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When you've got no kids your needs are primary needs.

My daughter giggled for the first time yesterday and my heart exploded.

Just my opinion, and maybe it's just wishful thinking, but I do feel like Lewandowski, Müller, and Neuer are generational talents that will be extremely difficult to replace when they leave/retire. I tend to think that Bayern's grasp on the league has slipped in the last couple years and their titles have been more a function of other teams failures than Bayern's successes. That being said, it is true in that Bayern's consistency when it comes to winning the tough games is something that the competition doesn't have. Leipzig, Dortmund, Gladbach, Wolfsburg, Frankfurt all dropped points against each other and lesser teams down the stretch whereas Bayern grind out the results even when playing poorly. Back to my original point... Bayern will still have talents like Kimmich and Goretzka but replacing Lewandowski's goals and Müller's assists will be extremely difficult, even with a budget that no one else in the league can compete with. Manuel Neuer is arguably the best goalkeeper in the world. I'd like to think that the gap between them and the other teams is getting smaller as those players age. Interested to see what @Viva la FCBwould say about this.

Yeah, 15k American, one way. Several months at least two plus. Yeah, 14 days as it stands. Just keen to see everyone again, very excited, I am very lucky I just need the flights to keep going and to get canceled. I will miss the mrs but she has had me to herself long enough. Shame that WA is closed, wouod love a weekend in Perth

I genuinely recently proposed to a girl I was meeting. Proposed that we don’t see each other again.

Looks fun. I'm in!

Looking forward to this.

Update from Beitske herself: I'll stop spamming this topic now. But good to see her in one piece.

In the original I was very impressed with Mother Abigail and Randalf Flagg characters thought both were very good. I have had a few ESP experiences too so may be one reason why I enjoyed it more than most.

I loved it when it first came out in the 90s, but tried rewatching it a few years ago and thought it didn't age well... That said, it's still much, much better than the new remake from 2020. So disappointing.

No real qualms about that selection at all. I likey.

Id definitely tend to agree there will be opportunity, as some of faults Pep had the one thing he continually did was absolutely dominate the league. Since he left weve been inconsistent all over the place until Flick in his wonder season but even then the first chunk of that season under Kovac was shit, noone capitalized though. Theres definitely going to be an opportunity with the roster turnover and aging core as you mention and our current transfer policy is leaving alot to be desired (sarr, richards, roca, cuisance etc) but at some point somethings got to give. With fans in the stans and revenue swinging up again I would imagine we will be reinvesting and there in lies the problem for the rest of the league. I should also mention there has been some gems of transfers as well, with Musiala shaping up for the future looking like a real talent even to a lesser extent Nübel and even still splashing cash on Upa to fill long term holes. The word im getting is with Kahn and Hainer taking the reigns there will be more of a shift to home grown players and national players as well so take that for what you will. So the short answer imo is a definite maybe but our resources will probably likely still keep us in the pole position.

Hansi Flick's first Germany squad selection:

Amazingly Bakayoko is to sign a new contract and then sign a 2 year loan to AC Milan. At the end of that spell, in June 2023, Milan will be obliged to purchase Bakayoko, as long as he meets certain playing-related conditions specified by the two clubs in their agreement. As of the time of writing this there is no word what the conditions are, but I would suggest he is unlikely to meet those if its true there is an 20m Euro fee attached in 2 years. No word how much they are paying for the initial 2 year loan. He has been a bit of a cash cow loan fee specialist since falling out of favor. Will anyone take Danny Drinkwater?

I agree but you'd want to keep Henderson around in the role that Milner has filled over the last few years

Coutinho, Suarez, Torres... we nearly always get top dollar.

Absolutely. When you've got young kids your needs are secondary to their needs.

Holy shit.

Yeh well I’m glad you guys worked that out

I thought this was a regular, well-known and current thing. No alcohol for the mum for at least a year...

Honestly? I wouldn't rule out the possibility of the retreat being purposely botched to justify a renewal of american presence in Afghanistan. I mean, on my opinion it's just incompetence but considering US's government long history of lies to manufacture support for foreign interventions (e.g. the Tunkin Gulf incident, Saddam's WMD), it's hard not consider this possibility. But then again, I'm far from an expert, so it may be just me being stupid.

Well I only drink at family parties now. Other than that, ain’t got the time. Always need to be ready for an emergency. That’s parenthood unfortunately.

Wait till you're on year 4.

Thanks. Today I was standing in my living room, looking out of my window. Clear sky, full moon. Quite a romantic view. My girlfriend was sitting on the couch, and for a moment I thought, maybe I should get the ring out of the car. I would have to make up an excuse, like I forgot my wallet in the car or something. I considered it for quite a while until I realized that I don't have a girlfriend, nor a ring or a car.

Didn't propose to anyone today.

Season 1 of Mr. Robot down. Man what a great first season, Rami Malek really is something. Excited to keep going.

Don't forget our Canadian Billionaire. Your own Canadian money is probably filtering into the club helping subsidize the Mob cash. Thanks for that ~ Loadsa & loadsa Money

I have to admit she is excellent at laundering all that Russian mob money

@Tommy

D&D

Looking forward to that Napoleon film with Joaquin Phoenix when ever it airs.

The power department of Egypt cut off the electricity of water department and water department cut off the water of power department in return.

Just found this angle, and it looks even worse. The last hit.

Jesus fuck. Drops of rain causing chaos at Eau Rouge in W Series qualifying. All drivers okay apparently.

Yeah agreed except if you convince everyone thst you can play another season of football (playing when possible) and do your ACL (confirmation today). I am so upset In hindsight 10000% not worth it. But the girls were laughing together today when I got home. Magic.

My Hungarian grandfather fucking loved the war and killing Russians. Hated the jewish. He never spoke of killing like this. He never said it was fun or sporting, he was more "it was our duty" type of guy. On the English/Australian side of the family, it was much the same. Killing Japs in Kokoda or Koreans in the Korean war was always a non philosophical discussion.