CB Fry

bUt i tHoUgHt hEndErSoN wAs nOt fiT

If you think we look at a transfer of a player for a ten million pound fee and 40k a week and think we cannot afford that and we need to look at "cheap options" instead. I do not believe that is the case. Lets see what happens this summer: I reckon we'll buy a player or two for £10m. Let's see. Secondly, Theo on a higher wage than that for two years with zero potential of selling on or return on investment is in my opinion, a complete waste of money. It's not, in any way, "the cheap option". It's pissing money away. Its not about an abacus mate, its a bullshit premise. Theo was not a "cheap option" because we can no longer afford £10m players from relegated German clubs. We, very obviously, can.

So you're saying if a player with a fee of less than ten million quid and forty odd grand a week comes up, we look at that, take a deep breath and then say naaah, we need to look for the cheap option instead? Seriously? Fair enough if that's what you think. See you on 1st September.

That kid is not going to be pulling down what Theo is, reduced or not. What wages do you think Norwich City are paying?

You reckon Walcott was the cheap option compared to a 24 year old kid who's just been relegated from the German top division. Okay then.

Er, that sounds like exactly the kind of deal we'd do. Ten million quid for someone with a bit of middling level European experience - he's just been relegated in Germany. This is quite similar to Elyounoussi or any number of signings we'd make. He might ge good, he might be shit. Lets remember he's just been signed by Norwich City.

I like Wales more than Scotland. When the games are on I want them both to win. But if they don't win, its not like I give a shit. Passionately wanting them to lose is sinking down to their level. All the stuff during World Cups where you see Scottish fans buying Argentina tops because they're playing us? That's something England fans would never do the other way round. And that's what we can be proud of. We're so much better than that kind of tinpottery.

So we are definitely through to the second round whatever happens tomorrow. Wasn't really in any doubt but official now.

Just think of all those killer free kicks he'd be whipping in from his out wide position sat down next to Aaron Ramsdale.

Frank De Boer doing well here. I reckon he could attract some interest for a Premier League job this summer. Like, say, Crystal Palace.

I've seen what he's done now. He got his domino effect tweet out just as the Kane story was breaking and now making out he's in on it. (See? see?) Absolute chancer.

Looking at his twitter it's incredibly vague. "It's going to be busy in July" is a nonsense phrase. All clubs sign and release players in July. We definitely definitely will, so its not something that suggests any inside knowledge whatsoever.

Whats the opposite to "lets give Ralph Hasenhuttl 6 games at the start of the season and see how he does" Is it "I hate him sack him now" or is it "he's the greatest ever manager we've ever had". Apparently you can only pick one of those. Only one "must be true". That's what they teach you at Language and Meaning lessons at Night School. I simply must go.

No, I don't get that and never will. You seriously need to get help.

Okay, so you you're okay with JWP not being picked in the squad. Fair enough, thanks for clearing that up.

Picking a middling, average bottom-six midfielder to just pad the squad out with fit players is also an unnecessary risk. You need to reconcile yourself with the simple fact that a nearly fit Jordan Henderson is a far, far, far, far better selection for England in this tournament than the fittest possible version of JWP there could ever be.

Danny Röhl is back on the market people. The answer to all our problems. All of them. Come back Danny and lead us to the Champions League.

You read about these people on the news and think they can't actually be real people. But here we are.

Dribbling is bad now? Thirty plus years of following England and this is a new one on me. The solution is better intensity from the team on the pitch. Not to bring on a pretty average midfielder from a bottom six team. But I'll give you something. Next time we are struggling to beat a nine-man Newcastle United or losing to Brighton or Wolves at home, or WBA away etc then I cannot wait to see this wonder midfielder who will be looking to pass forward as a first option and keep the ball moving quickly. Absolutely mouth watering prospect. Pumped.

When you said people on this forum were saying this: the godly, perfect, faultless vaccine that of course has no evidence against it whatsoever who did you mean and who actually said anything remotely approaching it? All you've done is post up a quote from Lighthouse saying anti-vax conspiracies were a load of old horseshit. Which is true. Anyway, keep looking. Use your loaf.

Except that is not true if you actually read what was written. I do truly believe that the England squad has too many similar players and from that perspective does not have any real game changers aside from Jack Grealish, but that is not enough, Ward Prowse should have been in this England squad and come the end of the tournament Gareth Southgate might just regret that he isn't, I would say that must have gone through his mind last night as his players put in an uninspiring performance with no one able to make that decisive pass. Far from being just a request to bring him on for 30 minutes, it lumps JWP in as a "game changer", a one man "Plan B" and someone who would "up the tempo". It's a propaganda piece for a player most normal people would not recognise as James Ward-Prowse. The whole piece is the worst kind of Saints obsessed small mindedness. Southgate had plenty of options to "quicken the pace" or play in a different style from the squad he had out there. But of course let's just pretend none of that exists and just dress up a teenage need to shout "he plays for my team, he plays for my team" at the television as rational tactical analysis. We might get knocked out in the semis, we might fail in the group stage. In either scenario the selection of JWP is an irrelevance. The idea that Southgate will mourn not taking such an average sixth choice midfielder is just unreal. If Bellingham or Sancho or Calvert Lewin had just completed a season with us, I wonder what would have been written instead? Honestly it is laughable.

This is not doing a lot for your reputation as someone who is capable of reading, understanding and interpreting information. I'm really starting to think that maybe you're not a qualified virologist.

But there are loads of people on twitter with lots of famous followers who could also be described as "twats". Depending on which side the fence you sit, Owen Jones or Laurence Fox for example. Most would think at least one of the two are twats. Some, both. So being followed by recognised people and being a twat are not mutually exclusive. Also, there is the undeniable fact that you are absolutely a twat.

Good game between beatable Germany and beatable Portugal here.

So JWP is now some kind of mythical fictional player that no one has actually seen in real life. Where was all this spectacular play when we couldn’t even beat 9 man Newcastle? As i say, people are losing their minds here.