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I think Wu-Tang Clan used this model to sell one of their albums. Makes as much sense as expecting us to pay £15 per game

Surely it should be the whole England team that are drowning. Grealish is the Life Preserver ring on the fence in the background

How do teams even stop Vardy? The only team who I get the impression he always struggles against is Wolves but I don't know if that's just a psychological bogey team type thing.

He's only done that for the last 3 games, in the Iceland game and before we played 4 at the back. He doesn't really have a footballing philosophy strong enough to actually describe as far as anyone can tell. IMO Grealish could thrive in any system if given a fair chance.

Ah well yes, as you can see from the table below, Mount's stats stack up very well to KDB, especially when you consider he was playing in a weaker team.

https://streamja.com/pAmeK Forget just saving that, I know a guy who would've caught it

Yeah I read his Wikipedia too Still never heard of him

He's on the bench again behind some bloody old codger who's never even played in Europe. For all I know Franco Armani could be the second coming of Lev Yashin but I'm still going to curse the name of whatever Argentinian Southgate equivalent is picking this team.

Think it's a different one, Wiki reckons our one is managing England U16s

The new CB they bought is also in the U21s for France. Not sure Amartey is in the Ghana squad as well but I'd assume so.

All of Leicester's first XI other than Vardy are current internationals. Pereira and Ndidi are already injured so they didn't travel but the rest did AFAIK. Soyuncu seems to have picked up a knock playing for Turkey as well so that's potentially three of their best defensive players out. Seems like other than Vardy, Mendy and Justin (the fill ins for Pereira and Ndidi) everyone who will play against us has travelled. The only disadvantage we'll have in this area is we have two South Americans that have travelled further and played in the middle of the night. Edit - Unless Maddison is back fit, he didn't travel either.

I don't think the PL allow you to just cancel your games against Burnley that easily.

The most annoying thing about all this is that Mount and Grealish could very easily play together and there would be room if we played 4-3-3 instead of this 5-2-1-2 abomination. Sadly though, a very soft penalty, a very deflected shot and 5 bad misses by Carrasco have meant that our outcome-oriented, nonanalytical media are describing this as "vindication" for Southgate and his flawed system.

Even if we beat Leeds the media will give Bielsa the credit for inspiring us to beat Leeds by coaching Leeds in such a brilliant perfect magical way. Truly a master of the game.

That's alright, not the biggest plot twist in a transfer this window.

Transfermarkt have him down as 70 games, 38 goals, 11 assists at CF over his whole career as well. Goal involvement every 100 minutes is nothing to sniff at. Seems like he's very well versed in playing in the centre of a front 3.

He actually played a few before lockdown when PVA was injured IIRC. No idea he was still there before that either.

Next tier of opposition? What tier is above 5 goal involvements against one of the best teams in the world?

To be honest, even from an English perspective, having Jack sit out as we hopefully get hammered by enough to get Southgate the sack and be replaced by someone with any pedigree at all will be most conducive to both England's success and the progression of Grealish at international level

Did he send this 'note' as an unintelligible sequence of emojis and percentages?

It's just... He has no integrity. It's the worst thing I can say about anyone. Someone with a club management career that wasn't an unmitigated disaster for a start. I wouldn't mind Eddie Howe but I'd prefer Potter.

Performance of the week?! And the rest! Here's your award for GOAT PL result Deano

Not for years I don't think. I went when I was a little kid in the nineties, met the players and everything. Southgate was very polite, if only I'd known then what a little turd he'd turn out to be