Recent content by Gumshoe

Yeah, although a club really shouldn’t do that unless it’s for disciplinary issues. A player adhering to his contract should not be ostracised.

I don’t agree with the entitled mentality that Maguire should move on just because the club and fans want him to. Maguire has a contract, it’s his prerogative to remain if he wishes. The club can actually get rid of him at any point if they pay him the remainder of his contract up then they can...

He would have been out of contract at the end of this month had Brighton not negotiated a new deal back in October. Mac Allister and his agent would have had the leverage to negotiate a reasonable release fee or else walk for free this summer. Still really good business for Brighton managing to...

Bayern never signed up to the ESL and were vocally opposed to it

The audience don’t really care about it. They just want to see the best teams and the best players. No one will boycott watching the PL because City over spent for half a dozen seasons. If fans were against corruption they’d boycott any FIFA endorsed competition, which is the whole spectrum of...

Surely your ability to observe a game of football isn’t so low resolution that if a striker doesn’t score it means he played poorly? Haaland did not have a bad game tonight by anybody’s measure

Draw a line under everything and relinquish all ill feeling. No need to harbour resentment. Hoping to see a Ronaldo masterclass at this tournament. His 5th world cup, also Messi’s. Before this tournament began only 3 other player had played in 5 world cups. Remaroable achievement.

I wasn’t aware Romney’s status was dependant on Ronaldo

A fair few players have already scored multiple hat tricks in one game. Frankie Bunn did it many years ago for Oldham. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_players_with_the_most_goals_in_an_association_football_game#England

Haaland is the Ivan Drago of football.

There’s some smart people making decisions at City when they decided not to spunk away £100+mil for a regressing Kane and focussing their efforts on signing Erlie instead

His talent has been obvious since he played for Salzburg. I’m glad he’s in the Premier League, makes it more entertaining

Michael Clegg probably should be in there too

Forlan and Falcao upfront

Tbf they sold Torres in January for £50mil. It’s likely they ship out another few for decent fees as they did with Harrison, Angelino and Nmecha last summer