Alakagom

You're assuming there will be gradual steady improvement and we'll slowly move up from Conference to Europe to UCL but that's not how it works. United sorted their ownership and will no doubt become top club sooner than later and Chelsea with their infinite money will become a threat sooner or later, a chance to play CL might not come for 20-30 years like it has been presented now.

What's your point though? Do you think we expect to win CL? We just want to get there first time in history since the rebrand...

I hate players falling down and catching ball in hands to force the foul dumb

Today is gonna be huge day, if Lazio managed to knock out Bayern we'd be virtuallally guaranteed 5th slot in CL. Never rated the facists more

Luton averaged 2 goals per game over past 10 games. That's no joke against some decent competition. If he's fit we need him and Pau.

Cashy making him onside again

I mean Lazio eliminating Bayern would be tremendous help. Italian teams look extremely strong, it's gonna be close 2nd between Germans and us.

On TV, it sounds like when we played under closed doors during COVID, which is strange when you see the crowd there.

Win against Legia by 2 goals and we can send under 9s to Bosnia in busy December

We'll be out of UECL before we know it so its not a problem soon

If they flagged it offside there, and Sterling scored there would be no goal. When in fact it looked onside, that's the exact reason for late flags.

That's our lad

I have to say I never understood why people needed to buy current season's kits. If you have the Luke kit, you simply never need to buy another home kit as this will never be topped Love me some retro ones as well.

Never rated him anyway tbh, Ferran Torres for 60mn must have got NSWE suspicious.

Spurs was always the weakest link, if we can't win against him we would likely not be getting into Europe in first place.

Cause refs get it wrong half the time....like what. That's the entire point of this rule..

He is absolutely not. The entire point not flagging it too early is for the chance to play out. If they flag too early, then the chance doesn't get developed at all...

Now wonder commentator is ex player, thick af

I've read Watford has obligation to buy him for 15 million quid if they promote, afaik it was in Athletic article. Is that true? Cause we should be cheering for Watford big times then.

Here is Egyptian Al-Ahly fan giving more info about ZED. It's basically a political tool it seems mostly. actually Zed is a really messy and complicated thing. it's not made up. they're co-owned by one of the Sawiris guys who also happens to be a part owner of aston villa so I was expecting this to happen. they started their club right after the pandemic (~2021) and it's in the second division, but a good amount of the young players they have are failed nepotism babies that are trying for a second shot & hoping for a transfer to one of the bigger clubs (ahly, zamalek, pyramids, future). this whole thing started when the Sawiris people bought a big plot of land in cairo and turned it into a whole mix of things, like it's a lot of overpriced apartment buildings & gated villas, while also having a business park & a big leisure space where people would celebrate stuff like christmas, easter, eid, ramadan, etc. one of the guys in charge of Zed's football team is Seif Zaher, who basically runs the media in egyptian football (but not many people pay attention to him because we mainly watch bein sports) and this is kind of a big deal because it means Sawiris gave him so much power when everyone around him is appointed by the government/military. Sisi & his buddies are close to the Sawirises and to them this is a really good opportunity. Our second division is divided into 3 groups and each group gets 1 promotion spot. in their group, Zed is currently 1st place and they're ahead by 1 point. they can get promoted this year but it won't be easy. they want to be seen as a real football club but they're just not taken seriously like the others. no matter how much funding they have they just won't get close to competing with ahly or zamalek. ahly's wage bill is close to ~650 million egyptian pounds per year, and these figures are before the recent inflation that happened this month. i'd be surprised if Zed produce anyone good enough for aston villa to take because corruption runs like crazy in egyptian academies no matter what club it is. all the coaches are severely underpaid so they resort to taking bribes from parents who want their kids to become football players no matter what. this is one of the reasons why our national team will struggle massively in the next few years. our lack of good academy players is why we resort to scouting maghrebi players. basically Zed want to be a football club and have a billionaire pump money into them but they didn't want to be like pyramids. pyramids were bought by one of mohamed bin salman's best friends and they threw money at all of ahly and zamalek's best players to create their own flashy team, it ruined our market and it's made it so overinflated now. after pyramids' saudi owner came in and ruined our league and transfer market, the government came up with some new policies, so this is why Zed went down this route. we don't have any other corporate-owned clubs in egypt. the two big ones are fan-owned, pyramids is private-owned, and the other big one, future, is owned by the military. the majority of the other clubs are fan owned. zed is the only corporate-owned club we have.

First time in 6th in 10 years or so? Anyone knows?

One time appearance in CL is meaningless, look at Leicester. And if Newcastle will get unlimited backing from Saudi state then only City can compete with them over coming decade anyway.

If United win Europa League but finish outside of Top 4. We're cheering for United to shit the bed in league but keep winning in Europe

Honestly I may be in the minority but I really do not care if we sign him today or look for him or different options in the summer. This season is pretty much finished, no cups to play for, team easily good enough to finish between 7-12th place, but also far behind Top 6 to really realistically challenge, I don't think he'd be the difference either way immediately.

Hopefully we can finagle some Turkish club to pay 10 million for him