Andrew

Its boring that PSR/FFP has basically made the fun rumour mill nonexistent just as we got rich as fuck. That said, we pulled Tonali and Isak out of the bag with practically no warning. Be reyt wont it?

I've had to mute Kev as hes been pissing himself into a frenzy over Minteh scoring against some part timers in preseason.

Just had a look back wondering why I stopped posting in this thread...oh yeah And now all Robin does is nag me about chinese people (or bots or whatever) 😉 Anyway I'm training to be a PT now, so thats fun!

Looks like he's going to fulham, which feels right, he sounds like a fulham player.

I am STUCK in the Elden Ring DLC Three fucking days on one boss so far.

See this is why I've shy'd away from the full on "back eddie" stuff since the new people came in. There was clearly something wrong last season, the injuries were insane but the re-injury rate was incredible. From the outside looking in its a fairly easy conclusion to jump to that the players were being pushed too hard. Gordon and Hall have both said since they signed that they weren't "eddie howe fit" when they arrived, and it took both of them quite a long time to get there. These are already professional footballers, its not like one of us rocking up. If (this is a big if and pure speculation on my part) the performance whatever bloke has come in and looked at the data from last season and suggested to howe that he might need to rethink his training intensity and Howes response has been to flex his muscles a bit in the press with the england job and his "im happy here as long as im backed and allowed to do what i want" thing then thats not a good thing on his part.

You are actually just a sitcom character arent you?

Cant imagine ineos owned Nice wanting to play nice with us on transfers tbh.

Well, one of the biggest tech outages ever is happening so theres bound to be some oddities

Nothin to do with us!

Khephren Thuram, who was being touted to us and Liverpool last summer/January for around 60 million has gone to Juve for just 20 million euros.

Aye, and thanks to us having a real commercial team nowadays I could actually buy some of it out here!

Looks like some more preliminary work is going to be needed before I put this through. As you were gentlemen.

kicking this off in an hour or so.

Unbelievable that it was only 8 years ago, 9 years go by so fast!

Given that he was at Spurs when they appointed Vilas Boas, Sherwood and eventually Poch(though eales left a few months after that one) I would say I hope not. Mitchells the one to look out for. I'd be shocked if either were stupid enough to let Howe go unless we're doing really shit though.

I'll be shocked if Howe goes for several reasons. He's on the up as a club manager and is at a club with tons of ambition and (rules aside) resources to keep growing. In his sit down interview with Neville you can tell that he slots into that "football perv" niche that the top managers do, he fucking LOVES it, training, planning all of it. He'd miss it if he stepped into the international job. It takes a while for players to settle into Howes way of playing and training. Bruno took a while to get into the starting line up, Gordon has said he was not at the level needed physically or tactically when he joined us, hence needing 6 months to really get into the side at all. You don't get to do that with international players. Given how the club were with Man U and Ashworth, and the fact that Howe signed a contract extension last summer, we'll want a fucking fortune for him. The only thing I could think of that might tempt him, is that he would be getting the job right at the start of a tournament cycle, with a really talented group of players and he may back himself to go to the World Cup with them and actually win it.

I don't mind the idea of it being Carsley tbh, won the U21 Euros last summer with Gordon getting player of the tournament. De la Fuente just came up through the age ranks at Spain and won the Euros.

Not your best chair Tom, but the alpacas good!

I want a manager that has an apparent plan for the players we have. Southgate had a plan for a while, but when he had to pick a different squad as time moved on he just seemed to give up on having one at all. That Kalvin Phillips quote is it in a nutshell. I dont care enough about the england team to watch "results are all that matters" football, I gave up on this euros by slovakia. When you can get the same entertainment from checking the result after the match is over that you can from watching it whats the point?

For the price touted I'd prefer us to be in for Chiesa.

I don't really agree, I think a reminder of the kind of people who DO follow football, go to games and think like this is necessary once in a while. I leave it to the discretion of the posters though.

I really hope so!