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That's awesome

Subbed on at 55 minutes against Finland. Edit. Seems to play as RW.

He's on now.

The premise of changing lifestyles of footballers changing the value they place on bright lights/big city isnt wrong. Yes if Joao Pedro's top criteria for living location is shopping then i guess thats him looking to move near a Westfield. World class restaurants too, thats another big plus.

Excited to see who is target number 3 on the transfer list. And then 4.

I grew up relatively poor in London. It’s a good place to be poor tbh. I started my career with a totally unpaid internship and got the bus to it in the big city. Turned that into a half decent job. Having a roof over my head in London made it possible to eventually get a pretty good career going for myself.

😂 must be rested today got to keep our star striker fit.

No osula starting for Denmark today.

No. London is a rich persons playground and they get to be fairly anonymous. Lots of places for wives to shop and usually some cultural enclaves to get food and bits from too. Chelsea in particular is th least parasocial of all the bigger clubs. People will mind their business around them.

Maybe true last year. Their best players will get flogged next season like everyone else.

I currently have a membership for myself but have another adult and junior account linked to mine as family. Am I right in thinking if I bought memberships for those 2 accounts also, each game I could apply for 1 adult and 1 adult and child as two separate application/chances of being lucky, or can I only apply once for either 1, 2 or 3 tickets together?

Were there not comments from Eales last summer that Eddie just needs to focus on "his job on the grass" or similar? Certainly seemed as if Eales was making a power play last summer, prior to his diagnosis understandably changing his focus.

Disagree, Londons better than any place in the UK if you’re poor. So many free attractions (British museum, science museum, Natural history museum ,Tate modern /Tate Britain, The Welcome Collection, and public spaces like the National theatre, The Southbank centre and British Library reading rooms) so you might not have much in the bank but you don’t need to be bored. Countryside and seaside within 60-90 minutes depending where in London you are. Most London boroughs give those on low incomes free/low fee gym and swim membership at their leisure centres. Also it has more opportunities for education, training and job opportunities to pull yourself up.

The most annoying was that their debt was cleared in the force sale

6th highest average attendance in England across history. About 800 behind us, but ahead of Villa and Everton et al, according to a random website*. *Can't be bothered to look properly but that conforms with my understanding for the past 20 years.

Marseille are the most popular team in France in terms of support. If you didn’t support your local team, you supported OM, they were France’s version of Man Utd, or Bayern Munich. They had won the joint most amount of titles, along with St Etienne, although OM had won the Champions League. Monaco were the 3rd most successful side in France, and had recently had their own big money takeover. Lyon had just came off the back of winning 7 league titles in a row and competed well in Europe. Nantes were another club who were more successful than PSG before their takeover. In their final full season before their takeover, PSG’s average attendances didn’t even break 40k. In fact they only broke an average attendance of over 40k 6 times prior to their takeover. A low attendance when you could argue that they had the whole population of Paris to themselves considering Paris FC and Racing Club de France languished in the lower leagues and in and out of professional status.

Nkunku was a PSG reject before Leipzig where he got Bundesliga player of the season. So he's already resurrected his career once. I see potential value there, especially with the crazy valuations we keep hearing for other players. He's versatile and that's something we could certainly do with. All depends on whether Eddie likes him though.

Chelsea are of course a decent proposition for any player. They can pay big wages and win trophies on a regular basis. The annoyance is that their PSR headroom, which is already miles above the likes of Newcastle due to pre-PSR investment by a Russian oligarch, is artificially inflated by the sale of hotels and women's football teams to sister companies.

Airports still an advantage I’d imagine. That and a ever so slightly warmer climate.

Isn’t the London thing outdated from a time when footballers went out on the town and into nightclubs. Most players are teetotal and committed to their fitness and health nowadays, where London has no advantage whatsoever. Unless he’s just really into theatre?

O'Reilly is a really good player, if he falls down the pecking order due to all the midfielders they have, then we should be all over trying to lure him away

Man city not looking the best, I still say Pep should have left after he won the Champions league.

I'd be surprised if Joao Pedro didn't already live in London or nearby anyway tbh, it's hardly far.

Aye it's not great news and we do have a track record of moving early. The last 3 were all considered coups and have proved important to us in different ways. It's not the end of the world and we can still do great business in the window. But it hasn't been a good start and there's obvious disruption upstairs.

I was going to say, the area Chelsea is in is really nice if not expensive (not a problem for footballers obviously) Unlike say where Spurs is located, which actually is a shithole