Hobsons Choice

Oof

Looks like good old fashioned money laundering to me.

Better than the screaming fish, anyway.

Wtaf?

Yeah, fair enough, I respect your pov. Different approaches, I guess. I trust Unai and the Monch to get s*** done in any case.

Well to address that first point the key reason would be timing. If we get to a stage later in the window where we have not got the players we still very much need to build a deeper squad while being frugal, and we need to up the spend to get bods in, the best of those players will have gone to our rivals. I'm not advocating spend for spending sake, quite the opposite. If we spend big out of desperation cos there are no top players to fill our needs, now that would be the failure. But if we spend big early on the right players, our main targets, that is how we kick on.

Fair enough, but that was not the point the OP was making. They said it was always going to be difficult to get our top targets, not that we might not, or should not be willing to splash the cash. Different argument. Which we can have, but different argument. To add sauce, we are punching for top 4, but 12 other sides have record transfer fees higher than our own. I know that money does not equal good players, but at some point you have to pay for top talent, particularly when you haven't done so in the past and have to catch up with the big boys. The right players, sure, but we're competing with some big spending whales now.

No sane human is talking about that.

Why? We finished in Europe. We have an elite manager. We have bundles of cash. It can hardly get much better in terms of acquisition leverage.

Hang on, we got 16 more points than his team, who finished 12th and out of Europe. Lower tier. What a knob.

In fairness, brand doesn't matter so much with Iceland. Every opposition team for the next 10 years will just be chanting 'Play Jaja Ding Dong!' at them for 90 minutes.

I think it depends on who decides to go and play in Paris.

I can respect that tbf.

No, it was the wider you, not you in particular. Sorry.

Fantastic Watermelon is horrid. It's like they set out to make water taste worse. Tried ice cream Irn Bru last night. Very nice, actually.

It was a p***take on cultural appropriation. They spend half the film ripping on how it is inappropriate. I'm very much for the protection of culture and black rights, but if you are looking at Tropic Thunder as an example of either racism or cultural appropriation then imo you are looking in entirely the wrong place. The only people really hard done by in that film are Australians, who admittedly get some very lazy stereotypes and insults.

We seem to be struggling this summer. We'll do well to kick on at this rate.

Great post. I suppose the glaring issue for me defensively while using this system (with current personnel) is the space behind our wide players, particularly on our right flank. We'll be asking our RB/CB to tuck across toward the centre, and given that Bailey is not great defensively, it leaves an ocean of space between our 'full back' and RM/RW on that side. I know we have and will ask McGinn to come across to cover that, but that stretches the midfield somewhat. For me the recruitment of a RM/RW is therefore vital. We need someone with an engine who can contribute to the attack, but is not so attack minded that they cannot bomb back to cover the RB/RM position. This is why I thought Guendouzi might be perfect for us, sitting a little deeper on that side and capable of both aspects of play. I appreciate where @CVByrne is coming from though. It's not as simple as this, and we need, and will have tactical flexibility, but the right hand side still worries me with the way we set up at the moment. The other thing we need to consider is whether we want to sacrifice any attacking power to address this. Maybe we don't address it at all, acknowledge it as a weakness, but take a calculated risk to cause the opposition problems.

It's not much consolation if they also mess up our own transfer plans (assuming they have actually taken any of our targets, of course).

Is that any good? I have tried game streaming before, and I've always had latency and graphic resolution dropout issues. My broadband should be plenty fast enough for it, but I've always struggled. I never use the game streaming option on PSN for instance. I tried it once or twice but the experience was crap.

My PC is not really set up for that sort of gaming. I can generally run decent spec games, but my office is not really a place for a long gaming sesh.

I do need some smart good things.

Are PSG starting to piss anyone else off?

I've played everything Bethesda has made, including the mobile Fallout Shelter game on mobile. This looks ace, and I'm massively bummed out that it will not be on PS5.