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Don't know about you but i feel as though I'm living through a documentary at the moment. It's like I'm living through this great moment in England's football history. It's so much fun. Literally all anyone talks about anymore. It's coming home.

Of course its coming home but.... I'm enjoying the ride and England in a world cup final would be surreal.

Matter of time before we claim "another club" is interested in Richie, in order to get Stoke moving.

He must be one of the most physically imposing forwards there has ever been. The power, pace and strength. Jeez. Every now and then he's a numpty with the ball though. Someone on here used to argue that Lukaku was slow and had no pace. Was so bizarre. I think he had a habit of being lazy in some games.

Knew Brazil were soft as shite. Cant stand that little diving twat.

Lukakus running again.

Wish Southgate had some of these Belgium players. World cup would have been coming home so much quicker (obvs still is).

He must be one of the most physically imposing forwards there has ever been. The power, pace and strength. Jeez. Every now and then he's a numpty with the ball though.

Could be any score. Two good attacks against two open (shite) defences. Both sides soft from set penises.

The one thing I will say, the Chronicle seem to be pushing this one and aren't being overly negative about our chance. It suggests to me that Ryder has been given indications Newcastle are fairly confident.

It's not the haggling, it's the speed of it. Surely you have an idea of how far you can go? Ok, they won't take 20m, will they come down on 27? Can we go up to 22m? Perhaps a middle ground of 24m. If we can't do that, perhaps add ons will swing it. Why does it take us a week to "have a think," as if we are the ones in the driving seat. If he's out of our price range, move on, if he's not, get the fucking thing done.

Aye, if true.

We score from set pieces. We don't bottle games We don't hoof the ball You talk shit.

He was extremely good, lot of really good aspects to his game. Looks like a child, could see him getting bullied People were saying the same about De Gea. He'll be fine De Gea did get bullied tbf Not sure a South Korean bloke will get the same leeway That his name like Lee Way?

Cant get Micheal Douglas in romancing the stone out of my head. There's just something very Colombian Town Fiesta about them. Bet Gimp just danced the night away in those things.

My level of scepticism is sky high over this one. I see far more likelihood in us signing Rondon for less money. Plea probably does want to sign for Rafa, but the club will mess Nice and the player around too much and he will go elsewhere.

If our outlay is around 5m for replacing Richie for Townsend, I'd be happy with that.

Do such things matter? I always assumed getting the world cup meant you got given millions for doing it? Yes, massively. Think you should read up on how little countries are given for hosting a world cup or Olympics for that matter. This world cup is costing russia $15bn in new stadiums, they'll get like $2bn in payments from Fifa etc in total. Argentina etc would need similar money to be spent, nevermind the infrastructure required. Just look at how bad it was for Brazil: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/07/09/brazil-loses-big-at-world-cup-and-not-just-on-field.html Hadn't realised how unbalanced it was. You would expect poorer countries to get a helping hand but the likes of Russia to pay their own way (to a degree). Seems unfair on the poorer countries.

Do such things matter? I always assumed getting the world cup meant you got given millions for doing it?

If England are in the final, everything else can fuck off. Unless you are a doctor performing heart surgery on a child, then I suppose it can be forgiven. Saying that, a couple of hours wouldn't hurt the little scamp.

His replacement cost is probably £20m+ tbh. That's what it's all about. Richie is as good as gone.

Argentina were poor, whether Messi played for them or not.

People forget that France conceded 3 goals to a poor Argentina. Uruguay have Suarez and Cavani and a much better defence.

We can't even sign one striker without thinking about replacing another

Rakitic will do.