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Jesús lloró, as the Spanish Orange growers say.

Leicester fans really despise Puel. It's all over Twitter. https://twitter.com/i/events/1089251122080931840

There's nothing hysterical about a pretty sober expectation that behaviours demonstrated before will be repeated and the results also repeated. From previous performance, the balance of probabilities is that come February it is more likely we will be reading ITK mitigation about how things didn't quite work out rather than an official interview with this right back we are linked to. Its not a problem Inter Milan have. They've indentified a right back and signed him no problem at all without waiting until two minutes to midnight on deadline day.

Last January we had plenty of confidence and ITK smiley faces about Walcott and then Promes. What we got when we "waited until the end of the window" was ITK "ah, yes, but, you see, it didn't quite work out". The January before that we had plenty of confidence and ITK smiley faces about various Centre Backs. What we got when we "waited until the end of the window" was ITK "ah, yes, but, you see, it didn't quite work out" and then utter desperation in signing Caceres eight days later. So I am quite happy to wait until the end of the window, no problem at all, but I retain my right to think the exact same thing - we think we're being master negotiators and leave everything until the very last minute and then oh no something unexpected happened it's not our fault - is perfectly likely to happen yet again.

Best at being better than the other right backs.

He's not a bit part player - if you're seriously suggesting that the very raw Valery is a suitable first choice right back for a Premier League team with fairly moderate ambitions then lawd help us. Let's hope they sort the replacement out - that wouldn't be "buying for the sake of it" by any measure.

Er, no. Forster wasn't a first choice front line player. It's pretty obvious to anyone in the industry that we were trying to move him on. Signing Gunn made zero difference to this obvious fact. Zero. Cedric is the best right back at the club. Letting Forster go (or not) makes no difference to the first team, letting Cedric go does. Not that difficult.

Let's see if we get this replacement in. Hope so, but we've been here before.

As usual we seem to be sorting out the departure before we lock down the arrival. We always seem so efficient on that side of the transaction. Let's hope we don't get caught short yet again.

In fairness if you just want transfer rumours from other media, it's all there on Newsnow or individual newspaper/broadcaster websites or Twitter. Can't really see the point of a links only thread. Especially as nothing is actually happening anyway so would be a dead thread. If people aren't prepared to wade through the guff on here for the real info then tough. Put the work in, snowflakes!

Why? It's perfectly plausible to believe Hughes liked Hoedt - he picked him for pretty much every single game. It wasn't that long ago that everyone was congratulating Hughes on taking control of the transfer business over the summer and how Reed was sidelined. If Reed was forcing Hughes to pick Hoedt why didn't he force him to pick, say, Elyounoussi every match too?

You're an odd one, that's for sure. For someone desperate for FACTS you seem quite keen to just make sh it up.

Gutted. Nah, not really. Eff off.

The only relevant fact here is you are particularly odd. There's rarely any singular, cold/hard facts in a rolling discourse like this. There is plenty more water under the bridge since June 2016 and the situation has developed significantly since then and all parties have learned a lot about what will happen next. In most cases, it is nothing like the scenarios that were presented before the vote. If you don't have any sense of that, at all, then well done. If you want the entire thing distilled into "cold hard facts" you might need to wait until they publish a Horrible Histories book about it, maybe in around 2028. So, for now, none of us can give you capital letter FACTS so congratulations you win the internet.

At last I know exactly where to come for the inside scoop. Well done mods from over here in sunny Nairobi.

10/10.

#triggered

Protestant Jesus and Catholic Jesus wept.

FA Cup fourth round. Same every season for at least 30 years although I believe there are some plans to **** about with it next year.

Well, they will push it through, once they realise they've got nowhere else to go. And you seem to have missed the fact that these people have no shame, as demonstrated for the last three years. They couldn't give two sh its if you don't think they "look great". Bit late for you to worry about letting the public "have their say" after you bottled out of voting the first time round.

Nah, they've had it. They'll need top 8 level form from here to stay up. Not going to happen.

Two down, so just a battle for one relegation spot now. All in all a good weekend.

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/brexit-deal-vote-theresa-may-second-referendum-vote-election-yvette-cooper-a8736216.html?amp&__twitter_impression=true This will take us to the endgame, which I believe I predicted broadly something like this on this thread several weeks ago. A version of the May deal - not particularly different to how it is right now - will get through because it will eventually win more support than all other options. No deal will not happen, and once the swivel-eyed MPs understand this and can feel the hot breath of a second ref/a general election/A50 extension coming, they will vote the deal through. Rees Mogg has already started the groundwork. He will vote Deal vs every option that stops Brexit. The Endgame is coming, and May's robotic repetition will prove to be broadly the correct strategy in the context of the most stupid thing this country has ever done, of course.

Yes. Mentioned above but this weekend saw Newcastle win and put the final nail in the coffin of the moronic idea that 5 wins would be enough for a team to stay up this season. All teams from 18th up already have 5.and it's January.

Just German and Dutch project fear. They all survived World War Two so surviving another country leaving the EU really should be an absolute piece of pi ss.