Kitman

shame, I used to think of you heil-y

It's plainly a conspiracy to keep their trail blazers out of the national team. I suspect its that shadowy cartel of tyneside businessmen again...

Apparently it's a race. A race to prepare a bid to get it over the line. Unless it's wide of the mark

Presumably it'll Poles apart

But he did have Joseph Go-balls okay, okay I'll get me coat

I think I'd prefer to go to Craven Cottage tbh. I realise it probably isnt a 10 minute walk away though.

I assume Diaby could be first choice on either wing

Just apropos of nothing, atm our signings seem to come out of the blue and the players we are supposed to be in for invariably go somewhere else. I had never heard of Tonali and didnt see anything to link us with him until his agent confirmed he was about to sign. Which makes me think 1. All the ITKs/media wittering on about our supposed targets/enquiries/offers are just speculating and dont really have a clue 2. A transfer is going to be pretty much done and dusted before we hear a whisper about it 3. The more we're heavily linked with a player in the media (Maddison, Szoboszlai etc) the less likely it is we're actually in for them The club seems very tight on security of info these days, not only targets and negotations but also transfer budget, wages etc. This leads me to conclude that any intel thats in the wind about "preparing a bid" is crapola, probably put about by the player's agent to put pressure on another club's negotations.

Al-Ettifaq. Or in Gerard's case, Al-gettaefuck

Oh righto. That family needs to branch out into other jobs lol

Thuram has gone to Inter according to the Beeb

Maddison just looks like a Spurs player to me. I can't define what that is, and he's plainly a good player, but I suspect he wouldn't have thrived in black and white.

At the last count we seem to have bid 50-60m for at least 5 players. That seems unlikely. Maybe they're just "preparing a bid", paper parlance for "here's some horseshit we made up yesterday over lunchtime pints"

MF only has autocock

North Macedonia sounds like a made up country. The sort of place the baddies come from in an Enid Blyton story

Pink, like their seats

Amazing. I bet that's the work of a highly respected local historian

I think the Trump legal playbook will be to delay the trial by a couple of years, get re-elected as president and then force the DoJ to drop the charges or simply pardon himself. His backup plan will be to foment a coup attempt amongst redneck followers if he fails to get the GOP nomination or get re elected. Either way he is not going to respect the rule of law and will do anything to stay out of prison. In a sane world the GOP would conclude he is unfit to stand and jettison him. However this is America.... Incidentally, regardless of all the whataboutism on this, I don't understand why Republicans aren't deeply concerned about why Trump had these files. He obviously intended to use them for personal gain, and that alone should disqualify him immediately from standing for public office. There can be no good reason why he would take such highly sensitive material and then deliberately hide it and lie about having it. I'd say the same about any politician of any political hue, it's a basic question of trust. Trump is plainly untrustworthy in any shape or form, it was obvious and apparent a long time ago and this just triple underlines it.

Yes, their fantasy lives are so much better than real life. As long as you don't let the glue wear off...

"Our branch" Two men and a dog, and the dog's not there by choice

It's such a subjective and arbitrary idea that it's pointless to debate it. Nice to see they won something this season though.

I expect we will never hear again about the involvement of the Saudi regime and PIF in the running of golf. It doesn't make for good copy and I doubt anyone really cares. It would only be an issue if the pros refused to play, which isn't going to happen.