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Taken out by Ozil.

Oh well

Well on top at the moment but need to get a second

Great play Bertrand and Ings

"We don't buy success."

Hojbjerg and Ings need to wake up.

Well, it does. Any sort of long flight makes you tired, it doesn't matter how nice your seat is.

The other guy says he literally worked on that job and it's not true though. Who to believe?

Jesus wept.

When you're washing money you don't necessarily expect to get the full amount back. If he ends up spending 30 or 40 mill to get 160 out of China he'll be pleased, I suspect.

Great news if true. **** off, Gao.

On that point, the Greens should be massively pro abortion. Having a kid is just about the worst thing you can do for the planet.

Goa way.

#gashlikeleminade

I think letting the relationship with Fonte sour and not replacing him adequately has been our biggest single mistake. We will never pay enough to keep Van Dijks and Manes around long-term but Fonte was a leader, an experienced pro and had risen up through the divisions with us. He "got it". We needed to abandon our model of resale-value obsession and bring in someone who could play the same role. Instead we have tried Gardos, Hoedt, Vestergaard, Bednarek, Stephens..... all young guys who we presumably hoped we could sell on. There's nothing wrong with that model but it needs to be balanced. Our success to that point was built on mixing youth (Shaw, Lallana, Schneiderlin, Cork, Jay Rod) with experienced stalwarts (Fonte, Lambert, Jaidi, Hammond, Butterfield etc) We got arrogant and extreme and it's ****ed us over. Now, unfortunately, I don't think anyone at the club knows how to fix it.

It's just announcing a new coach or DOF. It's not something that needs careful PR and internal management. Frankly, no one will give two ****s unless they have a previous relationship with the people appointed.

Why do you need to wait for the players to come back? It hasn't been announced because there's nothing to announce and we continue to drift aimlessly.

Basically, letting Lemina leave without a replacement was criminal.

3-1 to the Arse.

Dein Frost Ratcliffe Allen

Incidentally, if Going for Gold was still on, would it be impacted by Brexit? Denmark, yer playin catchup. Wouldyer play or paaaass?

Yeah, it was a joke. But the basic point about ITV stands. Very tacky. Although I think Rylan is doing a great job with Super Market Sweep. He could be the new Dale Winton / Graham Norton / Matthew Kelly.

Yes, but the ITV crowd is very low-brow and poor/simple so they would be likely to favour the class-warrior.

Such a shame we've gone to **** as there are European places up for grabs this season!