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I don't begrudge him wanting to move on, but it's always a contest. Even if we're not talking a literal one-on-one fight to the death, they're still competing for a spot. Pope fucks up, Dubs would've been there breathing down his neck. Personally I'd give Karius the nod over Dubs, mostly because he's more of an unknown quantity. But it'll depend what we're competing for at the time. Last game of the season and we need a point for CL... aye maybe not the time to experiment.

Unreasonably annoyed by the Apple TV screen transition after replays. It’s a half second of a completely black screen with mls logo in the middle. No transparency at all. Takes up the whole screen. Feels very jarring.

4-0

5m quid per year by the sounds of it. To give some context of the gulf in income. Thanks to savvy businessman mike.

The Union stadium is in a town!

The people who have Adriano that high up... any chance you were big PES 6 players?

Obviously I have no idea about the specifics of football accounting and FFP of both uefa and PL varieties, but the whole thing just smells like books cookin to me. Maybe the classic Loan with a mandatory future fee no longer met some classification that allowed clubs to defer the date of spend, so instead they put in a clause that will absolutely get met no matter what. There is no reason other than creative accounting to put in such an inevitable clause imo.

Chiesa just did the ol smash it off the bar then onto the post. No idea how it didn’t go in.

I know a guy who knows a guy who owns the domain, if anyone has any creative ideas for it

Ayeee. “The FIFA Council confirmed that, in line with the long standing tradition of having all hosts competing at the FIFA World Cup, as well as sporting and operational considerations, the hosts of the FIFA World Cup 2026, namely Canada, Mexico and the USA, will qualify automatically for the final round of the competition, with their slots therefore being deducted from the overall allocation of six assigned to CONCACAF,” it said. “Details will follow in due course regarding the preliminary competitions in all confederations for the FIFA World Cup 2026.”

I think they already confirmed CONCACAF will get more teams in 2026. 6 in total I believe. 3 auto 3 via qualifiers.

Only just saw this! time to get me suit measured. (this is about the only chance I'd have of getting a ticket like, given there's just no way for non-local fans to get one without paying some daft scalper prices)

Maybe. The owner did just give away the company to a trust with the entire purpose of combating climate change, so you'd think they'd have some level of backbone. Not sure where they sit on murderous regimes/sports washing mind. Isn't mentioned on their website.

Somethings tells me that we wouldn't be very high up on Patagonia's list of potential collaborators.

They're pretty blaahhhh... but the lack of FUN88 immediately puts them a step above most everything else they're hawking.

This puppy is discounted right now if anyone is in the market:

Napoli love a shit “special” kit like. Think they make about ten of them a year.

poidh

aye i was scared to say anything because everyone was saying he was class thought he lost the ball more today than in any other match.

Absolutely. The first thing he said upon being announced was "There is quality in this squad. But we have to make them shine. That's the job of me and my staff", immediately discussing getting the best out of the squad and not a word about "doing business" or anything to that effect. There was no chance he was getting any signings of note.

this. They were time-wasting / giving Murphy another opportunity to take the piss. Can't be many games where two subs got subbed. Discman, check the history books.

I'm all for people taking advantage of their mental behaviour, but why do we think they'd be desperate to shift players anyway? They've obviously got a creative accountancy plan in place already, and don't seem to care that much about money. I guess they can't register them all, but I doubt they'll care about letting a few Ross Barkley types rot in the reserves.

Not entirely sure they need much help going off the evidence so far. Be canny if they spend half a billion and the team gets worse.

Never mind its fucked for me either way.

That's an exiting twitter embed issue. If you click through to the tweet, it'll play in its entirety.