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

AVB to Real is being talked up by the French press and must happen.

First day in the office he tells Ronaldo his era is over and they need to move beyond it.

Cron's ready to come to Wolves anyway so it's all good

hey it looks like the sporting lisbon explosion will blast rui patricio your way

still fighting over him but we seem to be front-runners.

Raul Jimenez signing imminent too apparently

this whole meltdown is incredible, and if it sees off the club president bruno de carvalho after all his outbursts the schadenfreude will be exquisite

yeah the bit about the ultras maybe being incited by the chairman is :O

president i mean

That really is crazy.

Poch stays, Lopetegui will be RM's new manager

poch in lop off

Well that's going to help with harmony in the Spain dressing room.

omfg we're apparently looking at Rodrigo Battaglia, who features in my current FM squad :D

anxiously awaiting the first conspiracy theory that Mendes has somehow engineered the whole Sporting fiasco

You are unknowingly operating the real Wolves now. xp

I finished 6th in the Prem last season so let's hope so

Well that's going to help with harmony in the Spain dressing room.

https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/world-cup/world-cup-2018-spain-replace-julen-loptegui-manager-real-madrid-betrayal-sacked-latest-a8396371.html

Wait, it's all good

Players said to have stopped decision to change coaches prior to World Cup. Seemed nonsensical. https://t.co/7n6Nlxmsgk

— Gary Lineker (@GaryLineker) June 13, 2018

We're over on the WC thread panda!

Fixtures are out

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/44479264

Seems Spurs have gotten around the only one home stadium in a season rule

Lol @ Emery's first two games being against Chelsea and City.

that will cause friction with the board imo we'll soon see if hes hard as nails

Emery out

handy few opening fixtures for liverpool

Emery out

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aw was just about to

Patricio confirmed for Wolves, softens the Cav blow more than a bit

I figured some big dog would be coming in. I think Cav is a bit more of an exciting prospect than VLP was! Goodness the hubris of VLP talking about how Town are just a "stepping stone" for him last season, yeah I'm sure the likes of Internazionale are on the case!

Oh Cav is 10 times the player VLP is. I'm only raising my doubts in the interest of honesty, he was a big player for us last season.

I meant Patricio>Wolves as the big dog obv, but as blase as I'm getting about £10m + signings - Cav is still a very "big dog" signing for us!

Yeah I get ya. This is total unknown territory for us too, enjoying getting angry with dickheads who want us to sign a "20 goal a season striker" like they *still* don't understand the system

from what I've been reading he's got some impressive end product and a tremendous work rate, somehow we managed to get out of the champo without a player like that, and then survive a prem season with the same deficiency!

I'm sort of excited because him going implies a like for like replacement to me and God knows

Or

This could be the start of the "club as business" phase, for Fosun and Mendes

the Belgium press are reporting we've already signed another winger, Anthony Limbombe from Club Brugge for 12m euros, so VLP can get his dream move to bigger club now!

Looks like the Cav move to Town has broken down:( or :)!

Dutch midfielder Juninho Bacuna (Groningen) is off to Huddersfield, apparently.

as long as he's competition for Mooy, rather than a replacement, I'm cool!

He's way too inexperienced to replace Mooy, but tbh I think it's a good (and cheap) gamble! He's young and brash but undeniably talented. Dutch top 3 (PSV, Ajax, Feyenoord) have been sleeping on him.

that's good to hear, and Mooy says he wants to stay at Town anyway, and isn't the type for bullshit player blandishments and he clearly values his relationship with Wagner.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DgYXWHPWkAAGzMi.jpg

shurely a 'shop?

It's all over the media but I suppose these days that doesn't exactly confirm its veracity

when i saw that yesterday i couldn't spot what was wrong with it, but oh bloody hell & deary me fam

"Eye for detail"

oh

oh dear

last time i dressed like that I was surrounded by nuns and on my way to First Communion, bless him.

He might end up needing to take sacramental confession soon: "Bless me Father, for I was recently mistaken for a top-class football manager and did nothing to dissuade ppl of this false notion.."

Soton's Dusan Tadic is off to Ajax for abt 10m.

Seems like a bargain. Can't imagine there wasn't any interest for him in England. The appeal of playing 8 matches per year on astroturf and finishing second in Holland must have sealed the deal for him.