Dave

Good addition that.

Varane and Martial. https://metro.co.uk/2024/01/04/erik-ten-hag-confirms-man-utd-contract-talks-raphael-varane-anthony-martial-20065589/

If you want to sell them in the next 28 days, why are the club in contract negotiations?

@Lucas Any particular reason you binned off Djed?

https://twittter.com/SkySportsPL/status/1743000101763657960?s=20 Wow. This is exactly what the Abramovich administration did at Chelsea. Kept extending contracts of your Batshuayis and your Barkleys thinking somehow their value would increase & Chelsea could sell them for decent money. Triggering a one year extension on players like AWB and Lindelof is one thing. But they literally cannot give Martial away given the evidence of the last few years. He has no value to from a transfer sense. I’m surprised that this kind of thing is happening in this interim period until ineos complete. Unless they’ve sanctioned it in which case United are totally screwed.

Yeah, the changes to selling a player may take a little more time but it feels far more effective.

My bad I meant the 1900's .

Yeah I agree with all that. If you have the energy to be annoyed at Aeriel being black then you should exert the same energy with Jasmine changing and Ken being blonde. Funnily enough I spoke to one of my friends a year ago about this who is black and I used the 'I wouldn't care if Idris Elba was James Bond' example. He immediately cut me off and told me that to him James Bond represents every privileged British stereotype from the 90's so he would find James Bond played by a black person weird. Which I found interesting.

I don't think wanting characters to resemble a similar appearance to what you remember from your childhood makes you a racist. I'm not bothered by Haile Bailey playing The Little Mermaid for example but I thought the decision to not have short people play the seven dwarfs in the upcoming Snow White film is wrong and I do feel sorry for short people who aspired to play one of those roles. As for the new Star Wars director, I think Nudge has eloquently explained why she's been entrusted with that role and she's been given an opportunity on merit as opposed to any other reason.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2024/jan/03/nottingham-forest-face-questions-over-jonjo-shelveys-confused-exit-from-club

Fantastic.

Not a transfer but Fleetwood have replaced Lee Johnson with Charlie Adam. They certainly have an interesting taste in managers.

Thought I'd spread some festive joy...

What's funny about losing to Palace?

I was told at my Christmas party that I was living under a rock because I had never watched Curb Your Enthusiasm. And they were right. Some episodes have been brilliant. I've binged five seasons now. I do think the earlier series were better as Larry David has gone from being a really unlucky guy where everything's blown out of proportion to being a major idiot himself but I've been told it gets better.

When I heard this topic of conversation I immediately thought of this: Then I heard Joey Barton has a podcast coming out, which explains the caveman comments.

I wanted to use it for 25 but the fixture congestion around that Christmas period is going to cause a lot of rotation. Plus a lot of the options have been pretty terrible in comparison to Szmodics, Leeds, Leicester and Southampton players. So this was the first week I could use it without theoretically taking a hit. Which I had to do when Philogene got injured.

I really wanted AEW to succeed as an alternative but Tony Khan has made it impossible to root for them at this point. Yesterday he was whigning at AEW being 'under constant attack' on Twitter and then proceeded to call Disco Inferno a Worthless Parasite on the same platform.