ffs

would be a terrible move for him. man u under carrick are gonna be pure catshit.

like, we can get exercised about chelsea (and, *nobody* despises the cartelisation of the prem more than me) blundering into "our" deal, but weren't we ourselves shoehorning into brighton's deal? anyway, i like these early signs tbh. we may even have learned that the top top prem players aren't gonna come to us (because we aren't allowed to pay them as much as cartel clubs can, even though we could easily afford to do so), so jocky+ suds are being smarter for anyone who's experiencing this as a wake up call that we can't sign the world's elite - talk about pressing snooze a few too many times! 😉 as has been discussed one or twice in other threads, it does seem like a pretty great strategy for us right now might be to be like a cuck club on steroids - all the smartness but also ready and willing to splurge within the constraints. the fact is that the cartel can only sign so many players! and even with all those players, and all that money, and even with their stupid co-owned clubs, they still struggle to get it right on the pitch! (what kind of cartel ends up with one member 10th and the other 17th?!?) so while there will definitely be some frustrations this summer, i feel like we already seem way better than we did last summer (low bar, i know)

thread difficulty level: max

it's obviously horrific yet i think i'll come to accept it as we win the league in it

with this earlier start, it being the last match of everyone's season, and everyone caring about it, the cl final is beginning to feel a bit like fa cup final day did in the 70s and 80s. i'm all for it. i even care who wins!

this approach, combined with european football, has the potential to have hilarious results. fingers crossed

this would need to be the playing budgets. then absolutely agree 👍

count your blessings. imagine if you were witnessing this having been relegated

i think gordon is essentially a good egg (i so loved it when he just up and drove to the hospital in manchester having seen a tweet that he was the favourite player of that girl with leukaemia. it would've been muuchhh easier not to do that, >95% of people probably wouldn't have) and also a good player. he's certainly not perfect, but then neither am i. i hope he smashes it at barca, and kindof sneakingly suspect that he will. it's thanks and all the best in your future endeavours from ffs.

nicky butt

i mean, 100% agree. but who would pay £35-40mm for wissa?!?

the worst signing of the season excluding players who went on strike limper in the challenge than wolt. swiss. possible vegan

literally?

makes me wonder how much of Eddie's demonstrated ability to improve players is simply down to getting them fitter than they've ever been (and, if so, nothing wrong with that at all)

nailed on. to complete The Worst Season of the 21st Century* *so far