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By the time I did that they’d puked their way down the stairs and I was left to stumble home alone ….

I wonder if a lot of the groundwork for this deal was done when we had an Italian coach ? Otherwise the whole thing makes little sense for a player who fundamentally wants to stay in Italy

That would sum us up!

I’d worry that he may well not settle here given that he clearly wants to stay in Italy

Well juve wanted more than that but as mused for a while, juve have identified the player will be sold to finance purchases and the player has some strength here. If he’s dug his heels in on Roma and only Roma then juve probably have to settle on a figure they’ll actually get and do the deal

You’re right that we must learn from history by standing up to putin we’ve done our job (but oh why we were so weak in the run up to the invasion with shocking messaging is a big question that no one seems to want to ask) Eventually you do need to negotiate a settlement and it seems pretty clear that putin needs something to sell back home as not being a defeat. (Even though it clearly would be) I’d expect a trump presidency to navigate their way through this because they want it to disappear. I can’t see Europe maintaining the war without America in the driving seat.

what about forest fans ?

And you definitely have to live there to apply ??? asking for a friend

The players agent won’t close doors in case he does have to come here. He’ll keep options on the table. I think the kid would come here if we were the best available gig to him. But for now he prefers rome. From our perspective we’ve probably made a judgement that Roma won’t pay the fee not get close to the wages we’d offer

And we have St Peter’s Catholic Church on Hinckley road I think there’s also one on piazza san pietro in rome but I doubt it’s as impressive ……

it seems rhat the player is v keen to go to Roma but appreciates that if we pay a fair bit more then he may have to come here So he isn’t going to come out and say that he has his heart set on Roma and doesn’t fancy the East Midlands (in case he ends up here) given that players usually call the tune when push comes to shove you’d expect him to end up staying in Italy.

He’s clearly had advice to appear to be presidential rather than populist when he’s likely to be seen by swing voters What’s amazing is that for now, he seems to be taking the advice

But only five years as a coach of a senior team (bilbao and alaves) Carsley is 50 y o - he’s hardly ‘wet behind the ears’ I understand your point but I think it’s a brave call we could make and I think it could well work

If they do then hopefully it goes the way of the fella that chose Villa in 2015

The Spanish took a risk with their U21 coach ….. and I think he has the bottle to tell some of the big time Charlies that it’s time to move on. Southgate also did that but then ended up too close to some of them over the past few years.

Promote carsley He knows plenty of the players and offers continuity he’s won a tournament too - he found tactical solutions to problems when he did

Would rather carsley gets promoted than bringing in a club manager …

he was pretty much their stand out player last season

Both would have to become first choice picks for us and we’d need to stay in the prem for this to be even a little bit possible. they’ve both got everything to prove at championship level, never mind higher up. The only player I can think of recently who came into England’s first team squad from nowhere (as in hardly known as a first team player) is mainoo. As far as squad is concerned you could look at Wharton. we’ll see if he retains his place. we are short in that area of holding midfield/tempo player.

I wonder if this fella is better suited to our current predicament of trying to stay up than soule ?? soule has a higher potential ceiling but we need to have someone hit the ground running rather than potentially taking some time to settle in a strange country

not new and not entirely a surprise i guess it depends if they have any plans to sell one of their existing wide players. for him to go there, he'd be willing to accept being very much a squad member.

Our formation simply screwed us over last night we shoehorned in two no 10’s as per last couple games but with a tactically excellent high press up against us, we were a man short in deep midfield where we needed options to create angles to play out or just another body to compete for the breaking ball. This has become obvious to me in hindsight but the England coaching team need to deal with it in real time - as per 2021 they failed again

I think we could just about get away with justifying £15m for him on a psr swap deal. Of course we’d then have a player here who is also unlikely to make it but our psr position would be greatly enhanced!

That was a v good squad indeed (1998 through to 2010 )

Negative Nelly wouldn’t let them play please just go If he does then the new coach has to maintain the atmosphere and togetherness that Southgate has created - that’s his real achievement