The College Dropout

Hate off to him. Good subs at a good time today. Found a system that suits the players. Another final.

That Shaw sub was pre-planned. He’s only fit enough for so many minutes. NO PROACTIVE CREDIT GIVEN

Said this earlier. Reminds me of us at our worst. No midfield protection.

England have been good but the Dutch have been v. bad. Especially the midfield. Providing no protection.

Netherlands midfield can’t get near England. Right onto the defence time and again. Reminds me of us at our worst. We can get another goal quickly here.

If the ref had given it. I wouldn’t have agreed but fairs. But to VAR it? awful. Lovely Foden there.

Weird use of VAR there. The type of sstuff thats ruining the game.

And personally I don't know much about PIF. But who is the ultimate shot-caller? It might end up being Eales but I would hope not.

They've been good stewards of the club and public/fan facing. As part of the leadership team they've been a success. Now they are leaving. That creates a gap. Now in reality they may have been hands off for some time and this is all part of the plan... but I don't know any of those things for certain. The spokesperson for the club going forward is going to be an employee like Eales or Mitchell. At least Chelsea had Marina who seemed to have a direct line to the big boss. Eales might have a direct line but I would rather someone with closer ties to the owners. We'll see.

touche

Nothing against Froggy personally.... but I would ban him from NO football forums for that reason alone. Get that Man Utd shit out of here.

Thanks Mehrdad and Amanda. Bit nervous about this.

The performance of this season has little impact on PSR for 24/25. League position from 4th to 7th is worth about £12m and cup runs are draw-dependent with prize money nothing crazy. The biggest impact on PSR for next 1st July is our trading.

Thought Morata had an excellent game.

I thought so too. We had maybe 4 games before the Barnes injury. Each one it was Gordon off for Barnes. Which gives less credence to that idea.

Man U chased DeLigt all summer one year and didn’t get the deal done. We didn’t get Tino at a discount. We ended up just wasting time. We did similar with Barnes, I guess we thought we would get discount priced because of relegation but that didn’t materialise.

No way did we sign Gordon as a €45m backup LW. The Barnes transfer was opportunistic in terms of availability (not even fee) but never made any sense in terms of squad building. I initially thought the intention was for Gordon to play RW but when both were fit that was rarely used from the start. Both like to cut in and shoot from the left. Saving grace as that they are both really good players. I applaud how we’ve signed good players nearly all the time. But some of the positions and profiles didn’t make sense.

Brathwaite looks quality tbf.

That's Man U's approach. Bid low, unsettle the other players staff, try to get him on the cheap because his head has been turned. Don't think it will work with Branthwaite.

Aye. That Isak signing was rather emotional and fuck God it was. 1 game, 1 injury, we doubled our budget on a signing in a moment.

Snapped Camavinga for £35m odd - 1 year left. Courtois, Alaba, Rudiger all "free".

Yoro is such a Real Madrid signing.

From the clips i've seen I would agree. I think Minteh looks more devastating in the final 3rd. Has that killer pace. Bakayako looks more developed physically and gets involved in general play more. Doesn't have that bit of wow factor I think Minteh has. I'm less confident on Bakayoko because he's not as fast.

We’ve not signed anyone already on £100k+ so far and I don’t expect us too this summer.

You rate him higher than Minteh? Same position. Same foot. Same league. Bakayoko has more experience and is a year older.