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He's not "in the running", he's the only feasible choice unless someone does something ridiculous in the final.

If we are expected to pay all his wages - and they really are 65k a week- plus a few million in loan fees then it's quite an expensive loan for someone who will presumably be cover. A full back loan makes perfect sense but if its going to cost 6million quid then it could be better to go for a cheaper Cuco Martina / Jeremy Pied option and invest more in other areas. Improving at centre back, GK or attacking mid is more of a priority IMO.

Haha! I posted that with the express intention of seeing if you posted this. So stick that in your pipe.

He's a better passer than defender. Ironically, because his passing is so good, we were over reliant on him to start attacks. He's definitely worth selling for a fair price.

Agreed, except if we beat Denmark we will be playing, in the final, a team which is far better than anyone we have played so far, whether it’s Spain or Italy. Significantly better. We haven’t really seen how this team would do against a top team and I still worry a bit about our defence. But a one-off match, home advantage, Sterling in form and Kane getting his confidence back… we’ve got a decent chance for sure.

Congrats to Saints on following up their spring time signing of Theo with this excellent and timely first summer signing.

Let's be honest, though. Ukraine are shite. This reminds me a bit of the last World Cup where we played a load of shite teams. I expect us to beat Denmark too but I think the final will be difficult. But still, well done so far to everyone.

Cracking dive from Kane. Boo, cheating Italians etc.

Very harsh red. Barely a foul, really. If England had Spain’s midfield we would win the tournament at a canter. If they had Sterling and Kane, they probably would.

I’m inclined to agree with this. I think he’ll probably sign for another couple of years, but not until it’s clear one of those doesn’t want him. Which is fair enough and also good on SFC for being patient.

Ozzies letting the side down. They need to up their game or they'll get booted out of the vaccine, death-injection, population control gang. Someone really needs to remind them that this whole endeavour won't work unless they get people injected. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-57661144 On a less idiotic note, I'm actually finding this increasingly psychologically difficult. The lockdown etc. obviously sucked but didn't have a huge impact on me personally for various reasons. It's very clear now though that it will be many years before we get even close to "normal". We will need boosters and we will have lots of variants for years to come and that will impact various things, not least travel. The impacts will be taken as validation by the dumb-ass groups that they were right all along and there's some plan afoot, and this whole situation will contribute to the societal malaise that political opportunists and online echo chambers are creating. That's assuming war doesn't break out with China. I'm feeling the outlook is bleak.

As usual the pundits are going well over the top. We were ok but nothing special. Sterling very good. That said, we avoid Belgium/Italy/Spain until the final so we won’t need to be brilliant to get there. Real chance to grind out a trophy.

Stephens over Tadic?

The point would be not to get relegated?

She converted it to equity when she owned 100%, I recall. Therefore didn't gain anything as a result. To the extent that the money improved the value of the club then, yeah, in theory she would get more back down the line but that's very tenuous in a business as viccisitudinous as football. For all intents and purposes she wrote the debt off.

Except the Tweet is just made up click bait for thickos?

He's young, Hungary, and guaranteed to improve.

We were due a reffing howler….. but Lovren, so Lolz.

Yeah, Danny Murphy is so depressing.

I got a Christmas message from James Ellsworth, which I cherish.

Des’ree?

Sounds good.

11 years later....

Sobering stuff and let's hope he makes a full recovery. Still, got to lol reading back this thread.... "That's the tournament over. Oh, they're finishing the match." [Not having a go at anyone. I know it looked bad.]