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Man City didn’t break any financial rules during those two seasons. And I need to double check on Chelsea but I think they too cleared psr those two seasons. (Ie across the running three year numbers) there is no case for us to take on.

Sell on is 15% profit to 59m would be 42m €6.3m 59m sounds v high - he’s not nearly that good

Only missed one fairway will be out in the afternoon breeze tomorrow though. rory’s putter might be going across his knee soon !

they have to pay something for the last year of his contract. But we also have a loyalty payment to make if we’re transferring his registration. as you say, it’s very unlikely that we haven’t had to make a contribution to his remuneration 26/27.

Var is obviously busy reviewing the goal - he should receive a yellow card but what’s the point at this stage ?

This it was his real time interview and he failed it James and rice had to come off (one injured and one exhausted) O’rielly was reasonable. Burn for rice wasn’t given that we’d already brought Konsa on. Should have been mainoo for rice to retain midfield balance and also having someone who could hold some possession. But given that this was 81 mins, the die was already cast and we were camped on our last third - like the last five mins in Mexico where although we were 10 v 10, we were unable to mentally change the narrative and keep the ball. as discussed endlessly, konsa for Gordon was the biggest mistake

Probably best we don’t know …….

Forest fires

Modern football is a broad church I think we’d all agree that Spain are the best footballing side and yet they don’t have a star striker. If fit, we will have the best pair of wingers in world football in four years (Rio and Dowman ). We need to find a way of playing to complement that and it doesn’t need to be a world class CF

Scaloni set out to make the game as short as possible for messi to be as effective as possible. The fact that he managed to take on our two left sided players and beat them to the byline on his weaker foot at the end of the game tells you that their tactics worked perfectly. we could do little about that in the first half because their nouse in breaking up the game was too good. But in the second period we should have upped the intensity by bringing on fresh legs - it wasn’t hot - and yet it was clear some of our players were toiling. That’s definitely on the coach who showed his lack of trust in players he’d selected for his squad. if we have a foreign coach then he needs to be a difference maker. We thought that was tuchel - seems like it isn’t. we’ve screwed ourselves over with his new contract. There may have been a break option if we’d failed to make the last 16 but reaching the semis is where we are as a top four nation.

This is possible See above - maybe he is taking the flak for the player’s mentality issue when the chips re really down. but then these players have made it through last two euro semi finals - late extra time winner v Denmark and last minute winner v Holland. I suppose neither of those shout control. the shirt continues to weigh heavy and I can’t see how we get out of this.

Rice was fooked Henderson isn’t available

He won’t be shy about claiming that wasn’t his call and the players sat back so he had to respond to that by bringing on more defenders

The pundits won’t have the bottle to say it how it is they’ll say how brave we were

Cos he decided to defend the edge of the box when he knows we can’t defend if we didn’t have the legs on the pitch then he should have brought them on

Good job we employed an elite coach …..

looking a bit leggy now the last two games taking their toll?

Not one left footed player on our team apart from the goalkeeper

Reckon it will be longer than that

Surely we need to make this high tempo high intensity ? the way we’re playing suits them

Seems mrs winks is less bothered about moving to Sardinia than Leicester couldn’t imagine why

a) not that in league 1 b) hopefully we’ve wiped the slate on his wages by allowing him to go for nothing. But it’s possible that we’ve had to pay a loyalty bonus (yeah I know) which would cover the shortfall between what he’d earn here and what they’re prepared to pay him

But yamal didn’t make a run - he just pulled wide to make the space and digne needed to fill that rather than get so close to the winger.

Are we finding any random things to have a silence pre game ?

Fwiw, the final looks like it will be played in temps around 30c (feels like 32c) humidity around 55%. Quite sunny. pretty standard for a daytime wc final I guess.