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Yeah and their left winger nabbed an equalizer, forget his name.

Remember it well, pissed down with rain and Shola scored the winner

Rotation innit. Money no object apparently. Good solid player but not worth much more than half that.

You can hardly blame the fans of a newly promoted club for being optimistic and confident. They're a bit of an unknown with the player turnover, their coach is highly thought of and in Johnson, they have a real talent who'll need to be dealt with. That said, they're coming up against a coach in EH who would never under (or over) estimate anyone, will have meticulously prepared the team in every way and also they're up against a team with a level of fitness, quality, defensive strength and ability to press them high that they won't have experienced before. I predict they'll start well but run out of steam and we'll win...but it might be tight and twitchy for a while. Verdict - 2-1.

What a damning assessment It's honestly such a Chelsea thing to do, pinch another club's young/academy prospect (after he's made a handful of appearances) for stupid money, then they'll probably loan him out and let another club develop him further. Hate Chelsea with a passion.

He might well be but I think @brummie had a very different view of him IIRC.

Aye nowt to see here, online fans in posting cliched, media-fed bollocks shocker. 7th to 12th (totally dependent on attacking signings and with a full pre-season from EH and the coaching staff being most important) has been almost uniformly the response from anyone i've chatted with.

Oh yeah I mean I wasn't saying that paying 55m for him isn't insane, it is. Just that paying 20m for a kid from Villa is just as daft and more a general point on Chelsea being a completely cunty club that I was hoping would crash and burn this year.

Not sure signing Cucurella for that amount is much dafter than signing that kid from Villa for 20m like. At least Cucurella is proven in the league and has demonstrable quality. Chelsea really are a loathsome outfit like

Most of the recent new members that are fans of other teams have brought plenty of knowledge and added to the general quality of the forum, especially @Milanista. I probably know more about Italian/European football by a factor of 100 thanks to him

At this point, might as well just temporarily rename this thread to "Learn all about Leicester and how class their squad is and how they don't need to sell anyone"

Maybe not a priority, but I wouldn't ever again want to be 1 injury from potentially having to throw Lascelles into the mix again. I'm personally thrilled he's signed, doesn't change the fact we still need a couple of attacking players of sufficient quality.

Fair point in hindsight but a tricky thing to get into "off the cuff" and whether she thought of it at the time or after (as humans often do), probably selected to keep it light and respectful. Not the easiest forum to get too in-depth as they spend so much time on the top 4 or 5 teams and the others only get a 2 minute segment. Hopefully that will change as we grow but I thought she spoke clearly and smartly.

Just watched the latest episode of The Overlap on YT. Same stuff as usual generally but I thought Kendall Rowan did a decent job "representing" Newcastle and spoke fairly well and without any daft hype or twitter-style moaning.

I think maybe it's more that a lot of clubs are finding ways around it, than flat out ignoring it. Everton and their bollocks covid lies. Barcelona with their selling of TV rights, Man City and their weird sponsorships etc.

Not a death wish anymore, just get yourself a bone marrow transplant from a naturally immune donor

"I work at the brewery...evvy work that...wey, in the office"

Apart from the silliness of all that, Leicester of all the fanbases out there should be well aware of their own "irrelevance" as recently as 6 years ago. Are they actually trying to infer, like fans of the other cunts up top, that no clubs should even try to break that monopoly? They of all clubs ought to understand what we're trying to do, I was a big fan of them winning the league.

It's kind of amazing to me that they were able to amass such a great group of players in the first place.

Agree and that comes with coaching, time and experience, not changing fundamental physical aspects of the game which one or two seem to be suggesting.

During this tournament, I haven't seen much to indicate goal size changes are necessary. Imagine the outcry if it was even suggested. A lot of goalkeeping is about positioning and footwork. Most of the keepers i've seen have been pretty decent in both cases and women keepers, at least at this level, are more than capable of making acrobatic saves and taking crosses. Comparing them to their male counterparts is a bit strange and pointless, it's the women's game, leave them to it and enjoy it for what it is, a sport that is improving all the time.

Great cross and finish, Germany will be tough to say the least Sunday if they get through

Weird how much the German coach resembles Klinsmann. Anyway, canny game, France look a bit more technical, Germany look super strong physically and well-drilled.

I think, regardless of the divisive arguing in the other thread over the whys and wherefores of the HSBC news, we can all agree that we're finally being run by people who know what the fuck they're doing and are putting the infrastructure and financing in place in order to support EH and succeed short and long term. I finally trust our owners (at least in the common goal sense) for the first time in 15 years and it feels great honestly.

Mead and Hemp look great, problems defensively down both flanks though and yet to see Kirby do a thing in this whole tournament. Russo needs to be on at some point, Sweden (Blackstenius in particular) look excellent, very physical too.