The Football News Thread 2024/25

[Elephant Pyjamas]

Gerim in to compete with Munetsi....

 

[Wilf Wolf]

Gerim in to compete with Munetsi....

Hard to think of two players further apart in what they bring to a team.

 

[Sniffer]

Hard to think of two players further apart in what they bring to a team.

Correct. De Bruyne can’t hold a candle to our Marshall when it comes to pressing.

 

[Tony Towner]

This years FFP swizz from Chelsea is selling their women's team to their owner.

They booked it at £200m, UEFA have told them to join on. PL still to ratify

 

[Templeton Peck]

Just noticed Walsall have imploded. 2 wins in last 16 games.

 

[Sniffer]

I was just doing a spot of sightseeing minding my own business when….

The accidental Shrimper: American student becomes Southend fan after boarding wrong boat

A 21-year-old student from Arizona accidentally became a Southend United supporter on Saturday after boarding the wrong boat in London

www.theguardian.com

 

[Kenny]

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

I can't think who'd want that buy in.

They've hit a definite ceiling with very high profile owners, spent quite a lot along the way too, the attendances don't grow any more and there's just too much competition in the area, even more so with Stockport getting back to where they should be.

It's like taking over Walsall - you can't take fans off the bigger clubs around you or ever overtake them, so you're throwing money at nothing.

 

[Tony Towner]

Difficult to not look at Wrexham and see they've achieved what they hoped to do with another level of celebrity

 

[Kenny]

Looks like Salah is signing a new contract at Liverpool

 

[Wilf Wolf]

Looks like Salah is signing a new contract at Liverpool

Hopefully he’ll fall off a cliff like Walker and de Bruyne.

 

[Sniffer]

I really enjoyed this weeks Rest is Football podcast interview with Russell Martin. His football philosophy may not be everyone’s cup of tea but there’s a fascinating back story to his life as a child, how he eventually got a contract as a pro and his progression through the game to management.

 

[lemonjelly]

Caicedo's car seized as it is suspected he's been driving without a licence.

 

[pagey]

The World's gone mad

Vinicius Jr rejects BILLION euro offer as Real Madrid fate sealed

Why Vinicius Jr has rejected a contract offer worth 'at least €1 billion' has been revealed, with it now increasingly clear where the Real Madrid winger's future will lay.

www.teamtalk.com

 

[Lupo]

Eddie Howe will miss the game against United tomorrow having been admitted to hospital late on Friday evening after feeling unwell for a number of days

 

[Kenny]

Old school joke but still a cracker

 

[Alan]

I’m convinced that Bellegarde coming good and inflating my ego is karma for not sticking to my guns on Onana being shit when United bought him.

 

[Sniffer]

I’m convinced that Bellegarde coming good and inflating my ego is karma for not sticking to my guns on Onana being shit when United bought him.

The most ridiculous thing about Onana was that he left Ajax on a free and Ten Haag didn’t take him to United only for him to drop £50+m on him a year later.

 

[Alan]

It's baffling, really. I still have a soft spot for Cameroon in particular (have for a long while, probably borne out of my years addicted to FIFA in which I almost always had Benjamin Moukandjo up top), so followed Onana at Ajax a bit when they were looking for a proper successor to Kameni. He's always made the exact same sorts of mistakes. Good footballer, typically outstanding reflexes, but wretched at commanding his area and always prone to an unforgivable clanger. Was the same at Inter, as well.

What EtH was thinking there, if anything, only he knows.

He's like the goalkeeping version of Adama, I guess. The tools are all there; the composure to actually use them, though...

 

[Kenny]

Think he had already agreed to join Inter during his drug ban