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That looked inside...

I can't believe how much we struggled past them.

Eric Ramsey. From Man Utd.

Cos it's just witnessing the cycle of football these days, and the imbalance. Best players get picked off by clubs that have the ability to spend as much as they want to, whilst smaller clubs that do have a modicum of success aren't seemingly allowed to have it long-term. And said smaller clubs can't spend like others do because they'll get into trouble by the authorities. It's a broken industry. It's fine to have ambitious players and I don't think anyone begrudges them their moves, but this is why it's so difficult for smaller clubs to sustain a good business model. There's money in the bank, great, but what do most other clubs have to show for it?

Only watched since just before HT but Boro have barely had to get out of 2nd gear and they've gone 2 up. West Brom in serious trouble.

Is that Hilde and Wout?

Not sure which stats you're looking at but he's played more than 2 mins in a match since Aug. He's has lots of sub appearances, granted it's not a lot of mins each time, but it's more than 2!

Monaco have just asked Rudkin if we take returns.

https://x.com/i/status/2012178499163820041 Half a month to go and I'm surprised we've not been linked with him (again)

Piroe going to PSV seems the most likely. Apparently wanted to go back to Netherlands?

For good reason.

I've avoided spoilers somehow, but I've only just seen Harriet's explosive revelation after she spoke to the Traitors. She's fuming Reckon she went a tad too far in her convictions.

Not the updates you want before a game like this.

What happened?

Club doesn't know what it's doing in the next 12 days, let alone beyond that.

Sign of a well-oiled machine. We're the beaming example of how not to run the club off the field (and on it tbf )

To avoid that, we used to play it where you weren't allowed to scroll, and you could only use the main chunks of text, not the side bars.

But even with that, he played quality in plenty of other games. And there's several other players who didn't even begin to pick up tools let alone have the chance to down them!

Him cupping his ears after scoring was a w*nker move, ironically.

Good way to pass the time, you could say...

Youri?! Wtf.

Anyone including Maddison in their lists is a weirdo. Amongst all the dross we've had there's not a chance he should come close to any XI of this nature.

Peter Taylor?!

He's blocking the defender to be fair. But I still think it was nonsensical to disallow it. To analyse it to such an extent makes a mockery of what VAR was actually brought in for.

Haaland'a foot is beyond the keeper and defender, closest to the goal. But it's still ludicrous to even have to check it to that detail.