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That much? I had in my head it was £2-3m.

Be interested to know what Villa’s sell-on clause is? Seem to recall the up front fee was very modest.

Yes, the home that my gran is in charges £1,600p/w or thereabouts. Anecdotally I understand the budget per individual for food is £20p/w. She now weighs around 4 stone having been given the choice of “one sandwich or two” at some meals - the sandwiches being the little triangles you get on a...

Care should be brought into the public sectir.

Steven Alzate is now officially a free agent…

Austria were the team that concerned me most on our side of the draw, so good to see them gone.

Makes sense for it to be Sheff Utd, surely if it was anyone else it’d have been announced already.

Could just be his cousin.

Neves shooting there. If I was a teammate I’d literally rip his head off his shoulders.

A lot of the teams have one, maybe two, star players and then 9-10 grafters. They are designed to work to the benefit of the star and utilise their skill set in the best way. Also applies to Wales in 2016. Meanwhile, we are trying to figure out how to ‘build a team’ around about 8 players.

I want Portugal to win as well.

Funniest thing ever.

The good news, of course, is that we’d have only faced one of them!

I think people en masse are seeking simple answers to complex questions.

More coherent plays a massive part, I agree. The dominant Spanish team of 2008-2012 was effectively picked from 2 clubs. Always makes a difference. There are a number of those players who weren't particularly good - looking at Ricardo, Valente, Maniche, Costinha. Obviously we led in the game...

Whilst I agree with the premise that international football was far more competitive, it’s a hell of a stretch to put Sweden in that fold. Just going to put the respective lineups for our knockout games next to each other: Now it seems Ljungberg didn’t play in their game but I wouldn’t be...

In short, no.

I kind of follow your thinking, but if we had Saka at LB then from an attacking perspective you’d want Foden same side as Gordon may end up occupying the same areas of the pitch. Maybe you lean more on Rice to cover the LB spot when Saka drifts forward, but that then potentially exposes the...

Agree on that and I’ve wanted Gordon to start since the start of the tournament. As mentioned previously I genuinely think the bike crash he had the other day probably limited his chances of getting minutes today. He’s got scuffs and scrapes everywhere. Saka seems to like receiving the ball...

Very rarely create 1v1s for them which is a huge part of the issue.