Hobsons Choice

It becomes f****d when you observe it?

Rodent incest. Or just cest. I don't know how to put it. Nailing furry animals, anyway.

Can I just say that this thread has become much more interesting over the last two pages. Who thought when it started 3814 pages ago that we'd be talking about f***ing hamsters.

Yes, sorry if I stepped on a toe.

Well I thought he had a point.

17 years later? Who frigging bumped this?

Could I just add that climate by definition cannot be defined by one reading in one location, erroneous or not. That's weather. Climate is an aggregate of weather over a long period. The science behind climate change does not hinge on a single weather reading at RAF Conningsby, it's based on data collected from thousands if not millions of stations around the world, which have been measuring on a continuous basis for in excess of 30 years.

I know, it's just strange. I remember it being much more taboo in the past. In 2009 FIFA banned Chelsea from transfers for 2 years and fined them 130,000 euro to be paid to the parent club for tapping up Kakuta. The player himself was told to pay a cool 780,000 euro personally to the parent club. They were subsequently cleared of wrongdoing, but it shows how poorly it was looked on at the time.

And his value is listed at 575K euro.

I wonder what the 'shared feelings' are. Mutual loathing?

You mean tapping up?

Fifa 23 may have to update his rating- He's a 59 apparently.

I don't think I can remember us going all in like this on young talent from another club before. Surely he's the least proven striker going in at first team level who was not produced by our academy. Maybe I've forgotten someone, but seems that way. If I hadn't seen the comments, I would have assumed he was one to add to the academy, and who we'll see in 2024/25. Hope the dude likes pressure, cos he's jumping into it feet first. Wouldn't it be amazing if we managed to really get the march on everyone here and get an absolute superstar.

Brilliant!

Shithousing the Office of Immigration- I like it. Clipboard munching bureaucrats.

You're off the f**king chain, mate.

Was just about to post this. Welcome Jhon.

I'd consider him for Villa if it's a loan with option. He'd fit in well with the system UE is trying to build, even if he is frustrating.

Most of their squad are on 5, 6, even 8 year contracts. If they don't win the league this year or next, they are going to be megaf**ked. Like financial explosion f**ked. You think we have some deadwood on high wages!!

You are probably right there, and if i'm honest I can see this revival being a bit of a fad, anyway. Football evolved from this approach for a reason, and as soon as defences are coached into dealing with it again (freaky Haaland aside) I think we'll see it dying out again. A flexible attack is definitely more advanced, and less inconsistent (what if your big man has an off day- it's based very much on individual not system). Liverpool were the poster boys for the new way, but I think their recent lack of success is based on an over reliance on aging players, and not recruiting replacements, rather than it no longer being viable. Pep you would think would be the last to re-adopt the big man striker, given their former forward player line up, but I guess if you get the chance to sign Erling you take it and adapt your system accordingly. Think he'll regret the approach in the long run though.

Dunno, I've almost never either scored or conceded from a corner. Or a bicycle kick. I've got about 150hrs on this version.

Bump troll here. Bump bumpety bump.

It's a cliche, but the food in France is awesome. While I was there in 2010 even a chicken sandwich I got from a street vendor was the best I've ever had and remains so. I was in the Basque region though so......

Official vocab guidelines require thar we no longer refer to these kinds of incidents as accidents. Why? Because the word accident implies there is no one to blame. I'm not actually real, I'm a bot. All of my posts are cobbled together by AI using quotes from Hot Fuzz.

The 'big fella' No.9 is back in fashion, driven probably by Haaland. I think of it like an immune system. Current defences developed in an era where the big nine fell out of favour, and where most top teams used wide inside forwards as the main goal threat. Hell Liverpool with Firmino as a false nine almost did away with a central attacker entirely. So defences adapted, just like an immune system. Into this mix, add an old fashioned physical centre forward, and defences aren't as adept at countering it, like an old virus that the body has forgotten how to combat. Tactics are ever evolving and reverting to old ways to find an edge. Even 442 is coming back. It's just trying to present the opposition with something they are not equipped or aware enough to deal with. Mitrovic, only ever a relatively limited and fairly average striker historically, is looking like a beast at the moment. I think this might explain it. Rashford, Wilson et Al, all of a sudden look old hat. Although good players can adapt, and Rashford looks to be doing OK for himself. He'll never have the physicality of an old fashioned 9 though.