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We have to win v Birmingham and get a result regardless of today’s result. It’s the business end of the season. Blackburn have a difficult run-in as does WBA. Millwall ought to beat Blackpool but it’s not a given and play Blackburn on the final day so someone is dropping points. Watford and PNE...

When money was cheap to loan, the cost of servicing debt was sustainable. Money isn’t cheap anymore (5-7%) and Governments will have to ‘budget’ more to avoid a debt crisis. Fears around bonds as a result of increasing interest rates and unfunded policies let to Truss being ousted. This also...

There’s always a ‘what if’ when Southgate hits a milestone. We’ve lost to plenty of underperforming Italy sides. Remember 2014?

Agreed! I don’t really think anyone would come in who is guaranteed to do a better job. Southgate, for his flaws has a good understanding of the players and international football as a whole. International football is a more tactical game than the top end of club tournaments. Take the...

Pep Guardiola doesn’t even believe Foden has the discipline to play CAM yet. Let alone deeper. This isn’t fantasy football. We won a game away in Italy, a feat that hasn’t been accomplished since before most people on this forum was born. A team ranked 8th in world. Addressing a key criticism...

I’m living in cooko land here, but imagine if we signed Cresswell and McNally? I’d like to think that we can offer best proposition to McNally in terms of development. Look at Hamer, Gyokeres, Sheaf, loanees such as Maatsen and Doyle. Especially if we’re competitive next season, he could earn...

Without knowing how much wages he’s on, he’s worth keeping as a back up option. Last season his clinical finishing was worth a lot. Ideally, we need to be getting 35+ games out of him and that seems past him at this stage unfortunately. Speaking more generally, if we’re to play two strikers...

I think that’s reasonable. If we play hard ball, we end up with 10-15m tops with one year left on his contract!

We had two of them in the same team and didn’t get anywhere near the same production… Both JCH and Chaplin are top end L1 players who could perhaps make a decent Championship careers yet.

I hope he accepts a contract just so we can push our asking price to £20-30m. In an ideal world, we’d keep Gyo and get promoted with him as our talisman. To be candid, our squad is so far off the standard required to make a real go at promotion, we need to sell him and get 3-5 better quality...

… as well as missing out on the playoffs.

They are stats on the video game ‘Football Manager’ FYI. Moneyball is a great sports movie!

I hope there’s a pair of shooting boots in there at some point…

It doesn’t help that whenever Southgate has done well, it always comes with an asterisk. France were favourites going into the tie, clearly the money men and most people believed France would win. They did, big shock. It is commendable that we actually looked the better team and really...

Even look at back 4, only Walker is a starter for their club. Stone, Maguire and Shaw are not currently first choices. We overrate our team a bit. France and ourselves are very even as a team. In a combined XI, how many players would actually start? Then account for Benzema, Pogba and Kante...

France also has a far better team than us throughout the same period. We should’ve won in Euro 2020 and should have won last night. Lowe was given time after going close with Germany.

France were the favourites and they won. Why the hysteria? The FFF didn’t panic and sack Deschamps after Euro 2020. Overall, I thought we played well yesterday and were the better team. You’d bank on Kane scoring that penalty and I think with our depth, we’d win the game in extra time...

Our players don’t have exotic names you see… Spain looked very impressive v Costa Rica and attracted a lot hype. Their forward 3 always lacked that clinical edge so I’m not surprised they had goal scoring struggles. However, I did not expect upsets v Japan and Morocco. I’d have backed us to...

Where did you get 3 goals from? Why are people so scared of France? They’re not the team they were in 2018 and have looked vulnerable in defence against v average opposition. It’s a very tough test, but I think we’ll win 2-1 and our substitutes will change the game for us.

I really don’t think Senegal’s chances were that clear cut. Better opposition would likely have converted one of the chances they created. The best chance of the half was Kane’s goal. The pressure we invited on ourselves wasn’t really down to tactical mistakes from the manager. Maguire, Stones...