The Kraken

Pompey away.... hang on.... my leaked fixture list is from from centuries into the future... 🙂

Decent gig that. Free kick in the opposition half? Give it Prowsey. Corner? Give it Prowsey. Throw in in the opposition half? Give it Sali. As Meat Loaf said, two out of three ain’t bad. (And yes, I know there’s a bit more to it than that, I’m being facetious *insert appropriate smiley or gif here*

Southgate digging out the players he picked, effectively saying he missed out on being able to play the more experienced and better players.

He only signed a contract extension last November, takes him to the end of 2024.

Fixed it for you.

Bologna fans all over the world with a heavy sigh of relief there.

Maybe not, but he made an awesome front sweeper.

I would think this would slow down play as lots of attacking throw ins could be treated as a corner.

Someone suggested it on this page, a Rolls Royce of a player. Which was actually the terminology I actually used to use to describe van Dijk when he was here. Valery is quite clearly not a Rolls Royce of a player. He’s simply not good enough at right back or centre back for a Premier League side.

Tbf England under Southgate have very often been more functional than entertaining. We really don’t seem to have anyone close to providing competition for Kane though. Abraham is not it and there’s not many else pushing a claim.

Think I’d be inclined to take a mega money offer for JWP based on that performance. Compared to Declan Rice he was way away from the level of quality. Didn’t play bad, but if someone is offering silly money it may be worth taking it. It would mean putting immense faith in the scouting and recruitment team though.

I was surprised to see you say that, but it looks like there’s a bit more to it than Brentford “released” him. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/61762107 I thought Brentford had already got him for next season, will be a loss to them if they don’t. Some google searches say the likes of Man U and Spurs are interested so can understand why he’s keeping options open.

It does seem like being released has had a positive effect on him. Whether that’s more due to also stepping down a league, time will tell. But he’s still only 21 years old so he’s doing well. As it stands now, I’d much rather him in reserve than Shane Long. But he clearly wasn’t to get game time under Ralph so, for him, he needed to leave. It may well turn out to be the wrong decision, it may turn out that he’s a Championship level striker.

Feel sorry for Tomori having to line up alongside slabhead, not ideal when you’re cutting your teeth at international level.

From “a Rolls Royce of a player” to being linked with the Turkish second division, all in the space of three months. Who’d have thought? The next Bobby Moore, he is not.

Man City seem keen on a buy back clause similar to Tino, so the financial reward wouldn’t be as great. But if even if they chose to accept to pay it, it would likely mean that the lad has done very well for us, so positives all round.

Not quite. She has called into question Saints statement that they are ‘in talks’, saying that the phone hasn’t rung. It’s possible that Saints have made a very low offer which has been turned down and the club hasn’t come back with a revised offer (yet). Or it could be that a deal indeed hasn’t yet been offered but Long is still under contract and the club are waiting it out.

This is where I’m at with it. He’s on a massive contract here and on good wages too. Newcastle are said to be paying Trippier £100K a week as their top earner and I believe JWP is already on something like that with us, so a huge boost in wages is unlikely for him if he went to the toon. Someone in the top 3 or 4 could afford him and give a big pay hike to him, but as much as I could see him fitting in at a top side, like you say I don’t see them paying what would be necessary to get him, there’s likely to be more value elsewhere IMO.

I said on the other thread about this, he’s on £120K a week and two years on his contract. He also turns 30 in July. If a loan is available at half wages then it would be appealing, otherwise it’s unlikely I’d have thought.

Ings is supposed to be on £120k a week at Villa, he’s about to turn 30 this summer, and he has two years left on his contract. I won’t be holding any hope out for that one.

Perhaps not a sport per se, but along those lines is top level mountaineering. One in a hundred people who take on Everest will die, but apparently K2 is one in four and Annapurna almost one in three. I do find the TT deaths pretty shocking though and I’m somewhat surprised it’s still just accepted as part of the risk.

Mates?

Jokes are always better when they’re explained. 😬

An interesting part of the article: So far, Sellés move to Southampton does not give rise to changes in FCK's coaching staff, where head coach Jess Thorup still has Jacob Neestrup as his closest assistant:

Tbf, that’s Joe Meclutchbroke and most other Pompey fans seem to despise him as much as they hate Saints. He’s like a Poundshop Piers Morgan.