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Carabao Cup - 4th round Brentford v Sheffield Wednesday Southampton v Stoke City Tottenham Hotspur v Manchester City AFC Wimbledon or Newcastle United v Chelsea Manchester United v Leicester City Brighton & Hove Albion v Liverpool Preston North End v Arsenal Aston Villa v Crystal Palace

Southampton v Stoke City

Left side should look much better with Fraser and Taylor providing some width rather than BBD and KWP constantly pushing the ball back inside because they can’t use their left

He is picking him. For the U21s Bloody Martin, forcing his mates into the team

Just four games after winning promotion at Wembley fuck me I hate PL football nowadays

Turkish deadline day tomorrow...

Some more Ross Stewart chat in the embargoed bit of the press conference for the written press. Could be involved against United, will be a selection decision rather than a fitness decision, but will definitely be involved against Everton at Goodison and will play up there in the cup game

Think their opening offer was €3.5m-€4m so if true, we have forced them up quite considerably too

Sounds like a fee has been agreed for Onuachu between Saints and Trabzonspor - €9m

Yeah but you need to have defensive prowess to play CM and Dibling hasn't shown that. Not at all. I appreciate people are excited about him and want to force him into the team by any means atm but a regular central midfielder alongside Downes he is most definitely not, regardless of whether he likes to run from deep

Hopefully the change of manager (Neil Critchley out; Steve Bruce in) doesn't affect him negatively...

There's a club option on the Dibling contract, so that effectively makes him a 2027 player for free agency, with pressure to sell coming in 2026

This angle is such bollocks

Did I listen to a different episode? I feel like they did address it? Steve even spent a bit of time talking about how a lot of the issues are caused by a lack of pace on passes in our own third which then invite the opposition, from what I remember, and the importance of upping the tempo and zipping passes into people, the midfield being more progressive to alleviate pressure on the defence They also spent a bit of time discussing Ramsdale’s distribution, his tendency to play a bit longer when pressured and his ability to break the lines and find pockets of space in midfield with mid-range distribution / throwing They didn’t go on a rant about ‘pissing about with tippy tappy at the back’ or anything like that if that’s what people were expecting, but if we’re saying that it was an elephant in the room and wasn’t discussed at all then that’s just not true from my recollection. Alfie House also shut down the ‘narrative’ comments from RM by saying it’s not narrative, it’s what is actually happening and we can all see it

Confirmed by FIFA that Ajax missed the paperwork deadline and won't be allowed to take Sulemana on loan

Official. Loan with no option.

Looks overjoyed to be joining Anderlecht

Hardly

Sounds like Whitecaps captain Ryan Gauld (Scotland int'l, ex-Dundee United) probably set this up

Was at Staplewood today

I think he will. He's been incredibly complimentary about Fernandes and turned straight to him at HT in the last game. I think Smallbone has used up some of his chances with RM now and he'll get rotated onto the bench on the other side of the break