Coffee_Johnny

Tosin Adarabioyo tall young (Man City developed) centre back from Fulham looking like a front runner Botman replacement. Would Fulham really sell?

Yep, not much in it. But affordable/poor man’s Jesus? Below from International matches (apparently…):

Gabriel ‘Angel of the North’? Due to appear in front of Pope? I apologise, but had to insert this rumour about Gabriel Barbosa. I know nothing about him, other than he already has has a Joelinton/Bruno haircut and the other speculative blurb in the article. https://www.footballtransfertavern.com/newcastle-united-news/west-ham-transfer-news-barbosa-wolves-villa/

Well here’s hoping he eventually does well, after a terrible first game obviously!

Selling giant coffees??

Don’t go fully defecting!

Having one of them!

Tannism. It’s a thing.

Ok, you’re welcome to your opinion. Personally I love the idea of keeping that kind of heritage and continuity. Which fits with the rhetoric trotted out by the club. Not suggesting it is a ‘right’ but if someone wants to buy a season ticket and would like to be sitting where there ancestor/relative has always has, I think it is ‘the right thing’ to facilitate.

It really should be allowed. Don’t take no for an answer.

But other than that, a canny bunch worth going out of your way to have a chat with?

Good luck to the lad. Good to see us shifting unneeded players.

Neither nor Milan can afford/will pay asking price for him. We’ll see.

Happy with this. He’ll do a good job for us.

This made me smile. Can’t remember age group, perhaps under 10s, but my son’s team were playing their biggest rivals in a semi-final of the county cup. They’d played them two times prior in the league, and previous seasons, and they were always tight games. They spent the whole midweek training session on corners, free kicks and penalties and rehearsed the agreed routine for corners immediately prior to the match as well (overly vocal assistant coach , a local semi-pro central-defender, was on full throttle!). We got a corner early in the first half and the ‘train’/all in line routine went right out the window. The lads like an electrocuted ‘flock of spuggies’ randomly careering around the box. One of our defenders caught a headed clearance sweetly on the volley to score what was possibly his only goal of the season. It was hilarious seeing the coaches/parents going from annoyance to jumping jubilation and said coach shouting (as if planned…) “That’s what I’m talking about!”

No, but in all probably, regularly sucked off. So all is good ?

Give us a couple of weeks ?

Was just going to type exactly the same!

I think it has to remain fun and light and a good learning experience. Even if they often look like the best player on the pitch, and especially if they don’t, so few get into academies and so few, of the few, 16 in a thousand, from memory (Every Boy’s Dream, reference at the end),go on to have a career in the game at any level, it is so important that they don’t put all their ‘self-esteem eggs’ in the pro-footballer basket. Keeping it a positive parent/child experience and helping them learn useful life lessons is really what it should be about. Plus, getting ‘good’ at anything has the potential to help with general confidence. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Every-Boys-Dream-Englands-Footballing/dp/1408112167/ref=asc_df_1408112167/?tag=googshopuk-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=311011848126&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=8107622974318419296&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9046620&hvtargid=pla-561768253622&psc=1&th=1&psc=1

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I prefer to take it all as just poorly articulated pride in their regional capital. One North East!

Hard to say budget wise. In terms. Of real amount potentially available and what has been publicised. Within the FFP possible budget (which I’m clueless about) I suspect we will acquire what we can if really positive options become available to us.

Good on you, JB. Always admired people who put their time into youth coaching (… and parental management!). You’ll live on in manny kids minds as. A potentially really positive influence on their life.

Peak Given and Harper scenario. Though can’t see a Dubs being as committed/accepting as Steve Harper was (I thought he had the potential to have an even better career and think it’s admirable he stayed), if it works out he’s mainly on the bench/doing cup games.