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Really..? Kane, Foden, Grealish, Mount, Sterling, Rashford, Sancho are all world class and would walk into nearly every team in the competition. Our only weakness is at CB and arguably CM. Although I think Rice / Henderson is a very very good CM pairing.

Oh 100%. Think of the jobs saved as a result. That extra couple of million for finishing 14th rather than 15th could buy us a new star ‘rough diamond’ who’s young hungry and therefore guaranteed to improve.

I suspect the tickets will go the FA and ‘the football family’. I’d be amazed if they have actual Fans in for a test event.

I have a clean record with no bans this end officer.

Strange considering there are absolutely no issues with our tactical defensive set up. Absolutely none at all.

It’s what happens when you allow banned users to return under new log ins, getting up to their same old tricks 😡

I’m the obsessed stalker 🙄 Dont step into the kitchen ‘always’ if you can’t handle the heat, son. Bless you, you even made a thread about me 😂😂😂😂😂😂 100% scared that the mods will get to this account as well.

If you think Southgates England is bleak, the u21’s are appalling. Something like 1 shot on target in 180 minutes.

Yep. Tarnishes Adkins reputation a bit for me. Obviously hindsight is a wonderful thing, but we should have won both of those divisions.

He just see’s it as 3 points lost and no different to a 2/3-0 loss. Crazy.

How dare you assume my gender in 2021 😡 but It’s always_sfc. I’ve rumbled him and he’s in denial. He gave himself up when he continued to use the same line that Always made about a comment I made in 2017 about Bertrand leaving. Pretty much word for word. ‘Chapel_End’ only joined in March 2020, conveniently the same day Always made his last post. So How he’d know about a post I made in 2017, I’ve no idea. Basically he’s been caught out. He’s denying it because he/him is afraid that the mods will ban him 😂

Yep, just once a season.... ...when we go down to 10 men

Mike dean isn’t the ref mate. The only logical reason.

My mind: Don’t say it, don’t say it, don’t say it. Me: this result shows how bad the 9-0 defeats are, even Albania are defensively set up better than us. Ralph could learn a thing or 2 from this Albania coach.

Perhaps this could be a good time to mention good defensive structure and coaching to keep the score down....

A win is a win, the performance will Be forgotten tomorrow. However, I do think his World Cup credits are running thin. We’re stuck with him until after the euros at the very least.

Such an insignificant cup but at the time felt huge. It really was the new era of the club. A very likeable group of players. A great day, at no point did I have any doubt we’d win. That game and the Fonte goal game against Brighton the following season, my 2 most favourable games from L1.

Come on CB. I expected that from MLG, I thought you were better than that. But since you asked, it was probably the influence of watching their hero’s week in week out that got them into the game. Some might say, the most important factor of the lot 😉

They clearly have the ability to produce some world class footballer down there 👀

With Mount and JWP in the squad, if we win the euros (unlikely), you could argue that Portsmouth won it for us.

Yes man ✅ Right image ✅ Ability to waste another golden generation ✅ Hes the perfect candidate. Expect aidy boothroyd to take charge after the 2022 World Cup to lead us to another 10 years of obscurity. But in all seriousness, I think he was just the default option of ‘he’s managed the younger lads, we have younger lads coming through, let’s give it a go’.

At least with Gerrard and lampard it was 2 attacking players who genuinely were the best in that position for their era. Phillips just looks average to me.

So negative. Rice and Phillips doing the exact same job. Stones the most creative player in our back 6. All sidewards and backwards, too easy for them. Needs to get Bellingham on for Rice or Phillips ASAP.

I think your estimate of £30m for each is about 10m more than we’ll get for Ings and 15m more than we’ll get for vestergaard. Then there’s no way we’ll get 16m for lemina and Elyounossi, we’ll be lucky to get 8m for them both. You’re right though, £100m would massively push our team on. We’d need to find probably £30/£40m from behind the sofa which obviously won’t happen, but we’ll be stuck with a load of shit who’ll take ages to bed in with the hope that they’ll improve.

I do agree, they obviously anticipated that we’d sell more. I do have an issue with non ST holders getting tickets before those who have a ST and have more credits (I.e away games). Personally, I think they should give an early bird option of like say 5 days to those who have x amount of credits (in cases such as Wembley, it’ll be about 1 or 2 away games) and a ST to pick the best seats, then open it up to ST holders to buy more for them and whoever after that. They’re kind of damned if they do, damned if they don’t really. If tickets were cheaper, I’ve no doubt we’d have sold more though. It’s an expensive day out when you factor in £50+ for a ticket, then travel and refreshment costs. Easily a 100£ day for 1 person (and that’s being conservative), which potentially you’ll need to repeat again in a months time.