Papavasiliou

There's an alternate reality where we bought all those players and Newcastle'd the fuck out of them. Not one of them is worth more than 5mil, they've all had multiple career threatening injuries and the fans have spent years booing every misplaced pass.

Good on Rafa, good on Ayoze and good on anyone who gets out of this shit show of a club.

"He's not going to force me out!" No shit mate, that's exactly what he wants. He's bet on these people being too stupid to leave and he's winning that bet thousands of times over.

This lad's potential was massive with Rafa here but as soon as a new Pardewesque shitter is through the door that potential will take a massive drop. Might as well take the money and him go play somewhere he has a chance of a cup or a run in Europe or something.

Aye, PEA too, Kante, he scouted numerous players that other teams bought that we should have got and would have got if our owner wasn't a cunt. He didn't get it right all the time but no scout does. And didn't rafa say when you work down our transfer list you quickly get to players with one leg, or something of that nature. Carr was alright man. I've been saying this since he was here. Seems like every window he was forking over a spreadsheet full of players and the first thing Ashley did was to scroll straight to the bottom of the list and ignore anyone that would break our transfer record.

I bet they're devastated.

On a similar note, I always felt sorry for Siem De Jong. Absolutely riddled with daft unpredictable injuries.

how do you know about the meeting? i read about it last week,annual pl meeting which all clubs must attend,also any club changing ownership has to inform other clubs at the meeting,reasons to me are unknown ,im not one for digging the ins n outs Surely that cant be right. If you intend to sell the club its no business of any other clubs until its done. If that's true, I find it a bizarre requirement Aye, its a weird one. It's not exactly nailed on that anyone buying/selling a club would be doing it at this specific time of year, to then report it at this meeting.

I agree his value has doubled. Still don't think we'll get anywhere above 10 for him though. We're in a shite negotiation position.

Every time I've seen him play he's looked like a lumbering donkey, even when he was much younger. Can't argue with his record though.

Aye. We've permanently needed a new LB since at least Santon.

Can we just show that Juve kit to anyone who reckons we need to get Adidas back?

They said Ashley was lining up Gattuso as his replacement yesterday I'd take that for the comedy value alone.

I'm not fussed on them as a club and I'd class myself as a fan of many more Italian teams before Roma but they're still one of the only Italian clubs I have a kit for. I remember speculatively getting that famous skin-tight Kappa kit in a medium as a 15 year old expecting to grow into it. I never did grow and wear XS shirts these days

Feels like Roma have been knocking it out the park with shirts for the best part of 20 years now, no matter who is making the shirts. The sponsorless ones are lush but even the ones prior to those are great too. Still have my black 02/03 mazda shirt in a drawer somewhere. https://www.subsidesports.com/uk/as-roma-football-shirt-archive

Not a chance in hell a top 6 club would touch him here or in Spain. When he has done it consistently over a full season or two then he may get that move but until then no chance. He'd fit Simeone's style of play at Atletico but that might be a bit too big of a step up for him.

He could be the thickest man alive but I still don't believe for a second that a man in his 30s got through any school in the UK without knowing about Nazi salutes and that sort of stuff. Couldn't leave your belongings unguarded for 10seconds in my schools without getting crudely drawn swastikas scribbled all over them. Anecdotal like, but the thickest person I've ever met in my life asked me if Hitler was 'that moustache bloke' and he was in his mid 20s, so it's possible like, but I take your point. I'd probably just rather not believe that everyone's guilty of being a Nazi if there's a reasonable explanation I suppose. I still say the reasonable explanation is that he's thick, but not in the way his defence has described. He 100% knew what he was doing but just didn't realise he was being that offensive and would get done for it. So did he 100% know what he was doing here as well then? Probably not in that scenario. No doubt he's genuinely trying to shout over at someone in that one. It looks odd to put your hand like that but wearing keeper gloves makes you use your hands in weird ways. But the one in the restaurant... the very straight arm and hand not cupped at his mouth makes it look a hell of a lot more like he knew what he was doing. For all we know someone else on the team once pointed out he looks like a bit of a Nazi when he shouts like that during a game so he's done it as an inside joke in the photo, not expecting it to be released.

He could be the thickest man alive but I still don't believe for a second that a man in his 30s got through any school in the UK without knowing about Nazi salutes and that sort of stuff. Couldn't leave your belongings unguarded for 10seconds in my schools without getting crudely drawn swastikas scribbled all over them. Anecdotal like, but the thickest person I've ever met in my life asked me if Hitler was 'that moustache bloke' and he was in his mid 20s, so it's possible like, but I take your point. I'd probably just rather not believe that everyone's guilty of being a Nazi if there's a reasonable explanation I suppose. I still say the reasonable explanation is that he's thick, but not in the way his defence has described. He 100% knew what he was doing but just didn't realise he was being that offensive and would get done for it.

He could be the thickest man alive but I still don't believe for a second that a man in his 30s got through any school in the UK without knowing about Nazi salutes and that sort of stuff. Couldn't leave your belongings unguarded for 10seconds in my schools without getting crudely drawn swastikas scribbled all over them.

And complain even if they do hit that level.