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If we're lining up at home to Southampton on 17th August with either Almiron or Murphy at RW then we've completely fucked it.

I'll be honest a pretty significant part of me actively wants us to breach PSR rules by a few million in order to contest the whole fucking thing in a court. Few mill over, 2 points, piddly shit tbh - nothing major, but it'll allow us to eventually drag the PL into a court and thrash the fuck out of the legality of the whole thing without too much jeopardy. May well not be the most sensible of moves but I'd not be scared of the outcome. If no-one challenges this shit then we're fucked anyway

Comes back to the exploitation of the loopholes to the maximum imo. If Chelsea can get away with (legally) selling themselves a hotel for £80m to dodge a breach of PSR then why can't we (legally) sign 50 1-year sponsorship deals for all manner of shite for £999,999 each? Each one is below a million so exempt from PL validation and there's nothing that I'm aware of that could be done to block it. They'd probably have to look at the rules again to stop others doing it but the first club to do it should get away with it. This is a completely rigged situation, this is not normal for clubs to be flat-out prevented from investing it's own cash. I was all for playing nice and doing things the 'right' way but that's not working. Fuck it. Take the piss. The more ridiculous the better. Sponsor fucking everything that's not nailed down

Ignoring the fact it's one of theirs I think that's a nice kit actually. Like the long sleeves and the fact the chevrons go all the way down without a break for a patch. The sponsor looks a bit shit but there's not much they could have done with that tbh. They'll shift plenty of those this summer

I shall call him the Balkan Diamond

The fuckers were always complaining that he was getting picked regardless of how shit he was performing. Banging on about a clause in his contract the guaranteed a start if he was fit. Not sure they're in any position to hold out for 20m+ like but that's their problem, not mine

Shit performances are shit performances, doesn't really matter when they take place but if you're Southgate and you're taking this English squad of players into a big tournament then there's a level of expectation. The squad is jam packed full of fantastic players and we've looked absolutely rank. He's got the players but he can't get them to function at all and that's 100% on him. Not saying he deserves to be swilled or whatever but he's the boss, and results and performances are totally on him. His team looks and plays like shit? His fault. Team fails to perform? His fault. He's been lauded be many for getting to a WC semi and a Euro final and that's fair enough. He's got to face the music when it's as abject as it has been. Can't run with the foxes and hunt with the hounds

We'll lose to the first decent side we play. We look shocking. No the wonder ten Hag is getting a new contract, the jammy cunt. Southgate is literally pissing the bed

They're just trotting out the party line - we won the group, what more do you want? 5 points? 7 points? 9? What's the problem? Decent performances? Let's save them til the knockouts. Like money in the bank, save them up them just use them when we want. These cunts are fucking winging it. Gareth Sunakker. Richi Southbomb, take your pick

Utter pigshit. Another fucking rank performance, it's just utter shit regardless of who he picks and that's a sure sign Southgate is the issue. How can we look so bad so often?

None of them look like they even give a fuck, that's the annoying thing. It's dull, it's slow and it's predictable and not one of them has any urgency whatsoever. Barely deserve to get out of the group based on what we've seen so far

It's like watching a caveman trying to work an ipad

Gallagher off, Gordon on. Bellingham back into CM next to Rice, Gordon LW, move Foden in one to CAM basically and see what happens eh?

Not sure why anyone's panicking, Southgate will sort this at HT. Definitely

Honestly think a Slovenia goal might be the only thing that sparks us tonight. This is dreadful yet again

Don't look comfortable, organised or dangerous. It looks like they're just winging it and met for the first time in the car park at 7.30 tonight

The fuck is this screeching harridan?

Just means every single transfer involving any PL club needs to be passed off. Forget related party stuff, these clubs have no connection at any level, completely different owners etc. Who decides the value of the players? Who decides it's £20m? What if one club really wants him and is willing to pay £25m to get him? Are they going to be blocked? Whole thing is utter bollocks and looking doomed imo. It's not sustainable as it is, the (technically legal) loopholes and workarounds are getting more and more ridiculous and it'll only get worse. That's without knowing the result of the legal actions that the PL are getting involved in either. We're seeing the fag-end of this whole thing imo

Here we go. Expecting some World class shithousing for the last half hour

" But but but they might invest to strengthen their teams like we did a generation or 2 ago. They might improve really quickly. They might even become better than us....*gulps* "

Spot on. Even when other clubs are sticking to the pigshit rules they invented themselves they still find ways to complain when they're being challenged. Greedy, entitled, moaning, petrified cunts

Time to leave the phone off the hook

Agree with that too Training gear sponsor is the one for me. Sign a 1 year deal, slap aramco all over the training gear for a £25m (or whatever) deal and bank it immediately. If it's possible obviously like

I'm just sayimg there's an element of risk regardless of whether we get him out of the door this week or keep him and take the hit. Personally I think I'd take the hit, see how he goes and then make an informed decision. It'll maybe cost us a few points but it's what I think I'd do - if others disagree then fair enough