Dan

It's a complete disgrace. Any system that incentivises selling academy players, even when not really beneficial for them really has got to be abolished. You can't blame the clubs for this. It's the kind of loophole this sort of stupid ruling deserves to have exploiting.

Us making silly signings isn't some modern thing idea. Even when we were doing well we still had some absolutely bonkers moves made. This was one of the least logical ever though. £12mil for a goalkeeper to then give Schmeichel a 5 year contract a week later. Who in their right mind pays that much for a backup? Get worried every time I see this thread bumped to be honest as in.. Cooper hasn't hinted at playing him.. right? Ward needs to go. Will forever be associated with 2022/23. 26 ****ing games. I still can't believe it.

Sooner buy an unknown than Casadei or Broja to be honest.

I increasingly think it's all some managed decline. Who even wins at this point? It cannot be an accident that every single aspect of football is being made rubbish. I think the Premier League is going through managed decline so that people accept the super league.

Hermansen, and honestly, it really might be Chelsea again

I've never been to Switzerland. I assume this is probably BCD though.

We didn't get relegated by chance.

I'm not massively. I'd accepted back in January that he was obviously gone and if he hadn't I'd be wondering what exactly had stopped it. It's hard to get that bothered when you can see such bigger problems around the club anyway. This is just the latest symptom of it. We have a blatantly terrible DoF in place who is under no pressure to perform, why does anybody expect anything good to come from us when this is the case? The fans should be putting pressure on the club to address this, but in many instances they actually stick up for it. We've sold better players than him and been OK but can't help but feel that yet again we have come out on the wrong side of the value line - again, this is due to our own weak position, something we have largely imposed on ourselves through ineptness. See also the Maddison and Barnes deals. There's just very little to be optimistic about in general.

The latest victim in both the state of the broken football and the state of broken Leicester. No hard feelings to him.

We're playing FC Annecy according to Twitter.

Get the **** in

Yeah to be fair, Portugal are always dull, France are always dull. I think tomorrows two will be a big upgrade. Think it's a victim again of the format though. From the second matchday draws become too valuable and everyone goes into survival mode.

This tournament really has nosedived.

France and Portugal of course. Like night follows day.

In a side who are going to dominate as often as Benfica they're really impressive defensive stats. We'd do well to get him in on that profile. We've not had a solid defensive midfielder since Ndidi's drop off at some point in 2021.

He isn't the worst ever because Hodgson happened. Hodgson oversaw probably the two worst tournaments I've seen from England. This gaslighting about him being the best though - he's just the least bad. Stop comparing yourselves to previous failures. Puel is a great Leicester manager because he's better than Craig Levein and Gary Megson. Start acting like a top team if you want to win things. If people want to overlook the lucky draws, then whatever helps them sleep at night I guess.

Their reaction to this game sums up why I've no love at all for this England side and that their exit will be pretty soon. They won't change it up against Switzerland who actually look a pretty good side this time around. It's more protectionism, on the defensive, victim mentality. Would be an utter travesty to see this sort of shit prevail. Awful mindset, awful on the pitch. To gob off after serving that up against Slovakia. ****ing hell find some shame. Fans will reign in the criticism when we win a trophy - which even with Southgate's luck you won't pull off playing this badly. The Bellingham goal especially, then ensuing Kane goal is the sort of thing that could serve as a real gamechanger in a tournament. But I think the ensuing half an hour where we again lost our nerve and sat back against a side who would've crumbled, and rhetoric from the game tells me the Switzerland one will be no different. Without a change in course or a freak like that Bellingham overhead kick we're heading for a pretty comfortable defeat I think, and I can't say I'll shed any tears.

It's remarkable how quickly Southgate has managed to instill this into him after a year at Real Madrid. Should be an easyish adjusting period back though for Ancelotti. The entire message through this tournament has felt like a **** you.

They're still on the defensive. Victim interviews and largely awful after going ahead as well. Without drastic changes (which won't happen under this fraud) this is a comfortable Switzerland win. 1-3.

That Spain performance there - just kept attacking a vastly inferior side after going ahead. Southgate is such a coward. Can't even do it against Slovakia.

Sort of thing that you would normally think would be a gamechanger and even after the 2nd we reverted to cowardice when I think a decent side would've put them to the sword. Job done but my god, we're too bad to win this.

Just get this over with. Its so bad its almost funny.

By all accounts would be a fantastic signing.

Haha Top and Rudkin against Tony Bloom. I wonder who's going to get the better of that deal. Coming up afterwards Spain vs San Marino

What Top has done here is basically what would happen to Aston Villa if Chansiri happened to inherit them. At least he got to parade around a trophy of a league we should've never been in though.