The Fish

You didn't teach them fishing, you showed them a lake and told them to get on with it.

They're different, but both very good. Where Robinson is better carrying the ball (Progressive carries, successful take-ons), Hall is better passing it (Progressive Passes, Pass completion, Passes attempted). Hall may have fewer assists, but given the chances he's created for teammates (xAG), you could reasonable have expected him to have had more. Defensively they're pretty close too. I chose 3 other leftbacks to compare https://fbref.com/en/stathead/player_comparison.cgi?request=1&sum=0&dom_lg=1&player_id1=289601e6&p1yrfrom=2024-2025&player_id2=da011f18&p2yrfrom=2024-2025&player_id3=5ad50391&p3yrfrom=2024-2025&player_id4=2e4f5f03&p4yrfrom=2024-2025&player_id5=d9565625&p5yrfrom=2024-2025 and he's right up there with the likes of Gvardiol

Rashford would either need to take a paycut, or Man Utd be convinced to cover a portion. It seems every window we say that about Chelsea before they buy another 35 players. Oh, well, if you suppose...

Midtable stodge Midtable stodge but in the good box

Sure; Chelsea, PSG, Man City, Spurs, and depending on the deal there could be clubs who loan him with an obligation, while Man Utd keep paying the lion's share of his wages.

Jings Crivens help ma boab

Ixion-like

Still can't hear a fucking thing out of my right ear.

Vitinha, Zubamendi? I guess what I'm saying is

I don't think you've a strong negotiating position. Bruno would fill a position where you're clearly weak This is a season where you're doing very badly and need to turn things around with a statement signing or whatever Bruno is one of our best players (and captain if that makes any difference at all) We're having an average-to-poor season ourselves, selling Bruno would be awful optics The more protracted the negotiation is, the more desperate you would surely become? If you come in with anything other than a head turning offer of £100m, I'd hope we'd immediately bat it away.

Because it is? Did CNN Fabricate the Story of "Freeing a Prisoner from a Secr

I did think of his confidence when I posted it, but thinking your good is a prerequisite of being good. Thinking you're good doesn't make you good. Otherwise I'd be a good person.

ditto

Called the Scouse comedian I used to work with to get his opinion and he said;

It's difficult, but you've got a huge, huge pull. Pep, Loads of quality teammates, tonnes of cash and all that jazz. You'll not be hampered by PSR either. It absolutely is prerequisite. You can't be a good manager if you don't think you are.

You can say that again.

And a man of no small amount of ego. He's going nowhere man. You'll sign someone in the window, or maybe a few, and you'll end up challenging for 2nd spot at the very least.

Yes, I have. He who is better than you.

I've lived in a few different places and can assert with some confidence that there are some peoples who stay true to the stereotype; Scousers, South Africans and Parisians. You might have had nice relationships with Scousers, and found them humble and self deprecating. But that isn't the stereotype, nor is it my lived experience. And it's not like I didn't have negative stereotypes about Londoners, Mancs, Brummies, Scottish, Aussies, Midlanders, mackems (ffs) and so on. They've proved those stereotypes wrong, or at least shown them to be wildly exaggerated. Not the same with the Scouse. Could it be that you are so defensive of scousers because you lived there? I see the same from my wife who studied there at Uni. I wonder if by living there you've become a little scouse yourself, or had scouseness foisted upon you?