Pilko

Just me who thinks it looks far worse than it did before?

Lovely finish

I'm not against Mbuemo but surely with the constant noises around restricted spends, we can find some better value abroad? Seems steep to me at the prices quoted.

Southgate is the football management equivalent of the neutral planet president from Futurama. Proper grey, dull, risk-free football. Beige alert. Eze's probably getting a bollocking in there right now for daring to try and make something happen. Can't wait for three group games like this, probably win one or two with a standard Good Guy Gareth 0-0 in there somewhere.

When I used to work in Tesco, every time I couldn't get something to scan or dropped someone's change, every customer in the supermarket would turn to me and scream "YOU'RE SHIT! ABSOLUTELY SHIT! FUCK OFF BACK TO SAINSBURYS!" and eventually the manager would substitute one of the nine spare cashiers sat along the side of the store for me after about an hour, hour and ten minutes of my shift if I kept making these sort of mistakes. Then, to make matters worse, after a long hard day of scanning people's shopping, mopping up spillages, stacking shelves and tidying up, I'd get home about half 10, flick the telly on, and three ex-Tesco employees would be sitting round a desk critically analysing my shift, including slow motion video clips. "You just can't afford to stack the cereal boxes the wrong way around at this level, that's what cost him today", which was always really demoralising. Things like that were what made me just jack in the retail game and become a Premier League footballer, I couldn't be arsed chasing the dream any longer.

And not a very good book, either. Certainly not Bravo Two Zero by Andy McNab, which actually improves with every read.

He'll get more cash and doesn't have to relocate, fair enough. But what a shit move for his career. He'll be out on loan or sold by this time next year.

25 year old bet he's really glad he came.

Never forget.

Just remembered that game against Southampton at home when Hendrick got sent off and Schar injured after we used all subs and were clinging onto a 3-2 lead with 9 men for about 40 mins second half - Dummett was an absolute warrior that day. Just headed and tackled and cleared every single thing in the pissing rain against constant all-out attack. That was usually his best form actually, whenever we were massively under the gun clinging onto a lead and he had to do nothing progressive or involving passing the ball, just being a human wall and getting in the way of it. When we were trying to control a game or have some impetus he was the last bloke you'd want on.

This is so so boring.

I saw someone on Twitter saying he'd be remembered in a similar bracket to Nolan in years to come but I think he's given a lot more to the cause than that, not just in terms of tenure either. Can sort of see why - got us back up, helped us consolidate, difference is he hung around / wasn't moved on. But I think Ritchie was much more of a leader and a grafter and better behind the scenes. Best of luck to the radge bastard. Would love to see him back coaching or as an ambassador one day.

Hopefully he can build a decent Football League career, he's one of the few I can remember to build up a good appearance total in most of his loan spells.

An absolute waste of space. Shit hair, shit tats, shit player. Signed cos he was on a free and "he'll do" for a side keen to float around 12th-17th every year. Another emblem of the previous regime gone.

Nice lad, good pro, some good performances over the years but ultimately not of the standard we need any more. Best of luck to him and I wouldn't be surprised if he ends up some kind of club-serving ambassador/foundation etc role after he packs in. Wouldn't be surprised to see him rock up at MK with Willo, or Gateshead with Elliot.

Eh? Where do you live, fucking Brobdingnag?

I'd give him another season, absolutely love him as a player, but if he has another one where he's constantly injured or in and out we might need to move him on to make room for someone more reliable in terms of availability, sadly. When he's fit and in full flight he has the ability in absolute bucket loads. Do think he'd be in the England mix if he could stay healthy.

Must be so frustrating if you're a Leeds supporter, a whole season of good football and their front players absolutely sparkling, only to serve up that absolute stinking turd of a performance in the final game.

Top 5, easily. As for the cups, who knows, but no reason we can't do well. The cup draws, injury luck & Tonali thing went against us in a huge way this year. Finishing where we did was a great achievement and I'm firmly of the belief that we were Pope's shoulder away from 5th place this season. An extra season's experience and learnings for them all to lean on too which never hurts. Add Tosin, Kelly, a keeper and 2-3 others - Ritchie, Dummett, Dubravka, Karius and Almiron out the door - and we look in spectacular nick. A few more decent U19 punts wouldn't go amiss too as the underbelly of the squad, Miley aside, hurt us a lot last year. If Bruno goes, we'll be able to bring in a few more big hitters on top with the cash.

He'll be signing a 4-5 year deal with a club, you won't just make the decision based on whether they're in a second rate European competition for the first year or not FFS. It'll be a tiny factor in amongst more important things like game time, who the manager is, how the manager can develop the player, club trajectory and plans, wages, the area he's moving to etc.

Every cloud.

It wouldn't be this season would it without one more massive kick in the bollocks, one more unlikely piece of bad luck. I hope City go down to the fucking local Sunday morning leagues for that. Throw the book at the cunts.

Going to be a mega tampon shortage in this thread.

The City defenders trying to do their best Kompany Vs Leicester impression can get to fuck.