Pilko

£35m is a lot more than I thought we'd get for him. Unless it's inflated because we're paying over the odds for their keeper, who knows.

They are, but Anderson is always going to get picked ahead of Miley when both are fit in one of the three midfield places. I'm talking about a path to game time for Miley rather than the style of each player.

A shame he's away, but I think it opens the path up for Miley a bit more who clearly has a much higher potential ceiling. The injury early last season definitely slowed his progress after that excellent pre-season and since then he's filled in and done a job rather than nailing down a place. If this sale means we can flex our muscles and strengthen key positions then it's worthwhile, although obviously the PSR stuff stinks to high heaven and we should be able to do that anyway with him still on voyage if we wanted him to be. Hope we get a good fee and that he can use the move to nail down a position and kick his career on at Forest.

Anyone think Havertz looks like the bloke from Baby Reindeer?

I knew it was all Alan Barnes' fault.

Really good numbers on this one. Hope he does well there but not too well.

Quite like the Swiss to qualify. Think it'll be a tight game but fancy them.

I like Anderson and in an idea world wouldn't sell him, but if we're getting a good right winger in and solving the PSR problem this way I could live with it. Plus, it opens up Miley's path to the first team a bit more and it's not a stretch to suggest he'll have a way higher ceiling in the CM position.

all that's missing from that is comments below saying "U ok hun? xxxxxxxxx"

Hope everything is OK with his family but equally hope his return flight is significantly delayed.

I was formerly a defender of Southgate despite the relatively turgid football and tactical failings in key games, but he's completely and utterly ran out of road. It feels like an absolute mess at the minute. You've got a striker who scored 44 club goals popping up in defensive midfield just to get a touch because there's absolutely no service. A supposed Ballon D'Or candidate who looked brilliant as a no.8 in the last tournament shoehorned into no.10 and standing on the toes of Foden all the time, who clearly doesn't like playing on the left and drifts central. A constant yawning chasm of space on our left flank and a plethora of wide players with pace sat on the bench. Rice despite having an excellent season looks like a carthorse in this system and we're still pissing about experimenting on who partners him three games in. Saka is a total non-event but won't get dropped. No (fit) natural left back picked in the squad meaning the whole thing looks chronically lopsided. The way he's managing to get such a low level of performance out of these players is genuinely staggering and it doesn't look like it's any fun to play in this side either. I get the feeling those clamouring for Palmer and Gordon on Sunday will be left disappointed. Fully expect Mainoo to start despite looking absolutely ordinary other than that one deft touch at the death, but Gareth hasn't got the arsehole to drop Foden or Bellingham, or to play Bellingham at 8. Jude's last two performances have been of someone who looks frustrated and isolated in the position he's in and he didn't even arse himself into a sweat for most of last night. The whole thing is built on a house of cards and soon as we encounter a side with genuine attacking threat and concede a goal in a knockout tie, we won't be able to break them down.

Why are they all pretending Mainoo was brilliant when he came on? He was OK at best, ahead of a very low bar.

Part of it is definitely down to him playing in the wrong position and getting in the way of other players but he genuinely wasn't trying at times tonight. You can take the hump at the shite tactics but at least run about and try. Mind, I'm only singling him out because he's supposedly the golden child (and because No Balls Gareth refused to sub him again) but there was barely anyone worthy of the shirt all night long.

Absolute disgrace that we've topped the group. That cowardly, boring, bent nosed fuck in the noncey cream zippy top wants firing out of a cannon. A word on Bellingham, by the way - Ballon D'Or? Don't fucking make me laugh. Lazy, disinterested and absolutely pony for the second game in a row.

Chocolate Oranges are available from Rawlinsons.

Whilst I'm glad he's not doing 90 after 90 and getting flogged further, if he's gone to the tournament I would like him to get a game, even if it's as a sub. Would be shit for him personally after the season he's had if he didn't see the pitch at all, especially considering the absolutely gaping chasm of space down our left in both games.

Slightly alternative Minteh take here... I wonder if Eddie and the coaching staff have already decided that they think Minteh isn't all that & we're looking to get big money for him before anyone else realises. Imagine he does feature for us a bit, looks crap, gets another loan somewhere and suddenly he's Kuol MKII. I know he did well out on loan but the Dutch league isn't the greatest barometer for Premier League success and the concrete interest shown (Everton, Lyon, Feyenoord again) doesn't scream top tier talent. Could well be they've heard figures of £40m bandied about and done their own version of cartoon Steve Bruce signing the Hull contract ('kinhell!) and are desperately trying to get him peddled as they know we're doing a great deal.

Oh dear. The England B team absolutely McFucked it.

Of course no mention of the families that go direct from the club shop fully kitted out to Ponteland Airport proudly displaying their new Sunlin attire. Must be an exception for that. I'd imagine if Sunlin had an airport (unlikely of course) and anyone of a black and white persuasion had cause to go there it would be sad as fuck if anyone wore a toon top there.

here I am, stuck in mid-table with you.

Le Bris in the dugout, Debris on the pitch. Welcome to the Stadium of Light, Sunlin.

I heard Eddie loves all things English so much that he doesn't trust the meat at Lidl or Aldi because it's German.

Turgid, miserable, boring, cowardly and lifeless. The performance reflected the manager perfectly. Bowen and Eze getting on and showing they're absolutely nowhere near good enough. Completely invisible.

Get the feeling Shearer is ready to deck Southgate after the match.

Gordon may as well get himself a flight to the Maldives tomorrow and have a proper summer holiday if he's not getting a game in this which was absolutely crying out for a player of his style and pace.