Viva la FCB

Sad for Pav's but he will have more chances to come and hopefully play a role in the future.

I likey.

Im not super excited if this is what involves our defence shakeup. As much as Im done with Upa I dont really see this as an upgrade.

In!

Italy please.

Seem to be re circling back to the failed January move. Exactly the profile of midfielder we could use. I cant imagine the price quoted get its done, considering the rumoured agreement before was more money but we'll see what happens here.

Sign me up baby!

Joined!

Actually rewatching Andor right now with the better half as she hasnt seen it. Was plannning on watching Ahsoka after... maybe we watch this if we can instead we'll see how time goes. Were currently dog sitting and house sitting for a friend and her husband as they travel, they have disney plus so timing was good to catch up on a few things

Cheers @Stan, thanks for running and congrats on winning! Always a fun competition to keep up with.

Thank jesus Jon Stewart is back. On point as he seemingly always is.

Yeah I dont get it either from their perspective. Supposedly he isnt against returning to PSG but wants assurances about playing time that they arent giving. Bizarre.

More smoke, Eberl was involved in bringing him to RB before and we had been already linked so the rumour makes sense. Complicated deal though.

Friday 14th June, 2024 Group A Germany 3-0 Scotland, 20.00 Saturday 15th June, 2024 Group A Hungary 0-2 Switzerland, 14.00 Group B Spain 2-1 Croatia, 17.00 Italy 1-0 Albania, 20.00 Sunday 16th June, 2024 Group C Slovenia 1-1 Denmark, 17.00 Serbia 0-2 England, 20.00 Group D Poland 1-2 Netherlands, 14.00 Monday 17th June, 2024 Group E Romania 0-1 Ukraine, 14.00 Belgium 1-1 Slovakia, 17.00 Group D Austria 1-3 France, 20.00 Tuesday 18th June, 2024 Turkey 2-0 Georgia, 14.00 Portugal 2-1 Czech Republic, 20.00

Season 3 is around the corner and I cannot wait.

I saw Pep apparently had talked to someone in Munich too I forget who...was KHR or Uli probably.... about Kompany... clearly still value his opinion then.

Whats been said is there is alignment finally between Manager and the rest of the cast on how to move forward. I imagine this means squad upheavel is coming. I tend to agree with you but we'll see how the surgery goes.

The NHL is actually a pretty interesting study when looking back to the 90's to compare the differences to the modern day. They introduced a salary cap system in the mid 2000's roughly? Its drastically altered the way the league plays out. Teams draft and develop players and as they come into their prime teams open up "windows" of competing for the cup. When teams are in their windows they trade draft picks for players that match their core's ages or older to try and win now. Eventually what happens is when their windows are closed teams have to rebuild generally from the ground up. In the modern day for example theres been a few dynasties, Chicago, Pittsburgh Tampa Bay. Chicago is a good example to work with, They won 3 Stanely Cups with essentially a core of 4 or 5 players and built different supporting casts around them at different times to win. By the end of those core players careers they have to and are currently trying to draft players and start up again but it will be some years of pain before they can do so as they had traded all their young prospects and draft picks to keep winning. Previously in the 90's yes there was a draft and yes teams would still use it to build but they would also go out and just buy the best players available in free agency as the rich teams had a clear leg up. The NY Rangers come to mind as one back then with the talent they amassed and would seemingly always go out and get the best guy money could buy until eventually they won a cup. I could get more into the weeds but this is the general idea anyways. The currently Salary cap era isnt perfect and I know theres been discussions about this before but isnt really adaptable to football but its created some of the most parody in the NHL as far as I can remember. This years cup winner will be a team that hasn't won in I think at least 20 years with 4 teams remaining.

Group A Germany, Switzerland, Hungary Group B Spain, Italy, Croatia Group C England, Denmark, Slovenia Group D France, Netherlands, Poland Group E Ukraine, Belgium, Slovakia Group F Portugal, Turkey, Czech Republic, Top goal scorer Kane Winner Germany

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