Lionator

Ruud gave him the right treatment last season yet the club and fans welcomed him back with open arms this season.

Even then it depends who they sign

Also the defensive military mission of Starmer and Macron is the most pathetic thing going.

Seems like there’s two versions of the future of Europe being fought for at the minute (exclude Ukraine/Russia), the current german approach and the current spanish approach, which will win? I know who I’m rooting for

We don’t have pretty much the tightest, most expensive NDA of any club in the country for no reason. I agree that the managers aren’t picking the team.

Skipp for Hamza, Rowett must’ve been on the piss with Hamza last night cruising up the a46??

Is there any clear evidence Emery would’ve come??

Rigg is the big one they can sell, and also Sunderland have a stadium 1.5x that of Cov so they have more leeway.

Catch 22 for Cov, go into the Prem with relegation fodder or spend a lot and end up with a PSR charge in two seasons.

It would be highly unfair on James if he didn’t win the lot because of protest votes, he actually does deserve the three awards and hopefully is the only serious option.

They do but in some cases they’ve set up drone production factories outside of Ukraine so that Russia won’t fire at them (there’s on at RAF Mildenhall called FirePoint which is tied to Zelenskyy’s main funder). Secondly, European states including us purchase independent drones from start ups in the UK, then donate them to Ukraine. On Wednesday we announced a purchase of 120,000 drones for Ukraine from UK companies, costing around £3billion of tax payer money. So logically these places SHOULD be targets for Russia (like Belarus should be for Ukraine) but obviously they’re deterred for now by NATO. As for the Middle East bit, obviously they don’t care and will send to that country. Thought interestingly Belgium intercepted a British shipment this week to said country on these grounds.

Every single manager failing with this group probably indicates that the managers are pretty powerless. I can’t believe people are criticising Rowett (bar some bad selections), the look on his face is a man who got with a good looking woman then realised after less than a month that she’s bonkers.

This place already got protested against as they’re 🇮🇱’s biggest drone provider in Europe. Seems they’re providing lots to Ukraine too.

You kinda mention it at the end but Starmer as a politician doesn’t actually believe in anything. He sees himself more as a manager, which is actually sad when you look at the evidence from his career, what his actual passions are.

I know he’s wildly unpopular but I hope he doesn’t resign, the world is chaos right now and he seems to finally be getting it in terms of how to move forward with it. The next few months are going to be choppy economically and geopolitically. There’s not a single person Labour could put forward that would poll better than Starmer in the long run because of the wider socio-economic situation. People are frustrated because everyone’s standard of living is eroding, some of us blame the rich (me), some incorrectly blame immigration, realistically it was Thatcher and then Cameron/Osborne put the final nail in the coffin in 2010 and 2016. Its irreversible decline, Reform will only hasten it. The point is, even if he’s a lame duck, any new person would be too. So he should stay, take some tough decisions with his massive once in a generation majority and do what he feels is right, not what might score +1 in next weeks Yougov poll, which is how British politics is run these days sadly.

I can’t see Forest beating Villa over two legs. Villa just have too much depth and Emery is a master of two legged football. Which makes it even more likely Forest win.

Remember when this competition was good. Now you got the 4th and 16th best teams in England, the 4th in Portugal and 10th in Germany making it to the semi’s.

It can be both, transitioning back to ‘civilian life’ after being a footballer for your whole life is still tricky. Depression and alcoholism are rife in ex footballers. Yes money makes you more resilient but your lifestyle completely changing can be very challenging. Especially if you’re living in chronic pain too.

Honestly not really the point. At the very least releasing him just after the season has started is a very poor show.

Like Atleti Barca last night (and include PSG who play good football). The European elite are not only better than English teams but play much better aggressive football.

You would barely believe me if I said that the Russian MOD released a statement threatening to bomb the Meridian in town, but here we are.

11 possibly 12 Chinese players in the hat for the first round. A decade or two and the sport will be completely Chinese dominated. The difference in calibre between young Chinese and UK players in crazy. Also maybe time for a Europe v China style competition??

Behind a paywall but I assume somebody already employed is taking over?? Bit harsh on Rae but not a surprise given the BBC cutbacks. I don’t think he’s as bad as people on here think, him crying when we beat Essex back in the day was stuff of legend.

And hey presto, he’s reopening it because Xi Jinping asked him to. One of the most humiliating episodes in American history surely??

Ademola Lookman man, wins a team the europa league single handedly then fires one of europes finest into a UCL semi, wasn’t good enough for Leicester though.