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With my negative hat on, he could struggle with fatigue/injuries next year, especially if getting flogged with all the extra games if we haven't signed an adequate Wilson replacement. Could also be a scenario where it becomes public that he has refused a new contract. Which will sour abit of his relationship with fans and like Gordon last year, you will get a whole load of body language experts suddenly jumping on him and claiming he's not trying anymore etc. Then if we finish lower in the table, miss out on CL and don't win anything. Then with only two years left, and perhaps with less impressive stats due to a drop in performance levels, his value will drop considerably from where it is now. On the more positive flip side, he might be able to recover his injury problems with a good summer off, come back fit and raring to go and continuing to involve into the elite player he has been. Then maybe we do somehow boost the squad and have the depth required to give next season a real go and helps us kick on to the next level and he then signs a new deal and wants to stay and win things with us.

Tino must be injured right? Very odd that they benched him and didn't bring him on either, considering he looked like one of their best players and probably most experienced.

Said I wasn't gonna watch any club world cup but then saw Tino wasn't playing for u21s so sacked it off. Hilal have a pretty decent squad for a saudi side. Wouldn't mind a few of their midfielders in our squad. Pretty sure these were the ones that were paying fortunes for Neymar only for him to play a handful of games and then piss off on a free back to Brazil.

Didn't realise Inzaghi ditched Inter for these.

England 0:2 down. Serves them right for benching Tino.

Said it at the time the first rumours started that he was going there, but still think Trent might be a massive flop at real and find himself out the team pretty quick when they realise how poor he is off the ball. Alonso could build the team around him to negate his weaknesses but they have too many other good players to need to do that so doubt it.

Atleast this time we are going into that Villa away not completely cooked physically with a few injured players being carried also like we did last season. Should give them a better game atleast even if it is a tricky opening fixture. Fixtures look brutal though with the champions league dates added in. We are in for a rough season if the squad doesn't get significantly boosted this summer.

Cardiff went from Blue to Red didn't they? Pretty sure Cardiff fans didn't have opportunity to vote against it? "2012: Owner Vincent Tan, with the aim of attracting investment and appealing to Asian markets, changed the home kit color to red. This change also included a new crest with a dragon. "

4th season in a row now with the green/white or white/green theme. Pretty obvious then that PIF have insisted on a Saudi coloured strip every year from now on then. Pretty grim and on one hand I think if Ashley had forced a red, white and blue Sports Direct kit we would have all been kicking off. But on the other, they are the owners and they could be complete twats and rebrand us completely including changing the home kit to Saudi green + white, so in that regard I'm probably grateful it's only the away strip that is effected, and until now the first few weren't awful.

Don't feel he's done enough at Brighton to justify paying double for him what we would have paid 2 years ago. I know the fee is based on what Brighton would be willing to sell him at and not his true value but the point still applies from our perspective.

Feels unfair for him to be playing that level. For his opponents I mean. Shame they have him playing left back though. Would like him to get back familiar playing right back ready for next season.

Feel like that betting advertising ban has been coming in for about 3 years and it's still always "next year" Anyways I kinda agree with that article, never felt comfortable with the amount of betting ads all over sport. Felt like when I was growing up it was completely banned wasn't it? And you couldn't have it on football shirts and other things and then it got lifted and it went into hyperdrive. Can't work out if I object morally or just because the volume of betting companies and ads are so irritatingly shoved in our faces.

Lost me with his weird squad selections already. Add in that the underperforming nations from recent years are starting to look decent again, the heat excuse for a USA world cup, and the fact we get beat when we eventually face someone decent in tournaments anyway and I don't hold much hope for success. Actually might be worse than Southgate if he loses that team togetherness that was cultivated and I wasn't a big fan of him but I could respect that he did bond the group together better than most we've had over the years. He just lacked that ruthlessness and tactical edge when it came to getting over the line.

Kudus would be good for us on the right. His best position and gets shunted to the left for WH to accommodate Bowen. But like many transfers, the time to sign him was for £30m the same time West Ham got him. Now they would want £50-60m.

I know it was a bad season to judge him on when they went down 2 years ago. But he really did seem to struggle. Am I right in thinking corners in particular were a real weakness for him? Seems to have bounced back this year in the championship, but the standard and the lack of shots he faced thanks to their defence makes it hard to assess his true ability. If we do sign him, hopefully people have patience () as clearly we are buying him for the long term and there is bound to be a settling and adjustment period to playing in our stadium and in the champions league etc.

Araujo looked tragic this season when I saw him play, plus I seem to remember his injury record isn't great.

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Think for the prices we'd be quoted from the selling clubs, you'd be looking at an outlay of atleast £250m for all that lot. I'd be stunned if we ever forked out that much in one window, especially under PSR rules. Not forgetting the wages that would need to be added in aswell.

When did it become so common for people to write things in BLOCK CAPITALS for impact? Since Trump started doing it?

Holy hell, I really don't want to go looking for that article or give the mail any clicks, but I am curious to what basis he could possibly form for that argument

Ugh felt it coming. Caicedo alone probably cost more than their entire club. The commentator going on like this has been some sort of mammoth achievement.

Good possibility any deal was subject to them not getting promoted perhaps.

Thought that's what it looked like

Can see Betis fading sadly second half but they played a good first half. Would have been great if hey had taken that chance to go 2 up.

See Chelsea fans were doing wonders for the reputation of British fans abroad once more.