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He played for Owen Coyle's Bolton!

Luton after Lascelles apparently.

Are you talking about Rodrigo at Leeds? He's hardly youthful, he's 32

I reckon about 120 and four players signed (not including youth signings or new backup keeper).

Aye. Be great if we could get another couple in the Pope type market. Keeper is a bit specialist in that sense tbh but that was a hell of a deal.

It gonna have embroidered logo on the fan one? Bought the Saudi third kit reduced the other week and was quite impressed by the quality - mainly because of the embroidery of the details

Yeah I love Maxi but don't think he's an impact sub at all. He needs to work his way into games to be effective.

Very decent player but not a world beater. Think he's possibly too slow for the PL personally.

Jesus, I thought I was a miserable twat. The transfer window literally doesn't even actually open until next week ffs.

Hopefully this means he is kicked out of SoccerAid. Rules are rules.

Cba to check but also shows the global appeal of the NBA. I presume they have much higher follower counts than those other leagues.

Was at Whitley last season. Came up from the Alliance. Didn't do anything at all in fleeting appearances and dropped down to NL2. Been surprised by how ridiculously well he's done this season. Fox in the box is probably a good description in that he seems to be a bit of a pure goalscorer.

The Fairs Cup wasn't weak at all really. The one club per city and qualification rules were a bit all over the place but it wasn't too similar to the later UEFA Cup and the line up was definitely far stronger than the current edition of the Conference League. For example in the year we were in there was: 3rd, 4th, 5th, 10th in England - Liverpool, Leeds, Chelsea, Newcastle 2-4th in Serie A - Napoli, Juve and Fiorentina 2nd, 4th and 6th in France - Nice, Marseille, Metz 4-7th in Spain - Valencia, Zaragoza, Atletico Madrid and Athletic Bilbao 2nd in Holland - Feyenoord 2nd in Portugal - Sporting 3rd in Yugoslavia - Dinamo Zagreb 2nd, 3rd and 5th in Scotland - Rangers, Hibs, and Aberdeen 3rd and 4th in Belgium - Liege and Waregem You can continue through the Eastern European leagues which were much stronger at the time where big sides were entered. If you were to go off current European format many of these clubs would have been playing in the European Cup instead. Indeed it is arguable that the Fairs Cup and subsequent UEFA cup often had more depth, on paper, than the European Cup.

Yeah he's played left side all season. He is right footed though, so not sure if he could play the other side.

Yeah it's a fair point. Just probably worth noting that Hungary, while not in their 50s heyday, were a big footballing country (twice WC quarter finalists in the 60s) with a stronger domestic game than they have now. And within that context Ujpest are the second biggest club after Ferencvaros - so it wasn't like we were playing a scrub side that it might appear today.

They did get to the European Cup semis in 1974 tbf.

A third European competition is hardly ridiculous though. We had the cup winners cup for decades.

Aye, McTominay

Great interview that. He comes across as an absolute credit to the club and the area. So vital to have people like that involved in the club as it changes beyond recognition.

I really don't like Onana. Physically dominant but doesn't appear able to pass water to me.

Budnocost were the best Montenegrin team in Yugoslavia but their highest ever finish was 6th and they bounced up and down between the top two divisions. Montenegro as a country is pretty small, similar in population to Luxembourg. While the quality of footballer which comes out of the Balkans is very high compared to population, this probably doesn't lead to a better quality of league in the modern game.

Arsenal paid £25 million for him straight from Scotland. He has since proven himself a very good PL performer. There's no way he's worth less than that fee now.

It'll be real since it's using the lasses for promotion imo. The sponsor will be photoshopped on adding the weirdness to the photos.

Left on a free. Don't know where he'll go next to finish his career.

Messi going back to Barca now that the last of that generation of players has moved on (Alba, Busquets, Pique) and playing at the Olympic Stadium next year will have weird vibes.