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11th 🤷‍♂️ My point about relegation & promotion was to point out a yo-yo club whose best position in the past 14 season was the 10th during 22/23. but yay he’s in the premier league pushing 27 so he must have made the right decision 👏

Are we still using Bassey as stick to beat us with, he’s 27 this year and already peaked he will go no further than Fulham & what have Fulham done they haven’t finished in the top 10 since he’s been there after bouncing relegation/ promotions, I think I can make my peace with Bassey turning us down to move on. His greatest achievement since leaving us is playing for Nigeria and I’m sure that would have happened if he stayed.

I see Sky making this a headline piece of being a complicated transfer, nothing complicated about it they are using a loophole to steer clear of sanctions by UEFA. Complicated = Cheat the system

Start of our new cycle, 08/09 season we find ourselves in Lge 1 new manager, thread bare squad requiring a rebuild, reconnection with fans & a sole task of getting promotion…09/10 after promotion new owners come in and we embark on the best 10-11yrs in our history ⭐ 🌟 🤩 are aligning or is it all a 🛌 😴 💭

Let’s make it about us, it’s bloody cringe & we just know that just before the whistle blows the words “Let’s play ball…” Will rattle out of the speakers arghhhh

Argentina coach storming out of his press conference after 4mins saying England showing a lack of respect by playing music and singing in their dressing room. Argentina as a nation haven’t shown England any respect since they landed & just because we won to stop the party he throws his toys out, what is he Roy….

& no cheating or whinging

Rogers wanted Arsenal & Arsenal really wanted him. They tight as and won’t pay top dollar which will / has hampered them in the past, they have finally become champions again and talk about wanting more but unless they open the purse wider they won’t be serial winners.

Manchester City have sold academy graduate Reigan Heskey to Bundesliga side Cologne in a permanent deal worth up to nearly £6m (+ sell-on) signing a 4yr deal. For all the clamber to get into their academy along with the ‘there is a clear pathway there..’ chat do the number of players that our/fans think actually make it at these clubs? We have a thread titled ‘is there any point to our academy’ but this is the main reason of academies, they are designed to be cash cows with the odd prime calf making the 1st team. The numbers are just bigger for those top 5 clubs, 6m for an 18yr old that’s played a total of 7 1st team minutes in the milk cup, I’m more surprised FC Koln actually paid that.

Man U just spent £36m god knows what on wages for Tielemans on a 5yr contract & he's 29

Once they hit the 19 foul mark the card might come out

Wouldn't it be ironic if later today his press release states the falling outs were because he was trying to set the standards required & others didn't like it & called out all 3 of the bozo managers for being inept hence why he was dropped

CB playing LB for minutes i guess was never going to be bombing down the LW but shuffle across to make a 3 when the RB goes inverted or down the wing

Again no yellow for Yamal considering where the foul was 🤷‍♂️

Man U sign Youri for 5yrs but but but he’s 29

@Dr Marco As it's been quiet on the rugby front in here, a bit of Tigers woman news who have been busy in the off season. The head coach Ross Bundy has moved on after 1 season going to Exeter as assistant coach, only announced last week so not replaced as yet but would like to think there is someone in pole position. In the meantime Fraser Goatcher who moved up to Director of W Rugby at the start of last season has been busy with new signings & with another announced this morning takes the tally to 9 so far. Obviously reinforcements were needed & the good thing is that this 9 have Premier league experience already or played in the Southern hemisphere, so all 9 will contribute from the start thankfully. Still a long way to go to hold our own but hopefully these 9 add the know how to stop the spankings we got last season, we also need an experienced coach to come in & shape an identity but things are happening which should benefit the team & development squad.

The mercs player rating for Ben on yesterdays match “Unlike his centre-back partnership (Okoli) Nelson was comfortable on the ball and progressed possession well. Did give the ball away but that is going to happen in this system.” Would imagine Martin will work with Ben in a similar way as he did with Harwood-Bellis but as H-B had at Southampton Ben will need an experienced steady CB along side him for now & we don’t have that except Souttar, it certainly can’t be Okoli. edit: Meant to add in Martins system we have to accept that last part of the rating, we even see it with international players at the WC but what we can’t do, which this place does at the drop of a hat, is to write him off and get on his back the moment he makes a mistake.

Giving Motsi, or an equivalent in any of the ‘let’s say 86 out of 92 clubs’ a blank cheque will not keep them at their home club academy once there is interest from those remaining 6 clubs, you only have to read Monga’s interview on Man C platform to see this. His words weren’t put in his mouth to massage Man C fans ego’s, he truly believes in what he’s said and why wouldn’t he, what has he known since he’s been following football from let’s say the age of 6/7. Man C have won the title 6 out of the last 9 seasons along with other cups and the ‘star’ players they bring in and despite a player in his home town academy having a soft spot for that home town at school he’s trading cards and supporting players/clubs from those other 5 or 6 clubs, it’s what school kids do. We could be in the premier league right now and the result would be the same for any of our academy players if those clubs came calling regardless of cheques or minutes.

He has been used a fair amount in our media reels for preseason, quite a lot of pics compared to others and in the ‘getting ready for today’s game’ video featuring Braybrooke, Page & Nelson which was posted yesterday so would assume shot this week he doesn’t sound like a player that’s looking to go & if he was why use him instead of 1 of the other young lads 🤷‍♂️

Not all schools have finished for the summer yet, it is only then when it is allowed to rain & it will do for 40 days & 40 nights or until they are all back

Where’s the big ‘if’ coming from with regards to staying injury free? I think people’s minds are set for when he was at Liverpool and suffered the back-back knee issues but this was in 2015 & on his return from that in 2016. In the past 5yrs for instance he has missed only 11 games due to injury 🤷‍♂️

Bruno Guimaraes wants out now, says he wants to go to Arsenal. Will Newcastle despite pulling in some wedge actually do anything this season or be this seasons Spurs? Isak, Tonali, Gordon, gone for €320m then with Guirmaraes rumour to Arsenal Hall rumour to Man U that'll be another €180-200m €500m but all their best players gone, except Barnes, who must now be thinking of putting his hand up also.

3rd largest fee for a 16yr old ever & with a sell on to bump that fee up in the future but we’ve had our pants down 🤷‍♂️ 🤨

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