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The Spain comparison was more that de la Fuente was not considered a top coach amongst his fellow countrymen. Which is relevant and when you consider how Spain looked under Luis Enrique and this Euros… Enrique had many of the same players. Many fancied Germany because they had the best manager...

There are lots of positives about Tuchel and think he was probably the best candidate available in terms of coaching ability. However, international football is not club football and having a world class manager is not a precondition for success. Yet, England fans are obsessed with the idea of...

On the F&B side of things, people should vote with their feet and opt out of paying for substandard products. I’m partial to a HT pint and if I’ve travelled up to the game I’ll end up buying something if I haven’t brought food with me… I regret buying the crap every time!

Scaloni and de la Fuente achieved what exactly in senior football before winning the World Cup and Euros respectively? On Spain and de la Fuente, he replaced Luis Enrique who is objectively a far more accomplished manager and yet de la Fuente’s team look far better. Further back, you had...

Fair enough - that’s way past my time and could not remember a Dutch national team manager being foreign-born in the 90s to present day.

This is chicken and egg thinking here… What major nations have dabbled in hiring foreign managers? I can only think of Belgium, Portugal and ourselves. We put too much importance on the manager and think Carsley would’ve probably done a good job with the team given time. There’s no point in...

The biggest increases in incapacity benefits in relation to MH, iirc in the 20-30 (or thereabouts) age bracket. Mental health isn’t really stigmatised the same way it was say, 10 years ago. Just leaving them alone sounds like a nice idea. Yet, how would young people benefit mentally from being...

Agreed. One thing everyone needs is a reason to get out of bed in the morning (i.e. a purpose) and it is often the case that those who have MH issues are having everything compounded by being reliant on the welfare state. It’s one of those policy ideas that looks bad but if the data shows...

It’s just such an easy job picking out good, ‘proven quality’ players for us to sign…

The transfer market has inflated values across the EFL - we wouldn’t have got the money we did for Hamer or Vik had been a few years prior.

There won’t be jobs for workers if those kinds of billionaires pull investment, or worse, disinvest altogether. The politician in question was a government minister, they need to be more diplomatic because it sends the wrong signals to business as a whole.

Undoubtedly the most successful manager who is available. The FA could’ve hired Tuchel in the summer so it’s not unreasonable to suspect that they approached Klopp and/or Pep and neither of them fancied it. Tuchel isn’t exactly well known for playing attacking football either so he’ll need to...

Why does Collins, Kitching & Thomas keep getting lumped together? Apparently, Collins is ‘distant’ with everyone in the first squad, only having a close relationship with AV. Putting 2+2 together, it would at least partially explain why Collins has gone from Number 1 to number 3. EDIT: Both...

£15-20m is a range ESB, £20+ million is outside of that range. Needless to say that the context has changed from April as he will have 6 months less on his contract. We got a deal that could be worth close to £17m for Hamer (within sell-on %) with 12 months left on his contract. Getting £15m...

You’re getting worked up over things no one has said. It gone all quiet because this £20+ million figure is one you have made up…

I don’t think Tuchel is the right man for the job and his teams are all quite low xG so let’s see how long he has the goodwill of fans if we’re playing more or less like Southgate. He’s tetchy in the press so it’s easy to see how Tuchel unravels in the England job. That said, his teams do well...

Including myself. I agree that range is likely too because his contract will have 12 months left unless someone gets desperate in Jan. Which is good value still.

If a bid came in for sheaf, what number would you accept? I said £15-20m last season and still stand by that. There’s no back tracking saying a player with one year less on their contract is worth slightly less. The line you’re quoting is: The emphasis being on you because I know I’d take...

I was looking at the same data set and there’s about 5 midfielders there that went for £15-20m in that age range. Hamer and Sara being the best Championship midfielders in consecutive years going for £15+ million. In relation to Sheaf, this £15-20m figure was banded about this summer when his...

I said £15-20m, not 20+. If you’ve looked at the data, you will see that Sheaf is a league leader in many categories ranging from passing, defensive stats and things like touches in the box, carries and shot creating actions. You speak in generalised statement which is fine if it’s backed up by...