleeve?

We gave Vestergaard a 3 year contract as a 31 year old and he was being paid a hell of a lot more than Chaplin will be. They're not really that comparable.