Sounds german

C'mon. You know as well as I do that waggot just jangled his keys and gave him a colouring book for a couple of hours.

Bodies is what we need tbh. Square pegs in round holes would be an improvement right now because atleast we'd have some pegs.

Perhaps they should have thought of that before they bought a football club without any knowledge of running a football club and then dismantling the infrastructure that kept it punching way above its weight.

If Ayala stays and we sign another cb we'll have Ayala Wharton Newbie Carter Phillips as 5th choice. That's not a disaster. He'll get some minutes but we wouldn't be relying on him. I wonder if there's school of thought that we're not going to keep hold of Phillips long so chuck him in at the deep end, hope he floats and drives his value up rather than lose him for peanuts after a couple of league 1/2 apperances.

I think you could be on to something there. I think he's looking to pack the squad with Carter, Phillips, Wharton, Garret and Vale. And then get 2 or 3 more quality players in as a priority. We'll enjoy a season in the bottom half of the table but I reckon we'd have enough to stay safe then hopefully come January or the summer we'll have sorted out our list of players we want.

I think he's worth more than that🤣

I'd shake up the loan system. PL clubs hoard talent and make a mint loaning them out and then selling them on. I think if you loan a player under a certain age and they make a certain number of appearances for you then you should be entitled to a few % of any sale proceeds. Ludicrous that loaning players costs so much.

I always got the impression that TM had the same approach to formations as I have to the various settings on the washing machine. I have no idea what they are or what they do, I just bung stuff in and hope for the best.

Lucky enough to have had two and it does not disappoint. I find it makes the documentaries even more interesting to watch

Not premier league but also not worthy of a new thread. Did anyone see Bales first interview for LA was in Spanish 🤣ultimate shithousery

Finally got round to this. Absolutely fascinating watch

I've got 3 maybe 4 Darwin award books in my spare room and this has made me want to go back and read them

My mate at uni had a similar approach to women on a night out, he was quite successful....

I take it this means no fresh transfer rumours / activity today then?

I think he might have done some damage...

I'm minded to agree. Sign a RB and we can put out a half decent 11. Trouble is that relies on ayala staying fit for 5 mins so absolutely need a lot more signings for the squad to be able to cope with injuries and suspensions and rotation

When Ayala and Gallagher are up there at 15k or so I'm surprised most of the squad aren't asking for 20k.

The wage structure is pointless if it allows you to pay Ayala at the top end of it for sitting on the physio table but not allow you to go higher for someone who could get you 40+ games a season. It's got to be a little more dynamic. If we keep ayala, we'll pay him 15k a week but we know we can't rely on him and we need another defender to come in of a reasonable quality to cover for him. If you pay him even just 10k, you're basically paying 25k a week to fill one position in the squad. Why not ship Ayala out and get a quality fit centre back in at 25k a week? Technically breaking the wage structure but it's the same cost to the owners and you're not paying the physios overtime.

Christ the squad needs a lot more work before we start binning off pickering and bringing someone better in.

Mourinho was famously a terrible man manager and has won the lot

Left back Bennet I also remember Downing being the furthest player forward at one point. I couldn't tell you what position it was cos the formation made no sense. I think we may have been playing a box midfield (TMs words) or something like that. It almost like we were playing with wide forwards and no centre forward

What was the programme? Sellafield is very interesting, I've had a couple of tours and it's brilliant.

Has to be one of my favourite memes

Bentley, Nelson and Samba were my last ones. Whilst my bet was still live Diaz but as soon as goal number 20 went I stopped caring so much 🤣