Ballon d'Orgu scored another banger tonight, I see. We all hop that it's a sign he's continuing his Gareth Bale arc.

And they're trying to ruin the world cup. Obviously, it's not shit everywhere but '94 was utter shit & we didn't need more Americanisation of the sport so there was no reason to give it to them. The worst trait they have is believing their own bullshit & now they're bringing that BS to the WC.

Good thing he does all that scanning for the cameras.

Farage literally stated the £5m was for Brexit. A week after claiming it was for security. The grifting racist.

Hot take: England would be a better footballing team with Rice not in it. i.e. with an Anderson, Mainoo, Bellingham midfield. (Caveat: under the right manager. Maybe not under Tuchel.)

United >>>>>>>> England

Why does the England subs bench have Nwaneri, Josh King, Alex Scott? Were they added to the WC squad?

Boycott the US. Boycott the world cup.

Went to a food festival & they had cups where you pay a small deposit & you get cash when you return them. My kids hustled, went around collecting them & returning them for people. Took a cut of the deposit & made enough money to buy a box of panini stickers. Fair play. You have to respect it.

The moment trump's gestapo started killing citizens in the streets, the world cup should have been moved. People are being fucked over and losing our on travel they've paid for. Fuck him. Boycott the US. Boycott the world cup.

They could have made a decent wedge if they'd made this pay per view.

Boycott the US. Boycott the World Cup.

What Reform have successfully done is to make the floor of open racism in England much higher than I have seen it in several years. I don’t know what their peak will be but they have normalised something that I haven’t seen here since the mid-1990s, and that is already dangerous enough.

And instead of investing to help improve the planet & the lives of people on it, he wants to spend on getting to Mars where he can wank himself off on his own, in some shitty domed housing unit. The likelihood being he will die in the shuttle on the way there, if it even ever sets off. Twat.

Why should they be forgiven? They've doubled down and helped Farage become an MP where he's doing exactly what we all knew he would do. Use his power to fleece money. He's not turned up to work for 11 weeks. Similarly, we knew Brexit would be shit. And it was shit. They knew. They're just racist.

Still think it's France's to lose but this is an entertaining read.

City players will fit right in at Real Madrid and Barcelona to be fair. They all use similar medical "philosophies".

The other candidate promised to sign Haaland. You know Haaland would jump ship immediately. Hopefully those seeds of doubt are being planted after Pep leaving. 115 incoming.

I can't think of anyone that would justify 150m. It's not like there's an obvious Messi, Cristiano. Or even a Neymar, Mbappe level player. It's not a Barca player. Maybe PSG/Bayern? Kvaratskhelia, Vitinha, Doué? Olise? They ain't paying that much for a football terrorist so not an Arsenal player.

Forgive me if I tell a country that's had 26 school shootings resulting in 16 deaths THIS YEAR to go take a flying fuck to itself

We're all supporting Portugal in the world cup right? Bruno bagging 5 goals and 10 assists to lead them to glory and win the Ballon d'Or? Imagine the boiled piss if that happens. Força Portugal!

They all need to fuck off. Ratcliffe praising them & saying "they're really good on the commercial side" pissed me off. Yeah...they are good....at lining their own pockets. They've actually been shit commercially for United. We had the highest revenue in the world. At the end of 24/25 we were 8th.

If we're looking for a right back, I quite liked the look of the Bodo Glimt RB, Fredrick Sjovold. He looked good in the CL. Technically sound and intelligent player. Only 22. And wouldn't cost a bomb and can play in multiple positions.

1. 1986 2. 1990 or 1998 3. 1994

The lack of WC is another reason Lewis Hall, Mateus Fernandes, & Kroupi Jr might be credible targets. High potential players with enough experience in the PL to know what they're about & young enough to make the fee almost irrelevant over a 5 yr contract period. Tonali also not going to the WC.

We should have been in for him. Looked excellent throughout but stepped up after Semenyo left. And only 19 yrs old. I suspect the fee is going to quite large though so I can understand why we wouldn't want to be drawn into that given our CM priorities. Swap deal with Rashford anyone?! ;-)

I'm also don't think we need a Casemiro replacement per se. For example, you're not going to find another 6 who scores 9 PL goals. You have to "replace" those goals elsewhere. I fully expect Sesko to target least 5 more, Mbeumo & Cunha 3 more each, Mainoo a couple more, Amad 5 more, Dorgu a few more

City spent 550m in the last two seasons. And now heading into another 200m+ window. Liverpool spent 500m last window and linked with Diomande who is 100m+. Arsenal spent 650m in the last 3 seasons & will.go big again. We need to make sure we compete. Also, what happened to 115?

The more I think about it the more I want Matheus Fernandes. I think the price will be good and his potential is very high. Could be seen as a bargain in a few years if we get him for £50m-60m.

I've been negative about Ederson so let's try to be positive: nearly 27 with lots of experience, including in Europe (won EL), adaptable, good physicality, will be fresh as wasn't selected for the WC, & if he's not that good, £35m in two years won't look so bad. Fills a gap in the squad I guess.

The argument is that he has a bunch of police cautions related to Covid lockdown & a conviction for an altercation / threats he made in 2018. However, he was allowed to travel to the US last year & only had the ESTA rejected the day of travel. So it's US bullshit. Boycott the US. Boycott the WC.

Did a search for affordable summer watches and the first result that was offered to me by the inbuilt A.I. search was a $38,800 dollar chronograph from a niche, independent Japanese watchmaker. I've ordered two.

€44m for Hojlund is fine (on top of €6m loan fee). Casemiro off the books frees up a 300k per week in wages. Hopefully we get rid of this lot as well: - Onana - Ugarte - Zirkzee - Rashford I suspect we will also cash in on Vitek as he'll want 1st team football & that will be all profit basically.

Ever since we've learned about the Epstein class, the right wing hatred of a rainbow is even more baffling. They're scared of colourful flags but not the fact that they're being ruled by literal child rapists. "You can't be gay & live your life peacefully but raping kids is fine if you're rich".

Let's hope he's more Dorgu / Amad than Zirkzee / Hojlund / Onana. But at 27 yrs old he will need to be far more accomplished than Dorgu / Amad to justify even £35m given he's in the final year of his contract. It's not really a "bargain" in that context although compared to Mount I guess it is.

I have to agree. It's not that I don't care at all but the excitement for it is coming more from my two younger boys who are collecting the stickers rather than the world cup itself. The USA was always going to be a shit choice to stage it but in the current climate, it's one of the worst.

Ah well. We will have to see how he does. Not an inspiring signing..in fact quite underwhelming. But if he's one of three then it's understandable. If he's the main CM signing, it's worrying. Hope he proves me wrong but, like the Ugarte, Mount, Zirkzee, Onana transfers, I have my concerns.

I wonder if Liverpool will finally finish spending the Coutinho money this summer.

"Not particularly good at passing" & "Upgrade on Ugarte" is hardly the glowing endorsement of Ederson you would hope for from those who have watched him a lot. Other than the price, I have no idea why we're so into him. Assuming he's the "third" CM, why not buy a young player with special potential?

This thread is horrendous. Why are political leaders scared to call this out?

The greatest PL winners of all time have presided over the biggest ever attendance for a trophy parade. Still...it won't ever beat the 1.2 billion that attended the Manchester United Treble Parade.

Have we signed anyone yet?

Anything above £30m for him would be a scam. Last yr of contract, never played for a big club, left out of arguably the worst Brazil WC squad in generations, & has no outstanding attribute. An all rounder cited as having massive work rate but covers the same distance per game as the PL average. Meh.

A big shout out to @rte.ie for their coverage of the Champions League Final yesterday. It was refreshing to listen to commentary and punditry that, in totality, was both balanced and fair. Ronnie Whelan did a good job on co-commentary. Above all, thank you for ensuring the match was Free to Air.

Almost would have been better for them to get knocked out of the competition earlier.

It is not. He completed 4. Out of 8.

When was the last time there was this level of universal hate watching for one team? Crystanbul maybe?

Is it true that Saka only completed 5 passes last night?!

They still think the ref gave them nothing despite the fact Saka handballed it in the box & the foul for the penalty should have been a second yellow card. Posting this without any irony is insane. They started the whole season with a favour from the ref & then played terrorist football all season.

"Good people at the helm" according to keown. Hmmmm.....