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All part of his masterplan. He's coming back, bit by bit. Starting with the 10% left behind by PCP.

Spain has been the only really impressive team throughout the tournament. They really deserve to win it all. Just looks 1 step above everyone else.

He has never been the most likeable character, but his confidence is one of his biggest strengths. When I saw him stepping up, I just knew that he would nail it. The confidence that he has reminds me of Callum Wilson.

Forest will get Almiron for £30m.

These stories have been popping up several times during the last couple of years, but no key player has been sold yet.

And we didn't recieve any offers for our better players until now? Or did we just reject those and leave it til last minute, so that we have to accept subpar offers now instead, or get fucked?

I can just imagine how badly Eddie Howe would want to keep Gordon.. Still find it too hard to believe.

Yeah, it doesn't quite add up.

I don't know why they include us in this? Based on rumours? We haven't even traded with any of them yet, and the rumours were not something silly like buying a youngster valued at £1m for £20m. Just throwing us in the mix because of the media myth about us being in some kind of fictional crisis.

Denmark finished above Slovenia due to head-to-head from their qualifying games. They were both at 6 yellows for the tournament. Then they look at qualifiers. Both in the same qualifying group, scoring same amount of points and win/draw/loss. Slovenia had the better goal difference, but since they just happened to be in the same qualifying group, then head-to-head comes first. Those games finishing 1-1 and 2-1 Denmark means that Denmark gets the second place, and after all that, facing Germany is their reward.

Might aswell put doable clauses in every contract. That way we won't have to sell our players on the cheap. I for sure won't be getting any sleep until they finally put a £100m buyout clause in Isaks contract to end my fears of him getting sold for £50m.

If true, then all of a sudden everyone will agree that he wouldn't be a good signing anyways?

I'd say that Isak is a better player. But Bruno has been more important to our success, and for a lesser price even. Our winrate drops significantly without him, even more than when Isak has been missing.

37 mill is going to have an impact on PSR in any case. Either in this window, and/or the next ones. For example, even if we can still spend a lot in different positions, those 37 mill could be spent on a different striker than DCL. Maybe even a cheaper ones, which would allow us to spend more in future windows. We are allways going to be spending close to the limit.

It's quite puzzling. Most of us agreed that we need to get rid of a couple of injury prone players last season, especially since they can't keep up with our style. Can't really figure out why they would want to look almost exclusively at injury prone players in this window. All I can think of is hoping that the injury problems could drag the price down, and that we then get lucky with them not being injured too much.

Being restricted by FFP is tough, but I'm seeing some irony in going for some really injury prone players after the season we've just had. Don't get me wrong, they might just be good signings. It's just a bit ironic. I'm guessing it's the price to performance ratio we're thinking about here, especially with those who are probably not going to be regular starters anyways (Kelly and DCL). Saying all this assuming that the DCL, Neto and/or the Olise rumours are true.

God, the transfer rumours right after takeover was embarassing.. I remember all sorts of overpriced over the top players like Ronaldo, Neymar, Suarez, Hazard, Coutinho, Lukaku and so on. The media badly wanted us to be a dumping ground for such players (plus some rejects), and fail miserably while overspending on these types. Just proves how silly transfer rumours can be, knowing what we actually spent money on in hindsight.

And then he's onside because a fraction of his shoe is on, because a fraction of the defenders shoe lines up with it.

It's like that with handball aswell. People will complain nomatter what the rule is. Change it to just "intentional" = subjective and inconsistent refereeing.

But if we go to the point about lack of quality available, then the point about the quality of the players from Serbia and Denmark becomes valid again. What type of ability does Serbia and Denmark have available in all the various positions? If you look at Denmarks midfield yesterday, I wouldn't exactly feel sorry for Southgate having to play someone like Wharton (or any mid table CM) alongside Rice and Bellingham. And that's ingoring the huge gap in quality in most positions compared to theirs, and solely focusing on the weaknesses of England.

The point is that he has a big number of players to choose from. It's up to him to make up the system and pick the players for that system to work, regardless of how big the name of the player is. Teams like Denmark don't have much luxury, because they don't have much quality to choose from. They might be lucky enough to have a system that works where they can also fit the stronger players, kudos to the coach for creating that system, if so.

Fair, but that's also up to Southgate. Lots of players that didn't start yesterday (or even get picked in the first place) would start for Serbia and/or Denmark. Shouldn't be that hard for him to stitch together a team and tactics that would be comfortable playing against those teams. They probably also have some cohesion problems of their own by the way, that's the case for most national teams.

I agree that the team is unbalanced, but if you compare the player material to the players you've been facing in the first 2 games.. Better to have 8-9 strong players with 2 weaker ones than being balanced by having consistenly mediocre players all over the field. The tactics looks pretty bad, and it's not hard to see. I honestly think Denmark would be starting Gallagher if he was Danish. Foden too, even as a left winger. It's better than what they've got.

How does he keep playing him in midfield? Is he not watching the games?

Head to head comes first. Goal difference unlikely to matter here.