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TRon

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On 08/10/2025 at 19:30, Elliottman said:


Doesn’t really ‘make’ anyone do anything to be fair, you choose to watch or not watch. 

 

 

Agree. It's the same with the Geordie Journo videos, they will have clickbaity titles but they can be 30 mins long. If they don't get to the point then I just switch off and trust the news will come out in a condensed form somewhere else anyway. Mostly I can get it here anyway. 

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Congo qualified for the CAF playoffs yesterday, likely to play Cameroon in a one off semi final on 13th November and the winner plays the winner of Gabon and Nigeria to try and qualify for the intercontinental playoffs to be held in March!! 
 

They’ll be wanting Wissa if there’s any chance of him being fit.

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10 minutes ago, Magpie said:

Congo qualified for the CAF playoffs yesterday, likely to play Cameroon in a one off semi final on 13th November and the winner plays the winner of Gabon and Nigeria to try and qualify for the intercontinental playoffs to be held in March!! 
 

They’ll be wanting Wissa if there’s any chance of him being fit.

Fuck the Congo. At this point we’re probably £3m of wages and amortisation in and he hasn’t kicked a ball for us.

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Nucasol

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1 minute ago, BoSelecta said:

So there’s a realistic chance they don’t qualify?

For the WC. The mid season shitfestival of disruption that is AFCON means we’ll still lose him for anything from 2 weeks to a month in Dec/Jan.

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Nucasol

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3 hours ago, BoSelecta said:

Ah, got my hopes up for a second there. Thanks for concisely dashing them. 

Yeah I’m going to have a word with my boss. Let’s bring the international football vibe into real life work. He can carry on paying me full pay in the middle of the firm’s busiest part of the year whilst I fuck off to work on my side hustle earning bonus payments and endorsements. I’ll then be off for two months with an injury suffered whilst doing said side hustle.

 

 

 

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Sibierski

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2 hours ago, Magpie said:

Congo qualified for the CAF playoffs yesterday, likely to play Cameroon in a one off semi final on 13th November and the winner plays the winner of Gabon and Nigeria to try and qualify for the intercontinental playoffs to be held in March!! 
 

They’ll be wanting Wissa if there’s any chance of him being fit.


They can piss off if they think he’s going off to join up with them after not playing a single minute for us before next internationals, and if Wissa himself kicks up and wants to go, we have to tell him no. 
 

That period after November internationals up to mid Jan is always massive in English game where you either crack on or your season is done. We need him fit and firing, not coming back with a niggle at best.

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52 minutes ago, Sibierski said:


They can piss off if they think he’s going off to join up with them after not playing a single minute for us before next internationals, and if Wissa himself kicks up and wants to go, we have to tell him no. 
 

That period after November internationals up to mid Jan is always massive in English game where you either crack on or your season is done. We need him fit and firing, not coming back with a niggle at best.

We can’t just tell him no.

 

We have to realise this could be his one and only chance to play in a World Cup.
 

Imagine we convinced him not to go, then they lost the play off cos another striker missed chances.

 

Obviously, if he’s still not fully fit, that’s different.

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3 hours ago, Nucasol said:

Fuck the Congo. At this point we’re probably £3m of wages and amortisation in and he hasn’t kicked a ball for us.

 

I wholeheartedly agree with your Fuck the Congo point.

 

But I also just wanted to say that FIFA are paying his wages.

 

 

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1 hour ago, Sibierski said:


They can piss off if they think he’s going off to join up with them after not playing a single minute for us before next internationals, and if Wissa himself kicks up and wants to go, we have to tell him no. 
 

That period after November internationals up to mid Jan is always massive in English game where you either crack on or your season is done. We need him fit and firing, not coming back with a niggle at best.

 

Can't FIFA force Wissa out of our own playing squad if we refuse to release him? So we wouldn't be able to play him anyway.

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stozo

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5 minutes ago, Turnbull2000 said:

 

Can't FIFA force Wissa out of our own playing squad if we refuse to release him? So we wouldn't be able to play him anyway.

Correct. Even if Wissa doesn’t want to go, if Congo call him up and he declined the call up, they can enforce a period following the international break where he is ineligible for his club. 

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Sibierski

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1 hour ago, SteV said:

We can’t just tell him no.

 

We have to realise this could be his one and only chance to play in a World Cup.
 

Imagine we convinced him not to go, then they lost the play off cos another striker missed chances.

 

Obviously, if he’s still not fully fit, that’s different.


And he has to realise we paid £50 fucking million for him, solid wages for his final years, and need him for the club. 
 

Just no way he should be going if he doesn’t play a single minute for us before then. 

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6 minutes ago, Sibierski said:


And he has to realise we paid £50 fucking million for him, solid wages for his final years, and need him for the club. 
 

Just no way he should be going if he doesn’t play a single minute for us before then. 

I don’t think any player would realistically risk missing out on their one and only World Cup, regardless of how much any club had paid for them.

 

Also, it might not be worst thing for him to try and get and bit of increased match fitness with them (obviously you’d be hoping he isn’t as unlucky as last time). 
 

I’ll repeat though, all of the above is completely compromised if he isn’t fully fit by then.

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3 hours ago, stozo said:

Correct. Even if Wissa doesn’t want to go, if Congo call him up and he declined the call up, they can enforce a period following the international break where he is ineligible for his club. 

 

 

I assume that's if we refuse to release him. If we say yes and he says he's taking a break from international football then making him ineligible would make no sense.

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Tisd09

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15 minutes ago, McDog said:

 

 

I assume that's if we refuse to release him. If we say yes and he says he's taking a break from international football then making him ineligible would make no sense.

I am sure there have been cases in the past where this scenario has played out to the detriment of the club. Certainly cases where the club have declared him injured but the country has called him up anyway. If he is anywhere near ready to play I would imagine he will be picked and will be happy to go to. 

 

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