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Not disagreeing with that, but it would give us more flexibility in being able to plan and evolve before their departures. Or build a more competitive squad that wouldn't feel Ings departure as much as this one would. The overriding fact under Gao is that we cannot do anything until player x goes, you cannot run a club like that over a long period of time. I don't care what anyone says. That's not sustainable in my eyes, it's entirely unsustainable because you just get left well behind over a long period. It's like a slow death. I want my club to be sustainable in a way that enables us to grow. I don't want to be a City or a Chelsea for example, I just want to know that my club is able to go and improve midfield or centre back in a transfer window if they feel they need to. But they can't without calculating who they have to sell first to make that happen.

I assume that's a joke.

Feels like the club have accepted that we need to cash in now if we are to evolve the squad. A good Euro's has added $$ onto his value, so that's a positive. He's not a great defender, let's not miss that fact. He uses the ball well, he's good with his feet, good in the air. But he has been part of one of the worst defences in our history, for that alone...if we can get good money for him, I won't lose much sleep. Salisu will add a lot more athleticism and pace on the left side. For all the importance that Vestergaard added to our 'attacking' (in terms of splitting the midfield with his passes), maybe we should try and buy a CM who can do that?

It is a rubbish situation to be in, but I think it's been inevitable from day dot really. If he wanted to sign he'd have signed a long, long time ago. The situation is exasperated by the fact we have no money, not a single pot to piss in. So we can't replace him until he's gone. But, do we risk letting him go now and taking the gamble on someone like Adam Armstrong? Or do we keep him until the end of his contract and only have loose change to spend on a replacement? It's all a bit shit really. In an ideal world you accept he's going, buy his 'replacement' now but keep Ings until his contract is up so you have the best of both worlds. But because we can only spend money when we sell it kind of makes that approach a non-starter. We need new ownership, it's like watching a slow death at the moment.

There was a post like this last season as well. I'm desperate for him to do well, but it looks more and more likely that he's just not going to cut it here. 2 full seasons he's had and bar two goals in his first couple of games in 2019, the only thing he's been consistent at is getting injured. In normal circumstances we'd have probably cut our losses already, but beggars can't be choosers. I doubt next season will be much different tbh. More flattering to deceive and lots of knocks and niggles. We are in desperate need for better than him and Redmond in those wide/10 positions, but I'm not sure we have the finances to do it.

It's two massive fingers up at Jose Mourinho as well. Shows him up as the dated manager he really is, just looking for enemy's at every club he goes into. Ali was the most recent one at spurs. Not sure why he does that. I wonder who it will be at Roma?

This lot is a much better team too, it's a different generation than before and they seem to be adapting to the challenge much better. Back in the days when we had household names such as Beckham, Lampard, Gerrard, Rooney, Terry, Cole etc...you'd say player for player that was top. But that lot was never a team, just a bunch of talented individuals never cohesively combining to form a team. We had the odd good results with that lot, but in the main it was disjointed, frantic and very confused as numerous managers scratched their heads as to why so many good players struggle together. This lot play like a team, they may not have the stardom of that 'golden generation' individually, but they are still superbly talented and the team cohesiveness and control is on a different level than we've seen before. One element that has probably helped a lot is the progression of these players under Southgtate from the U21's through to the senior, there's a continuity right through the setup at the mo.

Great showing from the first min to the last, didn't expect it to be that easy. Sancho improved our attack ten-fold, committing players and opening up space with intelligent runs etc. Never really seen much of him, but he does look one heck of a player. My player of the tournament has to be Shaw, he is assisting goals whilst defending astutely. He looked a little out of sorts in the wing back role against Germany to start with, but he adjusted. From a rather tepid group stage, it has all come to life at the right time. If we play against Denmark as we did in the 2nd half yesterday, then they will not stand a chance. What an opportunity this is by the way.

The stories and write ups around this lad are very impressive. I can't say I've seen much of him myself, but he's seemingly someone we've tracked for a while - as well as clubs on more of an upward trajectory than us, so that's a positive. Looking forward to seeing how he does. We certainly needed more down the left hand side and this should give us that.

It didn't have the excitement levels of yesterdays games for sure, but thankfully Germany are just a little rubbish nowadays and we wore them down in the end. I'm still not entirely sure if the game plan is to bore the pants off of everyone on purpose, but to be fair it worked. Maguire was my man of the match, his nut was on everything. Closely followed by Kalvin Phillips who was equally everywhere. The atmosphere though, wow. What I'd have given to be there. It was like the old days of the camera shaking due to the atmosphere. Now the tournament has started!

The refereeing and use of VAR has shown up the PL massively, imo. You don't even talk about VAR in these games, yet in the PL season you speak about it 4 or 5 times a match day.

It's all about the reverse psychology. 🤣

Amazing. Fair play Switzerland, love to see an underdog story. France, bar 30 mins in the 2nd half, just didn't show up. They didn't seem much of a team though. I don't even want to call tomorrow. Although I don't think I could deal with an evening like tonight again.

Jeez, Mbappe. He's got to score.

McCoist is a breath of fresh air as a co-commentator to be honest. Nothing dour about him at all. Not sure about Clive though.

Wow, great effort by Coman at the end. What a frigging evening of football. Seriously. Best i've watched for years.

I genuinely do not believe what I'm seeing. France have gone back into 'I don't give a shit' mode!

Jesus christ, this tournament is incredible.

That's a wonder goal. Fair play France, they've turned up second half. Feel a bit for the Swiss, but once the French turned it up they stood no chance tbh.

The Swiss are all over the place. They looked so composed first half.

France will see this one out now, Swiss are gone. (Trying my reverse phycology again, as it worked very well in the last game)

Blimey. game, set, match.

And as if by magic. Game changed on that.

Dammit, they've blown it there.

Expecting to see much better from France in this half, I couldn't believe how off it they were. They just didn't give a shit.