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I think that’s harsh. The Government needs to do something to help young people on the property ladder. For someone like me, I’m in mid-senior management and on a decent wage. Yet to buy on my own is very difficult and my options quite limited. My deposit will be two thirds the value of what...

Well, if anyone in either half picks up a knock, they’ll come on…

I think people are falling into the trap of comparing the team from the end of the season compared to preseason in 2021…

They played with wingbacks and under Steve Cooper got quite a lot of assists. Without a doubt, Bidwell has a good track record playing as a LWB.

WW2 - It was annexed by the Russian SR in 1945.

I doubt Phillips has been brought in to play ahead of Rodri and £42-45 million represents good value in today’s market. Pep will develop Phillips as a player and clearly the Man City staff see something in him. The ‘overrated’ comments are a bit silly, he’s come back from an injury plagued...

The season doesn’t start for another 36 days. We’ll sign defenders! Trust the process.

Fucking hell. I went to uni and played rugby with their son!

Having worked in security, you see a lot of people smuggle knives that fold into the shape of a credit card and other smart concealments. It’s actually a surprise we don’t see more violence at football games.

No point in worrying about it until he’s kicked a ball for us. The management see something in him, let’s see how it goes.

Not everyone is driven purely by the pay packet. It’s obviously a big factor, but players want to generally want to play at the highest level they can. To state the obvious, a club that has good facilities and good coaching is inherently more attractive than a competitor with lesser facilities.

Hopeful about this signing! His through balls look like good fodder for Gyokeres and something we’ve missed a bit higher up the pitch. I wouldn’t judge the Bristol spell too much, as Pearson’s style is very different from ours. Palmer will be looking to turn his career around and we’re a good...

I can honestly see us finessing Norwich and getting McCallum back on a free at the end of his contract. Richard Duffy 2.0.

They do say ‘better the devil you know’ for a reason. Wasps are owned by a hedge fund willing to cynically relocate to a new city/market because there was an embattled city council and football team going at it. The council thought they one upped the football club!

Precisely this. History will look favourably on Southgate and the slander needs to stop. Earlier in the thread, people gave Capello a free pass for finishing second in a charitable Group and A relatively charitable route to a semi final. The bottom line is this: before Southgate, we left...

We lost on penalties. It’s no different how Spain equalised against Italy and forced penalties. Donnaruma is also a fantastic penalty saver, saving 40% of penalties he’s faced. For context, Pickford is a good penalty stopper who’s on about 20-25%. There’s things I’d have done differently. But...

You’d have said the same thing had he left the likes of Sancho and Rashford on the bench and we lost on penalties. Then again, we see the same people on here go into meltdown on a weekly basis. Armchair managers who don’t know as much as they think with inflated expectations.

Southgate has the highest win % in major tournaments of any previous England manager with one exception. Sir Alf Ramsey. Capello’s win ratio in major tournaments? 25%. Even Roy Hodgson had a solid win record in qualifications and friendlies. He hasn’t though, has he? We lost on penalties. The...

… We failed to beat to Algeria and the USA and scored 2 goals in our group. It was a shambles. I find it very interesting how you’re willing to let such an abject failure slide. Uruguay were ranked 6th after their World Cup run (leap frogging England). Before the World Cup (May 2010) they were...

In 2010, we wouldn’t have had to play Germany had we topped a Group consisting of Algeria, USA and Slovenia. From there, we would’ve had to play Ghana, Uruguay and the Netherlands to get to a final. Rather than Germany, Argentina and Spain… You (and others) can’t belittle Southgate and say ‘we...