Baird of the land

Yeah does seem odd given the current hyper healthy and safety culture. F1 used to be interesting to watch when it rained but now it's a safety car. The grand national fences used to be tough but they got neutered somewhat to limit bad publicity when horses died.

Don't see why wisdom doesn't come into it. If Russian prisoners are put on trial and sentenced to life imprisonment it hardly gives Russia any pause in regards finding reasons to conduct show trials on prisoners it has. Maybe Russia does it anyway but yeah they were most definitely going to do it after.

Did wonder if it was wise for Ukraine to be trying Russian soldiers when Russia has a bunch of prisoners of its own to stage trials of. Wonder how many more of them will be sentenced to death.

Flowers arrived as understudy to a very good goalkeeper in Peter Shilton, which is a bit different than our situation with a struggling Mccarthy where there isn't going to be a 2/3 year acclimatisation period to much higher level football.

I'd say the opposite. Keepers by and large reach their peak much later than outfielders.

He has very little experience. Angus Gunn had more impressive experience and that turned out awful despite being highly rated. It's not because its not burnley it's because it's league 1 and league 1 is very low level. In comparison someone like Dragowski we were being linked with has played both in polish and italian top flight.

Did they say ‘Angus Gunn’ is a pile of garbage when we were buying or more likely did they come out with similar inane platitudes.

Nonsense playing for the third best team in Scotland at the time is loads higher than league 1. Plus he’d played in Denmark as well as Finland, unless you think utd should never have signed that bloke schmeichel from brondby either.

Not the sort of signing I was hoping for at gk. Massive gamble to take imo to go with a kid with no experience outside of league 1 when the team has just come off a season of conceding 67 goals and the other keeper hasn’t exactly been pulling up trees.

Comparing bazanu with livramento signing is pretty weak unless the view is that McCarthy is as good as KWP. Furthermore it’s a position where players tend to mature later.

To me signing a 20 yr who’s only league experience is league 1 is pretty concerning. He may have promise but promise isn’t what we need in that position. If he’s not the only gk signing spending 10m on a third choice keeper given the rest of the needs would be odd.

I'd hoped the bazanu link had gone away.

Please no.

Transfermrkt says his contract expires Jun 2023.

Yeah as long as the medical doesn't throw any red flags & fee isn't exorbitant he could be a very solid signing.

These nonsense gender neutral words annoy me. See the usual crazies trying to foist the word latinx on people who have little interest in it. There's already a perfectly usable gender neutral word if they are so unhappy at the notion on latino/a.

With a normal politician you'd expect him to go(given the scale of the revolt)but with Bojo i expect they'll have to pull him kicking and screaming out of no.10

Just tried watching the nations league on this new 'premiersportstv' thing that they've moved the games too. Utterly abominable experience of constant cut outs in the stream.

I don't really see the Guardian's view as particularly balanced. As for social Media i consider it as as a medium to be pretty toxic in regards everything. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jun/02/the-guardian-view-on-depp-v-heard-an-abusive-spectacle

Bednarek hasn’t fulfilled his promise imo. So if we can get a decent fee and he gets a fresh start it would be ideal.

Scotland were a disorganised mess for large parts of the game. Like kids on the school yard stuff.

The usual spin happening on the guardian opinion when something doesn't play out the way they wanted. It's an orgy of misogny apparently. Very dull and predictable.

Does the facility column come from the number of live games? Is that why Brentford's is higher?

Zero chance of getting a fee for Theo. At best you are going to get a loan fee for djenepo based on last few years. So You really have to sell at least one of moi or Redmond. Personally i’d sell Moi.

He’s exactly the one we should be selling because as well as being average he’s the most sellable.