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Fatawu going to Ipswich for £20m. Doubt that means they can afford Archer, though. Similar to McCarthy, he isn't really a Martinball player. Archer needs time and space to thrive, not playing with his back to goal like the slow build up forces him to do. No doubt he'll score in League One, but once in this league he'll look poor again.

FIFA did all they could for Argentina this tournament without it just being pure corruption and that's what they serve up in the final.

Love how Bellingham's actually top class and actually turns up to major tournaments for England.

Nice reminder that Scotland were playing for third place in the group stages, rather than the tournament…

Is the assistant manager still crying over a glorified friendly?

All of England's talents is in the attack, keep it far away from the defence, as the quality massively drops with the backline. One day an England manager will realise this.

So you'd assume Ramsdale and Bazunu (Hooray) are both off. Doesn't look like BBD's getting another chance either. Bit different to last summer again, in that Will Still spoke about leaving players whose future lay elsewhere behind and then when the official tour squad was announced, pretty much everyone went. Ramsdale played in goal for us last summer, when he was off, whereas Eckert isn't wasting pre-season minutes on them.

Akachukwu the brightest of the academy lads for me tonight. Last summer it was Sesay and he went on to do nothing in the season. Surprised Sillah Dibaga hasn't been involved, he looked good in the cup game last season.

Not the first time Downs has completely missed the ball in the box, fell to Akachukwu who took it well.

A strong West Ham side with Bowen, KWP and the strikers they signed in January for £20m+ each drew 1-1 with Southend today, now managed by Kieron Dyer. JWP got 25 minutes.

I don't think Roerslev's gone off with an injury? Blackmore thinks differently, but we have a first half team and a second half team, so 30 minutes wouldn't be unusual.

Two headed goals from Fellows crosses. Eckert masterclass. Already better than last year's pre-season.

We should go back to spying on clubs.

I think Edwards and Armstrong's January sales paid for Larin and Peretz, while the Fernandes fee helped go toward Dobbin, so we should be near even for now. But, most clubs need one big sale each summer, I think sometimes we're guilty of too many big sales in one window. Similar to how Sunderland sold Bellingham, which helped keep them in the Premier League, even if it didn't seem so at the time. Charles is the most expendable for me and eventually we will come to an agreement with Leeds or whoever. The same as Fernandes and Dibling last summer, we didn't get the figures for either that were first quoted (not the ridiculous £100m report), but we did still end up with good fees for both.

It's like they've tried the one up the blue 2022-23 away kit. But, I actually liked that kit, the design was a bit out there, but there were clear patterns and they tried to go with a coastal theme for our club. The one above looks like someone's just chucked some colours on a shirt and the back thing looks even worse with it.

Leicester are going to concede some comical goals this season. Good news for them though is that Vestergaard agreed to a mutual termination of his contract.

12% possession and he just kept throwing on defenders until they scored the winner. Then he brought on Rashford and Toney deep into stoppage time.

Probably the most amateurish game management I've seen, and we've had some pretty awful managers on the south coast. Take the lead, take a load of attackers off for defenders. They dominate, no change, they equalise, no change, they win the match. What an utterly miserable couple of months of football, right guys? We've been so close to two finals and had it snatched away.

Fucking devastated. Had 2 subs since their equaliser as well. Been all Argentina for the last 30 minutes and he still tried to see it out.

Got it all wrong. Should have brought Saka and Rashford on to give us some legs up the pitch still.

Hopefully the ref remembers not to add time on again.

Too stressful.

Only three minutes of added time when there's a three minute hydration break...

Sometimes with these strikers, their careers start off slow and then something just clicks. Liam Delap the most recent example off the top of my head. A pretty poor scoring record during multiple loans and then Ipswich got him and he became their one hope of staying up and became one of the most sought after strikers that summer after Ipswich's relegation. Harry Kane as an extreme example was the same during his early years and the rest is history there. We know that Eckert's tactics get the best out of forwards like Azon, as seen with Larin and we also know that Azon will at least effect the game elsewhere if he isn't scoring, unlike many of our other recent strikers who would disappear and hide. That said, I'm not against a punt on a player for less than £10m who we aren't going to be dependant on because we have Larin.

Spain vs England final again then.