The College Dropout

Awful fans

It’s shit support. If England were going home - fair enough. But booing mid summer tournament is shit support.

A fan threw something at Southgate and apparently there were audible boo’s. Portugal didn’t win a group game and won a euros. No need for booing or insulting the manager personally. IMO.

You’re wrong. And Wrighty’s suggestion was insane and typical of England fans insisting on shoehorning big names into the side like Garth Crooks.

No. A man has said Southgate should die. Is that not too far? It’s just football.

England fans are awful and deserve worse than they get. So entitled.

He’s not played left back at all in about 3 years. He hasn’t played there ‘loads’. He played there when he first broke through. He’s played less left back than Gareth Bale.

Hate this analysis. It’s not about ‘getting them in’. Pick a balanced side that gets the best out of your best players. That might mean 3 top talents sit on the bench and another top talent has to sacrifice his game for the good of the team.

England players all sound rattled. England fans boo’d. Awful fanbase.

Well worth 20-25m imo. Maybe even 30.

I think i said he's the type of signing Dortmund tend to make.

The fee is likely reasonable. We would rather sell Minteh. We were going to do some FFP workaround with Everton and would've taken DCL as part of it (I assume he's not our number 1 choice but we like him). But Lyon's bid is serious so we can take their offer and sign a striker higher on our list.

Mbappe Endrick Bellingham He might be 4th choice next season. He offers something different but he's not even the automatic striker bench option anymore. He's done the best he could dream to do at Real. Take the money. The ONLY thing is... he has an outside chance of making the World Cup squad in a couple of years. It's unlikely but there's a chance.

Aye we brought in Minteh to finance £45m back-up left wingers. That's the model we want.

As it stands, we would fall foul of FFP. Does that not literally mean we have overspent? Serious question. As I understand - this sale isn't to generate FFP room to sign new players. It's to be FFP-compliant. We are signing DCL because we are in bed with Everton to help each other out. You give us a player we like, you give us a player you like.

We have to raise X amount by the end of the month and are selling valuable assets to do so. We are selling because we have too.. I guess it's not at rock bottom prices but it seems we are gaming the system with Everton for mutual beneficial fees. Certainly - if we had not gotten ourselves into an FFP hole, we wouldn't be selling Minteh in June or at all. IMO we didn't think the punishment for falling foul of FFP would be so severe.

Eales outright said we needed to qualify for Europe in some form and we didn't.

They've overspent in the transfer market and we need to sell our most promising youngster to become FFP compliant. We likely need to sell productive first-team players to buy anyone. We had about £130-170m worth of talent barely contributing last season. They have done a lot right. But they have not done "pretty much everything right". Like.. people are trying to suggest Chris Wood was a good transfer. It didn't really work out how most would've wanted but we got our money back and stayed up - it's a lucky escape in truth. No need to rewrite history,

Aye but someone said he was more proven than Minteh and it's not true. Minteh's a legit wonderkid.

There's a bit of a "the club has done everything right previously, so let's not question anything they do going forward" mentality some have. The first part isn't even true.

IMO Minteh is more proven than Miley. Miley did ok in an injury crisis. Minteh has been productive in 2 professional leagues. Not "doing a job" like Miley has done - but actual production. Miley is younger and played at a more competitive level to his credit but he played like someone that was "filling in". At City - Minteh would be one they would want to keep around the first-team if the lad was happy with a sub role. Chelsea is a bad example.

We are fire selling players this summer. Certainly you can question the previous transfers. For various reasons we had £130m of transfers that barely contributed last season. That's an issue.

What argument? Our spending last summer has meant we have to sell players this summer to be FFP compliant. Is it not worth questioning the activities last summer?

Don't know how long his contract is but let's say of the £8m fee, he's amortised 1.5m, we'd have 6.5m as his remaining book value. So taking home over £30m. If we insert a buyback, I assume Everton would want at least 20% profit. So say he signs for £40m, the buyback would be close to £50m surely.

Last summers transfer activity doesn't make much sense. I guess we thought FFP and no teeth.