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Emery failed at PSG and Moscow. Doesn’t mean he’s not elite.

They’ll be fine, comfortable mid table as long as lopetegui is there. He’s an elite manager. However if a Saudi club came in now, or a bigger club sacked their manager mid season then I make them 3/4th favourites to go down. That’s how good he is.

Obviously, not at the same level - but we are in a slight Harry Kane / Spurs situation. To get someone better than Watkins would cost 60 million and still be a huge gamble. A mid level player wouldn't join to sit on the bench. They may as well go to lower table team and play every week. Our best hope is getting a young prospect which we tried with Duran.

Would go as far as saying the outcome of the next US election will determine who "wins the war". If the democrats win there will be at least 4 more years of heavy miliary support which will finish off Russia. If a Ron De Santis gets in, then it's up to the generosity of European countries.

SHA are officially the same value as a Cucumber

Whilst the USA media were pointlessly focused on an already blown up submersible to be recovered. Joe Bidens Son cut a plea deal for tax evasion. Undeclared taxes as they were from foreign entities / lobbying allegedly on behalf of his father. As part of the plea deal he talked himself out of the gun possession whilst a known drug offender which is a mandatory prison sentence of up to 10 years. *puts on tin hat*

People on here are far more qualified than me, but just shows how poorly equipped and trained the Russian soldiers here are. The ony guy does even check the corner at all.

NATO make it extremely clear worldwide and via information to the Russian people they will return ukraines borders back to that of early 2022. They will not set foot in Russia or crimea. Give Russia 2 weeks notice. Russia will threaten, but in the end they will do nothing because it’s complete and utter suicide for them. As with the 4,000,000 other times they’ve threatened to use nukes. due to it being an oligarchs playground, crimea may be a different story and that’s potentially up the to Ukrainians to retake.

Just to further comment on the absolute insanity of this war. My wife is Lithuanian and has family spread across Russia and other former soviet states including Ukraine. She has close cousins in Kyiv who we have been trying to support and all the older men are enlisted in the UA We found out yesterday a relative originating from the same great nan, died fighting FOR Russia as they remained in Russia back in the 80s. Absolute insanity.

No Italian club is going to give him >100k a week or whatever he is on at Chelsea.

Exactly This ^^^ What people are failing to realise Man City's cheating has been at the expense of other clubs, not just the Man U, Liverpools etc. As an example, Man City's financial doping allowed them to buy Leeds best player / captain for no reason, they don't need him nor even played him. He would have been worth an extra 2/3 points to keep them up.

Horses for courses. Teams are starting to show us more respect and just "sit in" at Villa park in particular. We struggled a bit against Bournemouth and Fulham at home towards the end of the season to break them down. He will be an idea player at those type of "front foot" games. When digging in away from home at Liverpool, Chelsea etc then i doubt we will see him play, unless of course he proves himself and shows himself to be the player of a couple of years ago.

Kind of inevitable. We've hired a business manager in Heck. Director of football incoming, therefore Purslow is effectively redundant. For me, he's done a fantastic job (except for Gerrard), however the structure is now clearly growing as we do.

I normally judge a club size / brand by what I call the Alton Towers clothing scale. Basically what kits do you see children wearing at Alton Towers. Once it was all Man U, Then Chelsea. Now literally all the little S***'s support Man City. It's embarrassing and weak parenting. My children have been told to support Villa or move out.

Absolute Insanity. Isn't he on like 375k a week?

Russia and China done something similar in the last 10 years. It will last 2/3 years max once the king / princes get bored of their new toy and had selfies with their favourite players.

Big part of that is Nostalgia and not "selling" at the right time. They gave vardy north of 150k a week, when he was past 30. Now they have a league 1 level player on that money. Because he was so highly paid, better players like Barnes, Tielemans, Maddison demand such money and so on. In the next 2/3 years we will need to make similar decisions on the likes of Mcginn, Mings, Diego even Watkins. Do we pay them 100k a week plus well into their 30s as they will all want 3/4 year contracts or move them on. The good clubs move them on. Poorly run clubs end up with a load of 33/35 year olds on 100k+ a week (Everton) who they cant resell. Our fan base had a melt down over not offering a 38 year old a contract only last week.

Sisu were a hedge fund, made Coventry homeless and nearly bankrupted them. Hedge funds make money, that's what they do, the club and the fans are irrelevant. Plan A: Promote them, which will be very hard with FFP + Parachute payments from PL teams. If that doesn't work they will quickly cut their losses / asset strip.

We are closer to 2050 than 1996. That made me feel old.

To begin with he was 100 percent fully on board with the Russian doctrine. He watches Russian TV, Zelenski is a clown / USA puppet, America caused this and now Russia will show them who's boss, they are helping liberate Russians in Ukraine etc. Last 6 months or so he's changed as the reality of what's happening is beginning to come to light. My wife who is Russian / Lithuanian but born and raised in post soviet Lithuania absolutely detests everything Russian. When the war started they didn't speak for 2 months as the arguments got so heated. To highlight the absurdity, a few days before the invasion we was at a funeral in Lithuania with our Russian side of the family including 6 family members who are Ukrainian and live near Kyiv.

If we get to the knockout stages in Europe then I think 8/7 is quite good. Man City, Arsenal and United are too far ahead of us. Chelsea, Spurs and Liverpool will be better. Newcastle might struggle with the CL so we could leapfrog them. West Ham are not a bad team, with some really good players and look at where they finished after playing thurs / sun

There's no jeopardy or ability to make tactical decisions anymore anymore. We all know from testing who's going to win the championship. - Allow 2 DRS "power play" windows of 10 laps each, no need to be within 1s of the car in front, just have 20 laps per race when you can use DRS on the straights. This will stop processions at the end of races as you'll have some cars with DRS quickly catching whoever is in front. -Bring back in refueling with no min or max limits. Would make a huge different to the races in my opinion.

My Father in Law (former Russian military shooting instructor), but is Lithuanian since the break up of the soviet union has been approached to rejoin the Russian army. He received mail to his joint family holiday home in Russia. Safe to say he will never see that house again - He lives in Leicester now. If they are approaching him in his condition and age, they must be near conscription and seriously running out of man power.

Corberán makes the most sense to me. He is a Bielsa "disciple" and was at Leeds for a few years with him. Leeds are a basket case but with parachute payments they will be a lot more appealing than the crumbling, bankrupt West Brom.

Do a year or 2 in Madrid until Haaland goes, then come back for the PL record. If he stays good with injuries he'll easily smash it even if he takes a 2 year sabbatical in Spain