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    Dean Smith

    Maybe, I did see on The Athletic article about Charlotte FC there was a commenter who said he and his family had made the trip with the team and met Deano in the hotel. Apparently he was on the way to watch the Villa! https://theathletic.com/5316956/2024/03/05/charlotte-fc-dean-smith-mls-2
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    Dean Smith

    I was at the game and surprisingly there were some away fans, about a row or two of them so I'd guess somewhere from 10-20 people. Fair play to them it's a hell of a trip.
  3. Haha cheers man maybe I will. I've been doomscrolling with the rest of you for the last few days, just haven't found much to say that hasn't already been said. If this comes off though I'll definitely post a few celebratory GIFs.
  4. I don't post here much but do post on r/avfc. Hopefully you can see by my account age that I'm not just on a wind up. The Reddit ITK is pretty ttrustworty and after reading his posts today I've gone from thinking Jack is leaving to thinking he's staying. Last year he posted about knowing Shakespeare's son and mentioned we were after Ross Barkley. I remember at the time thinking it was a bit of an odd thing to make up but didn't really believe it, until a week or two later when it came off. I hadn't seen a peep about Barkley except the poster on Reddit. Since then he still posted regularly but doesn't drop anything 'ITK' this summer until mentioning JWP and Bailey a couple of days ago. Both had already been linked so it's not like he couldn't have made it up, but then we had the talk of a new JWP bid and the announcement of Bailey within a couple of days of the post. Then he posts saying Grealish is doing an ESR. To me, him saying that Grealish is doing a Smith-Rowe is basically alluding to the fact that his agent is using City's bid to get a better contract from Villa, similar to how ESR used our bid to help negotiations. Later in the day he said he had put some money on Jack staying and an hour or two after that pretty much said Grealish was staying without saying it. "Watch this space." That was the last thing he posted. I'm guessing after what he said blew up and ended up on here and Twitter, he potentially got caught out or deleted his account out of caution. But I believe he's being truthful. Whether his information is correct is a different thing, but it's made me optimistic and I thought I would add a little context as someone who's seen the guy posting on r/avfc for ages and saw first hand he was correct last year.
  5. I'd be interested in joining this year.
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    Liverpool

    Funnily enough I was on an internal flight in India a couple of weeks ago and the in flight magazine had two pages dedicated to Liverpool merchandise you can buy. Saying that though I haven't seen anyone wearing a Liverpool shirt, and I've seen loads of Man Utd, Chelsea, Barca and Real merchandise.
  7. I think the biggest shock would have to be the absolute poverty of the kind we just aren't used to seeing at home. It really makes you appreciate how lucky you are.
  8. I'm actually at the very start of doing this myself. I'm currently in the Himalayas in India after starting in Mumbai about 3 and a half weeks ago and working my way up North. My plan is to travel India for 2 months, before doing Nepal/Burma/Thailand/Cambodia/Lao/Vietnam within a month or two, then Hong Kong and Beijing before going to Japan and then finally I've got a 12 month working visa sorted for New Zealand from December. Part of the reason I'm doing Asia is I did some backpacking around Europe when I was younger, but it is also much cheaper. For example, in India you can easily live comfortably on £500 per month. I think South East Asia may be slightly more expensive but not massively. For me the most expensive place will be Japan and then setting myself up in New Zealand, although thankfully I have some family over there that have offered to put me up while I find some work. The impression I get from them though is that it is very easy to find work in NZ at the moment. I was in pretty much the same situation as you, no wife/kids/mortgage and I was becoming disillusioned with life in the UK so I decided to get out there and see some of the world while I still have my health and my freedom. I'm not regretting it so far. Don't get me wrong, I have a big of a love/hate relationship with India but it's more love than hate. There have been a few things that are a bit of a culture shock, but if you're an open minded person (which I'm sure you are if you're thinking about doing this) then you'll find that's nothing more than "Oh, that's a bit odd." As for my planning for it, it was very limited. I needed to get a visa for India in advance although I believe that has just changed and you can now get an e-visa for big entry points like Mumbai. Apart from that all the other countries are visa-on-arrival with the exception of China, although I can get into Hong Kong without a visa and get a Chinese one from there. I literally just booked a flight to Mumbai and did the rest of it on the fly. It's easy enough to get around and you meet other travellers who can help you with your plans. I mean, when I arrived in Mumbai I had no idea what I wanted to do in India except see the Taj Mahal and Golden Temple (both of which I have done now). The place I am currently staying is the exiled home of the Dalai Lama and it is absolutely stunning. I probably wouldn't have planned to come here on my own reading a Lonely Plant guide, but after speaking to other travellers here I am, with some other stops along the way I wouldn't necessarily have visited but am glad I did. It's a bit of a gamble to leave with little to no plan and I was kinda bricking it the last couple of days before I left but I'm really glad I did now. It's one of the best things about travelling alone that you have so much flexibility to do what you want to when you want to, so don't be afraid of leaving without a major plan of what you're going to do when you arrive. Even if you did plan everything out you can guarantee you wouldn't stick to it. Go for it, I'm sure you won't regret it. I'm not. Any questions please ask. Incidentally it was this or South America for me but I decided on Asia as I felt it was a bit more safe as a solo traveller. I'm not sure how true that is though.
  9. Look a few pages back he was mentioned a lot Hmmm... Probably only Cambiasso to be honest, tempted by Aquilani but I think with his kind of game he'd be limited now because of his age. Perhaps could do a job though. Aquilani? He was crap at Liverpool, his game is not suited to the premier league Sorry I must have missed that somehow.
  10. Surprised nobody has mentioned Ashley Young yet. There's an article in The Independent saying we want him back. Personally I'd take him back in a heartbeat even after his Olympic diving performances against us.
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    Liverpool

    I think Benteke will do well there but not enough to stop Rodgers getting sacked by Christmas and Klopp comes in to push them to 5th. Benteke under Klopp could be magnificent.
  12. Copa America final is on at the same time.
  13. You might be onto something there. I'm in my mid-20s and feel like many my age are in some sort of prolonged adolescence. Personally I feel a lot of it is due to changes in society. When my parents were my age they were settling down and having kids. Nowadays, it's the minority doing that for a variety of reasons. Partly financial and partly cultural. From the financial aspect, people like to feel some form of stability before starting a family which isn't there in the same way it seems it was 30 years ago. Insecure jobs, impossibly high house prices and an inability to raise a family on a single wage don't help. Culturally, the majority of women my age are more concerned with starting a career than a family. While this isn't a bad thing in itself, it means that the responsibilities that caused past generations to 'grow up' aren't there anymore - or at least not as quickly. All in all which leads to people my age acting like they're still teenagers.
  14. I'm so nervous right now. Can't imagine I'm getting much sleep tonight. If nothing else I'm looking forward to an amazing atmosphere today. Feels good typing today. Just wish it was now!
  15. It kind of beggars belief that we have governments trying to put limits on the freedom of information for the benefit of multinational corporations. Well, it would if it wasn't so utterly predictable. Does this have anything to do with this new EU-US trade partnership? I don't understand why we care so much about American lobbyists.
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