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Fraser (21) to Stephenson (54). Put both numbers together and you get 24. Easy mistake to make!

Almiron's placement this season is superb. Long may it continue.

Guivarc'h had a stormer for Auxerre before he joined us after the World Cup. I am amazed he only made four appearances for us and only fourteen for Rangers!

Jordi Alba with the "Luis Suarez special" there, pretending to be injured in the course of doing a tackle for which he might have gotten carded.

I always like to point out the qualifiers when journalists or commentators make such statements. The bits in bold here basically mean "I am totally speculating. There is zero evidence that what I have said will happen. Please give some attention to me." Imagine if I used this in general conversation: " I might be going out on a limb here, but it is not entirely inconceivable that Ana De Armas could find me attractive and want to fuck me.". It's not entirely inconceivable, but I'd be laughed at by my missus and made to leave the dinner table in shame.

"Looking at" "making a move" ffs It's me lying on the sofa "thinking about" "doing some work".

Watching their match out of morbid curiosity. By gawd the quality of football on display is dismal.

"Me, Cal, Tripps and Popey". Already buying into the Newcastle family seems like. Soon, "Popey" will be getting him a "My World Cup Diary" of his own.

Lots of fun playing the six degrees of separation game here if this transfer happens. Apart from Bassedas being a former Newcastle player, Gabriel Heinze (who made the "spectacular" remarks about Perrone in the tweet above) subsequently left Velez in 2020 to become the manager of Atlanta United....where he worked under Darren Eales for a spell. Contacts upon contacts.

Cult hero, and Brazil can get tae fuck. Some of his passing is sublime for a "midfield destroyer".

Looks a decent alternative to Maddison/Mudryk/Diaby if it came to that. He'd be more amenable to sitting on the bench waiting for his chance too, given that none of the current first team seem to be droppable based on current form.

Why do the Cameroonian players hold back every time they arrive in the box?

https://worldcams.tv/japan/tokyo/shibuya-crossing The Japanese being Japanese as usual. Wait until the traffic lights are in your favour, run into the middle of Shibuya junction and celebrate. Lights go red, retreat back to the crossing.

Callum Wilson being a charming motherfucker in the ITV commercial quiz there. Solid knowledge too.

Doan's wikipedia now https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritsu_Dōan

Poland is a shit sandwich. One good goalie, one good striker, absolute dross in between.

Mexico plays a little like they were coached by a bargain bin Eddie Howe - hard pressing, overloads on the right. Not a bad end to the half. Alvarez is like a poor man's Shelvey - Hollywood balls, sitting in front of the defenders, strolling around a lot.

I understand the sentiment, but Iranians aren't Arabs.

Nah, he did a double high-five + a hug after Wilson reached him.

Of all the people to assist I hope he whispered "Almiron sends his regards".

He has to put not one, but two qualifiers, which basically has rendered the statement in between totally worthless. Sixth form stuff, this attempt at "journalism". I'm raging at how people like him get paid actual money to churn this shit out.

Perrone and the Andrey Santos rumours almost seem too good to be true - stocking up on the best young South American CM talent. Perrone, Santos, Kuol, Harrison Ashby + 1 marquee signing (Diaby/Maddison/Martin Terrier) and it'd be a very....interesting January.

I thought the point of a release clause is that the player can be released if the clause is met

So the workaround would be to loan Kuol out to a club in, say, Portugal, where he'd be guaranteed to start a certain percentage of matches - then he'd be able to get a work permit in the summer? (Again all this assuming him playing in the World Cup isn't enough to get him in in January).

If you are referring to your own posts, my question was about what if he doesn't feature enough at the World Cup? And how he would attain a work permit through the "club route", as it were. I appreciate and respect your earlier post. My query was about the worst-case scenario where he doesn't get the requisite amount of playing time in Qatar.