'Even allowing for inflation, this thread is not worth 198 Terry Francises' - EPL 2017-18

What is a season in international terms

All of wales hoping for a late hitch

Second choice is Craig Bellamy so idk if a hitch is really what they need.

Murphy and Shearer both throwing him under the bus on motd says it all for that boys' club. Hope he's a disaster

blind Giggsehism vs blind nationalism, TS!

They did vote Brexit I guess so maybe they're buzzing at the prospect

And I have a bit of a soft spot for Wales because snowdonia and also my dad was brought up there

Bellamy is going to be in charge for the friendlies apparently

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/01/22/article-2266188-1714D64E000005DC-817_634x354.jpg

is that loveable climate change denier D Bellamy? on the left I mean.

international manager is such a nothingy job for Giggseh, no real stakes means no real enjoyment when the lad fails abjectly

Otm. It's easiest job out there.

Lambo in at Stoke. They're down.

oh shit Cyrille Regis has died ;_:

xp

god almighty another bloke that's given up on football and life supporting Stoke must feel like doing hard time which is as it should be obv

not xp

yeah a colleague told me about Cyrille this morning, that's a sad one for sure

there ought to be a non-trying penalty for making appointments like that.

on the other hand we're trying to offload Ben Marshall so this could be handy

when he was at Wednesday they used to call him Ben 10. I presume he's more like Ben 6.3 these days.

not sure if he's started since Nuno arrived, we have to recoup some of our outrageous and unfair spending somehow

this is a song about a superhero named tony, it's called tony's theme

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Mata doesn't need to dive ffs

this is a song about a superhero named tony, it's called tony's theme

Martial earning that Arsenal move

we've been shite and all

City have ended their interest in Sanchez apparently...

walcott to everton done deal
swansea after gameiro and gaitan :D

Everton very eager to become the biggest has-been-bin of the PL

If only there was a snappier way to say it eh

Big Sam knows

Tosun/ Bolasie/ Walcott/ Sigurdsson isn’t that bad as a front four on paper tbh and I’m confident they’ll do ok in most games in the remaining fifteen minutes after Rooney has been subbed.

They've got Schneiderlin withering away there too.

That one game when they play Walcott and Lennon together is going to be crazy.

ha i presume this will pave the way for sad photos of aaron lennon at the brittania

Poch response to real speculation is a lot less firm than usual

looks like we have a little sánchez-mkhitaryan-aubameyang circle of transfers too

xp That'd be a risky choice: my back-of-an-envelope reckoning is that, of all the managers Aaron Lennon has played under before Allardyce, only Martinez is currently managing a team.

I'm not even joking when I say Walcott would unequivocally improve that Everton team, but what's the deal with Ademola Lookman?

riotously talented free spirit with iffy teamwork

Why are there so many reports about Chelsea bidding for Andy Carroll?

'I am ashamed of him. I can't even bring myself to use his name' - Ryan Giggs' dad on Wales appointment

Sorry NV, ya boy Locadia - who's move to Wolves was blocked at the last minute last summer - is off to Brighton for about € 16m.

can't believe we're too tight to pay that

That's what I was thinking. He's had a good first half of the season for us up until he got injured (still is but not serious). Maybe his buddy Pröpper being at Brighton since the summer (also PSV) had something to do with it.

Though in all honesty I think Wolves are just aiming higher atm.

i think we're not going to splurge this window, there shdn't be any need to rush into deals but if we don't sign at least a couple more potential first teamers i think some of our fans will get stupid

again

What's going on at Chelsea?

Carroll, Crouch & Llorente seem somewhat odd targets. They must be desperate for some sort of aerial attack

supposed to have offered Roma cash + Batshuayi for Dzeko too

the thing is though, Morata is at his most effective by far in the air

most headed goals in the league iirc

Something very weird is going on at Chelsea. Putting City's complete dominance to the side, their title defence has been really quite limp and no one really seems to give a shit. Maybe the defeat to Burnley on the opening day of the season just managed expectations, but I can just see them trundling to a fifth place finish, at which point everyone shrugs, Conte leaves and Abramovich gives his successor another £300m.

Those targets just scream 'short term fix that won't unsettle Morata'. They need someone as backup given that Batshuayi clearly doesn't have Conte's trust but Dzeko is the only one you can see doing anything vaguely worthwhile there. They were sniffing around Llorente last summer but I don't know why we'd let him go without anyone else on the horizon.

Not going for Sanchez suggests reduced expectations as well.

and as for letting matic go to united

Not sure I see Dzeko going from being Serie A’s top scorer last season (with the same number of league goals as Kane) to happily playing back-up to Morata.