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I'll make a relatively late decision on this one. Usually don't see much point in pre season friendlies but getting a slight handle on our shape and movement might be helpful.

A bit OT but gives interesting context about goalkeeper loan rules. https://www.fourfourtwo.com/features/the-loophole-clubs-are-using-to-create-fake-no2-goalkeepers-for-their-substitute-benches

As previously noted we believe the option to buy at performance related £x had expired so it may all be straightforward (cough) now. My best attempt at understanding is that the buyback option was structured so that if the perceived market value of undav was significantly higher than £x we...

Entirely agree. Julio regularly getting the ball in space on the edge of the area definitely feels like goals.

You'd think that would have to be at a bargain price for the algorithms to say it was worth it. Chance that he'd thrive on a championship loan and increase his value, rather slim chance of making it to the first team.

I said it rankles. I never said it made sense!

It does rankle that we gave Adam Lallana a send off and not Pascal. Particularly as Pascal is off to a massive club in his homeland and Adam is chumming back up to the scummers.

Someone might have already pointed this out: The club has a stated policy that it will always inform staff of offers and allow them to talk. Partly this is having an honest and open culture within the club, partly it's just recognising you're never going to stop covert talks happening, so why...

Steele is clearly the best in the league at batshit mental levels of fannying about at the back (I am pro fanny btw) and so hard to drop when you are the super batshit mental fannying about at the back Messiah. What a glorious adventure it was and we'll all recall it with great fondness to the...

Ah, you found the 'speciality' windows in the Dam.

Well the Swiss deserve to win this. But I'm confident my early prediction we'd stink our way to the final is correct.

That you can get a snide and probably entirely wrong version of our kit before it's launched really does show how far we've come.

Also while I'm not cutting edge on tactics if you don't want Switzerlands 3 man defence helping to overload midfield you put two up top to pin them back there. Which would also help with Kane being currently a bit useless and knackered.

I'm not excited by the formation change. Instructions will clearly be match them up, don't take any risks with the ball, hope for a 'big' player to win it.

While I feel your pain you have reminded me that I have a whole pack of dry cured streaky bacon in the fridge and bought a large loaf of chewy white yesterday. I'm feeling better already

Whatever formation we play pickford means we're a player short in build up.

I'm sure it's no coincidence we signed Wieffer just before this news.

I get the impression that while hurzeler has principles of how he wants to play he's not wedded to a formation. If there's a better formation for the players he actually has he'll use it. There's a hell of a lot of running for a lot of the players however he sets up so I'm thinking plenty of...

As far as I can tell almost all young men have terrible barnets. That I believe Fab has had some fancy treatment and then gets that done to his rejuvenated hair is baffling. But I'm middle-aged and in no position to judge even if I still have all my hair plus some spare sprouting out my ears.