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Ah cheers mate, glad to see some coverage.

Colo rampaging up the left wing will always be a fond memory for me, not that he was very effective mind you, but it was fun at least.

Is there anywhere to watch these games? Wouldn't mind taking in a relaxing 10-0 victory to take my mind off the shit show, uhh, I mean the men's team, for a bit....

Imagine bidding on more than one player at once... this is insanity!

Aye, amortization is standard for almost all transfer deals these days and is indeed one of the many ways clubs get around FFP.

This is where I'm at, I don't know Wood from Adam but I fully expected to play Watford with ASM as our starting center forward. Wood may be limited but he looks like he can convert a chance, and we have lots of players who can do everything but score. Tbh I'm happier with this than some really hyped player who "plays more as a second striker."

I didn't get this either. It read like sarcasm so I'll address it that way, a candidate being vocally opposed to racism is not a drawback in my book but what has me excited is the possibilities for our academy. On the Price of Football they are constantly going on about how Chelsea's academy/loan/sell-on system allows them to get around FFP rules. We're going to be up against it with FFP over the next few stages of the club's development and it sounds like he has already shown a good method of mitigating those constraints. I would love to see something similar here where we are constantly developing good players, keeping the best ones and selling the rest to pay for the elite talents we'll need to eventually break into the very top levels of the game. [Non-Football bit ahead] If he also wants to help the club and the league be less racist along the way that sounds good to me! Maybe I'm projecting this anti-anti-racist view onto the earlier poster because I'm so used to seeing that shit over here, but I'd love to get the message across that you don't have to worry. If we start treating black people better it doesn't mean life will get worse for white people, unless your idea of having a good life includes being able to be an unmitigated cunt to other people with no repercussions, you might miss out on that I guess. Again, probably projecting, but I'm just sick of people insinuating that being against racism is a fucking problem or some wild radical stance we should be wary of.

Well that has me fucking fired up. Never been excited about appointing an executive before but now I have to have him! Last sentence of that article seems like a good sign that he would consider the job here as well...

When Bowyer and Dyer got sent off for fighting amongst themselves. Haven't seen anything that fucking stupid since tbh

Happy for Rafa that he gets to work near his family again, getting him back to Newcastle was always a pipe dream anyway.

I went looking for that and ended up watching his "Spice Girls" video, good god man the absolute state of the women there

Wat?

Yeah, I was really excited when we signed him, as I had been crushing FM with the guy, until I realized we signed the wrong fucking brother.

:lol: Ahh such a simple thing and it brings me such joy.

He had a sick youtube video though, I was completely sold. Plus he's legit in the pretend football videogame fantasies I play. So this must be one of those "Rafael Benitez knows more about football than I do from FM15" situations. I hate those situations.

Would rather have Krul than Elliot if it comes down to it.

So Lazaar didn't even make the Morocco team? This does not mesh with my experience on Football Manager Mobile at all.

No love for this guy? His goal was a beauty today.

tbh I don't mind seeing Goufran around the goal these days

So then we have a nice little strike partnership rotation situation going with Diane/Gayle and Perez/mitrovic... This competent manager business is something else man

Think we'll see Hayden start for sure and I wouldn't be surprised to see Lazaar start, if not he'll definitely come on as a sub.

Just a phone typo... Forced error...

So high after this game, thought everyone played great even the ginger nightmare was less horrible than usual and no doubt he started with Hayden in mind for QPR on Tuesday. Really loving how we are hitting teams with the dagger late on in the last few games. Early leads, late insurance goals, a tight team with a fucking plan, I could get into this Rafa Benitez stuff!

He is going to get himself a nice little stack of goals from midfield this season. I thought he was canny when he first arrived and I think we'll see more if that now that he's not being played in the holding role.